Conservative Tophats won't shut up about the time Obama Tophat wore a tan suit.

“The black pill offers relief in the same way that submission offers peace. To take the black pill is to relinquish the magic of computers, and surrender to their oppression.”—Andrew Kelley, “Don’t Take The Black Pill”

https://andrewkelley.me/post/dont-take-black-pill.html

Somebody is annoyed at the impostors. He's as mad as a... Hatter!

A young Fred Astaire auditioning for "Top Hat"

Blaxploitation-worthy Polish Tophat

Compare and contrast with: Polish Tophat Phyllis Diller and Polish Tophat Shingy

Polish Tophat Dandy and Polish Tophat Punk.

🎩🐔 @sundogplanets

Forty years ago, “worker-driven tooling” was core to Apple’s brand and marketing strategy:

https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/117031654508375923

When tools give people wheels for the mind, you don’t need to force people to use them. Your biggest problem will be people using them without telling you, because they fear knee-jerk resistance. The mightiest tools aren’t forced from the top down. They sneak into the office from the bottom up.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mkrhxhsReks

O look he summarized AI img generators and ghost writers 🤪

“Blue in Green,” as it appeared on Kind of Blue in 1959. Miles’ restraint on trumpet is powerful, and Bill’s keys paint a mood portrait. Meanwhile Paul Chambers’ double bass tastefully moves the song forward, then takes us home with a haunting arco passage full of longing.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TLDflhhdPCg

Cory Doctorow put my central discomfort with the tech industry into words: “Worker-driven automation improves quality, while capital-driven automation improves throughput.”

Making “Wheels for the mind” is the pursuit of deep and transformative quality, using technology that is expertise-centric. Improving throughput is the pursuit of industrialization, using technology that deprecates human discernment and constrains human decision-making.

“The most important discomfort that powerful people experience is having ego-shattering conflicts with subordinates who know how to do things they do not know how to do. The fact that you're "in charge" is hard to reconcile with the fact that the people you're nominally in charge of tell you that all your ideas are impossible, illegal, immoral, or lethal”—@pluralistic, https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/dare-snot/

Riddle me this: How is ChatGPT like the Trump Administration? And why?

A lot to unpack. An impressionist painting set to music‽

https://www.italianpiano.com/monday-notes/blue-in-green-the-impressionists-painting-in-jazz/

A sublimely beautiful Jazz standard, “Blue in Green” first appeared on Kind of Blue. Bill Evans played piano on the original, and is thought to have written it based on a chord progression suggested by Miles Davis. Here’s Evans playing it at an outdoor concert in Camp Fortune, Ontario Canada in 1974:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cbj16uNwKYc

A memorable portion of the trail not shown in either video:

Doctor Quads uphill, from the rider’s point-of-view, including that skinny with the three-metre drop:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=z5Fkn0eMIww

Doctor Quads!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yzK8qZHL0QE

#mtb #toronto

“Don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by? You never get to stop and open your eyes. One day you're waiting for the sky to fall; The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.”—Bruce Cockburn, Lovers in a Dangerous Time

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VCnnI49vZ-I

I love this so much