I am looking at the USA and am appalled at how quickly a state system is being destroyed. It is incredible how fast they are proceeding. It is hard to believe that they are officially in power for only two weeks. At the same time, I wonder how resilient our structures are and how our society would react to a similar situation.

  • Auch nach vielen Jahren noch eines meiner Liebelingsvideos. Was die Damen heute so treiben?
  • Even after many years, still one of my favorite videos. What are the ladies up to these days?
A tombstone features the text 'R.I.P. Kagi' with the dates '09.08.1994' and '07.31.2016'.

When I first encounter the new search engine Kagi – and with every use – the name evokes memories of a former company of the same name and its website kagi.com.

This original Kagi was a pioneer in software distribution for small developers. In the mid-1990s, I used this service to purchase software1 from Catamount Software2 for my Apple Newton.

Kagi offered more than just payment processing - it was a comprehensive service provider that significantly simplified the distribution process for developers.

After a long period of success in its core business, unfortunate business decisions eventually led to the cessation of business activities.

This association with the name Kagi will always remain for me.

  1. I believe it was Aloha, an email program for AOL. ↩︎

  2. Catamount Software and Hardy Macia, another sad story. ↩︎

Read aloud to yourself and don’t forget:

We do not upset the great, wise Unifi with too many changes in too short a time. Otherwise, it will take terrible revenge with network downtime.

Note to self: Cancel more things. Just nope right out. Free up your time, save your energy, do less, say No more often, it’s okay, you don’t have to do all the things.
~@Annie@micro.blog

My generation was not brought up to say No.

LLMs are super fucking dangerous because they subvert all normal human signals on authority. They always have impeccable language when telling you fucking nonsense
~@SwiftOnSecurity

We are soft deniers.

Society is prepared to spend money on anything other than just go to address the root cause of violence and harm to our physical safety in society.
~ DeviantOllam

He is right.

Today I have been introduced to the concept that the most painful explanation is most likely to be correct and this is Occam’s Taser.
~ NanoRaptor