Modern technology is amazing, but it’s hard to get excited about it because we are simply too used to it. Wouldn’t it be great if we could experience that technology as though…

The modern church has reduced the Bible to little more than a self-help book—but nothing could be further from the truth. David understood this and mapped it out for us—even more, Paul understood…

A customer tipped Tonda Dickerson a lottery ticket at her Waffle House job. She won $10 million. Then came the lawsuits, the IRS, and a kidnapping at gunpoint.

Isaiah Rashad “M.O.M.” Have you ever eaten something familiar – a sandwich, a pasta dish, a salad – but there was some ingredient that popped more than usual? Like you’ve tasted a lot of…

I keep quoting him, but here’s another Cal Newport podcast that I can’t stop thinking about: Why do better tools make me worse at my job?. To save you a long listen: when you think about the theory…

Such a gorgeous evening in the south of the UK today. Wish I was out with the camera You're getting this because you follow my global (everything) feed — if you'd like to filter what comes through,…

Sir Hector Macdonald was an unusual soldier in the British Army in the late 19th and very early 20th century. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Omdurman, being more competent than the…

Once the baords have been added I primed each section with tan hobby paint. Once the paint was dry I added the trim around the windows and doors. See previous

In a previous post, I mentioned that my first AI project was to develop an application to create a archive of US newspapers based on RSS feeds. I initially used Claude Code to review a list of US…

Hago mucho eso de asociar objetos a personas (creo que algo común para todos ¿no?), siempre que veo tal objeto que pertenece o pertenecía a alguien, inmediatamente me acuerdo de él. Estuve pensando…

The weekly ramble this time is about Blur's one album as a trio.

I’m doing a very limited number of events to promote the release of my new book Don’t Call It Art. Monday, June 1 in Austin, Texas: BookPeople event at First Baptist Church of Austin, 6PM. Ticketed…

COMPLEX BENCH TESTING SETUP NOT WORKING PROPERLY The setup makes use of a breadboard development system, an Arduino Uno, several power supplies, an oscilloscope and my SLT breakout box. The…

How Life Uses Atoms As we learned from Part 2 of this series, the ingredients for life are all around us. Some atoms, like nitrogen and oxygen, are abundant, so it comes as no surprise that living…

David W. Hogg, who takes his role as scientific gadfly seriously, recently (February 2026) released an interesting rumination on science, LLMs, and the human component of research. David W. Hogg.…

Thoughts 😵‍💫 It's been a few days. We've had family visiting from the US so all my mental energy has been spent on that. My sister and brother-in-law were here and my parents came over with them. I…

Introduction This post will be tough to write. There's a lot of discourse and arguing about AI everywhere you look. I've read it all. I don't want to get caught up in arguments, get misinterpreted,…

[2026-05-08 Fri] : Transcript, yay! I chatted with Shae Erisson about Emacs, keyboards, Org Mode, and life. View it via the Internet Archive , watch/comment on YouTube , read the transcript online ,…

As you read you start feeling this accumulation of dread because you see the pattern repeating. Failures. Near-misses.

The Hot Zone is one of those books that gets under your skin. Richard Preston doesn't soften anything. He describes what the virus actually does to a person. The hemorrhaging. The organ liquefaction.…

The Commerce Commission will investigate deregulating PSTN interconnection. Ventia plan to grow beyond telecoms with datacentre builds. One NZ builds 29 new cell sites

https://granda.org/en/2026/03/13/your-parked-tesla-is-a-data-center/Really interesting idea. I love this way of thinking… how can we utilise what we already haveYou're getting this because you follow…

a couple of hours ago i hit #1 trending on the bearblog discovery page for my post, the freedom of writing anonymously . i hope you understand that this is my equivalent of winning an oscar, and here…

I've only managed 37 minutes of recording today. I'd practiced the guitar part earlier on; it's very hard because it involves hammering-on with my left pinky which is double-jointed, and I have to…

Tool: Big Words I'm using my vibe coded macOS presentations tool to put together a talk, and I wanted to add a slide with some text on it. The tool only accepts URLs, so I put together a quick page…

The legendary Molly Stark was married to a Revolutionary War general whose truncated quote gave rise to a state motto. tag front Her furniture inspired a whole collection; this tag for the inspired…

I'm seeing a lot of political actors and commentators advocating for hardball strategies right now, while lamenting that what they are advocating for isn't ideal. Here's Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI),…

ZenLake OS 26.04 is now available based on Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute Raccoon). ZenLake is a remix of Debian/Ubuntu LTS with GNOME desktop that is configured to be user-friendly. It is minimal and…

Markets South Korea's tech heavy stock market is on a tear. (axios.com) What happens when you buy stocks that benefit from an autocratic regime, and then that regime loses power. (ft.com) Trading…

vLLM has very slow time to first token (TTFT). On AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 it can take even 10 minutes depending on exact settings and model size. To make my user experience of using those things myself…

A month or so after returning from our Norwegian adventure, and its heavy seas, I realised that I hadn't written much about Ambience , the cruise ship we sailed on, or the cruise line, Ambassador,…

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Mad Cave Studios Brings A Powerful New Anthology Amplifying Indigenous Voices, Storytelling, and Advocacy, Rooted in Direct Support for Native-Led Organizations A powerful new anthology brings…

THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2026 Tarlov among the chimps: How fraudulent is much of the "cable news" discourse afflicting this failing nation? Thanks to Willa Pope Robbins of Mediaite , we can steer you to the…

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Just for a little while, under the sunny breeze, I want to crawl back to earth, To the warmth of the decomposing leaves; I want to be buried in the comforting brown, And fall asleep to the endless…

Athletes have rest built into their training. Teachers don’t. Here’s why recovery isn’t optional — and what it actually looks like later in the year.

What Railway History Can Teach Us About the Current Bubble

What's the line in the sand on U.S. government debt? The post A Government Debt Crisis? appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...

With the exception of my pre-internet elementary school days, I've never been an avid reader. Not that I didn't read at all, but it never was a "real hobby", let alone a habit. 2 years ago, something…

Band:Jungle Rot Country:USA Genre:Death Metal Year:2026 Buy the original! Download

(The original article I wrote compared the current system to Nazi concentration camps. It was pointed out to me that this was an incorrect analogy so I've changed the article to compare the current…

How I used Symphony, OpenClaw, Codex, a home server, Telegram Web QA, and a Windows GPU worker to revive Voicy as an agent-driven maintenance loop.

Omarchy is an amazing distro for “computer dads” like me, and if you’re a computer dad, I’d highly recommend giving Omarchy a try. What, you might be wondering, is a computer dad? A computer dad is a…

In the defense of deceased authors, whose name and works are used to support postmodern ideologies. Introduction Recently, I was listening to an interview given by Hermione Lee in 2014, in which she…

Go all the way down the streetAnd turn left when you get to heaven.If the gate is open, just go right in.If the gate is closed, you’re on your own.Rustle the rain and rustle the wind.Write…

Band:Darkthrone Country:Norway Genre:Black/Doom/Heavy/Speed Metal Year:2026 Buy the original! Download

Overdose deaths, homicides, and traffic fatalities are falling sharply, suggesting America may be seeing one of its most important public-health reversals in years.

The 95 GeV bump is suspiciously close to the mass of the Z boson plus the mass of the b-quark. The 152 GeV bump is close to the mass of two W bosons reduced by the mass of two b-quarks. The…