Prompted by one of TechSoup’s board members, I’ve been walking around saying, “Websites won’t exist in two years.” Every time I say it, I keep whittling down the amount of time—18 months, 12 months, 9 months. It’s getting closer both because of time passing, and because the time to...
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Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
\nNoted.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://crank.report/2026/06/24/so-it-must-be-that.html","date_published":"2026-06-25T01:03:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Marnie Webb","url":"https://crank.report","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F12%2F1356835.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"crankreport"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-25 01:03","date_timestamp":1782349398,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7mw6kjtdbes5oxnyjlz4zmeu/post/3mp3abhx7xd23"]}},{"id":"92848539","content_html":"\n\n\n
Too geeky for me still. It will get there.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://crank.report/2026/06/24/simonwbrowsercompatdb-too-geeky-for-me.html","date_published":"2026-06-25T01:01:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Marnie Webb","url":"https://crank.report","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F12%2F1356835.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"crankreport"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-25 01:01","date_timestamp":1782349316,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7mw6kjtdbes5oxnyjlz4zmeu/post/3mp3aayawvh2n"]}},{"id":"92219454","content_html":"\n\nThe AI boom needs electricians.
\nIt also needs line workers, substation technicians, grid engineers, mechanical contractors, welders, construction crews, and commissioning specialists. These are not jobs that can be filled instantly with a software update or a new financing round. They require training, experience, and a steady labor pipeline that the power sector does not currently have in abundance.
\nThat is an important reminder that the AI boom is not only a digital story. It is also very much a physical infrastructure story.
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Silicon Valley’s AI Dreams Face a Blue-Collar Reality | naked capitalism
\nA...
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Exclusive: ICE obtains local voter files in Texas and North Carolina
\nMore related than relevant. This article started me thinking about community efforts that brought together non-voters with voters so the legal voter could cast a representative ballot.
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Banning noise will be a disaster for statistical data products - Ted is writing things
\nThis articles holds so much for me to learn more about. Also, something to watch with regard to the privacy and safety of the communities we support.
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\n
This. I think the opportunity is ours for the taking. The window, however, will not be open for long.
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AI Coding at Home Without Going Broke | Stephen Bochinski
\nThis is about coding but frames some of the decisions around Frugal AI well. The fact is for many of us, the downloadable slower models are fine for or work and tasks so I believe that option — having your own set up — is becoming more viable.
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The power decisions that could shape the next century
\nWe have to figure out how to regulate and establish this system so that it benefits community.
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\nFinished reading: Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood 📚I didn’t realize this novella, almost a collection of vignettes, was the basis for Cabaret. The slow way a society changes is instructive reading.
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Claude Fable 5 | Simon Willison
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\n
If you want to know what engineering teams founded pre-AI can expect to achieve by embracing AI, there you go. This should be well within reach for the rest of us.
\nAI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy
\nThis engineering — and I’d add operational — discipline is so necessary and has to be put in...
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\n\nWelcome to Schrödinger’s UPS Vortex, the quantum rift within which your box is on a truck passing through Memphis, in a warehouse in Topeka, or on the outer rim of the galaxy, where it’s being worshipped as a god by a species of semi-intelligent space protozoa. I once got a text from UPS saying they’d picked up my package the day after the package showed up on my porch. (This technically makes me immortal.)
\n
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech - The Ringer
\nGod. Please fix shipping updates.
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\n
Boring Tiny Tools - Vaughn Tan
\nMore thoughts to share on this article. For now, let me say this exactly the approach I’ve been taking for myself. I’m not sure that it’s the only one needed for org transformation.
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\n\nWe now live in an era where, if you can dream an app, you can probably build it. Especially Mac utilities. And who cares more about native Mac software than Mac users? Certainly not those companies that gave up on Mac development and focused all their energies on giant cross-platform code bases to attract venture investment and big payouts.
\n
Road to WWDC 2026: What’s a developer? | Six Colors
\nI love being able to make my own tools.
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\n
[AI models are having their iPhone moment. What’s Next?
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Michael Tsai - Blog - Bricking Microsoft Office 2019
\nHarder and harder to keep your hardware and software going and secure.
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Making a New Plan | Accidentally in Code
\nThis is such a common challenge in leadership.
\nDo you demonstrate consistency and with that help give others confidence in their ability to act?
\nOr.
\nDo you change as you get new information and so stay on the edge of what’s possible?
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AI Doesn’t Have ROI | Hacker News
\nAnd an interesting conversation to go with that last post.
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This problem is industry-wide.
\nEvery single user of every single AI subscription service is having their tokens subsidized and the actual cost of AI obfuscated. As a result, every frothy, fluffy hype-piece about Claude Code or AI in general is a kalopsia — the belief that something is more beautiful than it really is.
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[Nvidia and Microsoft Researchers Say AI Agents Don
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I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
\nThis is what I’m finding. I’m using them to structure skills files which then interact with python scripts to...
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\nNonprofits are operating in spaces where capitalism and govt have failed.
\ntheir job is to make a social, not financial, impact.
\nbusiness has crazy competition and incentives. Let’s work that out for nonprofits.
\n@numericcitizen Terrific texture.
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\nGive! Any amount helps us get to the goal -> www.every.org/techsoup/f/f…
\nShare! Repost this, write you own post, send emails.
\nActivate! Every year we vote on the funding that supports the meals. Make sure your congresspeople know how critical this is.
\n@marniewebb.bsky.social AND our funding models don’t make it easy for a small, lightweight app that doesn’t collect user data to get consistent ongoing funding.
\nWe are building an endowment to help respond to the need and provide an example of funding a product that keeps it going.
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\nThe 90K public schools that provide access to meals for students who need it close during the summer months.
\nThe ~35K places that do serve meals are open at various hours.
\nThat means the place a young person got a meal on Monday may no longer be serving on Wednesday.
\n@rubyji.bsky.social I’m with you. Especially after yesterday’s win by UCLA Women’s basketball 💪
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