May 30, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Replace Yourself With a Human, Not Bot An article about an outgoing Baidu employee replacing himself with a chatbot reminded me of the time I replaced myself with a classmate in math class. What follows is an anecdote about humanity. Is...
May 30, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Leaf out in May 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXXII Leaves from the week that was I only managed to publish two NLJ articles since mailing Newsletter 281, but I like to think they are good ones. My highlight article of the week was Be the Blogger Yo...
May 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-29-26 Today is Friday, May 29, 2026. Because it is a day ending in -day that is not Saturday, it is time for our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. There will be no Pook-Emu Bee tomorrow, but you will find even m...
May 29, 2026 from Improve Something Today Our favorites (so far) Now that Improve Something Today is a decade old, here are some of your favorite—and my favorite—of the things I’ve offered to date.
May 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Video: A Defense of Visual Novels I learned about an interesting YouTube video about visual novels titled A Defense of Visual Novels: What are They and What They Do Well through an email exchange with the creator. I have been colle...
May 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Disabling AI in WordPress 7.0 This site is (as of the publication of this post) on WordPress 7.0. I became aware that WordPress added some AI features through articles and blog posts instead of the WordPress admin area. The fac...
May 29, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Breakfast Your browser does not support the video tag. My friend Mateusz sent me this video of a Zen priest comparing David Foster Wallace to Zen Buddhism. He doesn't really get too deep into analysis with D...
May 28, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-28-26 I have more work ahead of me today. But once again, I refuse to let work stand between me and another edition of our regularly scheduled Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Can an ESPN analyst revive the Scripp...
May 28, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Animal, Vegetable, Lamb: The Zoophyte from Tartary In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. A hoax based on fern rhizomes? A euphemism for culled...
May 28, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Carry Me I had a long nap this afternoon, and ran a bunch of errands this morning. It's been a dull day, but a day nonetheless. I've been having to take my antipsychotics more frequently. When there's a nig...
May 27, 2026 from Improve Something Today Tilopa’s six words of advice A six-word poem to be appreciated, for today, as a poem.
May 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-27-26 I have a busy day ahead of me, but not too busy for Pook-Emu Bee links. Before getting to links from around the web, I note that I just published the sixth and final part of my New Leaf Journal six...
May 27, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Be the Blogger You Want to Be (Or Read) I conclude The New Leaf Journal's sixth birthday project with the case for making the blog or writing website that you would want to read.
May 27, 2026 from Improve Something Today Five contributions to a project: money, effort, attention, memory & wisdom Following on Jerry Weinberg’s point that ‘the money is usually the smallest part of the price,’ what other prices are to be paid, and how should a consultant approach these contributions?
May 27, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal On Spotify’s SpotifAI Podcasts Today I learned that Spotify is offering AI/LLM generated podcasts. I had thoughts after I considered what I learned about this exciting technological development.
May 27, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Tortillas I hate how my brain doesn't play nice. I was having a rough afternoon yesterday after dealing with all that car stuff, and thankfully over the evening I was able to get a loaner from my folks until...
May 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-26-26 I am a bit late on today’s Pook-Emu Bee links, but the links are better late than never. 1. Ghost CMS SQL injection flaw exploited in large-scale ClickFix campaign (Bill Toulas for Bleeping Compute...
May 26, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Harold A. Taylor’s Autochromes of California Flowers (early 20th century) Photographs of flowers by an advocate of California’s beauty.
May 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pink Tea With Baking Soda My friend told me that she was making “Kashmiri chai” tea this morning. She correctly anticipated that I did not know what Kashmiri chai was and sent a link to the recipe she was using. I read the ...
