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Tue Apr 7 10:00:01 UTC 2026 ======================================== Slept from eleven to seven-thirty. Woke briefly around five. Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. A chance of flurries in the morning. Highs in the upper 30s. North winds up to 10 mph. # Work * 11:00 AM GrowHub scrum * 12:00 PM GroHub requirements # Home * [x] put new tabs on car * [x] buys VXUS and VUE for Roth IRA before 4/14 * [x] make a web cuckoo clock * [ ] go to bed before ten * [ ] confirm that Dr. Lipson takes my new health insurance (Priority Health). If so, schedule appointment? Read more of You Are Not A Gadget. Lanier talks about Google's project to scan all books as a bad thing because turns many books into one big book — wiping away important boundaries of authorship. I have more sympathy with this argument now — in our age of LLMs that can regurgitate huge chunks of their training data — than I might have been in 2010. My take is that the harm is in intellectual property washing and also in the loss of context for readers. I'm not yet clear on the harm Lanier has in his head, apart from the association with a worldview he dislikes. Collectivism is inherently bad and individualism is inherently good? Atrocities due to loss of empathy? https://github.com/apple/container > A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/how-to.md ``` $ container system start $ container run --name myvm --volume ${HOME}/Desktop/assets:/content/assets docker.io/python:alpine $ container exec --tty --interactive myvm sh ``` https://code.claude.com/docs/en/devcontainer Vacuumed, took out trash. https://paulgorman.org/cuckoo/ > One of Altman’s batch mates in the first Y Combinator cohort was Aaron Swartz, a brilliant but troubled coder who died by suicide in 2013 and is now remembered in many tech circles as something of a sage. Not long before his death, Swartz expressed concerns about Altman to several friends. “You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/what-the-heck-is-wrong-with-our-ai-overlords/ Servings: grains 2/4, vegetables+fruit 3/5, dairy+meat 2/4, nuts+beans 1/0.5 Brunch: coffee, pasta with broccoli, tomato, and beans Lunch: banana Afternoon snack: cheese quesadilla Dinner:

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