Another email offering would-be free money got through my spam filters. Previously: EOTD: “This is a legitimate arrangement—no risk to you.” Hi Joe Crawford, I’ve put a lot of thought into this email, and I hope that comes through. I’m %...

On March 12th, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted Information Management: A Proposal. This would form the basis of what became the World Wide Web. On March 12th, 2026, Web Day Out happened in Brighton. Coincidence? Yes. Yes, it is a coincid...

It’s weird how there’s a subgenre of time-dilation folklore in Japan and Ireland… Urashima Tarō: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urashima_Tar%C5%8D Oisín in Tir na nÓg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ois%C3%ADn

Best birthday present I've received so far is a council tax bill (I joke, I've had some lovely presents so far)

When I was summing up my reading habits in 2022 I said: I think the lesson this year is: you can’t go wrong with Octavia E. Butler or Ursula K. Le Guin. I stand by that. But maybe I’d recommend some Ursula K. Le Guin books more than othe...

First St. Patrick’s Day session

An animation offered up to me on iPad to tell me about the milestone. It’s a ubiquitous and highly problematic platform. YouTube remains useful to me. My account is at youtube.com/@artlung The first video I uploaded was this Bauhaus anim...

Stop Sloppypasta: Don’t paste raw LLM output at people March 16th, 2026 slop·py·pas·ta n. Verbatim LLM output copy-pasted at someone, unread, unrefined, and unrequested. From slop (low-quality AI-generated content) + copypasta (text copi...

i'll spend my whole life looking for the next best thing but when I finally find it, i’ll be too busy looking for the next best thing I had spent half of the day travelling and the other half looking at art. Whenever I am going anywhere,...