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glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 1d

Ream.

glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 1d

(Technically, this is what makes us *sentient*. But I was trying to stick to the synecdoche.)

glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 1d

Risk, doubt and failure are human traits, but not the ones that *make* us human. You are not less human when you succeed, or even when you know you are going to succeed before succeeding. The thing that makes us human is *intent*.

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glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 1d

As a Swift fan I do not claim to rate "super", but even so, listening to Taylor talk to Seth Myers about bread and Travis and music made me feel better about the world and humanity in exactly the way that listening to Oompa Limpa or any of his orcs talk about literally anything makes me feel worse.

glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 1d

I think I could get a Nobel peace prize for proposing that we give Trump a Nobel peace prize in return for him declaring victory and resigning and leaving and taking all his hats and medalions and orcs with him.

glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 2d

when the only groups you understand are current enemies and people you haven't turned on yet, and some of the former are bad people but all of the latter are.

Every Noise at Once: Spotify, Music Discovery, and Human Connection with Glenn McDonald #podcast

glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 4d

I talked to PJ Wehry on the Chasing Leviathan podcast, and now you can hear us:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCTd...

YouTube video by The Chasing Leviathan Podcast

www.youtube.com

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glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 4d

This now has an *optional* login to unlock API calls requiring authentication, starting with the Search API to find existing posts about a topic.

glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 7d

In principle I am in favor of having government. But with this particular government, shutting it down might actually be better.

glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 7d

Well, it's still there, and with nrbg.html YOUR version of it can keep going into at least some of the futures. As for the rest of it, who knows?

glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 8d

Temporary Speedboat!!

glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 8d

The nihilist idiocy of nationalism is grimly encapsulated in Trump telling the UN that all the countries in the world are simultaneously going to hell by accepting people from each other.

glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 9d

You might benefit from a spasm of his whim if he sees himself in you, but if HE sees that fetid soullessness in you, so will everybody else.

glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 9d

claim whatever bullshit reasons they can think of for each arbitrary fight picked, but betray themselves every single time by the terms in which they claim victory.

Roll Call Factba.se - Speech: Donald Trump Addresses Military Leadership in Quantico, Virginia - September 30, 2025

glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 9d

I read this, and I have not had occasion to take an oath to personally defend the constitution of the United States as an officer of its military. If you heard it, and have, you should be busy.

rollcall.com/factbase/tru...

Full transcript of Donald J. Trump: Speech: Donald Trump Addresses Military Leadership in Quantico, Virginia - September 30, 2025

rollcall.com

glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 10d

The DACTAL spec app doesn't have a config UI, but if you open the console and do

localStorage.setItem('OPENAI_API_KEY', youridhere)

then you can try "hey, " queries there, too.

Sculptor: The missing UI for Claude Code

glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 10d

The query assistant will try to write a DACTAL query to represent your question. It often works on simple questions, and sometimes works on harder ones.

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glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 10d

Not easily in its current form, but if you have an OpenAI API key you can try AI query-assistance in Curio or the DACTAL spec app. Tap "config" at the bottom of a Curio page and stick your API key in the appropriate box and hit Enter. Then try an English question in the query box by starting "hey, "

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glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 10d

If you're curious about what we're working on at Imbue, or you aren't but you're trying to use AI coding tools and you could use some help, you can now try our coding multi-agent app, Sculptor!

imbue.com/sculptor/

Run parallel Claudes safely in containers. Jump between their environments to instantly test changes. Get suggestions that catch critical issues as you go.

imbue.com

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glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 11d

After detailed A/B scrutiny of lossless audio using several of my most beloved and best-sounding songs, I can report that those songs are all still tremendous.

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glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 12d

fear cities because cities are where people go for, and to, help.

glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 13d

"democratic": by informed consent of the people

"socialism": for the systemic collective wellbeing of the people

But government is always a defensive formulation. What I want is infrastructure for channeling the energy of the curious into systemic progress towards joy.