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I'm a dreamer. I always have been, but after years of hustling my ass off and only receiving the Temu version of those dreams...I have kind of turned into a cynical asshole. The reality is, I think I…

AI-generated poetry is preferable to human-written poetry? Oh, we are actually done for. The authors describe the reason in the results: The AI poems are more accessible. My house is full of cowards…

Red Threads (我很爱你 / I love you very much)digital video/machinima, color, sound, 12 min, 2022, ChinaCreated by Yuchi MaYuchi Ma’s Red…

In May, the Guardian published a list of the 100 best novels "as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide." They just gave ranks, but I was interested in total scores--how much…

Interlude 2: Doesn't look like a good day for inviting Honda to lunch, huh? This part is from Honda's POV. Hallway in Front of the Staff Office: 13:05 (Lunch) — Rainy Honda leaves the staff room…

I recently used Devin CLI to build iamspeed.dev, an LLM streaming benchmarker that measures Time to First Token (TTFT) and tokens per second in the browser. The model I primarily leaned on was GLM…

I’ve recently completely revisited my Neovim config and took the extra mile to also streamline how it manages LSP, linting, and formatters. I had enough to remind myself to maintain and sync…

i am now reading hunger games again.

I know how reality works. I know that everything I want already exists. I know that the universe is always bending toward me, folding time and space to support me, that Source loves me without…

In his NewsNation Reality Check show, Ross Coulthart accused Lue Elizondo of being a part of the conspiracy to suppress the truth about UFOs. Coulthart alleged, without evidence, that…

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For as long as I've been doing my own laundry, it's always the same show over and over again. I have no problem sorting it. Whites, lights, colors, darks, whatever. Lugging it down to the laundry…

Obsidian has been my primary personal knowledge management solution for years. S

Everyone has an opinion about the marketing automation landscape, and who’s winning the market. But most of these… The post The state of marketing automation tools in 2026 appeared first…

Sure, Del Toro's "Frankenstein" was technically a "better" movie, but I'll put money on "The Bride!" being watched and enjoyed 20 years from now, while…

We don't skip yoga lightly, but today was the graduation party for K, who is the granddaughter of/lives with one of my oldest, dearest friends — and we were NOT going to miss it! K and K being the…

Last day at the beach! I still have done nothing. :)

Background In Part 1, we established that access patterns & not entities should drive your design. In Part 2, we fixed the database by replacing brittle three-table JOINs with a covering index,…

I have never changed my mind so quickly and thoroughly as I have about the f’ing arch. Now that I’ve seen it, I support it completely. It is the perfect monument to the man and the…

What’s the strongest reason(s) not to believe there’s a reasonable chance that some of the seemingly less explicable UAP sightings could be an artifact of alien life? I think the general consensus…

I thought Linux package management was broken, but then a small annoyance I experienced in Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC made me reconsider. To put this in context, it happened […]

In which the party starts a new episode by fighting an old foe.

Deaths linked to London air pollution fall 40% | GuardianClapham Junction's Battersea eats & backstreets | Hungry PassengerManchester's successful transport incrementalism | Mobility…

The story of sheep begins long before shepherds, wool sweaters, and stone fences. It starts in the rugged mountains and open grasslands of Eurasia, where their wild ancestors evolved into some…

animalmagazine:ALT“On Being a Mule of the World: Reflections on Race, Gender, and Species Transition” is the latest nonfiction essay from ANIMAL by @liondrakes ☀️“‘Mare’…

Avatar and SNL wouldn’t exist without Canadians. As in, the highest-grossing movie of all time and one of North America’s most culturally-defining TV shows. How this could be true and Canada could…

mini-article is up front, dev update is further down it's something i've been thinking about a lot lately. i'm not someone who naturally comes up with new game mechanics, i'm much more of a…

Your greatest successes will come from some of the smallest actions in terms of meeting people. You will cause a “stacking effect” the more you meet and connect with people; conversely, people cannot…

Goat and Sheep Mineral: Our Experience When we started raising Dairy goats and American Blackbelly sheep in 2021, we knew that providing loose minerals for goats and sheep was essential for their…

Summary for those who don't want to read this whole article: Super-hot pepper leaves taste good and have caused no ill effects for me. All the details I reported in August last year that I invented a…

Last night, I could smell smoke from one of the nearby wildfires. At first, I thought someone had started a campfire near my campsite, but the smell grew stronger as the night went on. By morning,…

June 29, 2026, 05:45 AMThe trip was cancelled. The tickets vanished into the digital void, but the manager approved the leave anyway after yet another follow-up, leaving me stranded with an empty…

Retroarch gets installed to ~/Library/Application\ Support/Steam/steamapps/common/RetroArch I had to disable the PS5 button support in mac to get it to work inside retroarch Retroarch also picked up…

I've been trying to show this for years with maps of car-free households, but there was a great example recently that used voting patterns directly. Last Tuesday was the date for party primaries in…

books, when they're hard, ask you to make meaning out of the abstract. movies, when they're hard, ask you to experience unpredictable images, sounds and places. videogames, when they're hard, ask you…

This week my guest is Yannick Schutz. He’s a photographer from the Finistere, in France. He loves photography, and surfing between many other things. He started a great project: Douarenn. If…

820 Speight Ave, Waco, TX Samuel Palmer Brooks (December 4, 1863 – May 14, 1931) served as President of Baylor University from 1902 to 1931. He is one of the most consequential figures in Baylor's…

Collection of officially licensed 1993 Mario, Luigi, Peach and Yoshi slippers from Japan.Source: hog-a-japanMain Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings

Use AI to make things clearer, not longer. Let it sharpen your thinking, not replace it. FROM: noslopgrenade.com No Slop Grenade. Source

Gladys 4.81 lets the AI agent and Alexa control your rolling shutters, adds an AI quota display, and brings Zigbee2MQTT credentials and more dongle support.

The review was supposed to go up on the 26th. It is the 28th. I would like to formally blame my ADHD, the World Cup, Pride, and the fact that I read the entire book again instead of writing about it…

Get git status on unix terminal (PS1).

Would you like to have some real impact on the tech industry? Do you have $100,000 to spend? If you answered “yes” to both questions, ask software engineering researchers (the kinds of people who…

I’m currently making a few last changes to the third book in this series and trying to find an agent who will handle them. If you have middle-graders who would be interested in reading them and…

Members Only: Today's video is available only to members. If you are already a member, you can access your private podcast feed by visiting https://www.pointfree.co/account. --- Point-Free does…

Interesting objects that I have found or own and the stories behind them.

One command-line tool lets an AI agent read and search a dozen platforms, from X to Reddit to YouTube, for free. Six of nine channels work the moment you install.

From July 15, 2026, China regulates AI companion apps: bots cannot foster emotional dependency, cannot give minors a virtual partner, and must reach a guardian when a user mentions self-harm.…