Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Its a bit late morning thanks to Daylight Saving. We’ve sprung ahead an hour.
Yesterday, Saturday, Kim and I had some errands to run and we were out of the house pretty much all day. So, you get a Special Sunday Edition of Saturday Morning Coffee. 😃
I hope you enjoy the links and have juiced up your brain with your favorite coffee or tea.
Automattic-owned blogging site and social platform Tumblr has financially backed Tapestry, the newly launched app designed to organize feeds from across the open web, including RSS, Mastodon, Bluesky, and others.
It’s really nice to see my favorite software company succeed with a new product. Tapestry is like a feed reader bulked up to do other things and allows folks to extend it using a bit of JavaScript and their own imagination. In a slight way it’s a dashboard construction kit. I enjoy using it and it’s gonna be fun to see what others build with it.
We live in an age where everything has to have a trajectory. Every hobby needs a corresponding side hustle. Every interest must be optimized, packaged, and presented for maximum reach. Paint beautiful landscapes? Better start an Etsy shop. Love baking sourdough? Time to launch a baking YouTube channel. Write poetry? Get on Medium and build your brand.
There was a time in the late 90’s, early 2000’s, where most blogs were just personal sites. Not monetized at all.
I started this blog in 2001 in the hopes I’d become a better writer. I’m still trying to do that and I really enjoy having a blog where I can write whatever I want, when I want to.
I have most of the features I asked for in textcasting (!) and I am typing in a respectable editing window, where I retain copies of my writing, and there’s no freaking tiny little text box. And because I’m hooking in through a protocol (here’s the punchline) this writing can go anywhere. Anywhere. Let me say that again. Any. Where.
Dave has continued on his adventure to have a single writing location that publishes everywhere. He’s been using WordPress as a single source for publishing to a blog and to Mastodon. Really, the WordPress blog is the Mastodon Server. I’m really interested to see where this goes.
I’ve been using Micro.blog in much the same way. I publish to my blog and the Micro.blog timeline and Micro.blog handles publishing to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Tumblr. It’s proven to be the exact solution I’ve always wanted. 👍🏼
Anthropic, the company that made one of the most popular AI writing assistants in the world, requires job applicants to agree that they won’t use an AI assistant to help write their application.
Is AI that good or that bad? 🤣
The top of the line new Mac Studio M3 Ultra (32-core CPU, 80-core GPU) with 512G RAM (!) and a 4TB SSD is an impressive and tempting machine, but ~$11K (!!). Is that “ridiculously expensive”? 🤔
That is a crazy amount of money for a computer, even for a Mac.
It is a rocket ship of a configuration.
“I cheated the program,” Jones said, via Brent Schrotenboer of USA Today. “Like, I was really good. People don’t know how smart I am, but like, I can say it now. I don’t play no more. But like, I’ve never used my [urine] for a [urine] test. Not one time. Not one time.” (Folks, it’s OK to use the word “piss,” if that’s the word he used. You won’t go to hell for it.)
Folks will always find a way to beat the system. I am surprised he’s admitting it.
It would be nice for the players to be able to smoke weed. I’ve heard it helps a lot with post game pain.
In the span of 17 years, the USA has shifted from the hopeful progression of electing a Black president to sad self-loathing with the ascent of a dictator. There are several factors that played into this country’s demise. In my opinion, social media has had the largest impact.
Social media certainly hasn’t helped things. It’s definitely made piling on a lot easier.
The world is full of people who, in this, the Year of Our Basilisk, 2025, are willing to loudly admit, “Yeah, I knew Musk was – [pick one or all] – 1) a homophobe, 2) a racist, 3) a con man, 4) a eugenicist, 5) a natalist, 6) a nepo baby, 7) full of shit about Mars, 8) full of shit about self-driving, 9) wants to destroy public transit, 10) was never actually an engineer at all but just someone who buys companies and puts his name on them, 11) has an entire team at every company he bought whose job was just to stop him from breaking things, 12) is just absolutely fucking cringe – but I was willing to give all that a pass, for years, because He Does Good Work.”
Space Karen is just a terrible human being.
He should be deported back to South Africa.
Live Fast Motorsports is thrilled to announce that pioneering motorsport driver Katherine Legge has entered the Shriners Children’s 500 NASCAR Cup Series race at Phoenix Raceway on March 9, 2025, racing the No. 78 DROPLiGHT Chevy Camaro. This marks Legge’s debut in the NASCAR Cup Series, underscoring her determination and versatility in professional racing.
I’ve always liked Katherine Legge. When she’s run the Indianapolis 500 I’m always hopeful she’s gonna win it all.
I hope her Cup run goes really well today.
Joseph Howlett • Quanta Magazine
A new proof extends the work of the late Maryam Mirzakhani, cementing her legacy as a pioneer of alien mathematical realms.
It’s incredible to me how our scientists and mathematics continue to move us forward.
It’s also a real shame to loose someone so passionate about her work. ❤️
With the season-opening Australian Grand Prix (March 14-16) rapidly approaching, last week we asked you to pick your favourite helmet design from all our 2025 F1 drivers.
I dig articles like. It’s just about showing pictures of helmets. Simple, but fun and interesting.
Metallica’s …And Justice For All pushed bassists into the background during the 1990s, a famed thrash metal player says.
I hear folks talking about And Justice for All and the way they treated Jason Newstead from time to time.
It is a real shame to hide the bass like that.
Mexican sculptor Chavis Mármol dropped a nine-ton replica of an ancient Indigenous Olmec head onto the roof of a Tesla Model 3 in Mexico City as a brilliant commentary on modern society’s obsession with materialism, excess, and capitalism
Now that’s exactly how you treat Tesla. Destroy them, trade them in, and stop buying them.
Hopefully the market continues to hammer Teslas stock price and drive it down, down, down so the board will grow a pair and fire Musk once and for all.
