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  Noticed some surprising sewer gas smells around Brussels and that lead to some rabbit holes. Apparently the EU’s capital has the worst water in the world. 🤦‍♂️🤯 And Brussels dumps raw sewage into the river through the middle of the he city center. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3458-sewage-laden-belgian-water-worst-in-world/

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  Atomium, Brussels Location of the 1958 World’s Fair

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  https://jazzband.co/news/2026/03/14/sunsetting-jazzband Jazzband, a great collaborative community for #django projects is no more. What a sad day.

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  $ alias yolo='claude --dangerously-skip-permissions'

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  Ok so #Claude Dispatch is basically just #OpenClaw but branded and narrow?

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  It does! I just tested it. I asked Dispatch from my phone to summarize my latest Apple Notes entry and I watched Claude on my desktop open the app and find it. It then sent me its summary in the iPhone app.

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  @bodomenke Yup. I did the thing where you give it accessibility access. It’s via the Dispatch tab, not Cowork.

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  Ok now I’m really getting it. #Claude Dispatch is for when you want to check something on your computer while you’re on the toilet. That’s the primary use case.

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  @gruber I think what you're missing about the ChatGPT "superapp" is that if they're following Claude's lead, Claude ships with an entire Linux virtual machine inside its desktop app. That's why Claude is 13GB. If Claude Code and Claude Cowork were truly separate apps, they'd either need to share a VM or they'd need a combined 25+GB. When your not-even-local-LLM AI app needs 13GB of disk space just to start up, only shipping one o...

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  I like how “let’s use dumpsters” has a technical name of “trash containerization.” It sounds like something you’d do with docker to run untrusted code. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/12/zohran-mamdani-trash-containerization-garbage-rats-europe

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  Peak AI usefulness is when someone uses it to correct that 90s Alanis Morissette song to "Isn't It A Bummer" because that's definitionally correct. When AI does this, I think we'll all agree that the copyright infringement aspect is worth it.

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  Next time you’re beating yourself up over doing something foolish, remember to do some self-care. Stop, relax, breath, and remind yourself that at least you didn’t come up with Colgate Beef Lasagna. Which actually did exist.

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  Going to be in #Barcelona for the next 4 days starting tomorrow. 🇪🇸

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  Segrada Familia

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  Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau It’s a 1900ish hospital designed by a Gaudi student which is now a museum. Surprisingly this functioned as a working hospital until 2009.

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  I guess Mark Zuckerberg is finally doing something positive and wholesome. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/opinion/meta-facebook-zuckerberg.html

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  https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2026-05-11/passengers-with-cancelled-flights-due-to-lack-of-fuel-wont-have-any-compensation/1019792 It’s weird how Europe regulates the shit out of every industry and yet somehow consumer rights are still just garbage.

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  When blue collar workers use forklifts to get a job done, no one yells “oh no do you know how much energy a forklift uses?” But when white collar workers use powerful machines in data centers to do the same thing, it’s somehow a moral catastrophe. Where is all the handwringing about forklifts?