How the Atlantic Went From Broke to Profitable in Three Years. Rather than chasing clicks and breaking news, the 167-year-old magazine, co-founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson, raised subscription prices and hired top talent; “we make something worth buying.” [wsj.com]

AI hallucinates imaginary software packages, which could be used to trick developers into installing malware. theregister.com

📷 Here’s something I saw at the park yesterday.

🦆Today’s memes: Jorts is just …. kind of a simple guy

Cory praises “unreasonable and angry people who refuse to sideline principle in order to get along.” [pluralistic.net]

📷 Here’s something I saw in San Francisco in 2018.

A Chinatown, San Francisco streetscape, with an old-fashioned commercial building with Chinese signage in the foreground, and the Transamerica Pyramid skyscraper in the background.

🦆Today’s memes: “These are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the New West.”

Women’s faces stolen for AI ads selling ED pills and praising Putin wapo.st

NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law thecity.nyc

New neighbors look nice.

Dall-E image of aliens around a suburban house

The condo association rules say no pets.

Dall-E image of a kaiju menacing a suburban house.

I think we may have an ant problem.

Dall-E image of an ant city under a tranquil suburban house.

How Would You Turn This Dial To Make The Freezer Colder? kottke.org

“The most accurate thing you can base your self worth on is what a dog thinks of you.” — @ennuidoofen.bsky.social. bsky.app

There were people born in the 1800s who used the Internet. reddit.com

Here’s something I saw while walking the dog.

Orange vintage Volkswagen Beetle, viewed side-on, nicely centered in the photo, parked in front of and between two suburban houses.

I can envision myself starting to learn Photoshop soon. I look at this photo and think how much it could be improved if we just removed that darn green trash bin.

Lately, it feels like I have to tie myself up in a pretzel to make Obsidian do what I need and want it to do. Today, I’m experimenting with going back to DevonThink. If I get unhappy with that, maybe I’ll just use documents in the Finder.

Today I learned that Cleavon Little, who starred as Black Bart in "Blazing Saddles," grew up in San Diego.

Little graduated Kearny High School in 1957. He went on to San Diego State College, worked his way through college as a janitor and gave Black poetry presentations to clubs and groups, graduating in 1965 with a degree in speech therapy. He appeared in “A Raisin in the Sun” in 1962 at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego. en.wikipedia.org

🦆Today’s memes: Welcome to my Web Site

I rarely use Venmo, and when I do I’m always startled by its news feed. It seems like such a bad idea to broadcast records of payments. I’m not particularly concerned about privacy here—it just seems like a lot of noise. Why on Earth did someone think this was interesting information?