This is an occasional reminder that there is most of a century of wizard-school stories written by authors who are not horrible people.

From Le Guin's "Earthsea" through to Novik's "Scholomance Trilogy".

the idea that the web ecosystem isn't "open" anymore because of complexity is ridiculous. anyone can still write basic html and javascript and get a site working. you don't have to use flexbox. you could just use nested tables. nobody gives a shit

the web ecosystem isn't open anymore because 5 planet spanning companies richer than god monopolize it now and you can't fix that by buying into the AI slop those very companies are peddling

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/

So two documentaries about "AI" are coming out this week -- a good one and a bad one. For some info on which is which and why, see:

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/a-tale-of-two-ai-documentaries/

Heads-up for anyone who doesn't want their posts scraped and handed over to an LLM.

https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/116286099611905851

(Quote replaced with link since I was blocked.)