TaskCompletionSource and TaskCompletionSource<T> are types that allow you to create an unbound Task, which means it’s not tied to a delegate. This gives you manual control over when…

The Sunday Paper #622 September 6, 2026 My hubby and I are in Detroit for a quick trip to visit our son. We arrived to a tornado warning and spent quite a bit of time navigating downed trees and…

Going back to the initial publication of my book The World After Capital in 2021, I had a paragraph in the conclusion discussing the potential for artificial intelligences to become "neohumans." I…

Attending music festivals for me is one of the most amazing experiences of being alive.

Here's the press release: HHS Announces Winners of the 2026 KidneyX EMPOWER: Living Link Prize Challenge to Advance Living Kidney Donation and Patient-Centered Innovation WASHINGTON, D.C. — August…

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Robert Burton (1577-1640), Anatomy of Melancholy ("Democritus Junior to the Reader," vol. 1, pp. 18-19 of the Everyman edition): I hear new news every day, and those ordinary rumours of war, plagues,…

Feminism and Family Collapse The New York Times and associated ilk continue to celebrate “the pioneering feminist Gloria Steinem” who […]

Sometimes bits split and it's nothing you did. Do you bin all the work to start over or do you repair? On this project, I would have had a major loss in work and wood. I decided on a…

These past months, I’ve been running a Reading Group for the No Bullshit Guide to Statistics and this week we finally reached Section 3.4 that explains hypothesis testing procedures like the…

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I fell for the hype for a bit and was playing around with Omarchy on my ThinkPad. While I did like some of the opioniated setup (the theming system is very cool), a number of things bothered me.…

Testing every function of the FNIRSI LPM-10 network cable tester, from wire mapping and length measurement to tracing a single cable through a ceiling.

This list will contain (minor) spoilers for projects Things I'm working on: MoFo Monthly #3: The Last City to Fall. In this desert, ruins of the Last City are scattered across the waste. A Waster…

I am currently working my way through the CMU’s Intro to Database Systems course , and one of the projects involves implementing the ARC Policy. This is not a solution to that project.…

I installed Omarchy on my first-generation Microsoft Surface Book, mostly to find out whether this 2015 laptop could still make a good .NET development machine. The installation took about two…

On the morning of our trip to the Aran Isles we woke up to very gray weather. Unfortunately for us, it turned into rain as soon as we headed out to the ferry terminal so we got pretty soggy on the…

New blog post: "Moving Away from Neovim" .

In April 2025, I wrote a blog post about switching from Visual Studio Code to Neovim as my main editor. The post has a section about GNU Emacs , with me mentioning not completely ruling out the…

just be friends. use words. no killing.No EnemiesThe Positive-Sum SignalPositive-sum games are recognizable by a specific signal — the people inside them behave differently than people in…

The Specter of Nuclear War Raises Its Head Paul Craig Roberts When Trump recently declared the shift in his war […]

Sky hastens like silence leaving the blank page, first flakes, then whiteout from the mind of God. What ferries the air from here to there but the current the sky makes falling and the I that cannot…

Tolkien, The Fall of Numenor: [Sauron] did not object to the existence of the world, so long as he could do what he liked with it. He still had the relics of positive purposes that descended from the…

Windows 10 ESU has been purchasable since September 2025 — that part isn’t news. What changes on October 13, 2026 is the price: Year 1 coverage closes, and any organization that hasn’t…

Years ago, mobile phones were designed with easily-swappable batteries, memory cards, and SIM cards. You could even disassemble them (to a point) and repair or replace components. Not that you…

In April 2025, I wrote a blog post about switching from Visual Studio Code to Neovim as my main editor. The post has a section about GNU Emacs , with me mentioning not completely ruling out the…

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‘[W]hat jobs remain in essay writing are mainly for “humanizers,” who edit papers written by A.I. to avoid detection from the cheating software used by many universities.’ *************** For years…

What an organization leaves undocumented is preserved only by the people it assumes will remain available.

This is likely my most useful post this year. kanopy [sic] is a streaming movie app/channel that's free (the way we like it) to all. No ads, no fine print, no catches, no hidden agendas. To use it…

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Seeing sunrise on a peaceful place (Relax) Traveling the world and meet other cultures (Adventure) Get respect of their parents for their actions (Approval) Become known and sought in their field of…

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Attributed to the Labour candidate for Wellington Bays MP, Craig Renney, via the notable blues man Darren Watson. We&#8217;re not a poor country, but we absolutely make poor choices when it comes to…

A short story about how Book Creator is still available through Kami, and how the two complement each other in a learning cycle to enhance your lessons. PLUS why Kami is more than just a PDF…

There&#8217;s a sentence people say to these machines. If you&#8217;ve used one for anything real, you&#8217;ve said it. We just talked about this. Sometimes it comes out sharper than that. You built…

Ravenna, in the far north coast of Italy on the Adriatic, was the capital city of the Ostrogoths. Capturing it could bring the Gothic Wars to a happy conclusion for the Byzantines, whose emperor,…

here are a few lovely web sites people i've recently added to my button wall! (a few of these have been on there for ages, i just keep getting too overwhelmed to post updates... i also dont really…

If you spicy sauces and fermentation, you're going to love this fermented maple hot sauce recipe. It can be hot or mild depending on the peppers you use and comes together with just a few…

The Strangest House in the World : George Daynor Fights (the) Depression. New Jersey resident George Daynor stands before his muck house in 1939. Press photograph with caption on reverse. Some…

The first recorded outbreak of the virus we now call the Marburg virus occurred in 1967, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), at the Behring pharmaceutical works in Marburg, an old university town…

An antique folk art rug or table cover from Victorian days, when there was time to make things...and make things beautiful. 21" x 34" and dating to 1890 or so. Since I am posting this piece, I would…

What we all seem to think in common is that we have now, beyond doubt, reached the point where the current economic system is utterly unsustainable. Rightie Ho. The neoliberal process Thatcher and…

This week sees a variety pack from a unique project.

In ancient times when the codes of civilisations were being worked from the raw stuff of human sociality there were great kings and wild beasts and they ruled their subjects together, in strange and…

This semester I've found myself with about 3 hours a week of teaching time that is not allocated to any required curriculum. I teach in an alternative learning program; we have three classes. I am…

5 September 2026 The sunbittern (Eurypyga helias), native to Central and South America, is a cryptically marked wader that lurks in the shadows and behaves like a heron. In its normal posture it is…

Oshkosh JLTV: The Vehicle That Buried the Humvee — Then Got Buried Beside It When Oshkosh won the largest light tactical vehicle contract in history, one of its executives made a claim that sounds…

I am always surprised by how fast a traditional Icelandic sweater comes together. This is the third one I’ve made. I finished it months ago but have not used it because it’s still warm. Last weekend…