In a video posted to Parton’s X account 15 minutes ago, her nephew Bryan Seaver announced the death of his aunt, for whom he acted as head of security. "This video announcement is something Dolly…

It could be just me, but I never knew that Meermin did sales outside of one-off sample sales, so when a friend of mine showed me that Meermin’s Summer Sale was beginning today, I knew I had...

Illogical Assumptions About Names (421 words) by ilzolende Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek , Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply…

Before We Name the Villain The villain stays the villain when the hero holds the pen;the victor names the meaning of the blood upon the floor.We judge a life by where its final chapter chose to…

I didn’t even have a chance to forget that awful runoff today. I went to my allergist for a shot, and as I was leaving… there was Henry. Also waiting for a shot. I stopped to say hi, and…

In July, I reported that Apple planned to migrate domains for both iCloud Private Relay (Sign in with Apple) and "Hide My Email" over to a new shared domain: private.icloud.com. While existing legacy…

Full transcript Page 1 Panel 1: A woman with short spiky hair, jan Aki, is walking down the street. Panel 2: jan Aki: "seme?" Panel 3: The panel shows a second person, jan Mamolu a tired looking…

In 1936 a revolutionary movement swept the Spanish state. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the German Revolution of 1918/1919 it was one of the most important workers' revolutions in history.…

“She was, quintessentially, a uniter of people. In 2019, The New York Times ran a story with the headline “Is There Anything We Can All Agree On? Yes: Dolly Parton”: from the Times obituary (gift…

Well, truth be told these are not all that new (couple of months), but I finally have gotten around to research it. So, let's see what's what. For starters I need some test data. Luckily, I have…

Collectively speaking humans have always been terrible at programming. Let's look at some real examples

There is a particular comfort in citing Goodhart's Law. Someone proposes a metric. Someone else recites the line about measures and targets. Everybody nods at the wisdom of it. Then the metric ships…

Sometimes when I see a plane flying overhead, I’m thankful I’m not on it. That I can stretch out, that I’m comfortable, and that isn’t me. This is not one of those times.…

Watch Listen “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” James Baldwin I spent 3 years with zero income before my first pre-sell flopped. 7,000 subscribers got…

David Bushell, after battling with a contact form for years, just said screw it and now just publishes an email address on his contact page. Kind of a zero-tech solution to allow someone visiting a…

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At last, September is coming. The summer is officially ending, brats are going back to school, parents are going back to work, there are less and less insects attacking you in the forest, you don't…

It was around noon on Friday and I was sitting in my office at work. My boss had left about an hour earlier, and my side of the building had turned into a ghost town as it usually does on Fridays and…

Adam McKay, director of Don't Look Up, points out what should be obvious but is easy to ignore. Like all grand lies, “we have more time” takes many different forms, often focus-grouped. There are the…

In my posting, "Entitlement" , I described a guy who treated me with nothing but dehumanized contempt while expecting me to lavish kindness on him (ironically missing the kindness I actually lavished…

This is the last of these brief posts on where I have been that day, as I'm going home to Leicestershire tomorrow. They will remind me of what I got up to on holiday and of some possible longer posts…

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2026 Except when it comes to this: Bill Maher and Scott Galloway recently hooked up at a club. Luckily, we're speaking here of Club Random , Bill's online extended chat room. As…

On the one hand, Dean Blundell is a controversial guy who has a big mouth and smells a bit too much of “bro nationalism”. On the other hand, his Canadian take on the US/Canada trade-war…

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A manifesto making the case that owning your own website instead of feeding a platform is basically punk .

Historical nihilism is a broad term applied to accounts of history that do not meet the truthiness standards of the Chinese Communist Party and the PRC state. Historical nihilism is not a criminal or…

Decades later, trying to find a singular moment in an incredibly stupid series of star trek parody youtube videos (Photo unrelated)

M6 supports up to 32GB of unified memory to multitask across demanding apps and run LLMs on device for secure and private agentic tasks. It also provides up to 170GB/s of unified memory bandwidth — a…

To succeed in this racket one has to have at least one favorable genetic trait or predisposition. I have none of those. I am prone to an adult ADHD-like conditions, have very narrow attention window…

I use hugo as my SSG . hugo has a --clock flag that lets you set the clock (using a starting RFC 3339 formatted timestamp) that the CLI uses for its commands. For example, I can run: $ hugo server…

A terrific book. I've been carrying this around on my kindle unread for 10 years. Beautifully written, superb characters, exciting story. Don't wait 10 years to read it like I did.

“How Canada can help Americans and defeat America”: this essay from Cory Doctorow goes into two of my favourite topics: fucking up DRM and other capitalist digital limitations on data and…

… died. Tender love is wise. It requires dedication.

As I sat down to read board papers on Saturday night, I had a quick scan of the news headlines and the first article I came to was about a young police officer who was critically injured in the…

Photo by Kym MacKinnon on Unsplash The site has had one look since I built it. Warm off-white, near-black text, a single blue. I liked it when I launched it. I still like it today. But I am often…

1 memory is time | रूप a moment ago, i sat down here; before that, i was making coffee; before that, i was washing my face; before that, i was stepping in the dim hallway then washing my face; before…

I’ve seen it happen to other women. Now I’m starting to do it too. We make a big deal out of multi-tasking computers, but the truth is, mothers have been doing it for centuries. Indeed, the average…

“zedeus”: On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters have been sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project’s repository. Nitter mirrors X; it powers…

ColecoJam is a Colecovision emulator running on the Adafruit Fruit Jam. The ColecoVision was a second-generation home video game console released by Coleco Industries in 1982. It became one of the…

Welcome to Trans Tuesday! We fight and we struggle to do the work to accept... The post THE IMPERFECT TRANS ALLEGORY OF KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, part 3 first appeared on Tilly's Trans Tuesdays.

I've searched with little success for ideas about how we can handle AI so that it benefits rather than harms society. Here is a suggestion from Jaron Lanier. It was published by the New Yorker in…

Full transcript Page 1 Panel 1: A nerdy woman, jan Takata, is walking down a pathway. Panel 2: jan Takata: "n..." Panel 3: A second, more attractive, woman, named jan Sakulapa, speaks to jan Takata,…

An HOA title doesn’t create a leader. Character does. If you’ve lived in an HOA long enough, you quickly learn that there is a tremendous difference between someone who serves in a leadership…

Patch visibility debt is what accumulates when remediation priority depends on confirmation signals that arrive later than attacker activity does — and the SharePoint Server vulnerability cluster…

View fullsize View fullsize A couple of mornings from my bedroom. Galicia, August 2026.

My recent Four Cornerstones of Development post (which I found the initial blog mention on a March 2001 archive page - Off the Top :: March 2001 and later on mention I’m working on an essay on…

I'm gonna tell a story. It's not a story where I'm the hero and it's not a story where someone else is the villain. It is, however, a story about how bad it can feel to carry something for a long…

<Aside label="Note" It's only an agent if it comes from the region of San Francisco in California, otherwise it's sparkling AI ... 🤮 </Aside Like many people, AI is now a significant part of my job…

A week of shipping updates to ReelArrange, RipFoundry, and Retro Garden, enjoying my Jellyfin server, getting back into the school routine, and feeling completely done with the Texas heat.