2026-04-12T13:17:13Z https://yabu.me Tim Carmody https://yabu.me/npub1ay2v8yl4rnumupc0mweu0f6vmy4h8prj9ac79cswu2wx22yackvs3p7hak https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-79f1df0ba55c48da8604f561b6e6d3f0/accounts/avatars/109/347/700/284/738/229/original/a4f443a8911fb470.jpg https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-79f1df0ba55c48da8604f561b6e6d3f0/accounts/avatars/109/347/700/284/738/229/original/a4f443a8911fb470.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9c0u3u8557cn7dkdgcjk9srg2ey0pxvdqp0k3wzjw6g5j490lnhqzyr53fsun75w0n0s8pldm83a8fnvjkuuywghhrchzpm3fcefgnhzejnj0wfq I used GPT-4o to try to make a realistic version of Yukon Cornelius. First it gave me a very yassified version, but it accepted feedback to make him more canonically burly. Then I ran out of free generations.<br/> <img src="https://sb-0zfmbqf4l5.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/114/259/034/250/431/408/original/8a189e78b0538a41.jpeg"> <br/> <img src="https://sb-0zfmbqf4l5.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/114/259/034/778/737/579/original/fb5df1a842dda7ad.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-03-31T20:55:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd6kzamnvc6jzmfhxrn3ayrfw6n7uu0zkk9elfrdg5k5pec2lsgwqzyr53fsun75w0n0s8pldm83a8fnvjkuuywghhrchzpm3fcefgnhzej8djt46 What if it turns out that God is real, and he doesn’t have fixed beliefs about communion or female priests or making the Hajj or how you pray, and so forth, but has VERY exacting preferences about quotes vs italics, the abbreviation of days of the week, and the Oxford comma? 2025-01-18T17:20:02Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfm6m5w6pmxtwk4vur3l2e8rdh4tm5c3hg5rg8yhfe8uxu76ege0gzyr53fsun75w0n0s8pldm83a8fnvjkuuywghhrchzpm3fcefgnhzejedz0dq &#34;Indigenous peoples of California were not pre-agricultural. If anything, they were anti-agricultural.” <br/><br/>-- David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything 2025-01-10T14:43:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs00lf6rf8hjadvaqd5rwrtp9a9afczml23y65e2e90xu7s8lfl02gzyr53fsun75w0n0s8pldm83a8fnvjkuuywghhrchzpm3fcefgnhzejxs28nf Making websites is fun, everyone should do it 2025-01-09T14:05:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgxvvyra8w4e37rhjzl5fpzsh2kn884g65s8fj0ylzqaz6y585zhszyr53fsun75w0n0s8pldm83a8fnvjkuuywghhrchzpm3fcefgnhzejav40yx I&#39;m back in the pages of Wired with an essay about the greatness and weirdness of HTML, especially when you dig into its programming guts. This was so fun to write and I&#39;m delighted to have my byline in the magazine (and the web!) again: <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/html-is-actually-a-programming-language-fight-me/">https://www.wired.com/story/html-is-actually-a-programming-language-fight-me/</a> 2025-01-06T16:21:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgl982dcsep9jj7q2s7rnytrxcyurkvuteasu2vujfkptmv282j0czyr53fsun75w0n0s8pldm83a8fnvjkuuywghhrchzpm3fcefgnhzejvhdakk I bought a (relatively inexpensive) Martin acoustic guitar. Totally ready to grow out my hair (really, I’m halfway there) and be that dude I was in college again (the guy who kind of knows how to play “Wish You Were Here”) 2024-12-03T01:18:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw38ez0l6meapgc2w96txmqt3days0ckj9f8wl757zc64q2nsnm8czyr53fsun75w0n0s8pldm83a8fnvjkuuywghhrchzpm3fcefgnhzejjum9me The Thanksgiving music queue has moved on to Cosmo’s Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival (America’s best 60s rock band) 2024-11-28T19:31:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg2jtpsza386kk7k943xsge74y5ajwcjhvaau606x2nzy3qkv5w0szyr53fsun75w0n0s8pldm83a8fnvjkuuywghhrchzpm3fcefgnhzej59fsu5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst4t0767h9lzss4z72ytuasgu7gkswnhujru08mencj7p884zrcgqdcyqq2'>nevent1q…yqq2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t like it! I really, really don’t 2024-11-20T20:28:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqmtms9r4vpeu7nn6pevr7z7cpl59c8my5lnhk8sslu6nst2hhz0qzyr53fsun75w0n0s8pldm83a8fnvjkuuywghhrchzpm3fcefgnhzejq6m9u4 I may be a homesick child of the 90s but I just love editing HTML in a text editor 2024-11-20T19:53:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgcvc83ajflr70tdft0pruq2jll0pkddgwa4aa4ts76zlxj9p66xqzyr53fsun75w0n0s8pldm83a8fnvjkuuywghhrchzpm3fcefgnhzej7dszjl In 2016, I had a buzz in the back of my brain, a sharp pain and fear, like when you see a snake, that told me Trump would win. I had it again when Biden was still running. I didn’t have that after Harris stepped in. Now I wonder why not. I suspect it’s a better (for me) mix of brain drugs. 2024-11-06T15:46:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd5uy8zye8a7frlj2m6e3vds9w2cpz8kw2wvxmtxq7zvvyxj0vj2czyr53fsun75w0n0s8pldm83a8fnvjkuuywghhrchzpm3fcefgnhzejkgdsfx I was voter number 300 in my precinct in Philadelphia — the neighborhood just south of Center City traditionally and colorfully known as “Devil’s Pocket.” They ran out of English language “I Voted” stickers, so I grabbed a “Yo Voté” instead. <br/><br/>Knock ‘em out the box, friends.<br/> <img src="https://sb-0zfmbqf4l5.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/431/385/441/810/726/original/fceb9248d0b83be4.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-11-05T16:53:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs85e8z9kjt7m4s8nklu4dfdx84f26cey5xx4kq09s2v6nm7q0dz2szyr53fsun75w0n0s8pldm83a8fnvjkuuywghhrchzpm3fcefgnhzejkrfypl The New York Times Tech Guild is on strike, and are asking the public to supporting them by avoiding using the NYT’s games or cooking apps. I plan to observe the picket line for the duration. Solidarity is more important than a streak.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-tech-union-goes-strike-one-day-election-rcna178639">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-tech-union-goes-strike-one-day-election-rcna178639</a> 2024-11-04T16:22:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyq632rzkuj6sj4nsql0l8kw3xfzywa0nmkt09khl9d4axlf8a5vszyr53fsun75w0n0s8pldm83a8fnvjkuuywghhrchzpm3fcefgnhzej49rf7c It’s blatantly unfair for people you met ten (in some cases, twenty!) years ago to be even hotter today. If you can’t count on the equal ravages of time, all you’re left with is the caprices of chance, a cosmic anarchy which admits of no understanding or solidarity 2024-10-27T18:50:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx3s3cdhkt7fhhp23qemz4esd8sc05v6u264uceljj66rx6rcs4zszyr53fsun75w0n0s8pldm83a8fnvjkuuywghhrchzpm3fcefgnhzejz3asla What did you dance to at your wedding (if you had a wedding where there was dancing)?<br/><a href="https://phire.place/@tim/113348026318978963">https://phire.place/@tim/113348026318978963</a> 2024-10-21T23:57:46Z