![\"The](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Fmedia_attachments%2Ffiles%2F117%2F079%2F663%2F337%2F681%2F518%2Foriginal%2Fdc9ebbf610bec843.jpeg\")
Apparently my house is 100yo this year, though we’ve done so much to it idk if it counts.
","url":"https://social.lol/@tjw/117079684489438782","date_published":"2026-08-12T00:23:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Timothy Wood","url":"https://social.lol/@tjw","avatar":"https://micro.blog/photos/200/https%3A%2F%2Fs3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com%2Fsocial-lol-media%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F643%2F434%2F947%2F422%2F973%2Foriginal%2F971eedd93e679d52.png","_microblog":{"username":"tjw@social.lol"}}},{"id":"95609248","content_html":"Presented without comment
After some bug fix juggling that wasn’t going anywhere, decided to throw a problem at GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra, which I had never used before because it churns through tokens quickly. It spun up a few subagents to handle different facets of the problem. Fascinating.
\n","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/08/11/after-some-bug-fix-juggling.html","date_published":"2026-08-11T21:10:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/22/3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}}},{"id":"95597785","content_html":"John Gruber isn’t buying the Claude watermarking either:
\n\n\nWhat happens if you copy my text and quote it in something you write, by hand? Now you’ve got a watermark in your prose, invisible characters or something, that implicates that your prose is AI-generated? Even though you didn’t use AI and just copy and pasted text from me? Madness.
\n
Maybe the watermark won’t work on short sections of text, like a blockquote, because there aren’t enough words to detect a pattern (unless every word is shifted with the algorithm, which seems insane). But who knows, because how it really works is a secret.
\n","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/08/11/john-gruber-isnt-buying-the.html","date_published":"2026-08-11T19:21:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/22/3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}}},{"id":"95596345","content_html":"Efficacy studies should have to include in bold 48 point type in the abstract what the rate of actually using the thing was.
Examples: air purifier impact on respiratory illness and condom effectiveness both include \"they literally were not used\" as a primary cause of them not working. This is almost never mentioned.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/@Catfish_Man/117078391310080636","date_published":"2026-08-11T18:54:36+00:00","author":{"name":"David Smith","url":"https://mastodon.social/@Catfish_Man","avatar":"https://micro.blog/photos/200/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F015%2F799%2Foriginal%2Fa13726daf3eaba32.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"Catfish_Man@mastodon.social"}}},{"id":"95595237","content_html":"Following up on my comment yesterday, I now have Codex → OpenClaw working, so I can chat with my bot in the same place I have other AI chats. Codex wrote a plugin for itself to handle the connection, plus some setup on the OpenClaw server. 🤖
\n","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/08/11/following-up-on-my-comment.html","date_published":"2026-08-11T18:36:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/22/3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}}},{"id":"95607429","content_html":"![A painting of a bird beside the text \"someone here should consider shutting the fuck up\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/90252/2026/dda6f3d6c8aad834d56cf4f685a1b08f99c79c68-m.jpg\")
ALT\nAdded new Bluesky PDS option for new Micro.blog users under the Account screen. If you are already using Bluesky, you won’t see anything new. More details in Manton’s blog post.
\n","url":"https://news.micro.blog/2026/08/11/added-new-bluesky-pds-option.html","date_published":"2026-08-11T16:10:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Micro.blog News","url":"https://news.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2024/49/22409.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"news"}}},{"id":"95585304","content_html":"Introducing the Micro.blog PDS: manton.org
","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/08/11/introducing-the-microblog-pds.html","date_published":"2026-08-11T15:36:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/22/3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}}},{"id":"95580336","content_html":"I don’t like the Claude watermark announcement. For images, yes, watermarks are important. “A picture is worth a thousand words” and there’s too much of a chance for misinformation. For text, it’s more complicated, as essays will often be 95% human, with AI-assisted edits.
\n","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/08/11/i-dont-like-the-claude.html","date_published":"2026-08-11T14:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/22/3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}}},{"id":"95579830","content_html":"Great episode of Dithering this morning. I’ve been wondering about the Apple / Google partnership too, with Google falling behind. I think Siri AI will be a good release, but it’s not really in the same ballpark as the frontier models. Try GPT-Live sometime.
\n","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/08/11/great-episode-of-dithering-this.html","date_published":"2026-08-11T13:51:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/22/3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}}},{"id":"95578792","content_html":"Yesterday’s beta of macOS 27 introduces a bug: an NSTrackingSeparatorToolbarItem in a toolbar causes a bar to appear under the toolbar, overlaying the content.
\nwww.virtualsanity.com/202608/ns…
\n","url":"https://micro.virtualsanity.com/2026/08/11/yesterdays-beta-of-macos-introduces.html","date_published":"2026-08-11T13:30:37+00:00","author":{"name":"John Brayton","url":"https://micro.virtualsanity.com/activitypub/johnbrayton","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2022/318.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"johnbrayton"}}},{"id":"95598576","content_html":"Looming Supply Shortages: macsparky.com
","url":"https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2026/08/looming-supply-shortages/","date_published":"2026-08-11T13:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"David Sparks","url":"http://www.macsparky.com","avatar":"https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/523d72bdb2cc496630002482c0c72127?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fimages%2Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"macsparky"}}},{"id":"95562103","content_html":"@designatednerd What makes the UK ones so infuriating is their practise of forcing you to exit. THAT’S NOT HOW THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO WORK!
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/jeffwatkins/statuses/117075751675542252","date_published":"2026-08-11T07:43:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeff Watkins","url":"https://mastodon.social/@jeffwatkins","avatar":"https://micro.blog/photos/200/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F245%2F737%2F657%2F939%2F514%2Foriginal%2Fbf85ee1b25b8bdc9.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"jeffwatkins@mastodon.social"}}},{"id":"95556019","content_html":"Well, this was very delicious: Quick Smoky Red Lentil Stew with Greens.
We didn't have enough smoked paprika, but I was able to make it up with unsmoked.
Chopping the veg was time-consuming, but otherwise it's quick and easy.
Dinner for today and tomorrow sorted. 👍
\n","url":"https://miraz.me/2026/08/11/well-this-was-very-delicious.html","date_published":"2026-08-11T04:39:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Miraz Jordan","url":"https://miraz.me/activitypub/Miraz","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2026/14/6221.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Miraz"}}},{"id":"95551079","content_html":"A preliminary swift package for scripting SinterPixels: github.com/olofhellm…
\nExample code is in a different repo: github.com/olofhellm…Extensions
\nThe first example produces this image: ![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/908/2026/fivefoldgrid.png\")
My 14yo tried to stream a video game on Twitch, and the quality was horrible, so he asserted he “needs a new computer.” I said “Twitch has been around for 15 years, so I’m sure it works on old computers.” Flipped a few switches, turned a few knobs, and boom! Dad’s still got it.
\n","url":"https://danielpunkass.micro.blog/2026/08/10/my-yo-tried-to-stream.html","date_published":"2026-08-11T00:40:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Daniel Jalkut","url":"https://bitsplitting.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2023/17/18.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"danielpunkass"}}},{"id":"95565859","content_html":"📍 Plaid Pantry![](\"https://aaronparecki.com/img/620x0,q30/2026/08/10/12/photo.jpg\")
![](\"https://aaronparecki.com/img/620x0,q30/2026/08/10/11/photo.jpg\")
The floaty disconnected feeling after ~5 hours of uninterrupted intense mental exertion is really quite something. Wheee
","url":"https://mastodon.social/@Catfish_Man/117073844942699080","date_published":"2026-08-10T23:38:24+00:00","author":{"name":"David Smith","url":"https://mastodon.social/@Catfish_Man","avatar":"https://micro.blog/photos/200/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F015%2F799%2Foriginal%2Fa13726daf3eaba32.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"Catfish_Man@mastodon.social"}}},{"id":"95540021","content_html":"I’ve now read more of OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the Apple lawsuit. This part sums it up:
\n\n\nInstead of pleading facts showing misappropriation, Apple recasts the benign, lawful conduct of former employees—who in many of the cited instances were in fact trying to help Apple, at Apple’s request, by making sure their former colleagues’ work could continue without them—as theft of so-called trade secrets. The proffered “trade secrets” are not specific, protectable information at all; they are generic categories of the product-development process…
\n
It supports my original hot take.
\n","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/08/10/ive-now-read-more-of.html","date_published":"2026-08-10T21:00:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/22/3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}}},{"id":"95538926","content_html":"A neighbour a few doors down invited our next door neighbour to strip his fruit trees. Even though it's midwinter, our neighbour passed on a whole bag of enormous oranges to us before she goes back for more.
I've never seen such huge oranges.
\n![\"A](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2378/2026/oranges-01-m.jpg\")
![\"Two](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2378/2026/oranges-02-m.jpg\")
\nUpdated Bluesky automatic cross-posting to also delete the copy of a post on Bluesky when the blog post is deleted in Micro.blog.
\n","url":"https://news.micro.blog/2026/08/10/updated-bluesky-automatic-crossposting-to.html","date_published":"2026-08-10T20:20:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Micro.blog News","url":"https://news.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2024/49/22409.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"news"}}},{"id":"95537596","content_html":"People worry about AI bots overloading servers, but in my experience the dumb requests for potential security holes are much worse. Bots trying to get into non-existent files like htpasswd, wp-admin.php, etc. Servers getting hammered today.
\n","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/08/10/people-worry-about-ai-bots.html","date_published":"2026-08-10T19:59:13+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/22/3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}}},{"id":"95537033","content_html":"Key detail: I drive about three or four times a year here in the UK.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/jeffwatkins/statuses/117072927516782094","date_published":"2026-08-10T19:45:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeff Watkins","url":"https://mastodon.social/@jeffwatkins","avatar":"https://micro.blog/photos/200/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F245%2F737%2F657%2F939%2F514%2Foriginal%2Fbf85ee1b25b8bdc9.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"jeffwatkins@mastodon.social"}}},{"id":"95536945","content_html":"Roundabouts were a clever invention, but then they grew too complex and were ruined.
Maybe this is just a British thing, but I’m terrified of roundabouts with more than one lane, because I’m afraid of being forced off onto the wrong exit or not permitted to exit. And signage is always terrible.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/@jeffwatkins/117072920341320433","date_published":"2026-08-10T19:43:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeff Watkins","url":"https://mastodon.social/@jeffwatkins","avatar":"https://micro.blog/photos/200/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F245%2F737%2F657%2F939%2F514%2Foriginal%2Fbf85ee1b25b8bdc9.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"jeffwatkins@mastodon.social"}}},{"id":"95535368","content_html":"RE: https://infosec.exchange/@munin/117072624268053598
Fi is one of the best there is at what she does. Opportunity for someone here
","url":"https://mastodon.social/@Catfish_Man/117072775420123397","date_published":"2026-08-10T19:06:25+00:00","author":{"name":"David Smith","url":"https://mastodon.social/@Catfish_Man","avatar":"https://micro.blog/photos/200/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F015%2F799%2Foriginal%2Fa13726daf3eaba32.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"Catfish_Man@mastodon.social"}}},{"id":"95536412","content_html":"1Password Travel Mode and Federal Law: macsparky.com
","url":"https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2026/08/1password-travel-mode-and-federal-law/","date_published":"2026-08-10T18:19:22+00:00","author":{"name":"David Sparks","url":"http://www.macsparky.com","avatar":"https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/523d72bdb2cc496630002482c0c72127?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fimages%2Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"macsparky"}}},{"id":"95585306","content_html":"![A painting of a bird beside the text \"we are blessed to have so much different bullshit to choose from\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2F64.media.tumblr.com%2Fd90fd65efd3533ce583fb931bd194f83%2F2d2a4bd4d8e7312c-3d%2Fs640x960%2F9cf41ea7c2dae2c1b6868b5cf7180bb20ee9133e.jpg\")
ALT\n![A painting of a bird beside the text \"we are blessed to have so much different bullshit to choose from\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/90252/2026/9cf41ea7c2dae2c1b6868b5cf7180bb20ee9133e-m.jpg\")
ALT\nThe most recent MCU movie I’ve seen is Black Panther. Every time I think about trying a new one, I remember that it feels like I have to understand the other 30+ for the new one to make sense. I wonder if I could just treat them like comics and only pay attention to Spider-Man and X-Men. 🍿
\n","url":"https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2026/08/10/the-most-recent-mcu-movie.html","date_published":"2026-08-10T17:19:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Kimberly Hirsh","url":"https://kimberlyhirsh.com/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2022/8984.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"KimberlyHirsh"}}},{"id":"95530336","content_html":"Nate (no last name that I can find) - Don't use your phone while you poop:
\n\n\nWhen we stop feeding our brains constant input, they can finally attend to the housekeeping of the mind. In this state they'll consolidate memories, connect ideas, process emotions, and most likely generate high-scoring Scrabble words.
\nIf our brains were pizza chefs, they would take down those spinning pies you've been juggling and slide them neatly into the brick oven to bake. Then, and only then, could you take new orders from the endless line of customers at the door.
\n
I of course had to link to this because of the analogy...
shapeof.com","url":"https://shapeof.com/archives/2026/8/toilets_are_meditation_time.html","date_published":"2026-08-10T17:04:12+00:00","author":{"name":"August Mueller","url":"http://shapeof.com/","avatar":"https://micro.blog/photos/200/http%3A%2F%2Fshapeof.com%2Ffavicon.ico","_microblog":{"username":"ccgus"}}},{"id":"95528242","content_html":"Another section from Mark Zuckerberg’s essay:
\n\n\nFor example, in Richland Parish, Louisiana, where Meta is building a large data center, teachers received a $50,000 bonus this year because of the increased tax revenue from our investment. The superintendent told us that teachers are now moving there from across the country and he believes it will become one of the nation’s best school districts.
\n
This sounds like Ben Thompson’s argument to just give people money. If you think of data centers as intelligence factories, paying teachers more is actually perfect.
\n","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/08/10/another-section-from-mark-zuckerbergs.html","date_published":"2026-08-10T16:44:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/22/3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}}},{"id":"95526269","content_html":"Mark Zuckerberg has a long essay today, basically an expansion of the op-ed he wrote recently. On personal agents:
\n\n\nIt will have strong privacy and security options so you can trust it to handle all of your personal content knowing that no one else can access your information, similar to how encryption works on WhatsApp. You’ll be able to interact with your agent through any device, including your glasses to keep you present in the moment with the people you care about.
\n
Practically in the same breath: privacy and AI glasses! People just don’t trust Meta with this.
\n","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/08/10/mark-zuckerberg-has-a-long.html","date_published":"2026-08-10T16:11:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/22/3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}}},{"id":"95525270","content_html":"I would use OpenClaw more if the chat interface was built directly into Codex. My little bot mostly goes unused because it’s so disconnected from other workflows. I’ve thought about hacking around this… No elegant solutions.
\n","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/08/10/i-would-use-openclaw-more.html","date_published":"2026-08-10T15:52:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/22/3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}}},{"id":"95522782","content_html":"I reviewed some of my posts about AI from 6 months ago, thinking about what I got right and wrong. The theme is focus. When writing apps or essays requires no effort, everyone will drown in content. Figuring out what to build and how to pitch it in a human way is more important than lines of code.
\n","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/08/10/i-reviewed-some-of-my.html","date_published":"2026-08-10T15:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/22/3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}}},{"id":"95522514","content_html":"Marco Arment posting on Mastodon about App Store review delays and uncertainty:
\n\n\n","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/08/10/marco-arment-posting-on-mastodon.html","date_published":"2026-08-10T14:54:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/22/3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}}},{"id":"95521487","content_html":"Apple would NEVER tolerate another gatekeeper preventing them from running their business the way they prevent every iOS developer from running ours.
\n
Thanks @dave for the kind words:
\n\n\nIt’s not my place to say what micro.blog is – but the other day I called it: “the swiss army knife of interop in the web of the 2020’s.” And in that it is unique and imho irreplaceable.
\n
The way I think about RSS.chat is that it’s a bootstrap for getting lots of RSS feeds to play well together, for both posts and replies. Can the web be the social network? Yes. And Micro.blog should be part of anything working toward that goal.
\n","url":"https://www.manton.org/2026/08/10/thanks-dave-for-the-kind.html","date_published":"2026-08-10T14:30:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Manton Reece","url":"https://manton.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/22/3.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"manton"}}},{"id":"95521311","content_html":"🔖📚 Read Navigating the Brain Poisoning of Book Censorship by Kelly Jensen.
\nA great piece about how even fighting censorship can prime you to start looking for content in books that isn’t there.
\n","url":"https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2026/08/10/read-navigating-the-brain-poisoning.html","date_published":"2026-08-10T14:25:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Kimberly Hirsh","url":"https://kimberlyhirsh.com/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2022/8984.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"KimberlyHirsh"}}}]}