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Roden Readers - OK, so I need to retract something from the previous Roden sent just a couple weeks back. The weather in Japan, in AUGUST , has been … SOMEWHAT SANE? A series of typhoons - some glancing off Japan, others smacking it - has dropped the humi

The strangest thing I've done with an LLM lately is genealogical. I'm adopted. A couple years ago I connected with my birth family. Using details they've provided and genetic testing, aided by a swarm of blood robots, I've unearthed huge swaths of my hist

Roden Readers - There is sweat and then there is s-w-e-a-t and the out-of-doorsness in Japan is presently a natural machine that produces nothing but sweat and sweat and sweat and swelter. Dryness has been eradicated. Fire is impossible to start. Blowtorc

Ridgeline subscribers - Man, it was fun talking with Kazunori Hamana back in January. He's lived a bizarre life, seemingly one without a roadmap, though I suspect his laid-back, subtly-goatee'd vibes belie a cunning streak. He was welcoming and rough-edge

Roden Readers - Go Knicks! Or something like that. What a time to be in NYC. (So everyone tells me.) I watched the last game in the courtyard at a Jane Jacobs-designed co-op in the West Village surrounded by kids and crunchy adults and then wandered in a

Ridgeline subscribers - Alex Wolfe walks. He walks weird walks and I like weird walks, so when Alex reached out to do a little walk (not a weird one, really, just a little one with a sprinkle of weird), I - of course - said: Sure. His pitch: "A short walk

Ridgeline subscribers - Just a reminder: Doing a TBOT event at Malaprop's in Asheville , NC tomorrow night (Wed the 10th of June, 2026). Hope to see you there if you're local! And now, on to Ridgeline : I walk fast , he ...

Ridgeline subscribers - Thanks for all the "Yo!"s last week . It looks like transmissions from mailbot2k are getting through. (Let me know if you see any "rendering errors" in your email clients; I think we fixed the Proton Mail issues.) FYI, because the

Ridgeline subscribers - Hey there! This is Craig Mod broadcasting Ridgeline from my new home-cooked newsletter software, mailbot2000 . An issue of Roden came out last week and was sent via mb2k , if you're subbed to Roden and didn't get it, please let me

Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability