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AI Dry July: Aborted
Reflections on trying to go a month without AI. I made it two weeks (sort of). 5.2k words, 23 minutes reading time.

Blindspotting
Blindspotting is a 2018 American comedy-drama film written and produced by Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal. The film is directed by Carlos López Estrada, and Diggs and Casal star alongside Janina Gavankar, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Ethan Embry, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Utkarsh Ambudkar, and Wayne Knight. The plot follows a parolee with three days left on his sentence, only to have him witness a police shooting that threatens to ruin a lifelong friendship.

Things You Might've Missed: February 2026 - Valerie Rayne Writes
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Things You Might've Missed: January 2026 - Valerie Rayne Writes
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Things You Might've Missed: July 2026 - Valerie Rayne Writes
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2025: The year in LLMs
This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …

Things You Might've Missed: June 2026 - Valerie Rayne Writes
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Things You Might've Missed: March 2026 - Valerie Rayne Writes
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A year into the wreckage and salvage
It’s coming up on been a year, somehow, since I started this website/micro-studio/space to think in. What a wild choice that was, setting out in October of 2024, eyes on the horizon! We’d hoped things would turn out differently. The research and thinking I came

beebz | Dec. 2nd, 2024
After a really annoying, stressful, and downright nauseating weekend, I feel like a wittled down eraser. Between being stalked and harrassed, losing a place I had loved, breaking in a new system member and seeing my friends suffer, this has felt like an extremely exhausting week.
Blind spots.
A satellite company popular among journalists issued an indefinite blackout in the Middle East. Open-source investigators got to work—and challenged official narratives.

Solargraph Simulator – eagereyes
How a 6-month exposure shows the sun's path across the sky, from solstice to solstice

AI #182: Pause For Reflection
This was a week of quiet aftermath, an opportunity to process recent events and start to figure out the path forward.


NASA Didn't Even Know!!