I have read 1 Kings many, many times. Yet tonight I noticed for the first time that the prophet Elijah flees from King Ahab to Jezebel’s homeland of Sidon—also under drought—showing that Yahweh, not Baal, rules rain and famine, life and death, in …
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How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
- It’s not the place of a corporation to dictate terms to the Department of Defense regarding how its product or services are used …
- Hot dang, that’s fast. Their live demo …
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That’s already too much politics for one morning. Back to creating good things, rather than complaining about bad ones.
Yesterday, I published my Chapter By Chapter notes on 1 and 2 Samuel, which together ask and answer the timely question,
What …
Whose Ethics?
Let me be specific about my complaint, using one of Thompson’s own examples.
If the US president in the 1940s were a madman and a felon who had repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to use the power of the government against his political enemies and …
Ben Thompson usually thinks clearly and well, but today’s article, despite its two up-to-the-minute examples, is written from a philosophical point of view that ignores the reality of the present moment. The breakdown of controls and ethics at the US …
We may not be able to salvage the word “evangelical” but the great, historic Apostolic faith will continue on. In the meantime, I await the “have you no decency, sir?” moment. We desperately need it.
I got to use the Kit app I wrote (currently in review) for the first time in this week’s VerseNotes newsletter.
No worrying about copy-pasting, or styling, or anything. Just typed /bible, then John 13:23, and kept moving. There was no step 3. …
Yesterday, I judged my first Utah FIRST event, the fourth round of FIRST Tech Challenge qualifiers for Utah.
No pictures for obvious reasons, but it was tons of fun!
Here’s the 8-hour-long official stream if you’re that bored.
Looking forward to …
Important insight from Manton Reece commenting on Terry Godier:
The best products take feedback from everywhere but filter it through the original vision. Otherwise you’ll eventually get a watered down or bloated thing with no uniquely …
I didn’t watch the State of the Union, because I was fairly sure it would be filled with lies and hypocrisy.
The first two paragraphs of this article are 100% worth your time, even if you stop there.
Also this:
It is as if the …
Pentagon Gives Anthropic Friday Deadline to Agree to Terms or Terminate Contract — The Information
The two sides have clashed over Anthropic’s refusal to allow its AI models to be used for mass domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons use without …
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Fiction: Ink and Power
Of course I still use checks! Anyone taking your money should hear the power flick of your pen, dearie.
Writing a check looks like an innocuous bit of financial sleight-of-hand. You scribble on a piece of paper, and some …
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This beautiful clock has been sitting in our house since Thanksgiving, making noise only when we passed by it too heavily.
As of yesterday, it makes very satisfying bongs every fifteen minutes and chimes the hour.
I am very pleased.
The path to ubiquitous AI | Taalas:
Taalas’ silicon Llama achieves 17K tokens/sec per user, nearly 10X faster than the current state of the art, while costing 20X less to build, and consuming 10X less power.
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Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia church reaches its peak with Tower of Jesus Christ:
A crane placed the upper arm of a cross atop the Tower of Jesus Christ, the church’s soaring central piece, which now stands 172.5 meters (566 feet) above the …
Watched: Crimson Tide 🍿
I’m not sure how I missed this one, but it was a fun Red October-adjacent submarine movie. Ethics, Russians, nuclear war, and a surprising amount of discussion of horses.
Plus: Aragorn!
How to Make Your iPhone Screen Darker Than Dark
The iPhone’s lowest brightness setting is still quite bright if you’re in a dark room. But there’s a way to get it even darker.
I learned recently that this trick, which I thought was well-known, is not ubiquitous, so here it is. …
A Fortune survey doing the rounds this week has thousands of CEOs admitting that AI has had no measurable impact on employment or productivity.
They respond:
It’s a silly analogy, but you wouldn’t buy everyone in the …
I spent a lot of time talking about “Hark!” in December. Fun to have it show up in today’s mini crossword.
The best Olympics highlight so far comes from the NHL’s social media team.
Excellent work, no notes.
Glad to see at least some things are going the right way:
The word “unprecedented” is getting a workout after a grand jury in Washington on Feb. 10, 2026, rebuffed an attempt by federal prosecutors to get an indictment against perceived enemies of …
Plotting Word Usage In the Bible
Every few months for the past several years, I’ve returned to this idea of getting an intuitive understanding of the vocabulary of different Biblical authors. I’m not sure there’s exegetical value, but every time I heard something …
Not Autonomous, Just Unattended
I gave a talk this week on responsible autonomy in airports.
Tonight, I watched an “autonomous” wheelchair strand a passenger in the middle of a crowded concourse at MIA.
No obstacles. Clear path. It simply stopped.
The passenger had to be rescued by …
I’ve been watching ER recently, alongside the new season of The Pitt. (I’m a sucker for procedurals.)
The callbacks from Noah Wyle to… Noah Wyle… are numerous and frequent.
It’s like noticing the Friends commentary all over How I Met Your Mother.
Cowards! They skipped Fitter Happier.