So long

oday we blacklisted two sites [1, 2], not only one, for using slop.

I blacklist sites when they become too risky to even consider for redemption.

My wife blacklisted these, I did the same, and even an associate has blacklisted what what not worthy of his time. As he put it, “if the slop blog feeds are commented out, then they are not fetched and that is a good thing, not just regarding RRRRRR’s speed, however the XML parser skips comments because it *cannot* process them by design which makes it harder to spot accidental re-inclusion” (we have tools to manage sites to curate).

Time to resume

t’s time.

The EPO series will resume today. Since summer I’ve published 36 parts and they have had a positive impact. They expose corruption. They help people pursue justice.

Part 37 will come out later today.

Previous Parts:

Don’t do that

think I was about 3 when I was in a particular place and time and can still vaguely remember that place and time. I also think that psychologists deem this to be normal, based on the belief people cannot have any vivid memories of them being 1 or 2 (belief; we cannot “read” brains). I don’t know why, but it’s something to do with memory retention in the brain as it ages. I also think that recollection requires rehearsal, so in order for me to remember some moment from age 3 I’d need to recall that at age 5, then 7, 10 and so on. It reinforces that memory.

The same is true for adults in their professional lives. Without exercising some skill regularly, that skill will be lost.

This is one strong argument against using slop, either in a business (collective skills/retention thereof) or as an individual.

Also see this new blog post: If you don’t have the factories, you lose the expertise

Ignore how he uses for slop for images (hypocrisy when it comes to LLMs for code, too). To quote: “If you have the factories, sooner or later, you get the designers. If you don’t have the factories, you lose the expertise. Or you never get it. There aren’t that many people left in the Silicon Valley capable of working on silicon. You can design a chip from California. Making one is done where the fab is. You can get a PhD in robotics in Quebec City, but you won’t be designing robots unless you fly over to where they are made. Zoom calls won’t cut it at scale.”

Let’s go…

‘ve long looked forward to this day.

Today I’ll start a new series, having finished (yesterday morning) the 200-part series, planned since 2024.

We need to put an end to racism.

Techrights mentioned there as well

can see that people or groups that oppose Reform UK are supportive of Daniel Pocock, even if they think it’s a tough challenge.

Perhaps this will force Reform UK to publicly explain why it broke its promise and why it’s wasting taxpayers’ money on self-serving PR stunts in Clacton.

Susan of Tux Machines

still remember how, about a month before Tux Machines turned 15, we invited Susan (from the US) to join us. She politely declined only because of the distance but tactfully expressed gratitude.

Today I saw Susan’s name mentioned [1, 2], so despite her retiring from writing she is still remembered, appreciated, and loved.

If it irritates your ‘opponent’, then you must be doing something right

t’s another Friday and the last Friday of September. It’s also the first Friday that is “officially” autumn based on the equinox criterion.

Today we cooked some food with a lot of vegetables and I published a lot of new articles. Some of them were short, some very long.

I’m just glad that we have a good flow of EPO-related articles. Our coverage of EPO affairs is historically important or of historic value.

Some time soon we’ll start several new series.

Friday is not a good day to start a new series.

We’ve generally found that publishing things in a series-like form works best because people cannot absorb a lot of information in a single day.