I love seeing films where your hero mopes around the screen for two hours, face tripping them, don't you? Yes, that's why we tune into hugely positive role-model archetype characters like Superman…

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In the 80s, there were various visual expressions of being working class / poor, both in real life and culturally (e.g. Roseanne). In 2026, the aesthetics of poverty seem to be a bigger sin than…

Most days, the girls would eat their lunch at school, like school-lunch, whatever is on their menu. Other days, whatever is on their menu doesn’t sound very enticing, so they...

I have been a fan of Third Wave Water (TWW) for several years now. Their espresso profile mineral treatment gets me pretty close to the coffee I used to make at the cafe we owned for a few years…

And I made a cool thing in Expense that I find incredibly useful. Once a month comes along and I have my statements, I import the PDFs into Expense and let it reconcile the expenses. It looks up if…

The Aestheticization of the Left

From Big Guy in a Tiny House : <img border="0" data-original-height="1115" data-original-width="1106" height="640"…

Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. In 4th year of school we had to write…

I&apos;ve been protective of my hearing since I started listening to cassettes of children&apos;s music on a Sony Walkman in the late 1980s. I&apos;d keep the volume low so as not to damage my…

Good luck with the kids while I’m in space, dear!

Admittedly, both Sharpee and Chord are still very young and cranky. I continually find seams in both through working with Chord. In my latest set of activities, I started to port my old Textfyre…

Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. US HERE &#8211; WHY? This helps to pay for health insurance, utilities, groceries, and now also my late mother&#8217;s place. At no…

We often assume that if only life were easier - if we weren't subject to this worry or that constraint, if we were more prosperous, better established - we ourselves would be better, more virtuous.

Sunday I woke up at 2am CST, had a lyft scheduled for 3am CST and started making my way home from banana ball in OKC. (That post to come, but it was easier for me to knock...

Today is the day I got a second chance when the surgeon—this time last year—removed a foot of colon in order to exorcise a small cancerous growth. I am eternally...

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If you already read my “ What Is the Point of the DMA? ” piece yesterday, this morning I added a lengthy footnote regarding the DMA’s predecessor, the GDPR. Click through to read the entire note, but…

To keep myself off my phone, I print articles out (reader view, four-pages-per-sheet, double-sided), fold them twice and stuff them in my pocket for later, then onto my shelf if they were…

It is a well-established law of homelab physics: if a task can be automated, it will be automated—until it violently consumes your entire digital existence. In our Night-Tower setup, our self-hosted…

After the talk with his sister, Natalia, Rogério went to bed with a heavy feeling. He couldn't pinpoint exactly what it was; his intuition was screaming at him that maybe twins exist – but it wasn't…

We got a nice surprise from Apple this morning with some new Macs. Those of you waiting for that M5 Ultra Mac Studio are finally going to get your wish. You can get the M5 Ultra with up to 36 CPU…

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Do you remember when Furbys were a national security threat? All those brave, strong military men, terrified of a triangle-shaped rat thing with enormous ears. Sure, I was scared of them too, but for…

A picture of my wife in Morocco

If you're still clinging to cable or want to save more money on streaming, I've got a guide that can help. Read more › The post Huge cord cutting guide update appeared first on Advisorator.

The show continues to wear its anime inspirations on its sleeve with The Death of Superman by way of the Cell Saga. It’s a fun and pretty enough blend, though the characters continue to be fairly…

I can see why the expressive and fluid moveset offered really grabbed people and inspired to come back and build on the original tech demo, but unfortunately the rest of the game acts as a good…

I write these words on the evening of August 24th (composing tomorrow's post tonight...I do this sometimes). Sitting with Murder The (Internet) Cat on my left demanding attention and my mind…

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There are many examples across Scotland where landowners large and small are continuing to frustrate the ambitions of individuals, businesses and social enterprises through the exercise of the…

Apple Unveils New Mac Studio and Mac mini →Apple has just announced their new line-up of Desktop Macs. There&#8217;s a new Mac mini with M6 or M5 Pro chips, and a new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5…

This ain’t going to work. You don’t get to war against all the world’s nations, against most of your own people, against the Earth’s future itself, and expect to come out on top. Money doesn’t work…

Woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatisThe Woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis, was one of the great lumbering herbivores of Pleistocene Eurasia.&nbsp;Its range stretched across northern…

A thoughtful moment in the Arrange Displays pop-up in macOS’s Settings when you choose to designate a screen to be a primary screen: It not only shows a nice preview of where your menu is going to…

In my quest to try all soft serves from a local bakery , today I got their August Raspberry and Lemon verbena flavour. (Note: this was in the middle of the day. I was off work sick due to what turned…

Explore how modern algorithms and Silicon Valley's attention economy fulfill C.S. Lewis's prophetic warning in The Screwtape Letters about eliminating silence and self-reflection.

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Apple’s Polishing Cloth is now just $9. It is unclear if this cloth is in any way different from what debuted five years ago for $19. According to Apple, it is compatible with these products:…

The biggest problem with Molinism is the grounding problem: there is nothing in reality wherein the subjunctive conditionals of free will (“middle truths”) could be grounded. As Reuben perceptively…

A Fu reminds me of Maya Fey... Wen Ko-Hsin's little :3 face is so cute 😭 Mr. Ginger is only one 🥺 Learning that the Philippines was instrumental to the prohibition of opium:

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Social media used inside organisations may help engage employees and increase staff retention, according to a paper in the International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies, which looked at this…

The Wheel of Time. 14 books, the first published in 1997, the last in 2013. The author, Robert Jordan, passed away, and Brandon Sanderson took up the wheel to complete the last three books, based…

Product designer and educator Aliena Cai argues that AI is changing the work, but isn&#39;t replacing one kind of product designer with another. I think her survey shows that replacement can happen…

Source Datafinnovation are out with more impressive research described in a blog post entitled Losing The Blacklisting Race and a paper entitled Enforcement Speeds In DeFi: Limits to a Race Against…