Simon Harris

Surplus wind power is used to lift concrete blocks. When the grid needs electricity, the blocks are dropped to spin generators. https://boingboing.net/2026/07/06/post-china-built-a-40-story-tower-that-stores-wind-powe.html

Have a cat to cheer you up

Funny how people mostly only ask for sources when the data challenges their world view.

The world seemed so much simpler when blockchain and bitcoin mining were the biggest scams in tech.

“News” in a nutshell

What the ever loving fuck do companies think is going to happen when nobody can afford to pay for their goods and services because they laid everyone off?!

Unsurprised to learn that project managers have prescribed more project management to make the project go faster.

The low pressure tyre warning indicator in my car looks like a butt emoticon.

US banks, well known for their conservative lending practices, turning away loans to buy SpaceX.

“A New York school district is testing robot teachers, which have been made by a company that started out making sexbots.” — @stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net https://buttondown.com/stilgherrian/archive/the-weekly-cybers-125/

Someone just tried to message me on Facebook Messenger and wondered why it failed. I can’t believe it’s still a thing.

After 5 weeks travelling for work, it really is time to come home. My messages to friends and family are starting to sound like teletext readouts 🤦‍♂️

That’s my coffee, kiddo

Andrej Karpathy’s microgpt, a “single file of 200 lines of pure Python with no dependencies that trains and inferences a GPT.” http://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/

If nobody complains about MFA then it’s not doing its job 😂

👕 They could have just asked 👌 /ht @daedalus@eigenmagic.net

The Mitch McConnell thing reminds me of 1988 when the Japanese government kept the all but deceased Emperor on life support, with daily updates on how much blood they’d transfused. I presume they need to get him past the mid-terms and then he’ll have miraculously passed away.

Every LLM uses the voice of a 19th c. novelist: Dearest Margaret, upon the occasion of your recent pull request, I did bear witness to a most lamentable case of melancholic genius. Not by choice though by request, I cast my prying eye toward that which should not, by rights, be manifest in code.

One wonders if Bruce and BRS shop at the same law firm.

Corporate messaging is starting to sound more like public service hazard announcements: There’s an accident on the Monash Freeway near the Stud Road off-ramp; traffic lights are out at the corner of Swanston and Bourke Streets; and we’re hosting an Open AI Codex meetup in the office tomorrow at 5pm.

Cooked my regular reverse sear steak but finished it in a pan I’d cooked lamb chops in, then added butter, minced garlic, and rosemary 😋

I look forward to printouts of the models appearing in hardcover books https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

One for the nominative determinism trophy cabinet

Various folks have reached out to me recently asking if I had any roles. Sadly, I don’t. If you know anyone who’s looking for talented cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, or software architecture people, please let me know.

Blueberry juice smells like farts.

Scientists find a whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean that’s millions of years old https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-06-14/scientists-find-whale-graveyard-in-indian-ocean-thats-millions-of-years-old

And to think, people still question natural selection: https://www.wired.com/story/anti-vax-dating-apps-are-going-irl-people-are-mad-as-hell-about-it/

According to the kids, my tinder name is Crusty Rolls

Indigo for Bluesky and Mastodon is now generally available 🎉 I’ve been beta testing it for a while and is the natural successor to Croissant. Indigo sits on my home screen and is the only app I use for either service. https://apps.apple.com/au/app/indigo-for-bluesky-mastodon/id6763755310

Does it say “In case of emergency, close the Strait of Hormuz”?

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6wtfzpgtmc6h6rgsnhkeaope/post/3mkke6hgg2x2w

Overheard two old English ducks at breakfast: “now remember, take as much as you want, and leave as much as you want, because we’re on holiday and you can.” Why on earth you’d choose to holiday in a country more miserable than Britain, I don’t know.

Should have called it Calici.

4gl - the amount of water required to process one prompt.

OH: “R2 is basically chatGPT in a rubbish bin.”

More of this, instead of banning words.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3sn6bogankaicebzdb7liro3/post/3miaiua5rbs2b

I cannot for the life of me find a backup solution for macOS to NAS that doesn’t monumentally suck.

Pluto looks delicious!

Loved this episode @stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net seeing as you asked 🙂 https://overcast.fm/+AAOstxuDtsA