crw

accidental bon vivant, aloof, amiable anarchist, bird noticer, black-thumbed botanist, bookish eccentric, co-conspirator, distracted, luddite saboteur, oblivious, occasional ne'er-do-well, patient helper, victim of various portents and riddles. humble, y'know.

i find it odd to be launching a proper touchscreen macos device at this time of the year, so far from a wwdc. prepared for disappointment. what if they're more like a larger version of the touchbar and nothing to do with the main screen at all? or a screen under the touchpad?

my yt algo beginning to cross the line into incitement. jazz to do crime to idm to kill your landlord to heavy house to deflock your neighborhood to wtf, im not cool enough for this kind of targeting.

apropos yesterday's AI hacktivism post, the "his master's tools" argument apparently has legs here's a nickel, kid, build yourself a local model

the thing with AI-discovered cve's has me thinking of other fun society-scale things that might break. what happens if you can really shine a light on dark money flows? when land ownership gets untangled? can you suddenly accurately account for military carbon footprints?

I'm excited about the long-term prospects of the hilarity which may ensue once all the AI's are trained on our "the private key is 4" jokes.

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cope ascetic. is that anything?

"have fun, please try not to turn us all into paperclips," he says with a sigh, assigning the AI license to the user

drops the link and backs away slowly en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraph...

Hey, it’s the official release day for Seeing Like a Supply Chain! And of course I’m swamped with grading and lesson-planning, but maybe I can say a little about the book and the process of researching it. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Can’t fall for a phishing scam if you never open emails. Check. Mate.

Exciting news: EFF’s Privacy Badger is now available on Safari for macOS! www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

sick of mail.app on the personal laptop - apple lost me with bugs, remote content loading fud, and wanting to summarize things even though i've got intelligence as turned-off as possible. thunderbird setup took 2 minutes and it's serviceable.

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

"all part of being hymen" autocorrect helpfully suggests, making me reconsider the merits of being human after all. that was almost a really uncomfortable workplace conversation, sheesh

why an always-listening watch when you can make a collar that picks up subvocalizations? opsec, people!

ah, rip cringely. i loved your post on plasma furnaces.

not angry, just disappointed

hah, apple sherlocked 1password's hotkey. if you can parse that sentence, i'm sorry.

if altman could really see the future he wouldn't stand with his back to us at the edge of a cliff

if the first thing i see when opening an app is an ad, im immediately closing the app. i wonder how much money amazon paid for me not to use tiktok for several days.

"Reddit says RSS has now become a “common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse,” which is why it’s made the decision to wind down RSS feeds on its platform." Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/r...

new aspirational career just dropped: skonk broker

"no frenzy boost during breakfast," i found myself saying, in horror.

i've never had apple intelligence enabled on this device.

(derogatory)

asked google trends how the term "mackleless" has been performing today. it said there wasn't enough data to graph. im proud of us.

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

when i touch the little button on my yubikey the fly brain decides whether i actually authenticate

I gave the fly brain admin access to the 404 Media CMS

sweatpants with sparkly cursive "GNU C" on the ass instead of "juicy"

browser extension that replaces every instance of the word "america" with "ontario" why not

Experts Advise Against Throwing Laptop Across Office Even Though It Will Feel Incredible https://theonion.com/experts-advise-against-throwing-laptop-across-office-ev-1819579112/

Putting the :/ in https://

this explains all the priors built on fault lines

someday the list of users who've shat in waymos will be in a data breach

and now im downloading mapquest. wild.

tfw not sure if earthquake or bass drop