useful things can be done with LLMs: locate common entities buried in 40,000 police misconduct reports

hrdag.org/tech-notes/l...

"Using large language models for structured information extraction from the Innocence Project New Orleans’ wrongful conviction case files"

We planted the left-over head of a yam in landscape strip on the side of the house. Wrong season, wrong state, for growing yams, but still 5 months later it grew enough for one full meal for a household. (yes, I realize real agriculture is much harder than this!)

Some of my skills I assumed would be highly valued in the impending techno-dystopia:
* butcher a chicken
* debug archaic software
* build an outhouse
* write algorithms for traversing temporal communication networks

Skills that are actually in demand:
* can make a todo list

Quince jam experiment. Not really following recipe but want to save the fruit from the backyard. I picked these a bit early I think (and didn't boil the cores) so didn't really get the pectin jelly effect of previous years. Smells amazing when cooking tho!

With the exciting surge in activity in membership in bsky, and lots of important discussion about the evolution of safety, blocking etc on a technical level and cultural level. I'm wondering if there is reflection on what social design are that make the space workable over the long term?

great report on the state of content moderation on major platforms, with recommendations. Should be very relevant to ongoing design here! https://pen.org/report/shouting-into-the-void/

Amazing hi-rez drone photos from around the world, highlighting inequality in built environment and landuse: https://unequalscenes.com/lagos