“All these debaters and communicators are inspired by ressentiment. They speak only of themselves when they set empty generalizations against one another.” Deleuze and Guattari

“We are answer rich, but question poor”

A puddle in the middle of the basketball court surrounded by orange markers with a sign saying hazardous alongside an illustration showing someone slipping over. This is all I remember from voting in the Australian Federal Election this morning.

Will Cursor and Windsurf be surpassed by approaches that make no attempt to maintain backward compatibility with VS Code or any other IDE? Is the IDE a tool we no longer need? What would an AI-first replacement look like? What if it directly produced WebAssembly?

Mathieu Tremblin painting over graffiti to make it legible.

Please give me a second grace Please give me a second face — Nick Drake, Fly b/w I’m looking for the face I had Before the world was made — W.B. Yeats, A Woman Young And Old

S.L.R.E.A.M Sturgeon’s law rules everything around me.

Fred Pickler, the Yellow Man in Blue Velvet, wrote a book “The Reluctant Hermit of Fort Fisher”—“…what caused Robert E. Harrill to make his life among the marshes of Fort Fisher. What circumstances could drive a man to seek such isolation?”

Counterpoint: Han Solo speaks to the American Spirit in a way Luke Skywalker never could. The independence, the fast ship, the happy go lucky spirit. He was the real star of Star Wars.

And what a cover

"Should AI systems be viewed with the same skepticism that Talmudic law applies to gamblers?" Really interesting & new AI metaphors here from Zohar. Contribution to the "the settlement of the world" is a good frame. It can be "scene settler", so to speak.

Twitter at it's finest

The purpose of a building is how it looks by Ralph Stefan Weir in Works in Progress Functionalism in architecture prioritizes utility and purpose, often at the expense of ornamentation and popular appeal. While it has shaped much of the modern built environment, many find its