Dan Sugalski

@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network
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Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes.

Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg.

One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...)

Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https://socel.net/@heyheymomo

Currently not in France. Dammit.

Bloghttps://www.sidhe.org/blog/about
Simple sabotage is often an act which the citizen performs according to his own initiative and inclination.

In the last couple of years I read a short story about a forgotten hearth god that inhabited a flat rock where paleolithic humans had once made their fires. The god was revived by modern day immigrants hiding in the woods in the same place.

Do any of you know where I can find this again?

@cstross core user interface interface actions are like jokes: if you have to explain them, the problem is not in the audience.

The Cat Army!

Funny Snow Sculptures (10 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2026/01/02/funny-snow-sculptures-10-photos/

5. I have no respect for Donald Trump. He diminishes everything he touches. But focusing on him right now is like being bitten by your neighbor’s unleashed, unfenced rabid dog and focusing on the dog. If we don’t hold his enablers to account we’re going to keep getting bit.

"The [resonant computing] Manifesto promises to fix everything that’s wrong on the internet right now. But you look at the authors and the signers, you’ll see the same guys who caused the present problems. These guys made it rich on the Torment Nexus and they’re now claiming they can fix it."

(Original title: The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/17/the-resonant-computing-manifesto-same-ai-slop-same-ai-guys/

The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys

Back in the 1990s, in the first flowering of the World Wide Web, the Silicon Valley guys were way into their manifestos. “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”! The “Cluetrain Manifesto!…

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