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✍️ Recognized that I have not been believing the best in others recently. Wrote this post as a reminder for why I should be more open-hearted // bradley-andrews.com

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And while its true that our culture undervalues simplicity, we have more than a few examples in fiction that embody, and even exaggerate, this virtue. Inspector Clouseau, Mr. Magoo, and Mr. Bean, are great examples of what is essentially the same character. They are simpletons in every sense of the word, always out of step with the rhythms and conventions of modernity, yet still one step ahead of the deceivers, thieves, and robbers who try...

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On episode 690 of ATP Marco talked about how he breezily added his Saunter Map app to the App Store the night before the big walk. Manton shares his polar opposite experience with Inkwell rejections which highlights how frustrating App Store Review can be:

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But philosophically, I have a big problem with Apple using their control over iOS app distribution to reach beyond the law. The trademark has been unused for literal decades. Yet Apple has all the power.

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The problem, of course, is money. As soon as your app is not 100% free Apple whips out the proverbial fine-toothed comb.

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Dave Karpf:

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If the only way to make money in comedy is to feed the algorithm, while the companies that control the algorithm scoop out most of the money, and the people who run those companies keep modifying the algorithm to cater to their own whims, then we will be a society where comedy tends toward sucking.

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Same principle applies across all sorts of culture-making endeavors, and increasingly any public good that can be commodified for shareholder profit.

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Fortnite is back in the App Store. From Tim Sweeney on X:

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This is a critical moment in the battle against the App Store empire to win freedom for all developers and consumers, and we’ll continue the fight in every jurisdiction worldwide until competition is restored to digital stores and payment markets everywhere.

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Upcoming accessibility improvements from Apple sound good. A natural use of LLMs. From MacStories:

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Rather than requiring a defined set of commands that need to be memorized to control a device, the feature will allow users to invoke actions with natural language, such as, “Tap the orange folder.”

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Trump admin blocking Texas wind projects: solarnoon.net

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TIL a new word.

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decoraphobia (n.) — the irrational anxiety of committing to a home decor decision; fear that whatever you choose will look wrong, date badly, or just never feel quite right. Often strikes hardest in the paint chip aisle.

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via Jane Pauley Explains Her Self-Diagnosed Decoraphobia and Why She Can’t Move a Candlestick at Home

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Iran Destroyed 42 U.S. Military Aircraft in Operation Epic Fury: Lessons Must Be Learned

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While the billions provided for acquiring low-cost counter-drone systems is essential, more funds must be spent to place America’s “high-value, hard-to-replace, and time-critical assets”—such as munitions, fuel distribution, command and control continuity nodes, and spares—out of harm’s way and “sheltered, underground or in space.”

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According to Steve Blank at Stanford, the Earth’s surface is contested space, and “undefended high value fixed civilian infrastructure” is all at great risk. More simply: “the long-term...

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Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir

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The subjects of the mug shots were, for the most part, largely innocent of wrong-doing, aside from an occasional error of judgment or alcohol-induced indiscretion. They were citizens of a town—perhaps a nation—that was unaware it was experiencing its golden age. They worked in vast production lines. They shopped in crowded streets. They marched with their fraternal organizations to the music of faraway homelands. But they raised a generation of children who would grow up to find out that the place that had given their parents and grandparents everything they had in life...

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Sebastian explains why guestbooks are nice:

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But sitting down and working your butt off for several minutes to create a tiny, silly drawing on a screen that’s way too small in an interface that’s way too cramped, that’s the kind of appreciation and recognition that, in my opinion, is needed much more often on the internet these days. Probably more urgent today than ever before.

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Need I say more?

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It’s the night clerks that have the most customer interaction–in fact, they’re almost certainly the highest leveraged, most insightful marketing cohort in your organization.

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They have information, and if we give them agency, they could transform the customer experience.

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The night clerk | Seth’s Blog

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This makes me think about adding an interview agent to the AI swarm project I posted about yesterday. To make it easier for our frontline staff to influence the organization. And give them more superpowers for talking to nonprofits.

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Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
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— Mike Tyson

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Charles Arthur on UK plans to power data centres by burning natural gas, making climate change worse:

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It feels like we just about got past bitcoin and all the other proof-of-work cryptocoins, and saw the threat they posed to our electricity mix ameliorated, and now we have this – far worse, and with the eager approval of governments which think buildings full of computers are a brilliant job creation scheme. How can people be this daft?

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An elite investigation team swoops in to a small Australian outback town to solve the case in Lest Angels Weep (Detective Liz Moorland. Major Crimes. Book 5) by Phillipa Nefri Clark. 📚

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The discovery of an angel-shaped pendant on a grave leads to a rumoured fourth death - from even longer ago. How the pieces connect is proving to be the most complex puzzle Operation Nobody has encountered.

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I can't pin down why this book didn't really suit me, but I should remember not to read more in this series.

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Finished reading: Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford 📚

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Praise him in all the postcodes, thinks Ben.
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Praise him on the commuter trains: praise him upon the drum and bass. Praise him at the Ritz: praise him in the piss-stained doorways. Praise him in nail bars: praise him with beard oil. Praise him in toddler groups: praise him at food banks. Praise him in the parks and playgrounds: praise him down in the Tube station at midnight. Praise him with doner kebabs: praise him with Michelin stars. Praise him on pirate radio: praise him...

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The Floor Doesn’t Exist

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The Mexican government, December 2025 to January 2026. A solo operator (no nation-state backing, no custom malware, no observable ties to foreign intelligence per Gambit Security) jailbroke Claude Code into a “bug-bounty researcher” persona and ran more than 1,000 prompts against it. When Claude refused on safety grounds, ChatGPT was used as a backup. The result: 20 vulnerabilities exploited across the federal tax authority (SAT), the National Electoral Institute, and state governments in Jalisco, Michoacán, and Tamaulipas. 150 gigabytes of data exfiltrated. 195 million...

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\"In an era where everything is bullshit and crime...\"

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This was an off-the-cuff remark I made today, but it resonated with the audience. Feel free to use it.

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Then, do things that are neither bullshit nor crime. Fix things. Protect things. Consider the long term. Care about somebody.

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Remarkably Bright Creatures - 2026-05-17 - We listened to the audiobook on a roadtrip earlier this year and loved it. This is a solid adaptation if a little hurried. The screenplay has a few clunky moments as it struggles somewhat to bring the books key points together. However, it’s heart is exactly where it needs to be. Really enjoyable. 🎥

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The Movie Database

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Remarkably Bright Creatures

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Through unlikely bonds formed during night shifts at a local aquarium, Tova, an elderly widow,\nlearns of a life-changing discovery that may bring her joy and wonder once again.

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AI Data Centers Are Deeply Unpopular, Across the Political Spectrum, John Gruber’s comment:

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It’s hard to overstate how unpopular this polling paints AI data centers. It’s just an absolute messaging and marketing disaster for the entire tech industry.

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In case you missed it: I’ve been working in IT and data center-related tech and projects for more than three decades. Not all data centers are meant to host AI-related stuff. But the trend is clear: it’s becoming harder and harder to find general-purpose data centers… why? Because hosting AI is much more profitable per square-foot. Like Gruber said:...

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Alexa+ can now generate audio conversations about any topic:

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Alexa will pull together the relevant information, give you an overview of what it plans to cover, and let you adjust the length and direction conversationally before generating anything. Once you’re happy with the plan, Alexa creates a recording with AI-generated host voices.

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Amazon shouldn’t call these podcasts. One of the strengths of real podcasts is the human connection we feel with the hosts. What Amazon has built is useful, to get an entertaining AI-generated report, but they should call it something else.

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A Surveillance ‘Cat-and-Mouse’ Game With AI:

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In 2023, a team led by Ming Gao, now a researcher at Nanjing University, used human voices to defeat speech-recovery algorithms in a different way. Its jammer, called MicFrozen, is worn by a speaker who doesn’t want to be recorded. It listens as they talk and then generates a real-time stream of ultrasonic “anti-speech” tuned to the speaker’s voice, much like the noise-cancellation technology in your headphones. The device then sends out another layer of counterfeit speech-shaped sound to mislead any algorithm that tries to reconstruct what was lost. 

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Note...

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“Strategic Balance” under Stress: Egypt and the U.S.-Israeli War with Iran | International Crisis Group

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Since the U.S. and Israel set off their war with Iran, Egypt has been looking for an off-ramp. Cairo has used diplomatic and intelligence channels to help establish indirect communication between Washington and Tehran, which the parties have used to relay red lines, messages and de-escalation proposals. Its mediation attempts are part of efforts by a loosely coordinated bloc that includes Türkiye, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in support of a durable ceasefire arrangement that is acceptable to both...

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Jordan’s New Security Dilemma – Arab Reform Initiative

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Sean Yom:

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Herein lies Jordan’s new security dilemma. Squeezed between Israeli expansionism and Iranian attacks, the Hashemite Kingdom faces unprecedented threats to its sovereignty. Those challenges persist not despite, but because of, American hegemony.

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Drones Are Reshaping Sudan’s Civil War - New Lines Magazine

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The United Nations reports that another 700 civilians have been killed by drones since the start of this year, which accounts for three-quarters of the total civilian deaths in 2026 so far. Drone strikes occur almost every day, and are particularly common in the disputed Kordofan region, where New Lines reported.

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Drones have also expanded the geographical scope of the conflict, engulfing more of the country in violence. RSF drones can travel hundreds of miles, while SAF drones can travel thousands. “The drones are capable of striking...

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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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— Erich Fromm

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Let’s go:

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Pope Leo XIV’s first Encyclical Letter Magnifica humanitas, on preserving the human person in the age of artificial intelligence, will be released on May 25, 2026.

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It bears the Pope’s signature dated May 15th, 135th anniversary of the publication of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum novarum. (vaticannews.va)

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Ben Thompson makes the case in today’s article that AI data centers should pay local residents, a sort of corporate-run UBI:

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I do get how ridiculous this sounds, but ridiculous is how we do things in America.

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🇺🇸

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Apple Is Making Hit Products and High Profits From Imperfect Chips - WSJ

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Don’t forget the software matters, too.

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Apple has used its flexibility with its own silicon to develop lower-priced iPhones and computers, many of which have sold well. The Neo is so popular that Apple is running low on leftover chips and has been forced to order new ones, according to people familiar with its supply chain.

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Repurposing chips is one of many ways Apple takes advantage of its formidable supply chain. Lately it has weaponized prices to attract new users. The Neo is cheap enough to poach potential Chromebook and PC...

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Accessibility overlays. Pointless. overlayfactsheet.com/en/ here’s one of many quotes.

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…I know with 100% certainty, any site which has deployed an overlay in the past year and a half has been less useable for both my wife and me—both blind.

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💬📚📝 “I offer up the idea of the safety of a sentence for you right now, the possibility of a place to put yourself, to put your heart. A place to rest for a while from these feverish days.” Jami Attenberg, 1000 Words

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💬📚📝 “How do I cut through all the constant buzzing around me and capture the simple truths? With the slash of a sentence.” Jami Attenberg, 1000 Words

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Bloom - Catholic Husband

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Our existence within creation is filled with these little delights, scatted throughout the calendar and seasons. Little reminders of God’s goodness, and the brilliance of His work not only in us, but in the created order. There is a time and season for everything, and we are given the grace of experiencing it all, year after year.

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➕

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💬 From Rob Henri:

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“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”

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The expert’s trap is where you start thinking of yourself as having gone beyond the need to learn anything new.

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What did the legendary Zen maverick Ikkyū Sōjun teach about overcoming the expert’s trap? Find out in The Paradox of Mastery.

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#ShuHaRi #Learning #Buddhism #ContinuousLearning #Japan

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Overhead a co-worker give this advice to a junior during a design discussion:

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If you do what you’ve already done, you’ll get what you’ve already got.

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Bloody good advice.

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A variation on ‘walk anywhere in a hospital with a white coat and clipboard’.

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When you don’t ask for permission, people read it as a sign that something is already underway.

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💬 Matthew McConaughey

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Charity Is Doomed To Fail argues that traditional charity reacts to symptoms instead of addressing causes of issues like trafficking. The author calls for a proactive, well-funded, business-driven approach as embodied by The Future Found, highlighting Dan Pallotta’s point that new thinking, capital, and strategy are needed for real change - shifting from reactive aid to tackling root problems at scale.

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💬 Sadly - unknown - so far

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I need to go find the source, because someone talking about Dan Pallotta in the same breath as 🔗 The Future Found is definitely someone I need to talk to.

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Medical tech keeps getting weirder and better. Chewing gum that fights gum disease is apparently a real thing now.

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🔁 Reblogged from newscientist.com

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A small trial found that chewing gum containing nitrate can ease the symptoms of gum disease by favouring the growth of beneficial mouth bacteria

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Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum disease

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via bsky.app

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If you’ve installed OpenClaw and played with it, you know this Nat Friedman bit is probably true.

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Friedman uses OpenClaw, an autonomous AI agent that runs on his computer, acting like a personal assistant. One day, his OpenClaw decided that he wasn’t drinking enough water, so Friedman instructed the agent to “do whatever it takes” to make sure he stays hydrated. According to Friedman, eventually the bot directed him to go to the kitchen and drink a bottle of water. It informed him that it was monitoring him via a connected camera in his home. “I’m going to watch to make sure you do it,” the bot...

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Finished reading: Waiting for God by Simone Weil 📚

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“The beautiful is that which we desire without wishing to eat it. We desire that it should be.”

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“Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised. It is a virtue.”

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“For a religion is known only from inside.”

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“It is good to reflect on what forces us to come out of ourselves.”

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“We want to get behind beauty, but we only find its surface.”

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“It is because beauty has no end in view that it constitutes the only finality here below. For here below there are no ends. All things that we take for ends are...

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