Mac minis in Houston 
Manton Reece - Mac minis in Houston
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Defining consent for AI 
Manton Reece - Defining consent for AI
A new philosophy for travelers called digital silence, to avoid sharing exactly where you were, via Kottke:
"We have stopped traveling to feel. We now travel to prove we were there."
Only wish this was a blog post and not a series of Instagram photos. 
kottke.org
“A new ethic is quietly emerging among modern travelers. It ...
“A new ethic is quietly emerging among modern travelers. It is called Digital Silence. It is the conscious decision to share the art and the emot...
Instagram
The Great Planet on Instagram: "For decades, the golden rule of travel was simple: share the beauty you find. Today, that same generosity is destroying the very places we love.
In Japan, authorities were forced to erect a massive black net to hide Mt. Fuji from swarming crowds. In Iceland, the Fjaðrárgljúfur canyon survived the ice age but could not survive a single Justin Bieber music video. Within months of the release, thousands of years of fragile moss were trampled into mud, forcing the government to close the ecosystem indefinitely.
We have traded discovery for consumption.
A new ethic is quietly emerging among modern travelers. It is called Digital Silence. It is the conscious decision to share the art and the emotion of a place without giving away its exact coordinates. What the internet often dismisses as gatekeeping is no longer about elitism. It is a radical act of conservation. It is the realization that some sanctuaries need our silence much more than they need our geo-tags.
Perhaps the ultimate form of respect for a destination is to leave no digital footprint at all.
Where do you draw the line between sharing and protecting? Swipe through the case study and join the debate in the comments.
Curating the world’s culture.
@thegreatplanet"
90K likes, 1,189 comments - thegreatplanet on February 19, 2026: "For decades, the golden rule of travel was simple: share the beauty you find. Tod...
Finding all sorts of things as I go through my mom’s house, especially old photos and books. But also a few favorite toys. I remember having to put Optimus Prime on layaway at the store in our neighborhood. 
Miloš Miljković blogging about his blog manager for Emacs:
"It took me less that two hours with Google Gemini to create microblog.el, a micro.blog manager for Emacs which can edit old posts, create new ones (even with images), auto-complete tags and perform lightning-fast full text search. What a time to be alive!"
This isn’t only about AI. With open platforms you don’t need permission. Just build things. 
Infinite Regress
It took me less that two hours with Google Gemini to create microblog.el, a micro.blog manager for Emacs which can edit old posts, create new ones ...
What Micro.blog traffic looks like when we see bots go crazy trying to find vulnerabilities. Very annoying. 
I don’t watch much hockey but now really getting into this USA vs. Canada gold medal game. 🏒
Spurs in Austin. 🏀 
Manton Reece - Spurs in Austin. 🏀
Rediscovering drop shadows.
I managed to go Monday through Friday without any posts about AI. So now it’s time to catch up! The Verge:
"OpenAI’s first hardware release will be a smart speaker with a camera that will probably cost between $200 and $300, according to The Information. The device will be able to recognize things like “items on a nearby table or conversations people are having in the vicinity”…"
I think the key things to watch will be latency and memory. Building on ChatGPT, they don’t even need to innovate that much for the product to be better than the Echo and HomePod. 
The Verge
OpenAI’s first ChatGPT gadget could be a smart speaker with a camera
Whatever OpenAI’s first device is, it won’t be released this year.
Finished reading: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Parts of the future (particularly electricity) were distracting for me because they felt implausible. Still really enjoyed it. Wish I had read it before our actual pandemic. 📚 
Station 11
From an article in The New Yorker about a bookstore that only sells signed books:
"Even before he learned to love to read, Reiss the retail genius recognized what every real reader knows: a book is not just its contents but also, and inseparably, a special kind of object, a portal of sorts between people and places and ideas." 
The New Yorker
The Unlikely Success of a Strange Alabama Bookstore
Jake Reiss only sells signed books, and mostly at publisher’s prices. It shouldn’t work, but it has.
I’m still surprised that Mozilla shut down Pocket. Lots of competition in the bookmarking / read-later space, but that’s because it’s such an important complement to a web browser. I think the organization should’ve refocused around 2-3 great web things that work with Firefox.
Good post by Victoria Song at The Verge about distrust of smart glasses:
"Meta’s glasses are great because they’re discreet. That discretion is also unnerving because it means they’re perfect monitoring tools. I’ve written this many times, but wearing modern smart glasses often makes me feel like I’m a spy. It doesn’t matter if the Ray-Ban Meta glasses have a privacy indicator light."
I’m curious how Apple (without Meta’s poor reputation on privacy) is going to handle this. Not sure it can be solved. In the future, there might be places that have signs like “take your smart glasses off”. 
The Verge
Meta will ruin its smart glasses by being Meta
Meta’s bad reputation isn’t helping its ambitions for AI glasses.
Got a preview from @vincent of something new coming up for Micro.blog Studio subscribers. Can’t wait to share it. It looks so good. 🎙️ https://micro.blog/vincent
CNN: “Supreme Court rules that Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal.” A much-needed check on Trump’s power. Next up is the midterms. 🇺🇸 https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/politics/supreme-court-tariffs
Downtown view from the Long Center. Just went to see Macbeth. 🎭 
Pessimism
Manton Reece
- Pessimism
There’s a new proposed lexicon for Markdown-based content in AT Proto. I could support this. The problem is that currently there’s no good way to have multiple formats, and I think HTML is still the richest, most complete way to represent blog posts.
Markpub.at Markdown Lexicon
Providing a Lexicon for putting Markdown in the ATmosphere.
Ceiling skylight. 