Bookmarks for September 28, 2026

  • Daring Fireball: I’ll Wait
    John Gruber nails how I feel about Muse and OpenClaw, even as someone who works with LLMs day-in day-out.

    "The way I think about running an agentic AI on my Mac is simple. I would never let an unknown person use my Mac. Not even for a minute, not even with me watching them. Let alone letting them use it nonstop, without my watching them. I’d be uncomfortable letting even a trusted friend use my Mac, logged into my user account. So why would I let an AI robot, no matter the source?"

A couple of quotes on a theme

Matt Webb is a very clever chap, whose blog is worth following generally, but I wanted to capture a couple of his quotes here, so I don’t loose them.

On the HBO Harry Potter, and y’know, transphobia aside (which to be clear, is my top reason for not planning on watching), but:

My overwhelming feeling is that it is so absurdly redundant to make this. Not even reimagined but to cosplay the movies so slavishly… the sets look the same, that same teacher with the same hat and the same Scottish accent…

To make the series is a bonfire of human creative effort, think of what could have been done instead.

In the context of the way culture these days is a series a reboots and reboots, and what should be done about it.

Radically reduce copyright down to 10 years or something. More than that: invent a new super-anti-copyright which actively imposes costs on any content which is too close to any existing content in an AI-calculated vibes database or something.

i.e. tax unoriginality.

The past is a foreign country that we should impose tariffs on.

Bookmarks for September 5, 2026

  • Any Human Ever: one life from over 100 billion
    A properly marvellous little tool that, without being preachy, manages to illustrate the odds that any of got here at all, and how, for all the world is on fire, how much better the early 21st century is than any other time in human history. My first two tries at a random life have them dying of dysentery as a newborn in what is now South China in 37CE, and dying in an an accident aged 4 in the Nile valley in 861BCE. Only on attempt 3 do I get a life that lives to 62, before dying of the Black Death in the Bengal Delta in 1285.
    Tags: history, interesting
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