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“Stop naming things after people, living or dead. No schools. No streets. No courthouses. No fountains. Just quit it.” https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/stop-naming-buildings-and-streets

Stop naming buildings (and streets, and parks, and ships, and mountains) after people

Eventually, inevitably, someone will decide that your well-meaning gesture was a terrible error.

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Stephen Crosby Mar 12

Mike Perham

Mar 9

Really interesting post with details about the downfall of Huy Fong/Sriracha in 2015/16. Their Sambal is still a personal favorite.

https://old.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/1ro61g2/how_the_sriracha_guys_screwed_over_their_supplier/

Stephen Crosby Feb 28

Philip Feb 28

Now is a good time to establish every detail of your plan to vote this November.

Stephen Crosby Feb 14

Simon Willison Feb 13

I had some fun pulling OpenAI's mission statement out of their IRS tax filings from 2016 to 2024, loading them into a git repo with fake commit dates and then taking a look at the diffs https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/13/openai-mission-statement/

The evolution of OpenAI’s mission statement

As a USA 501(c)(3) the OpenAI non-profit has to file a tax return each year with the IRS. One of the required fields on that tax return is to “Briefly …

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Stephen Crosby Feb 11

What would I do if I had a million tokens? I'll tell you what I'd do, man. Two agents at the same time.

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Stephen Crosby Feb 5

@zenspider I feel that. I had an ancient Onkyo receiver that was running the show before, but it seems nobody uses receivers anymore and so options are expensive and limited for replacing the receiver. It seems most people these days either live with TV speakers or buy a sound bar. Either way the TV runs the show now, not the receiver. The TV is no longer a dumb display, it's everything, but I still want decent sound! So I got a class D amp and figured out how to get all that digital audio to it

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Stephen Crosby Feb 3

@zenspider sure! I have a Fosi ZD3 and ZA3 and a pair of bookshelf speakers. The ZD3 handles audio from the TV with HDMI eARC. And the ZA3 has a second analog input so I can still switch to the other one and listen to the turntable without going digital.

But most of the time I'm streaming video or audio to the TV and it's sending PCM audio to the ZD3. The TV remote controls the volume this way so it's a one remote control setup.

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Stephen Crosby Feb 2

@audiophyl kids these days amirite?

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Stephen Crosby Feb 2

@audiophyl Oh nothing special. I have a pair of Pure Accoustic 5.5 inch bookshelf speakers. I should get something better but even these old speakers sound far better than the TV speakers

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