Ha! Compiled Zork from source with zilf and zapf (

ZILF

ZILF

Compiler and tools for the Zork Implementation Language. Download ZILF or use the online playground.

); running in Yazmin (

GitHub

Release v1.0.2 · dcsch/yazmin

macOS 10.14 or greater required Dark-mode support Plays Z-code story files v3 to v8 (except v6) Management of story library Handles zblorb file f...

). Nice.

Always worth taking sentences that use “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

Parking Signs

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New ...

An instructive contrast here. When it comes to EU policies it thinks are bad for business, Apple has no trouble making full-throated, detailed, public statements like this, because it—correctly!—judges it’s dealing with a government that can be pressured in a conventional way. When it comes to the US, however, it's all kiss-ass humiliation dinners and gold trophies. A good illustration of how debased governance has become in the US.

Apple Newsroom

The Digital Markets Act’s impacts on EU users

Apple explains how the Digital Markets Act is forcing the company to make some concerning changes to how it designs and delivers Apple products to ...

The most compact, informative, and useful introduction to the Philosophy and Sociology of Science remains Kovar (2001), “Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass”.

Semester starts next week; people starting to show up around the place.

I had the Blueberry talk with GPT5.

Blueberry Hill

ChatGPT 5 was released today. ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has unveiled the long-awaited latest version of its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot...

@npub1e0x2...xqda Chesterton's Fence is only the beginning.

Razor, Gun, Fence

As you can see the summer is off to a productive start. The Occam / Chekhov / Chesterton’s Razor / Gun / Fence Matrix

I see it’s time once again to break this out of storage.

I became a U.S. citizen this past Friday. I wrote a thing about it.

American

My admission stamp to the United States, August 28th, 1995. In 1995, at the beginning of the last week of August, on the afternoon of an ...