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b.loftin2 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:07:32 +0000

Thank you Half Price Books. 📚

Manton Reece — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:18:00 +0000

I’ve never run out of Codex tokens before, so it’s always felt essentially unlimited. At 4% remaining now with a day left! Uh oh. I don’t think my usage has changed much except that I’m running with /fast and Ultra more often.

Jason A. Heppler — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:52:08 +0000

We’re soft-launching a big redesign and architecture change in one of our flagship projects tomorrow. I’m very excited for its launch and hoping all goes smoothly.

Miraz Jordan — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:40:36 +0000

Some days I walk along the grass right beside the river. Other days I use the footpath beside the road. How lucky to have this so nearby.

Khaled Abou Alfa — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:12:50 +0000

Same angle, different time.

Manton Reece — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0000

Catching up on news from D23. Cartoon Brew has a rundown of some of the theme park changes coming up. The first Lion King ride will be in Disneyland Paris… A little surprised they never built that in Animal Kingdom.

Jason A. Heppler — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:35:58 +0000

Currently reading: The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy 📚

Manton Reece — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:30:08 +0000

Coalitions: manton.org

Ryan Barrett — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:49:34 +0000

High gas and oil prices may be hard on working class people, and on supply chains, but they’re good for progress on the climate crisis.

I’m optimistic that cheap EVs from BYD, Slate, etc will help both sides of this tradeoff.

Ideally gas and oil prices should increase due to price on carbon regulations, not...

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Miraz Jordan — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:37:03 +0000

Good to read a bit of clear science around biological sex — Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum – a biologist explains how it’s multidimensional:

Many people are more typically female in some biological traits, more typically male in others, and intermediate in still others. In such cases, people can’t be placed accurately at one location along a single biological sex spectrum because there are multiple traits that can vary, and an individual’s biological measurements can land in different locations along these different axes.

In other words, biological sex is multidimensional.

The fact...

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Manton Reece — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Pretty significant design changes coming to Mastodon for version 5.0. I don’t use Mastodon often (my blog posts get to the fediverse from Micro.blog) but these seem like good changes.

Miraz Jordan — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:24:21 +0000

I'm interested to follow along on progress with this AI datacentre — Datagrid pledges less water, generator use at Southland AI factory | RNZ:

Datagrid has unveiled a smaller footprint for its $5 billion AI factory in Southland, as machines start work preparing the Makarewa site.

At a meeting in Invercargill on Tuesday, the company told business leaders it had slashed its planned water use by 70 percent and more than halved its backup generator requirements.

b.loftin2 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:10:58 +0000

Episode 49: It’s Been A Long Time: readingsf.micro.blog

Jason A. Heppler — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:11:07 +0000

Finished reading: Rot by Padraic X. Scanlan 📚

Manton Reece — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:04:35 +0000

Got let in to Bluesky’s Attie. I’m impressed with it so far. I wonder if this will end up being a paid product. Can’t be cheap to run.

Manton Reece — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:30:27 +0000

I had missed that Automattic’s renewed push into education comes with a free .blog or .art domain name. It’s just for one year, but still great to get students thinking about owning their writing. I wish I could offer that.

b.loftin2 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:19:12 +0000

@manton Everybody picks their hill, right? Honestly, at this point I’d say X is probably no worse (I haven’t been on it in 6 or 7 years) than Meta platforms. FB currently shows me at least 30% people/bots that i hate and 15% “combat pens” I can write a journal entry with and then stab someone with it.

Khürt Williams — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:11:22 +0000

Red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus): islandinthenet.com

Manton Reece — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:04:36 +0000

When I blogged a couple weeks ago that X seems to be growing again, I think some people didn’t believe me. Yesterday, Federico Viticci returned to X:

Over the last two years, I’ve fundamentally changed as a creator. I’m still a writer and podcaster, but I guess I’m also a new kind of “builder”. Today, I need to find new readers, listeners, and developers, wherever they may be.

I have a lot of respect for Federico. If he feels he needs to connect with folks on X, that’s his call. I’m sure he’s going to keep blogging and podcasting too!

Let me be clear: I’m not going to post on X. But I’m not blind...

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Micro.blog News — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:25:45 +0000

Improved the speed of loading the home page timeline and Posts page.

Manton Reece — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:25:12 +0000

@bloftin2 Ooo, fun.

b.loftin2 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:22:05 +0000

While Apple wants to put cameras on your AirPods, I just want a keyboard that lights up.

Micro.blog News — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:18:45 +0000

We resolved another issue with blog posts not publishing fully overnight. I’m very sorry. It shouldn’t happen again.

Manton Reece — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:17:25 +0000

Looks like we’re getting the camera AirPods soon. I’m curious how Apple is going to frame the privacy for these considering all the Meta glasses backlash. Even if the image never leaves your phone, will people trust it?

Manton Reece — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:14:01 +0000

@adamprocter @danielpunkass I’ve blogged similar themes in the past, but I can’t think of anything recently…

Manton Reece — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:50:42 +0000

John Gruber follows up on a number of issues around watermarking. On what to even do with detection tools:

There cannot exist a single detector for all LLMs. And even if you find out that it says it’s a match, that an email or blog post or Slack message was very likely generated by, say, Claude, what are you going to do? March into your colleague’s office and tell them you caught them?

Watermarking critiques are compelling because there are multiple points against it. Worse quality (maybe), false positives with quoted or lightly edited text (likely), centralized control of keys (yes).

Jason A. Heppler — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:29:01 +0000

This morning I learned I’ve been selected to be the head coach of the fifth grade (my daughter’s) volleyball team. Should be a fun season! 🏐

Jason A. Heppler — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:26:36 +0000

It was a long night of small thunderstorms passing through, and it looks like we’re continuing that throughout the day.

Jeremy Cherfas — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:48:04 +0000

In the latest Eat This Newsletter, a couple of dreamy prescriptions for a better food world, as well as a clear-eyed view on what’s up with wheat prices. And if all that is too bitter, how the USA became sweet on yoghurt.

Get it here

Miraz Jordan — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:46:24 +0000

I have a goal to go to the beach at least a couple of times each week, but laziness and inertia almost defeated me this morning.

It was lovely though, as usual in spite of the chilly Southerly, and until the last few minutes I was completely alone.

For the Pacific Wave Appreciation Society. 🌊

Micro.blog News — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:55:26 +0000

Fixed accidentally including video posts in the timeline before the video was fully processed for streaming.

Jason Becker — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:25:04 +0000

Hulu suddenly started showing ads. What the fuck, I’ve had ad-free Hulu since it existed. So I have to go to my computer, of course, to figure out what’s going on with the account. Apparently, I was on a “legacy bundle” that somehow became “Disney+ Ad-Free, Hulu (with ads) and ESPN+” for $25 a month. I never...

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Micro.blog News — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:28:42 +0000

Wavelength 2.0 for iOS has been released on the App Store.

Khaled Abou Alfa — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:01:25 +0000

When I first saw these balconies I hated them. But now that I’ve experienced them across multiple days, I’ve come to really appreciate how they are a dynamic park of the building, changing colours depending on what is happening outside.

Manton Reece — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:05:50 +0000

@herself Thank you! That means a lot.

Jess Nickelsen — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:55:52 +0000

I had a terrible year last year. But keen to get back to microblogging and reconnect with everyone… any good recommendations of new weirdos to follow?

b.loftin2 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:55:22 +0000

Contests and stuff: bloftin2.blog

Jess Nickelsen — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:54:18 +0000

@manton It was a pleasant surprise! I know I haven’t much been on micro.blog lately but it’s such a lovely place, even after all this time :D

Miraz Jordan — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:45:00 +0000

@monday Excellent newsletter — loved all the photos and suggestions of people to watch. Just one tiny thing, though the effect is real — for those of us shivering in midwinter this kind of thing feels a bit exclusionary: “hope you’ve been having a wonderful summer”. Seems really trivial and nitpicky but Micro.Blog’s all about inclusion. 😀 Maybe: “hope you’ve been having a wonderful time, whether that’s summer or winter”?

Manton Reece — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:39:49 +0000

We just sent a new Micro Monday email update out! Still getting our bearings again with email. I also built a new system to manage and send the emails. Learning a lot, as always. 🤞