2 Aug 2026 · inkdroid
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Code was our medium for thought See how we weren’t just “writing code”? We were exploring the problem, making decisions, evolving our understanding of the code, problem solving with teammates. Writing code was our medium for thought, where we figured out what we wanted. Our code evolved with our thinking, going from “fuzzy” to “clear and granular” in tandem. programming 🔖 Bugonia (film) Bugonia is a 2025 dar…
26 Jul 2026 · inkdroid
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Refusal as Instruction Equipping Patrons to Resist AI, Data Brokers, Big Tech, & More This column explores the ways in which library workers can better align technology use and instruction in library settings with library values, through championing the refusal of technologies that conflict with values like privacy and intellectual freedom. Drawing on experiences with individual patron instruction, class design, and passive …
19 Jul 2026 · inkdroid
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Beyond DeepSeek: China’s Diverse Open-Weight AI Ecosystem and Its Policy Implications After years of lagging behind, Chinese AI models — especially open-weight LLMs — seem to have caught up or even pulled ahead of their global counterparts in advanced AI model capabilities and adoption. We profile and compare the capabilities and distinct features of four notable Chinese open-weight language model families, highlightin…
13 Jul 2026 · inkdroid
Moped
12 Jul 2026 · inkdroid
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 UNHCR’s future is at risk – and so is its past UNHCR’s archives are not just dusty shelves of internal paperwork. Within around 10 kilometres of shelving lie official records, file notes, testimonies and images dating back to UNHCR’s creation in 1950, documenting global displacement from the aftermath of the Second World War through the Cold War and decolonization to today’s conflicts and climate-driven crises. Alo…
12 Jul 2026 · inkdroid
Tindaro Screpolato In the Boboli Gardens, Florence
12 Jul 2026 · inkdroid
Armillary Sphere at the Museo Galileo
12 Jul 2026 · inkdroid
Bark detail
12 Jul 2026 · inkdroid
Clouds over Florence
12 Jul 2026 · inkdroid
Apartment buzzer with camera
5 Jul 2026 · inkdroid
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Opening Panel: Archival Poetics & The War on Memory This opening panel on June 11, 2012 entitled “The War on Memory” includes Eleni Sikelianos, Stacy Szymaszek, Steve Dickison, Steven Taylor, E. Tracy Grinnell, and Anne Waldman. Topics discussed include etymology of the word “archive,” the place of the poet in society, archives as historical documents, technology’s role in archiving, and narrative anthropology. arc…
2 Jul 2026 · inkdroid
Two years ago I wrote about why I don’t use Copilot . I still don’t use Copilot. But I have since started using Claude Code, which is arguably worse. Why am I using it? Well, as a software developer I felt like I had to understand it, because so many of my colleagues and collaborators have started using it. Once things moved beyond relatively simple code completion I needed to understand what it was capable of, and what to look for in its work when reviewing code. I also had a good friend wa…
28 Jun 2026 · inkdroid
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Beavis and Butt-Head Become A.I. Tech Bros Will A.I. finally be able to help Beavis and Butt-Head score? It did everybody else’s homework; they deserve something! ai humor video 🔖 Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off A campaign has begun to get two large transmitter masts listed, after the BBC’s Long Wave (LW) service is turned off. The 700ft (213m) high Wychbold Masts in the Worcestershire countryside can b…
24 Jun 2026 · inkdroid
Epithalmion for Tyler by James Tate I thought I knew something about loneliness but you go to the stockyards buy a pig’s ear and sew it on your couch. That, you said, is my best friend – we have spirited talks. Even then I thought: a man of such exquisite emptiness (and you cultivated it so) is ground for fine flowers.
22 Jun 2026 · inkdroid
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 RFC 9958: Post-Quantum Cryptography for Engineers The advent of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) would render state-of-the-art, traditional public key algorithms deployed today obsolete, as the mathematical assumptions underpinning their security would no longer hold. To address this, protocols and infrastructure must transition to post-quantum algorithms, which are designed to resist both traditional and…
21 Jun 2026 · inkdroid
Midsummer sunrise The sun peeking over the horizon of the Atlantic Ocean. A globe of firey starstuff over calm waves, orange and red spreading out into the sky.
14 Jun 2026 · inkdroid
Tree 1 A reflection of a tree in the Northwest Branch river, cropped and turned upside down.
14 Jun 2026 · inkdroid
Tree 2 Same as Tree 1 but after playing with some filters on my Android phone before uploading.
14 Jun 2026 · inkdroid
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 When Bits Rot - with C McKean, L Talboom, A Page-Mitchell English Edition: floppy disks, hard drives, CDs, DVDs, SSD drives - no matter what you choose to store your data on - ultimately they all decay. With my guests Callum McKean, Leontien Talboom and Adrian Page-Mitchell, we’re going to talk about what kinds of data we find on old drives, why we want to get them in the first place, and what can go wrong with the storage…
12 Jun 2026 · inkdroid
TL;DR if you have a TASCAM 788 backup and don’t know how to get the audio out of it this script might help. Also: AI tools work best when paired with expertise. I needed to take a very personal excursion into digital preservation recently as I attempted to listen to some audio recordings my brother John had made about 20 years ago. John died recently, and is sorely missed by his friends and family. John was a continuous source of inspiration for me, because of his many varied interests and pro…