Pour one out for the #JohnsonAmendment, I guess:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/08/irs-church-candidates-tax-politics.html
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Just another carbon unit infesting the creator's planet.
I see Gen. Z has discovered vacation that their predecessors swore off:
The next major opportunity for meat alternative substitutes, IMO, is to offer something suitably large that could stand-in for a roast with the ritual celebratory cutting and serving at the table.
(Also to minimize packaging waste for feeding larger groups.)
I very rarely comment on videos posted to YouTube. But whenever I do, someone invariably replies to me with incredulity that a small account like mine is “verified” or something.
To be completely honest, I am not quite sure what they are referring to (I don’t see anything that looks unusual to me), but I have a suspicion about how this happened: supplemental account verification that came from the short-lived Google Knol. I’d wager YouTube scavenged centralized account metadata decades later.
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Simon WillisonWe ditched CGI in the late 1990s because of the overhead of starting, executing and stopping a process for every incoming request... turns out modern servers (plus languages like Go or Rust with a fast startup time) mean CGI isn't such a bad idea any more! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/cgi-bin-performance/
vga256has anyone ever come across a video documentary about CorelDraw! and the Corel corporation? it's eluding me on web/yt searches, and *someone* must have done a deep dive on this by now?
I collected some thoughts (as someone who is relatively "AI" skeptical) about where I've found utility with large language models and how I have been willing to use them:
https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/approach-to-llm.html
The short version is this: as a research aide that you delegate menial research tasks to with high degrees of supervision, there is some beneficial utility.
Approach to LLMs and Other Reflections
If you asked me where I fall in the AI camp, I’m in the skeptical-but-curious quadrant (example). Notwithstanding the various legitimate critiques of what everyone is calling AI and doing with it, I have been finding some interesting utility with it in my — I don’t want to say every day — but in my week to week. This is particularly in the space of large language models (LLM)s. Places and Niches for Use How and where I’ve found utility with LLM is not quite as proponents have framed or as others have derided it per se.