Eurobubba

The English-speaking world is sometimes called the anglosphere. For French it’s la francophonie. Is there an analogous expression for Spanish?

In the rush to block / mute / filter out slop, let’s not inadvertently cancel people who aren’t native English speakers and are using AI translation to help communicate with you or the world at large.

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Apple should merge the new improved Golden Gate Siri with Terminal. Siri should be smart enough to distinguish among chat prompts, searches, and CLI commands, or ask the user if there’s an ambiguity.

Vive la France!

www.lemonde.fr/en/france…

Accidentally discovered a pretty great local singer this evening at a place I wasn’t even expecting to be a music venue.

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Inchoate thought: the way I’ve been using Claude Cowork with various MCPs makes me wonder how much longer “applications” as we know them will remain a useful concept. We still need visual representations of our data, but LLM harnesses will keep getting better at generating those on the fly.

We don’t have a social media age verification requirement in Texas, do we? Bluesky being weird.

Mary Heimann’s Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed is like the Fox News version of history and the Czechs are the Democrats.

Inside the Gulliver

Rawr!

Steve Jobs might have been the boss from hell, but “If you can’t get this together, you will not have descendants” is a great line.

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Neighbor

P. Terry’s should have a mascot. Pterry the Pterodactyl.

David says the Roadrunner movie will be released after all. Beep beep!

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I just found out an old friend in Czecho died of cancer last week. I didn’t even know he was ill. I didn’t see him when I was over there last month because he lived outside of Prague and I thought I’d have more time in June.

This is too bad if they’re really closed for good. Sotol is a pretty interesting drink.

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Happy day.

Interesting tidbit from Built to Last: Marlboro was originally a “little-known women’s cigarette”.

It’s not enough for a company to have big, audacious goals. The goals must be hairy!

Elevator doors should stay open when the elevator’s not in use. Just my opinion.

My people vindicated yet again. news.kagi.com/s/q2r7kp

Fk Cloudflare and all corporate webdevs who use it.