A living collection of notes, ideas, and reflections from Doug Belshaw.
Although I still have to be careful, I'm definitely coming out the other side of my Stage 3 ('parasympathetic') Overtraining Syndrome.
The photo at the top of this note shows my Garmin Venu 3 smartwatch with the built in recovery time feature, as well as one I added last week called Training Status showing overall training load.
…Below is a formatted transcript Yann LeCun's keynote speech from a couple of days ago at the UN Open Source Week 2026.
He's saying some important things here, not least that fears around AI are overblown, probably to ensure that regulation destroys legitimate Open Source AI alternatives. I like his analogy of the printing press and use of the phrase "medieval obscurantism".
…From January 2025 to April 2026, Laura and I, through We Are Open Co-op worked on researching, planning, implementing, and evaluating a community platform for Amnesty International UK. One of the decisions we made was to host the site outside the UK.
…This is a long post from Mozilla that probably won't get the attention it deserves outside of a niche, geeky audience. I'm very pleased that people are figuring out answers to these issues.
Let's start with the problem:
…So I'm currently working on a 40-page zine on Productive Friction but if I was making a much smaller one I would absolutely be using this. In fact I still might use this and create a "zinette" (my term) to go with the main zine.
…Already in 1877, Robert Louis Stevenson called busyness a "symptom of deficient vitality," and observed "a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation".
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Laurens Hof writes about decentralised online social networks and does so very well, covering the wider social, political, and technical aspects. In his most recent post/newsletter he connects Elon Musk calling for race-based pogroms, the (unrelated) resignation of Keir Starmer as UK Prime Minister, and both the "structure of permission" and "amplification layer" that decentralised social networks could make even worse.
…Via Pauline von Hellerman, the top image is fictional weather forecast for 18th August 2050 which was broadcast on French television in 2014, with the intent to show how bad climate change could be. The bottom image is the weather forecast for yesterday, 22nd June 2026.
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