We leave eaaarrrlllly tomorrow morning to go see Beatrix at Sarah Lawrence's "Friends and Family" weekend, and I was thinking earlier today about leaning into the identity of someone who goes to New…

Somedays you wake up and your head lifts from the pillow like a brick tied to a noose. A heavy lead ball, disaffected and disjointed, you cradle one hand against the disappointment of your face, and…

OpenAI’s Chief Scientist warns that we are building increasingly capable AI systems we cannot fully explain or reliably monitor. Yann LeCun argues that language fluency is not intelligence. Both may…

Sydney, Australia, based author and journalist Richard Cooke explores the inner workings of online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is his recently published book, The Last Best Place On The Internet: In…

Perhaps Taming of the Shrew is less about taming shrews and more about male fragility. That would restore some of Katharina's dignity. The post Is Taming of the Shrew about Male Fragility? first…

After the recent announcements by OpenAI et al., I am often asked whether there is still a future for researchers in academia. I think this is an important question—but I believe an equally…

One of the struggles I have come to know intimately over a career as a programmer is the tendency to over-engineer solutions. You constantly walk a knife edge trying to write good clean code and also…

Isaac Correa's study of eight months of his own daily work with Claude Code: the model mattered more than the rules he wrote, guards filtered without teaching, and his supervision moved from…

The Washington Post's kitchen and culinary team tried 5 different methods. Long story short, published in the October 13, 2026 edition : Results are inversely proportional to the time you spend…

“Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams is as tired of genAI in the industry as anyone else, and is pretty set on never using it”: Nice.

In mountaineering, the idea of climbing 2 or more mountains in one trip, which may often cover multiple days, is nowadays called enchainment. By one trip, I mean in one push. And by that, I mean in…

" T he long march towards democracy has been to free men from the abuses of the sovereign’s whim. Alas ... democracy contains within it two toxic seeds. ... "The second is what French economist…

Supplements advertise boosting your immune system because it's not a medical claim.

Derek Sivers brilliantly explains in under five minutes what it takes to be a leader. Not all TED talks deserve your attention, but this one definitely does. And Derek Sivers himself too. After his…

One of eMudhra's certificate authority private keys is the number 4.Not a number that starts with 4, or the number 4 followed by a few hundred random digits, just, 4... Another one is 56, and…

A practical look at what happens when you push Java Virtual Threads in the wrong direction: how unmounting copies stacks to the heap, triggers OutOfMemoryErrors, pressures the Garbage Collector, and…

Hydrogen remains one of the most exciting applications of clean , renewable energy. Its production has been demonstrated on an industrial scale. Today the price of hydrogen is at an all time low of…

🛠️ The Year is 1999. Meerendal Wine Estate. If you clean out your old desktop folders long enough, you occasionally stumble across absolute gold. The photo above takes me straight back to the winter…

Near the end of her video tour of the Governor’s Mansion in Springfield, Illinois First Lady MK Pritzker describes the geographically snychronized landscape wallpaper she and her husband…

I don't want to read lengthy blog posts that have been spat out by a Large Language Model (LLM), because the author hasn't felt they want to write the words to share their point. I'm not going to…

Considering... Sharkey account, specifically sakurajima.social . Same groups that hosts the Mastodon sakurajima.moe server which is focused on "Japanese-media and Anime/Manga/Japanese Media…

BICEP – “Gas” ft. Lauren Duffus & SOARR BICEP – “Ultra” ft. Eartheater & Saskia BICEP – “Equarium” ft. Kehina The post BICEP – Gas /…

Jacques Greene “Two” ft. SAM-E Patricia – “The Ooze” Cesco, Machinedrum, & Sam Binga – “Stainless Meal” Cesco, Machinedrum, & Sam Binga…

New Writing Yapping Community! Pretty barebones at the moment but I created an alternative to my writing yap tag (mary writes) on Dreamwidth. It's called arimamary-writing.dreamwidth.org . Writing…

A pair of ordinary little girls create a wicked Old Witch in their imaginations and then banish her to a house on a glass hill, giving her a family for company, until she can prove that she can be…

I didn't touch a camera until 7pm today. That makes me sad.96 words · 1 image

My latest vibe coded game experiment is a Command & Conquer style RTS (Real Time Strategy) game called Battle Drones (play it here). Unlike my previous experiments, this one is actually fun to…

Next up was the Anchor, a pub that wasn’t on my original list, but I’m pleased now that I took a punt on this lengthy oak-beamed building that is over 300 years old. Situated close to the quayside…

I first heard of Squint back in 2022, when they released their Feel It EP. I'm pretty sure that I got the tip from No Echo on the band... back when I was paying attention to this kind of thing. I…

Most economic news seems to be average-to-bad, yet the stock market keeps soaring! Who will be the bag holders?

The title of Robert Sparrow and Gene Flenady’s paper, “Bullshit Universities: The Future of Automated Education,” is deliberately provocative. Behind […]

Howard Oakley: Now move the pointer to the right edge of the list of folder contents, just far enough to the left to avoid moving the window divider, but not so far as to fully select items from…

Artem Novichkov (via Fatbobman): Xcode also ships two command-line tools for the new format: xcprojformatter came with the format in beta 2. It’s a formatter for project files, like…

"Can I go into your heart?" A girl (Arabella Olivia Clark) is targeted by some demon that tries to take over her heart by shapeshifting into her mother (Jessica Chastain). As the family realise what…

Mountains calling

“YOU ARE DOOMED” SDUHSD AREA 5: PUBLIC OFFICE BEGINS WITH PUBLIC TRUST. KEEP GINNY IN TH BOTTLE. Public trust begins before a candidate takes office. It is earned through honesty, transparency, and a…

I am happy to see that this year’s World Series will be the Rays versus the Brewers. As one would expect I would sure prefer the Phillies to be in the finals, but they were ass this year and did not…

How cushy did those Boomers have it compared to Gen Z, really? Posted by Ed Folsom, October 20, 2026. Everywhere I look lately, it seems there’s another news story complaining about high costs and a…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@finn_matti/117464145641257702 That P.P.S about probably paying for Mistral didn't survive the next day. Had a dark night of the soul moment that ended in: Hell no! It just…

Ancient author: Sulpicius Serenus, IPan 87 [i.e. Bernand 1972 below] = SB I 4282 = PH219404 (122/123 CE; link). Comments: That categorizing and characterizing populations in negative terms was not…

I’ve been experimenting with LoRa mesh networks, AI agents, and running local LLMs with Ollama. At some point, it occurred to me: why not bring them together? Both Meshtastic and MeshCore…

I've been using Bear for a few weeks now and it's been such a boon to my good energy to be doing something creative every day. And while writing in my own little corner of the web has been joyful,…

👒 Fancy Hat

Resources for the N5 Dynamics Topic. Let’s start with a couple of videos to get you ready. I can’t condone where the guy places his hands in the first video but it is a good song.…

Original artwork used for the cover of a 1995 issue of the Brazilian SuperGamePower magazine, featuring Yoshi and Baby Mario. Please zoom in to see details.Source: originalvideogameartMain Blog |…

A few weeks ago I linked to Rich Hickeys Gist-Post about open source. Yesterday, Konstantin pointed me to the CultRepo-Youtube-channel and their playlist Documentaries for Developers. Concidentally,…

I've spent the last few days playing an open beta of a uh... a website... a game that is a website... called Dog Online. It is extraordinarily good at replicating the exact impact that Neopets had on…