Joel D

Obscurity is a good place to toil, the best actually.

I love a nice autumn sumac gradient #mnwx

Local weather-driven color scheme on my website gets more elaborate: now using a less-linear gradient that shifts depending on the month, so 55ºF in May is fresh green, while the same temp in October is more golden. Freezing temps are more blue, less green. also allowed myself a couple of long s's…

Putting the kids' swingset+playhouse up for adoption on the local buy-nothing groups 😔 🫡

With today’s release of Privacy Badger for Safari/macOS, it is now possible, for the first time ever, to install a Safari plugin that sends a Global Privacy Signal by default. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

It’s part of my mental health strategy in election years to find a plausible bet against my preferred outcome on PredictIt and put $ on it. This year I’m betting against Talarico, who the markets expect to win. And I hope he does. But I'm old enough to remember the first and second comings of Beto.

"Abiotic Factors" by Patricia Wolf, it's Blade Runner 2049 if the plants won

Sky on fire in Rogers, Minnesota #mnwx

I have twenty John Le Carré novels on my bookshelves, how are none of them "Tinker Tailor" or "Smiley's People"?

I found the ultimate use of AI, it's booking middle school parent teacher conferences

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Dean Allen's wikipedia page is unfortunately thin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Allen

I am unfortunately writing something that has a 100% chance of getting HN front page

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I resigned from Westinghouse Electric Company today. I spend the last three years researchign alternating current at both Edison and Thomas-Houston. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to high-voltage arc lighting and gambling with our lives.

The air has turned cooler. Bees are still out. #mnwx

Have these freaked out Anthropic researchers tried asking AI to play several rounds of tic tac toe?

My front porch is my favorite location at the MN State Fair. Heck, my front porch is my favorite location at Burning Man.

For years now, if someone has spoken of "Rich Dad Poor Dad" favorably, I have chalked them up as having defective bullshit detectors. www.vanityfair.com/story/the-...

Jolene (10+ hours) open.spotify.com/playlist/62V...

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A great dry day in August #mnwx

Oops I started listening through Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell again

Mike Lindell, I just want to say you have every right to continue your run as an independent and I would support you doing so 🤡

every time one of these stories does the rounds and you think "man did more people REALLY watch the new spiderman than JAWS?", the answer is always "lmao absolutely not"

Mississippi River dams on a Sunday evening #mnwx

For everyone who saw me on Twitter in 2008, pretty sure I’m not so bad anymore

Thank god for a breeze for the championship game, Lions Park in Golden Valley #mnwx

Wildfire smoke everywhere #mnwx

None of the articles about Lindsey Graham’s sister say anything about her qualifications for taking over his Senate seat, possibly because she has none.

There's a "dang hot outside" warning for the next 3 days. #mnwx

Hot and dry, coming up on Whiz Bang Days #mnwx

Crazy sky to end a July 4th evening of thunderstorms and fireworks going off all over the neighborhood. #mnwx

I'm not sure if this was a smart idea or what

Joel's Pocketknife: when someone says they could talk all day about something, they've usually just run out of things to say about it.

It's the middle of June and the weather is generically, blandly good. #mnwx

Looks like my plan to skip macOS Tahoe completely will pay off.

The AI social scene has much the same energy now that blogging did in 2004. In 20 years it may have the same energy that blogging now has in 2026.

I need the Spotify icon to just go back to the normal one already

I live in a time where I can finally create the ideal tools, tools that "disappear" leaving only results, and by the time the tool is finished I have disappeared into it