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@manton I love these little camera windshield wipers on the Waymo sensor enclosures.

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Just finished Ezekiel 28, which officially brings me under 100 chapters left to write about for Chapter by Chapter.

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It doesn’t seem like much compared to the 1,090 I’ve already written, but it includes Daniel and all the minor prophets.

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I have reached Ezekiel 25 in my Chapter by Chapter notes, and now all I want to do is watch Pulp Fiction.

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I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay my vengeance upon them.
\n— Ezekiel 25:17

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We should celebrate this kind of obsessiveness more often and more loudly.

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The AI Detector Eats Itself: jerrytowler.com

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Every Monday, Matt Gemmell posts a new short story. They’re usually good, or at least original and interesting.

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Today’s is exceptionally well executed.

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When You’re Sleeping — Matt Gemmell

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I just realized I’ve finished notes on more than 90% of the Bible for Chapter By Chapter.

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As of today, I’ve finished 1,086 chapters, or just over 91% of the Bible.

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I have 103 chapters left to write about.

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New word for me from today’s Apple crossword: “pluot.” Well, and “aprium.”

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You’d think they were plum/apricot hybrids, and they are, but it’s more complex than that. Simple hybrids are calls plumcots and apriplums; these are “later generations.”

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Pluots have many, many named varieties.

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@JohnPhilpin The framing of “not obeying traffic laws” was Newport’s from the podcast:

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> no one worries that their Tesla will spontaneously decide to start ignoring traffic laws and obey laws that it invented himself.

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His bigger point is good, but savvy observers do worry about FSD.

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@JohnPhilpin That’s Newport’s own podcast; the blog version is here, where he writes,

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> no Tesla has ever decided to start ignoring traffic laws to pursue its own goals

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I understand the point he wants to make about “rogue” versus “fatally flawed,” but Tesla is a bad example of “responsible AI.”

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Cal Newport says that there’s no concern that Tesla’s FSD will “go rogue” in the sense of disobeying traffic laws.

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All I have to say is that he may not be as familiar with the state of AV technology in general, and Tesla in particular, as he is with other topics.

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The bad news is my flight home got diverted.

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A minor silver lining is I got to experience a new piece of Flighty UI.

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Today, I realized I listen to two (totally unrelated) podcasts whose acronym uses the letters TPK:

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Now I just need podcasts abbreviated KPT, KTP, PTK, and PKT.

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When I encountered Mrs. Cotton’s delightful The Doors Stay Open, I initially thought that perhaps The Grudgery was leaking.

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Considering the author, I’m not convinced it’s not.

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Legibility of Care, Not Effort: jerrytowler.com

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Visiting DC this week, and I continue to laugh at Americans who stand directly in front of subway doors to board and then get shocked when they have to move to let people off the train first.

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@lex I love these discoveries. I am bad at them.

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Also, I love imagining the world where every character an actor plays is actually the same character.

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For example, Major Mackenzie (JAG) is literally a witch (The Good Witch). Hawkeye (MAS*H) grows up to run for president (The West Wing). Et cetera.

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The Guardian managed to write almost three thousand words about the history of the modern industrialized two-day weekend—published on a Sunday—without using the word “Sabbath” once.

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Remarkable.

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@V_ I love that show. I’ve seen the entire first run multiple times. Cast chemistry is just amazing, and they somehow keep my attention and sensor humor occupied almost every episode.

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@mroutley I love how easy it is to find good hikes around here.

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Despite the repeated warnings about the invader/conqueror from the north, the book of Jeremiah doesn’t actually mention Babylon by name until chapter 20.

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He spends nineteen chapters talking about this impending disaster “from the north” before finally spitting out who it’s going to be.

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Does this make ChatGPT Codex half-Mac-assed? jerrytowler.com

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Saturday Is the Day of Pre-Rest: jerrytowler.com

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Yesterday’s thunderstorm cooled off the valley enough for me to get outside for the first time in a few weeks.

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AllTrails estimated 2.5 hours for this trail, so I was fairly surprised to find myself back at the parking lot in 97 minutes.

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Yesterday, during a thunderstorm, the Costco we were in lost power. Everyone continued to shop with phone flashlights until they herded us out.

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Apparently the registers ran on battery, so we were all able to check out, but then we were trapped at the entrance by the rain.

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On the plus side, it’s much cooler...

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@V_ The new Scrubs revival is actually season ten, which I haven’t finished but I’m enjoying. Season nine was the one after the first run ended so beautifully in “My Finale” and they went back to focus on the med students.

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I haven’t started “Ted Lasso” Season 4 yet, but I’m cautiously optimistic.

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Working my way through my Chapter by Chapter notes on Jeremiah tonight, I kept thinking, These chapters are really long!

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Fortunately, I had already built some Bible-data machinery for this article. So naturally, instead of getting back to my notes, I had Codex investigate.

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The result: my intuition was right....

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The ESV study Bible’s notes on Jeremiah begin,

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Determining the authorship of the book of Jeremiah is complicated by several factors…

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I understand and appreciate the challenges; I just love the juxtaposition of the name of the book, which comes from the authorship claim in the very first verse of said book (“The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah…\"), with the claim that authorship is complicated.

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@V_ I started watching it, and I got about as far into it as I did the tragic ninth season of Scrubs. It might have been great, but I just didn’t care enough to stick with it.

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It’s okay for things to end!

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We have started our Fall marathon-of-marathons a little… early… this year.

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First up: Gilmore Girls.

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An uneven show for sure, but I’ll never turn down something with such excellent dialogue delivered so well.

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Bonus trivia: Star’s Hollow uses the same set as Bluebell in Hart of Dixie.

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I finished taking notes on Isaiah today in my quest to complete the Canon by September 25. That brings me to 1,005 chapters (84.5% of the way there)!

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Isaiah was definitely the hardest book left, but Jeremiah and Ezekiel aren’t easy, and together they make up 100 of the 184 chapters remaining.

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Finished reading: The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman

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Wow, this book was very nearly serious fantasy! It has huge stakes, multiple meaningful races, some hope that what they do in this book will have impacts on the next one, and some actual pathos! Easily the best in the series so far.

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📚

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Finished reading: The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

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This book takes place inside cosmic bubble wrap. Dinniman’s brain reminds me of a Gary Larson quote:

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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It’s like that.

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📚

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@manton Do you encounter these phrases meaning something different than their original usage? They all have important meanings and shortcut much longer explanations. But sometimes the business/sales class co-opts and abuses technical terms; perhaps it’s that impedance mismatch (!) that bugs you?

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@manton That was my first thought too. It’s so obvious a solution that it really makes me wonder why they implemented the much-less-useful floating box instead.

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@manton So far the Codex “chat” interface is so limited it’s confusing, hard to navigate, and impossible to search. I really hope they figure it out soon, because I use the regular chat feature a lot, and I don’t want to lose it to that little floating box in Codex.

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@manton Agreed on the specificity. I do not like them appending to the same chat, because one-chat-per-day feels right, and I don’t know what it’s doing to context over time. I would much rather them all be new entries in a single Project.

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@manton It would be nice, given the retirement, if they would publish the prompt(s) they were using.

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That article just says (to replace Pulse),

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> Ask ChatGPT “give me daily suggestions based on my past chats and emails that I might find useful or interesting.”

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@lwdupont Amazingly, they were all hot. No idea how they work their magic. Highly recommended if you find yourself in Boise.

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@QuilledSister Take revenge on the sun! It will… keep you young, somehow?

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@writingslowly Too many words for a comment: jerrytowler.com/2026/04/1…

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@QuilledSister It was a giant mess, but it was delicious.

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@mroutley Nice! I agree, it’s eye-opening.

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@Mtt I installed it when Brett Terpstra linked it recently. It’s surprisingly good, but I definitely have to turn it off in some contexts.

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It’s lots of fun so far, and sometimes even useful!

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@rscottjones s/a month/eight months/ …

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@rscottjones Whoa! I started about a month after you and am just above 2,500. So many beers yet to be tried!

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@amerpie I’d love to hear your thoughts on why Octarine might be worth $80 when Obsidian is free. “Native vs Electron” is almost enough for me alone, but what else have you observed?

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@rscottjones Done! No pressure, just offering some feedback if it’s useful.

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@QuilledSister We must «cultivate» the serenity to ¡accept! the punctuation we |cannot change|, the ]courage[ to change the \\marks/ we can{ and the ((wis’dom)) to know the difference‽

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@QuilledSister

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> Never lend books
\n> —Captain Adama

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