Not only are the new Kindles substantially more expensive than the previous generation models, Amazon is also no longer including USB cables in the box with the purchase of new Kindles. Now if you…

On Thursday night I attended a small gig in an upstairs room at the Old Nun’s Head in Nunhead. It was a Green Party fundraiser and also the kind of gig that appeals to me anyway.

gokusclit:dichotomoustessellations:gokusclit:I tjink sexy nun costumes r kinda gross not bc i care abt respecting the Catholic Church (it’s all corrupt girl etc etc) but i find it kind of gross to…

Back in 2015 Henry Moss, an architect I knew in the Boston area, was helping to restore the Gropius House. This was a slide he had sent me. He had trouble restoring the recessed pinspot that Gropius…

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I have always been a board game fan. But unlike most, I prefer games that offer interesting, unusual, and clever features, qualities, designs, and what Board Game Geek calls ‘mechanics’.…

"Treebeard" by Tomás Hijo'Hoom, hm, I have not troubled about the Great Wars,' said Treebeard; 'they mostly concern Elves and Men. That is the business of Wizards: Wizards are always troubled about…

I run several Claude sessions at the same time in herdr , usually one per repository, and some of them run on another machine. herdr already knows the state of each one (idle, working, blocked or…

Spent a good chunk of the afternoon exploring the Montana Heritage Center and didn't get through half of it. It was a powerful and damning portrait of America.

An effect is the sum consequence of your actions, the actions of those around you, your environment, your stories, and the systems you participate in. There are causes to an effect. When you change…

we all have wishes, granted. But who has wishes granted?

2026 · A puppy app for two tired people. Tap a button on one phone and it shows up on the other in about ten seconds.

Wired headphones are making a comeback. Apparently. This isn’t a ‘year of the Linux desktop’ thing either, because an increasing number of people are embracing the cable once again. I’ve never…

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On October 19, malicious OVHcloud CLI binaries replaced assets across five GitHub releases for 94 minutes. The source and build chain were unaffected; exposure depends on when you installed and ran…

A quick greeting to my readers: after taking a pause from blogging back in February, I’m glad to say I’m back behind the DM screen! Thank you all for your patience, support, and kind messages while…

For readers in the USA or Europe, it can be a challenge to understand law enforcement policies and procedures in countries grounded in non-Western values and assumptions. In China, for example. The…

Researchers have developed an automated system for detecting fake news that achieved accuracy rates above 98% in tests on two datasets; in other words missing just one or two fake news items in every…

More convention news! The post The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #393: ‘Last Saturday at Jet City’ appeared first on Atomic Junk Shop.

Source Barry Ritholtz posted this up-and-right chart, which is a classic of exponential extrapolation. Given the difficulty, delays, and cost of bringing the current generation of data center…

This is so incredibly counterintuitive, but I’ve never had a bad run in the rain. They’re the hardest runs to convince yourself to start, but they end up being the most life-affirming thing ever.…

The same headless samegame-engine that powers my Phaser 4 SameGame, unchanged, now rendered with NacatamalOn: Mega Drive dithering, a CRT tube and art painted entirely in code, with the full…

I'm writing this Thursday morning, but I'm probably posting it around...mm...Tuesday? Wednesday? After all, I had a series of five Cauldron posts to get up on Ye Old Blog. But right now, Dear Reader,…

10/20/2026, 10:58:15 AM Air wigglingThis is a pretty good point about music.

Mini billet, just pour avoir une note que les 19 et 20 octobre 2026, j’ai travaillé du balcon pendant une heure en après-midi. La catastrophe climatique est plaisante une fois de temps en temps.

Google’s Gemini 4 Argon has given me another reason to revisit a question I’ve been exploring for some time: Are we approaching the point where orchestrating multiple AI models becomes…

Loving these crisp fall mornings and sitting outside for a cup of coffee while it is still tolerable.

Earlier this year, I started formulating a taxonomy or conceptual framework for state level approaches to digital sovereignty. The idea was that different approaches had significantly different…

Angry and better researched than you’d expect from a comedian. I feel bad for D.L. Hughley. He wrote this with Doug Moe after the 2020 election, and near the end he says, “By the time you read this…

Engineering leaders say AI agents write code much faster, yet their release cycles are no faster than before. Typing was never the bottleneck: here's where the time really goes, and what I'd change…

Amidst all the wailing and gnashing of teeth among pro-Ukraine bloggers and Substackers (Full disclosure. I am one.) my spidey sense this week came to a startling conclusion. What if all Trump’s…

I’ve written before regarding the conflict between using Elm’s Html.lazy and extensible records. Today I wish to highlight a similar mild conflict between Elm’s Never type and Html…

The photo above is from Skogskyrkogården (The Woodland Cemetery) this morning. It’s an incredibly beautiful place, famous for its architecture and design, and included on the UNESCO World Heritage…

Nacional Pescara: The European Champion Spain Almost Lost for Ten Euros On October 5, 2024, in a Brussels saleroom run by the French auction house Aguttes, the government of Catalonia bid against an…

Ferdinand Piëch’s Bugatti Volkswagen gave up on selling the Phaeton in North America after the 2006 model year, with around 3,500 found homes in three years. Analysts at Bernstein Research…

I was director of deliverability for ExactTarget, later called Salesforce Marketing Cloud, for fifteen years. I still help a number of companies and consultants with issues related to…

French President Emmanuel Macron posed a question to the French people: “Looking at these images, we have all asked ourselves: What was going through their minds? How can French people do this to…

In 1983, as the residents of Calcata, a small town 30 miles north of Rome, prepared for their annual procession honoring a holy relic, a shocking announcement from the parish priest put a damper on…

As dawn broke over a united country the Canadian dollar surged a half-point. The move made it the best-performing currency among western countries on Tuesday, hiking .44% against the greenback.…

Working out loud is more than telling people what you’re doing. It has two halves, and each one on its own falls short. The first half is observable work: your documents, drafts and decisions…

The best software for editing a thesis, dissertation, or research manuscript yourself, compared on Word and Overleaf support, reviewable edits, long documents, academic checks, and price: Paperpal,…

The morning of October 19 didn’t start with coffee – but there was plenty of adrenaline. The first thing I saw when I woke up was Telegram alerts telling me that something had gone wrong with…

Last week, I needed to make some pretty major updates to a web component in a design system I use for clients. I’m a big fan of TDD, but I wasn’t mentally in a place to write my tests…

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Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), "The Genius of the Crowd," The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966 (Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1988), page number unknown: Beware Those Who Are…

I updated my MacBook Air to Golden Gate 27.0.1 last night. And this morning I downloaded and installed RemoveMacAI , a free app to remove Apple Intelligence. (Apple itself, to its discredit, offers…

A search for the phrase mia farrow net worth gets the following AI schlock: Mia Farrow’s Net Worth Mia Farrow’s net worth is most commonly estimated at around $10 million according to Celebrity Net…

Clear Decks Continuing A too-warm, too-dry October continues. At least the leaves are very crispy and often smell faintly of spice. Boxnoggin is pleased, even if morning fog sometimes leaves a bit of…

Picked up a few Wild West bits at the last Sandown Park shenanigans, nothing rare or valuable, but always things of interest, grist to the mill, gap fillers and collection enhancers/improvers - so…