Recently Rob Knight posted on his block that Perplexity AI is lying about the user agent they are using to access sites. WIRED later confirmed this. To which Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivasan responded with a big ol’ “eh the robots.txt is not a legal framework” which I read as a “there is nothing stopping us so we’ll do what we want, fuck you”.
Continue reading “Bots and Blocks”Review: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Continue reading “Review: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan”A moment of yielding warmth that generated something infinitely tender and precious, and as fragile as a butterfly’s wing. It was nothing at all like the unrestrained, half-violent passions of the body that Xu Da had described. It felt like something new, something they’d invented themselves. Something that existed only for the two of them, in the penumbral shadow of their little room, for the span of a single kiss.
Chapter 17. Anfeng, Tenth Month
Review: Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
Continue reading “Review: Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim”Food feeds the belly, thoughts feed the mind, but love is what feeds the heart.
Takkan, in chapter twenty-nine
WWDC 2024 Keynote Thoughts
It has been a minute since I did my best tech blogger impression so I thought Apple’s annual developer conference keynote was as good of a topic as any to stretch that muscle a bit.
I’ll arrange these topics in the order the keynote presented them. The keynote is available here.
Continue reading “WWDC 2024 Keynote Thoughts”Review: The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
Continue reading “Review: The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi”The surest way to eradicate a people’s right to their land is to deny their historical connection to it.
page 34, The First Declaration of War, 1917-1939