Tuesday, August 11, 2026
How Claude marks AI-generated content
When a tool secretly encodes information about its user into its output, who is it aligned with?
The Anthropic savior complex is certainly genuine.
It’s always the sincere ones you have to look out for.
I’m tired of reading about how labs can run models without any safeguards but getting scolded by a fucking LLM when asking for help retrieving the Slack auth tokens on my own computer simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/…
i’m gonna do it. i warned u but u wouldn’t listen. i said this would happen. u did this, not me. im doin it. im automatically filtering emails with “login notification” and “a new trusted device” in the subject line.
You know, if someone really wanted to build and own a universal platform layer, they’d start a cellular company that sold by the byte and not by the device. Like imagine if you could add a cell connected gadget and it adds to your bill incrementally, like AWS instead of Rackspace, but for IoT.
It gets more true every year: “enshittification” is a word for disney adults
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 →
every time chat prefixes something obvious with “this is the subtle part:” I think “that haughty bitch is talking down to me”
Would CloudFlare or CloudFront please rename to something that doesn’t start with CloudF, I don’t care which.
The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner. Now, I am the master.
Always disappointed to click a link on a .blog domain and find a Substack :(
This isn’t an anti Substack post I just have very different expectations for a blog vs a Substacks and I have plenty of Substacks and I do not have enough blogs.
I haven’t had a laptop in several years, and I haven’t worked from a coffee shop basically since my last bout of bad RSI in 2019. Today I spent a bunch of time working from a couple of coffee shops, including a lot of typing. The Advantage 360 is… amazing. It’s wireless and easier to move around than my ErgoDox and easier to hook up than the Voyager, and has built in palm rests. I was expecting the tables with the wrong height to bother me (bc my elbows aren’t at 90 degrees), but that hasn’t really happened, at least not yet. I don’t want to overdo this… I still probably will never work all day in a coffee shop ever again. But it looks like I can take a laptop to a coffee shop for as much as several hours and get real work done. That’s really huge for me.
I didn’t realize that every blog hosted on Typepad has been deleted. What a fucking disaster. It is sad to see such poor stewardship.
I’m really excited that Uel is back www.greaterrealityarea.net
all you monitor people seem miserable. ‘i bought a 27" 8k monitor i hate for $1900’. cool, i bought a 32" 4K Samsung that i run at a non native resolution and never think about for $300
2 years apart, merry ☧mas
has anyone with conference room naming authority been bold enough to call their building’s largest audience hall Security Theatre
Speaking obliquely, I’m currently working on a project to demonstrate that I can write infrastructure code. I hadn’t seen devicemapper’s thin provisioning support before - this seems pretty cool!
domain owners should get a TLD email address; i own micahrl.com and so i should be able to receive email at micahrl@com.
Testing some domains, all of these render as punycode in the browser, I wonder what micro.blog does with them
⍼.testpuny.micahrl.com ꙮ.testpuny.micahrl.com 🌙.testpuny.micahrl.com θ.testpuny.micahrl.com ə.testpuny.micahrl.com ɔoɯ.ɯᴉɔɐɥɹl.testpuny.micahrl.com
see if you buy a fun domain you have to at least do something with it, like this is the bare minimum imo iso8601.date
DNS would be so much more fun if Unicode didn’t show up as punycode so often