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Author: David Eisinger <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2026 12:56:23 -0400
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> The use of LLMs or other generative AI tools to produce or assist with the production of source code, assets, tickets, emails, and so on, will no longer be permitted on SourceHut once these terms take effect.
+ My git forge of choice came out pretty hard against AI-generated code. I'm still processing this -- I've mostly stopped open-sourcing my slops, but I certainly use Codex for some of the tooling on this site, which appears to be against the letter of the TOS.
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* [ArtLung: Chuck Tingle and the Internet ~ 23 Aug 2026][9] ([via][10])
> The promise of the internet was that it was beautiful. “Charlie bit my finger” is such a fascinating thing. (The internet) was great but then the hand of capitalism evolved it against what it started as–human fostering human connection–and capitalism works to crushes connection. But the inertia of the universe is love, and sincerity is good. I think we can cycle back to that beautiful fostering of human connection.
-* [A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird][11] ([via][12])
+ I asked ChatGPT to confirm the origin of "trot your own trot," a phrase I borrowed from Chuck Tingle and that Claire and I say with some frequency. It told me, "Ha — this appears to be you. Searching the exact phrase 'trot your own trot,' the earliest clear indexed use I can find is a 2017 Viget article by David Eisinger, [Using Microcosm Presenters to Manage Complex Features][11]." Which is hilarious and utterly false.
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+* [A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird][12] ([via][13])
> In general, goodness is more context-dependent than badness. There isn’t really anything that’s good all the time for everyone independent of context ... But there are reliable ways to make people unhappy. There’s a set of evils that are close to universal: death, pain, illness, violence.
+ I found this pretty insightful in terms of how easy it is to talk to people about things that suck (politics, climate change, etc.) and harder to talk about things that are going well (the rest of my life).
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[4]: https://notetoself.studio/post/the-joy-of-3d-printing/
[5]: https://kottke.org/26/09/0049548-the-joy-of-making-stuff-w
[6]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/xteink-e-reader-best-technology-years/688539/
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[8]: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2026-08-27-tos-changes-and-llms/
[9]: https://artlung.com/blog/2026/08/23/chuck-tingle-and-the-internet/
[10]: https://tracydurnell.com/2026/08/24/what-i-read-online-today-aug-24-2026/
-[11]: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-to
-[12]: https://kottke.org/26/08/0049474-the-uni-context-is-a-scen
+[11]: https://www.viget.com/articles/using-microcosm-presenters-to-manage-complex-features
+[12]: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-to
+[13]: https://kottke.org/26/08/0049474-the-uni-context-is-a-scen
