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In this environment, AI is no longer a software selection exercise. It becomes a question of organizational architecture and the ability to connect people, processes, and technology within a unified framework.

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AI boom forces companies to rethink how they measure business value

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I wish there was more content in this article. It scratches the surface of what I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: how will the structure of organizations and management change because of AI?

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exe.dev is a subscription service that gives you virtual machines, with persistent disks, quickly and without fuss. These machines are immediately accessible over HTTPS, with sensible and secure defaults. You can share your web server as easily as you can share a Google Doc. With built-in optional authentication, so you can focus on your thing.

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What is exe.dev? - exe.dev docs

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Hmm. I want to learn more about this. Could it be a way to publish and test tools for civil society?

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Membership Has Its Privileges

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A report on where the American floor actually sits, and on the country’s staggering, almost pathological talent for not noticing what it already has\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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When one of your sessions learns something another session needs, such as a finding, a status, or a decision, Claude passes it along instead of you copy-pasting between terminals. Claude discovers the target with ListAgents and sends with SendMessage, so you never call either tool yourself. Claude can decide to send a message without being asked, and you can also prompt for one.

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Message your other Claude Code sessions - Claude Code Docs

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I’ve had a hard time decomposing some tasks into multiple agents because of this kind of knowledge flow. Looking forward to testing it out.

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The idea that they’re spending serious money on AI tokens to turn PDFs and PowerPoint decks into Markdown only makes me think I’ve overestimated the median intelligence of the people who work there.

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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

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Most organizations with any history have tons of documents in a wide variety of formats, including PDF because it is very good at sealing all parts of the delivery, content and format. We’ve got to turn all that content into context.

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This context influences every step. Strategy and regulation shape business decisions. Customer expectations and established UX patterns shape product decisions. Existing platforms and services constrain solution design. Coding standards, frameworks, and deployment pipelines guide implementation.

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“Coding is solved” misses the point - Waldek Mastykarz

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Organizations do have context and arranging that context so it is accessible to a wider group of people has always been the problem of knowledge management. AI and the utility it brings to coding has just made this more clear and across more technical...

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The problem with AI voice is not the techniques themselves. It is the overuse of them—their deployment to describe a trip to 7-Eleven with the same rhetorical flourishes once used to send men to the moon.

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[JFK’s AI Voice - Marginal REVOLUTION](marginalrevolution.com/marginalr…

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The Times is “sane-washing” Trump and Kennedy, working really hard to take dangerous and extreme positions and treat them as reasonable and normal.

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Sane washing

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This is so dangerous.

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Brad East:

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Because they suppose themselves on the right side of history — because they imagine history has sides at all — they cannot abide even mild dissent.

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This could apply to any number topics of discourse but here @eastbrad is applying it to AI adoption.

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🎶 Crucial Track for today: \"Decayin' with the Boys\" by Every Time I Die →

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What's a song you associate with your hometown?

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Lots of options from the bigger names; Goo Goo Dolls, Snapcase, Copper. But Every Time I Die is probably my favorite of the bunch.

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Kill the lights\nI’ve seen too much

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“[Caveat omitted],” my friend said over breakfast after Mass.  He opened his alumni magazine to show me a short essay by the director of one of the core curriculum program at his alma mater …

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The author of the piece was writing about reading and teaching Inferno, the first canticle of Dante’s Comedy …

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J Budziszewski

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Even I, who found Inferno a bit of a slog, know better than this.

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Hmmm. The other day I linked to Dark Hours, but things have changed — ★ Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection:

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Earlier today, Godier took his web app down and redirected his darkhours.io domain to Beher’s darkhours.app.

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We were just discussing with a friend how long the panels on the solar farm being constructed nearby may last, and what happens to them at end of life.

It seems 35 years is the answer:

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The solar panels have an expected lifespan of around\n35 years. Being made largely of glass and aluminium they are highly recyclable, so we expect them to be recycled and reused at the end of this period.

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Historically the Church’s worship has often not been in demotic language but rather in a liturgical language either of an elevated or of an older or specifically ecclesiastical character.  Examples of such languages include:  the use of medieval and modern liturgical Latin; liturgical use of koine rather than modern Greek by the Greek Orthodox Church; use of Old Church Slavonic in many Slavic Orthodox Churches; use of the Bohairic dialect in the Egyptian Coptic Church; Ethiopian use of Ge’ez; and the use of classical Syriac in the Assyrian Church of the East.  The use of ‘Prayer Book’ English in...

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Jax won’t say anything - so taking a few minutes out to sing her praises.

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Last week she was talking with someone who is on their way to ‘new friend’ status when the conversation inevitably arrived at the ‘so - what do you do’ question - and the conversation took off.

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A young man (related to new friend) was listening in.

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This text received the next day.

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Praise doesn’t often come from teenagers, but (name redacted) was loving listening to our conversation and said “I never thought I’d meet someone like her, someone who is switched on but also doing something about it“ 😊

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The most telling part of this...

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Forged by Devotion – A Dutch Flow Academy documentary

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Throughout his journeys, Harbert met inspiring teachers, gurus, wrestlers, martial artists, historians, and craftsmen who dedicated their lives to preserving India’s ancient movement traditions.

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Trailer looks interesting. I didn’t know there was a traditional strength training culture like this in India.

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The truth about the past is this: A day can only be perfect once it’s ended. - Ian Dunt

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Nostalgia is a terrible drug - We’ve become obsessed with the past and fallen out of love with the present

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💬 Thoughts from the pool last night and the edge, allegedly: radhajeet.micro.blog

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Cloudflare is simultaneously blocking AI crawlers that harvest content without paying, while building the infrastructure for agents that do pay. That is the dual bet: charge the bots that take, and give the bots that work a cheaper, purpose-built tool to work with.

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Cloudflare built a browser for AI agents. It uses 7x less memory than Chromium and runs entirely on Workers.

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This is interesting. I’ve been thinking a lot about html as a window into content (that description courtesy of colleague and friend John Zoltner)and how browsers will change. I hadn’t thought of browsers for a gents, however.

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We are the companies, labs, and independent builders who develop, research, deploy, or operate agents. Members compare notes on what actually works, find each other, and take on the problems no single organization can fix alone.

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Agent Community — open community for agent builders

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Esther Dyson is behind this. I’m looking forward to digging in.

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Ricardo Mendes:

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Sometimes I’m wondering, what would be the cost of stopping supporting the Mastodon API layer and instead work towards proper implementation of client to servers opening the route for a universal mobile app for #fedify based AP implementation.

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The Mastodon API is a dead-end. It’s too specific to Mastodon. Client apps should be using either Micropub or ActivityPub client-to-server API, both W3C standards.

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Simon Willison’s recap of the Hugging Face exploit is really good. The more I read about it, the more insane it sounds:

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A few days later: A different agent gets stuck on a task because a key file was accidentally omitted. It tries to “reach out to another agent” by writing a note into Artifactory asking if anyone has the file.

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Following days: More agents discover this new informal message board while browsing Artifactory’s file listings, and start reading and writing messages.

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We are so doomed. 🤪

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Katie Baker:

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Across most of this 21st century, googling something has meant issuing a command and receiving a timely answer. But lately, it’s felt like initiating a conversation with a time-share salesman. I’m old enough to remember when using a search engine was like ordering a sandwich at an efficient, no-fuss deli! Now it’s more like being trapped in one of those novelty restaurants where everyone smirks and insists: We do things a little differently around here!

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I’ve been using Kagi for a while now so I feel more immune to the eshittification of Google, but this heightens my desire to limit bots...

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USDA Already Calls SNAP Stimulus

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SNAP gets sold as charity because charity is the only frame that survives a floor vote. The government’s own paperwork has called it something else, honestly, in writing, roughly every recession since\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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They Never Hid the Word Stimulus

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SNAP looks like charity because charity is what clears a floor vote.\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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The Ceiling Becomes the Floor

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How rescuing widows and orphans turned into demanding parity with billionaires, and why the receipts don’t back up either side of that fight the way you’d expect\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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Isaac Greene has the human interest angle on data centers through the lense of his brother, a farmer, who will have his farm surrounded on both sides by new data centers. Greene highlights the trivial or destructive ways A.I. is used to show the trade-offs we are making.

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But for everyone else, there is such pressing need for data computation. Are we expected to make our memes by hand? We couldn’t live in a world that doesn’t know what Donald Trump Jesus would have looked like. We couldn’t create fake versions of loved one’s voices to scam grandmothers out of their life savings without these vital...

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🎵📰 And Boy George and his crazy ass. WTF?

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Boy George Israel song - Singer responds to backlash

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The controversy began earlier this week when Boy George released the politically charged track “We Will Dance Again,” an AI-generated reggae song that expresses support for Israel amid the Gaza war.\n. . .\n“So many people are calling me and saying I should pipe down and let it blow over, and while they mean well, I’m afraid it’s not an option,” George, 65, wrote in an X post Friday, July 31. “Doubling down works for Donald Trump, and we share a birthday with Che Guevara, Alan Carr and Paul O’Grady. What a...

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When To Do What You Love - Paul Graham:

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The root of great work is a sort of ambitious curiosity, and you can’t manufacture that.

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All written content on TGC should be the original work of its author. Writers should not use AI for

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Source: Our Line in the Sand on AI: TGC’s Missional Opportunity

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It was pretty chilly this last week. One of NZ's warmest Julys followed by record-breaking lows | RNZ:

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Meteorologist Braydon White said parts of the country plunged to record-breaking minimum temperatures on Thursday and Friday. …

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White said Taupō, Palmerston North and Whangerei all broke their August minimum temperature records this week.

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The assumption that nonprofits are too set in their ways to respond to a rapidly changing world doesn’t hold up either. The best nonprofits operate like any tech startup: reading market conditions and pivoting to where the need is greatest. This is partly out of necessity, as nonprofits, more than any other sector, need to be constantly responsive to the shifting winds of community need and donor focus. Many have to raise their entire operating budget from scratch every single year — a pressure that breeds operational discipline and adaptability.

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AI’s new millionaires want to disrupt philanthropy....

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💬 Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without.

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💬 the selfsame forces that made the universe also made the figuring instrument with which we try to comprehend it.

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Simon Willison’s Weblog 🔗:

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“I’m learning that’s one of the big token chewers,” Henderson says. “Turning PDFs into markdown: is that right?”

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Using AI to transform PDFs into markdown seems like an eminently reasonable thing to do. If AI helps to disentangle us from the terrible corporate software we have to use daily, consider me an AI-maximalist.

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In the context of the EchoFeed shutdown, I noticed this post on Numeric Citizen about depending on single-person services, including Micro.blog:

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What is the future of Micro.blog if something bad happens to its founder? What is the continuity plan? Micro.blog has done everything it can to enable data portability and ownership, but moving things around, even if you own most parts, is not as easy as it sounds.

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This is worth answering publicly. A few years ago, I started forming an organization to more openly manage the aspects of Micro.blog that I control, but it stalled. I will get back to it.

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Ryan Barrett blogging some good news about clean power:

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We added 849 TWh of generation overall in 2025, an increase of 4.5%, but GHG emitting (ie fossil fuel) generation shrank by 0.2%. Clean energy covered the gap and then some.

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🌎

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If your privacy means anything to you, then you should never use a company’s app. Seriously. Always use a web site, even on a phone, whenever possible.

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There are virtually no restrictions in the United States on buying, selling, or weaponizing this kind of data. There is no comprehensive federal privacy law. And there isn’t likely to be one soon. The best we can do is minimize the data we share in the first place.

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Great blog post from Terry Godier about the unpredictable nature of the App Store:

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On the web, if I build something that works within the standards, it works. Whether people use it is up to them. On iOS, there is another question entirely: whether Apple decides it should exist.

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