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"Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali" by George Orwell

Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered buff.ly/uhKcEUJ The first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projects Bittersweet ending for this #SysadminDay story

Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he rememberedThe first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projectsbuff.ly

SAVE JODRELL BANK – Protect a national treasure of science, heritage & inspiration buff.ly/5XzILim Reverse funding cuts that would end 80Y of world-leading UK science. Home to the iconic Lovell Telescope, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, & the heart of UK radio astronomy

Sign the PetitionSAVE JODRELL BANK – Protect a national treasure of science, heritage and inspirationbuff.ly

The Strongest El Niño Ever buff.ly/XIWlbEg With all the July runs in, dynamical models give a ~90% chance of a record-setting event <- much bigger than 1877-1878. That killed ~50 million people.

The Strongest El Niño EverWith all the July runs in, dynamical models give a ~90% chance of a record-setting eventbuff.ly

Tales of Times Forgotten: An Ancient Historian’s Breakdown of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’

An Ancient Historian's Breakdown of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' - Tales of Times ForgottenChristopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s. It has already received near-universal acclaim from film critics and earned more at the box office in its…buff.ly

Falcon Re-Imagined - Wizztronics buff.ly/zel1JRP <- new Atari Falcon hardware under development, in 2026

Falcon Re-ImaginedFalcon Update 7-11-2026 Project Update: We’re Back, Refreshed, and Advancing to Revision 3 To our community, First and foremost, the team is doing well. We want to sincerely apologize for our recent…buff.ly

Gribnif: Classic Atari ST/TT/Falcon Software buff.ly/HSuf3wf « The source code to NeoDesk, Geneva and several other titles is now available on GitHub. »

Em dashes are fucking amazing buff.ly/PDKQBbX An ode to a punctuation mark

Em dashes are fucking amazingAn ode to a punctuation markbuff.ly

Nothing Works and Everyone Is Euphoric buff.ly/Z3jr4Hh « If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse? »

Nothing Works and Everyone Is EuphoricAs I’m writing this, we’re in the middle of an AI-induced mass psychosis. People are literally token-maxxing themselves into hospital beds, scrambling to capture some of that market value before…buff.ly

Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20... Building bot-free alternatives may require lefties, libertarians, & culture warriors to share code <- my last on @theregister.com for a few weeks -- but I anticipate some fisticuffs over this 1

Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing elseBuilding bot-free alternatives may require lefties, libertarians, and culture warriors to share codewww.theregister.com

Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do it (Neal Stephenson, Jul 21, 2026) buff.ly/8RaFc3E <- In which we learn that he's left-handed. I _told_ you lefties can use fountain pens fine. Stop whinging. P.S. my take: this is really about AI

Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do itBecause I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of…buff.ly

Worthwhile thread. And note, Doctorow uses a local AI himself.