Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more. For me the question is: If these things can code (and they can!) then why aren’t we seeing any great software? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...
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Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: [email protected].
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Opinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. nytimes.com
teorth.github.io
The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome — Steve Yegge yegge.ai
John Herrman: The declawing of OpenClaw aboard.com
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AI comes to the museum · Luma luma.com
Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets - 9to5Mac 9to5mac.com
Triple Threat: Has the new AI made the old AI relevant again? aboard.com
New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial finance.yahoo.com
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tinylittleoffice.com
Your Partner for AI Transformation | Aboard aboard.com
Father Brendan McGuire: Bringing AI to Church — The Aboard Podcast — Overcast overcast.fm
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Taking Back Pajama Time: Sutter Health abridge.com
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contrast that with this lecture by Terence Tao on how to address LLM-driven changes in your field but hold onto disciplinary values teorth.github.io/tao-web/slid...
oh gas town didn't work you say yegge.ai/essays/the-s...
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Chatted with @ftrain.bsky.social and Rich Ziade about my thwarted and slightly pathetic attempts to get something out of OpenClaw, the AI assistant that we are all definitely still talking about a few months later aboard.com/podcast/john...
Museum/library/metadata peeps—we're doing an “AI Comes to the Museum” event at our office in NYC August 18—nice folks and snacks, all talking about: The cultural commons, approaching things carefully, projects that work, things to watch out for, subjects of that nature. luma.c…
This is kind of a juicy lawsuit with all kinds of alleged skulduggery. It will be interesting to watch. 9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/a...
In our workplace newsletter I was permitted to write about how the new AI, LLM, might be a trojan horse filled with the old AI, RDF triplestores. aboard.com/triple-threat/
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New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence it already searched training data and chat logs for copyrighted works.
One thing to try is to ask it to look at tinylittleoffice.com/llms.txt and see if that helps—there's lots of tooling for LLMs to deal with stuff. But I don't really know Lumo and where Proton sets limits.
I wonder if it's because I need a special OpenStreetMap key. It's the only external system. Can you send me the console log either here or GitHub ticket or email [email protected]?
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This pairs very nicely with the discussion that @ftrain.com and Rich Ziade had with a Catholic priest on the Aboard podcast, discussing the work that led up to the encyclical overcast.fm/+AA-K7drL8WY
(You likely have already seen stuff like this but if you search for "pajama time AI" you'll find tons of ads and products focused on doctors, like www.abridge.com/blog/pajama-...) Pajama time!
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