Devices and AI

15:31 Tuesday, 3 February 2026
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This interview with Tony Fadell is outstanding in kind of getting a good sense of where we are and where we're going in the near-term with devices and AI. I don't follow the field very closely (too distracted by politics) and this was informative.

I'm also not going to install OpenClaw right now. I'm not savvy enough to maintain all the guardrails and too risk averse to just roll with it.

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Has Nobody Seen Battlestar Galactica?

13:05 Tuesday, 3 February 2026
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This Clawdbot thing (OpenClaw) troubles me. On the one hand, it looks very exciting. On the other hand, it seems like to get the most use from it, you basically have to turn over the keys to your computer.

This seems like the kind of thing I could use to convert a Google Sheets spreadsheet to a Numbers spreadsheet. No idea if it would actually be correct, but I could play with it and maybe find out.

I really want to try this, but I feel like it's playing with dynamite.

Probably going to let some other folks go first and see what happens.

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Good News

09:49 Tuesday, 3 February 2026
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This is a good news story that will be a temporary reprieve from the catastrophe ongoing before our eyes.

So do yourself a favor and check it out.

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Tracks

07:00 Tuesday, 3 February 2026

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Beautiful day yesterday, but the clouds are back today. It dawned on me to put the drone up to grab some shots of the snow-covered landscape. Since I hadn't flown in a long time, all the batteries were nearly flat. (DJI drone batteries seem to have a high rate of internal discharge.)

I only got a few shots before the controller began beeping annoyingly, complaining about low power.

I've darkened this shot, and added "definition" to more clearly reveal the number of animal tracks on the property. I'm assuming they're mostly deer. I have never seen any of them, so most of this movement is occurring at night, I think.

Anyway, I found it surprising and kind of cool.

[Update: I noticed you can't really see the tracks at this size. Here's the same shot at Flickr. Zoom in for a better look.]

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Lunch Conversations With Der Fuehrer

06:42 Tuesday, 3 February 2026
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I regard it as an act of exceptional clemency that I did not, in fact, carry out this threat, but contented myself with shooting one hundred and thirty of these self-styled Bible Students (Bibelforscher). Incidentally, the execution of these hundred and thirty cleared the air, just like a thunderstorm does. When the news of the shootings was made public, many thousands of similarly minded people who proposed to avoid military service on the score of some religious scruple or other lost their courage and changed their minds.

His original plan was to starve them to death.

From Hitler's Wartime Conversations: His Personal Thoughts as Recorded by Martin Bormann, Entry 235, 7 June 1942, midday.

Makes me kind of wonder what the table talk is at Mar a Lago.

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DHS: 1️⃣0️⃣ days since our last public execution

06:32 Tuesday, 3 February 2026
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Imaginary "safety" program at the Department of Homeland Security.

The kind of thing I would have done on "social" media.

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Intrusive Apple News Ads

06:20 Tuesday, 3 February 2026
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Scrolling a story in Apple News these days will inevitably bring up an ad for Turbo Tax, because Apple makes the ad nearly the entire height of the screen. You can't scroll the story without touching the ad, interrupting your reading and irritating you at the same time.

Apple sucks.

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