Germany voted a confirmed far-right party into power. The explanations people reach for - protest votes, media manipulation, politicians who didn't listen - turn accomplices back into victims.
AI-flavoured sameness makes me tune out before I have really read anything, so my personal posts now start as a draft written in German - a language my prompts never touch.
Three books across July and August, all of them Canadian, two of them excellent, and one a bit all over the place.
The engine grew a podcast feed, a player and a migration path, because I had four shows sitting on a WordPress install I no longer wanted to maintain.
Being discharged right away felt weirdly fast and frankly, we were expecting much more hand-holding than Toronto's medical system was willing to give us.
There's a single question that separates companies that need developer relations from companies that just think they do: can developers extend your product, or only use it?
People are focused on who needs to watermark their AI content when the real problem is that we haven't learned how to validate claims on the internet. AI or not.
Treating an AI agent like a person stops you checking its work, and that would still be a problem even if these systems turn out to have an inner life - which I get at by way of our vacuum robot, a colleague's AI intern, and an engineer who says you should never test your agents.
I taught the engine to blend Mastodon and Bluesky replies into one comment thread, and picked up local search, lighter images, and dark mode on the way.
Seven books finished across June and July, three of them excellent, and the same complaint about every one that missed - it went on too long.