Author: Curtis McHale
Words are the Edge of Fear
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There’s a lot at stake when putting thoughts into words. Words that remain in our head are free to exist independent of how they’re used by other people. Once we attempt to put our ideas on the page, words that previously strutted self-assuredly across our synapses become sheepish and soft-spoken. – A System for Writing
Expertise in the Age of Infinite Information
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LLMs are not generally optimized to say “I don’t know” when they don’t have enough information – Co-Intelligence Pg 96 One of the things I’ve always valued in another person is their ability to admit when they don’t know something. It’s also one of my biggest issues with LLMs, they confidently tell you a lie
Apps Outside the US
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Lou has a good list of apps that won’t be subject to the changing privacy whims of the US government because they’re outside the US. I’m not sure that’s true given that we see many companies saying that they “comply with all local laws” but at this point I’m much happier to support anything that’s
Is Firefox safe anymore?
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Firefox recently updated their terms of service, and when a company updates their terms it’s rarely in favour of the user. Take this line in the new Firefox terms. When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience,
Jason on comfort
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It’s time to get uncomfortable, folks. Doing the same things we have always done because they are the path of least resistance is not going to cut it anymore. The times of ignoring the bad for the little comfort benefits are over. – Comfort and You rant about Apple’s choices and then pick up the
Liberate your Audible books with Libation
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I’ve really never worried about my audio books on Audible, but with Amazon turning the cranks up on being a shitty company as they take away ownership of your books I decided to use Libation to download all 200 of my Audible books. Setup was easy and it’s churning away right now downloading them all.
From Chaos to Clarity, Using Systems Thinking to Make Sense of Complexity
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This review is for the book club. Next month we’re reading A System for Writing by Bob Doto. Check out the future reads and join 500 other book lovers Most of us interact with complex problems daily. If it’s not in your job, look around at the economic systems or political landscape we live within.
Annoyed by Sonos
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I have a set of Sonos Play speakers in my office which get 6 – 8 hours a day of usage while I’m working. I’ve enjoyed their sound for a few years, but the software has continued to get worse and worse. Lately they’ll play music, but only some album I played a few weeks
Feb 2025 Reading Recap
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This month you’ll note no fiction books were finished. That dang Brandon Sanderson guy wrote a 1300 page tome so I’ve made progress on Wind and Truth but not finished it. In fact I’ve made enough progress that it would equal 2 fiction books worth of pages read if it was a normal sized book.
AI doesn’t have to be successful to be dangerous
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Miriam has a good and heartbreaking post on the current state of technology in light of the pushers of technology wanting to eradicate her existence. The beliefs of these CEOs aren’t incidental to the AI product they’re selling us. These are not tools designed for us to benefit from, but tools designed to exploit us.
