• Operation Crossroads

    yesterday was teh “Trinity” test,… we’ve gone way past that one now So CogDogBlog in the truest most generous sense took my posting from yesterday and started asking questions and got some answers. And now I can verify I do, I DO have the ActivityPub plug-in. Believe it or not. I had bumped into the…

  • The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform

    A talk, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform, was presented by [Joshua Wise] at Teardown 2025 in June last year. Click-through for the notes or check out the video …read more The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform Will be checking this out real soon now, as I keep bumping into FFT in different…

  • The ActivityPub Plug-in Acid Test

    Are all plug-ins made the same? So @cogdogblog did a nice write-up over the hidden utility of WordPress’s free ActivityPub free plugin which effectively makes your WordPress site a standalone ActivityPub node of one’s own. Like your own instance of Mastodon where you can both 1.)Originate and 2.)Share postings using the ActivityPub protcols same as…

  • ReBoot rebooted, SGI ftw!

    I count myself lucky to have indulged back inna day, on Saturday morning cartoons. And specfiically ABC’s rebrand attempt aka One Saturday Morning. That was a whole suite of shows that started just around 9am and ran until 11am with an interesting mix of stuff in between and attempts to really engage with the viewing…

  • Dave Winer’s survey of ActivityPub

    I think this is working. I don’t use WordPress as a means of originating longer form posts on ActivityPub. But I am certain I do have this hooked up correctly as it cross-posts to ActivityPub in past and likely will do it now. But I’ve never tried writing a block of text sufficiently long to…

  • The big Press Conference – June 1990 (Jet Propulsion Lab)

    So if you click on the video embedded in this little story, you’ll see there’s a section much later in the program at approximately: 57:22, where Carl Sagan commands “Slide!” And that my friends is the Neil Armstrong moment. Carl gets to show the first attempt at collecting a “family portrait” of all the planets…

  • Character Limit with Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

    Bryan and Adam have been gushing for months over Character Limit, the fantastic book by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac about Elon Musk’s haphazard and disastrous takeover of Twitter. They’re joined by the authors themselves to discuss the book, Musk, DOGE, and some of the Character Limit unreleased B-sides.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam……

  • Let’s budget to leave the US with me .

    Skip the propaganda scheduled for 2nite. Turn off yr. TeeVee and join Anomalily on YouTube LIVE. Let’s budget to leave the US with me .

  • Anomalily on YouTube has a channel

    Talking Dough and Eating Doughnuts. It’s 1 part personal savings/finance, 1 part fun with your daily planner and always a review of locally made vegan doughnut (or sometimes 2 doughnuts!) Well worth the time spent. And I am always, always in the chat with all the other folks. 4:39 Pacific, 7:39 Eastern Standard Time. You…

  • The current tally as the Zone gets “flooded” (from Bryan Alexander)