A Year of Mornings

How—and Why—to Cull Your Book Collection by Maris Kreizman

8. The books to keep are the ones I keep revisiting.
   The most important rule in book collecting is to make sure that the ones that are thoroughly underlined and marked up, the ones you found truly revelatory, are easily accessible. Looking at them every day becomes part of who you are, and to me that’s one of the best feelings in the world.

This one makes sense to me. It’s funny that the point I’m quoting is about keeping books and not culling them. Though most of the article reads like that.

I have a similar rule about books that I buy and keep on the shelf. These are books that I would re-read. Otherwise, the wonderful Helmet allows me to read as much as I want and could.

I think a reason why I loved Physics at school was because they had these stories of old physicists (Rutherford and all) trying to figure out how the world worked. Along with Physics, it was a history lesson too.
I’m reading a biography of Marie Curie right now.

The France vs Morocco match was pretty boring. France are just that better. Hoping for a more entertaining Spain vs Belgium today.

Anthropic Wants You to Pay Up for Claude Fable 5 by Maxwell Zeff

Starting on July 12 at 11:59PM PT, subscribers to Anthropic’s $20, $100, and $200-a-month plans will need to pay additional usage-based fees to access Claude Fable 5, the consumer version of the company’s highly capable Mythos 5 AI model. This appears to be the first time a frontier AI lab has gated a consumer AI model behind usage-based billing.

This was going to happen at some point. But I don’t think this affects me that much. I mostly use Sonnet for everything. Even though Fable really came through for a bunch of redesigns and features I have wanted to add to the site for so long.

If I have similar requirements in the future, I guess I will just pay up.

One benefit of all these tweaks and features added to this site is that it has reduced the friction from actually posting stuff. Which is a two-edged sword if ever there were one.

I’ve tested the Instagram syndication and it works so damn well. Had to change a few things there - so that it does not include link back to my blog (IG is bad for sharing links anyway).
The other side of this is the photos page on my website, which looks how I want it to.