This recording features weekend shows on Cork pirate Radio City in summer 1981. Up first is John Ashford (RIP) with the final part of his Saturday Nightbeat show. He is followed by Jamie Roberts, who…

Over the last twenty years I’ve posted numerous images on the internet. Mostly here on FITK, but many were on various forums and even some in Wikipedia. In the early days of the internet  people…

We're in the process of moving and it's eye-opening just how much stuff we've accumulated over the span of just two and a half years. During that time, my in-laws from Viet Nam stayed with us for…

title: When It’s Easy, Don’t Ruin It When things are clicking and when things are easy and when they sound good, as an artist, you need to learn to accept it. And know that every single ounce of…

Folklórico Dancers, Celina TX. I walked and lifted weights today. I was able to help my kid with her car payment. I pan-fried gyro meat for the first time, and it was delicious. I also learned that…

eBay has updated how it charges Australian sellers. tl;dr: you can’t sell on eBay for free, despite their claims. “Free selling” announced eBay Australia sent an email back in…

Carol Leonning and Ken Dilanian report for MS NOW. Excerpt: FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the polygraphing of more than two dozen former and current members of his security detail, as well as other…

Since the Chinese are coming – more finely, Chinese EVs are coming – some are arguing for an American “industrial policy” that would include resurrecting federal tax credits…

Nic Tringali, whose blog I've linked to many times here in the past, just released a new videogame!! Amberspire is a very tense, quite difficult citybuilder where resources are generated by dice…

Normal human habits like swapped letters, fillers, shorthand, pasted IDs, boundary whitespace, and nearby word forms can change token count without changing intent much.

Epistemic humility is correct. It's also available as a stop button — and the two uses are hard to distinguish from inside the system.

New set has already been out for like a few weeks, so this is my set recap for the previous set Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set! Flavor I have decent familiarity with the source material, possibly…

Demis Hassabis recently mentioned the Jevons paradox, which occurs when increased efficiency in using a resource lowers its cost and then spikes demand enough that total consumption rises rather than…

★★★½☆ - Stephen Baxter: A sequel to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine that drastically expands the scope across multiple timelines, from the dawn of time to the far future seen in the original. Now with…

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I have too many books, and I’ve grown to accept that I always will. When I first started reading, I always finished books that I bought or borrowed before buying another one. This used to be an…

 Setting a campaign in the Belle Époque (roughly 1871–1914) using the Victorious RPG system—and specifically integrating the Red RPG (The Red Book) mechanics—creates a unique blend of…

A data pipeline is a set of choices. It's almost always a bet that you know how this data will be used, how it needs to be modeled, how it needs to be queried. I've watched a data engineers…

The most exciting bit of news this week is that I bought myself a new phone. It's not brand new; it's a refurbished Samsung A23 which is a huge leap from my old phone and it will hopefully make my…

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. Our exit interviews are emailed to all managers I work for a small company with a one-person HR team. When a team member leaves the company by…

Read More The Dumbing Of Age Book 15 Kickstarter continues! The good news is that we're finally better than computers at something! but the bad news is that it's math

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Intel and discrete gaming graphics cards — that remains one of those stories where you never quite know whether a comeback is being prepared or the escape route is already being measured. Based on…

Sometimes the most important driver changes are exactly the ones that never make it onto a product slide. AMD is preparing a new power module in the AMDGPU driver for Linux 7.2. This is not about a…

The Giro starts in Bulgaria with a seaside stage for the sprinters. The Route: 147km and a sprint finish. After a ride along the coast, there are two laps of a 22km circuit including the intermediate…

🏝️ Desert Island Disc: "The Power Of Failing" by MineralDesert Island disc 1. The power of failing by Mineral. View:https://www.crucialtracks.org/discs/mbjones/4

Can IPv6 play a role in resisting internet censorship? Background Earlier this week a user on the Fediverse noticed that a website titled “w-social.eu,” recently went offline. Looking…

--> What are we doing here? Where are we going? Are we going anywhere? Does it matter? I started this dungeon map endeavor because my brother Hill was doing something with gerrymandering maps, and…

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Let the sister wars begin!

Orson Welles, 1962, ★★★★ A surrealist nightmare of expressionist lighting and skewed compositions made from colossal pre- and postwar European architecture, oppressive even when it’s beautiful, its…

Bookmarked The Davy Knot. Tim Flagler on tying a Davy Knot with hackle pliers.

I've lived with depression/anxiety/whatever for years, many of them untreated. Five or so years ago, I started therapy and have been in it most weeks since then, except for one lapse after getting…

photo by Kate Lewis This vegan strawberry cobbler is stunning and just a little unexpected. Three pounds of fresh strawberries baked down with a splash of rosewater into a jammy, fragrant strawberry…

Finally: successfully leverage all the chatbot friends, and an entire year's worth of tinkering experience to get MEH commenting up and running on my site. Leave me a note!

Higuera, Diego. 2026. Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up: Conrad Von Cottonmouth, Runaway to the Stars, Stomping Ground, and Two More Projects You Will Love!. The Beat (May 7):…

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Corporate social media is having a devastating effect on queer peoples' lives

Are you a master of the “warm intro” who is not afraid to step inside Tokyo’s luxury hotels while also meandering the hidden ateliers of Kanazawa ? Do you thrive in the high-octane…

The first Mass Effect Alright, let's go back to the year 2007, where Britney Spears shaved her head, Transformers was the summer's blockbuster hit, and the first iPhone was released. People still…

Maryland-Based RBmedia Lays Off 22 Workers Amid Union Contract Negotiations In the middle of collective bargaining, the parent company of Rockville-based immersive audiobook company Graphic Audio…

Boards of Canada – “Prophecy At 1420 MHz” Fever Ray – “I’m Not Done (Therapy Session)” ear – “Real Life” The post Visual Velcro 53 first…

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I done got out my Wacom tablet and downloaded Krita. Time to make one art, please. ... some time later ... One art here:

Get better at: handling multiple files, multi-indexes, pivot tables, and plotting with Plotly.

NESYA – PUT THE FRIES IN THE BAG. The intention of an artist like NESYA is not to create pure pop music. The daughter of a Nebraskan preacher and subjected to religious and sexual trauma, her…

Recently, I’ve realized that some the qualities I cherish in people seem to be mutually exclusive. And not in an obvious way: you’d expect the Venn diagram of nerdy and sporty people look like a half…