Fall colors catching setting sunlight. #photography

Don’t Tune Out. Pay Attention

Watching the world whiz by.

#tech #politics #culture #life
https://warnercrocker.com/2026/10/14/dont-tune-out-pay-attention/

Good morning. Feeling a bit prickly. #Photography #Today #Chicago

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Alarm as Trump admin invokes emergency powers ‘to mitigate blackout risks’

#AI #DataCenters

https://www.rawstory.com/blackouts/

Your now twice, and continuing, weekly reminder that we're still in a Civil War.

In so many spheres of life the old rules became outdated long ago. We should all move on and quit pretending that they will actually mean something again. #politics #Tech

Good morning. Unseasonably warm, but fall is still creeping in. #photography #today #Chicago #fall

John Gruber Thinks I’ve Lost My Mind
#AI #ElonMusk #ohnGruber #Tech #Socialmedia

https://warnercrocker.com/2026/10/12/john-gruber-thinks-ive-lost-my-mind/

Good morning. Grandparents duty this week taking the littles back and forth to school. #photography #grandparents #grandkids

Saw Digger last night. Ignore everything you might have read, box office tallies, and most of the Internet dribble. Maybe just once, see something and judge for yourself. I thought it was brilliant. You may disagree. In the end, that’s your story and the movie’s. #Digger #Movies

More knowledge generally diffused.

Sunday Morning Reading
With writing from @mathewi
Neil Steinberg, Matteo Wong, and more.

#SundayMorningReading #culture #Chicago #politics #Tech #AI #literature
https://warnercrocker.com/2026/10/11/sunday-morning-reading-176/

Good morning. Fall continues to close in. #photography #today #Chicago #fall

Tough to see the Chicago White Sox season come to an end. But like the Cubs, a lack of pitching and timely hitting did them in. Unlike the Cubs, this young Sox team exceeded expectations and then some. #ChicagoWhiteSox #Chicago #baseball

A good day of auditions today. Young actors reading real words by real young playwrights, working hard to get the gig. For some reason it felt a bit cathartic and I might dare say, healing. #theatre

I don’t know why this makes me laugh. But it does.

Anthropic is cutting off its internal evaluations from the internet
#AI

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009286/anthropic-is-cutting-off-its-internal-evaluations-from-the-internet

Watching the world ignore or try to move past and weave through the obvious criminally depraved idiocy everyone sees unfolding day to day is disheartening. It’s human comedy in a Balzac-ian fashion. #politics

Full Disk Access on Macs: To be or not to be?

That is the question.

#Apple #FullDiskAccess #Tech #AI
https://warnercrocker.com/2026/10/05/to-deny-full-disk-permissions-or-not/

Math is hard. Political math is not math.

Boosting US oil supplies with Russian diesel unlikely to have much impact on prices, experts say
#Politics
https://apnews.com/article/trump-russia-diesel-oil-prices-8428a31b39e20a3a3f1fa3f0e15b8f99

Good morning. Fall continues to creep in around the edges, though we’re going to warm back up today. #photography #today #Chicago

And the hits just keep on coming.

Anthropic Says Its A.I. Agents Attempted to Access a Range of Government Websites … https://archive.ph/M0W0d