7OOP3D Live! 20 Year Mixterversary 20 Years. Countless Remixes. We’re celebrating 7OOP3D’s two-decade legacy on ccMixter with a remix party centered around their upcoming EP, Broken Rites . <br…

Okay, I've been meaning to talk about books and games and things I've been into for ages and I keep putting it off. If I can keep up with it better I'll try to go a bit more in depth with my…

Listen,,, being a dad rules in so many ways but recently I've been able to revel in one of the Ultimate Forms: watching my kid Participate in The Arts. She's been a part of a little choir that meets…

GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it might be self-inflicted.

Well whatever they’re here for, it’s turning into a riot. Maybe they are just here for control. If they can turn a campus protest into a shooting war…

One of these days you’re going to find yourself lying there with some jackass between your legs.

One of the most fascinating documents that have survived about bandits/highwaymen is El catecisme del bon trabucaire (Catalan for &ldquo;The Catechism of the Good Bandit&rdquo;), a 19th-century…

After four events in the Southern Hemisphere, the 2026 SailGP season arrives in North America with racing on May 9-10 in Bermuda. Here are five issues to consider: Teams on fire, teams under…

I’m going on tour next month (Portland and SF) and then a bunch of other places around the world in the early fall. Come see me talking Stoicism—grab tickets here. I hated writing essays in high…

My Heart is a Chainsaw is the first in a trilogy of horror novels by Stephen Graham Jones. As I mentioned in my earlier review of his book&nbsp;The Only Good Indians there is a strong tradition of…

Public school students shouldn't be used as political foot soldiers.

Im Jahr 2002 hat der Chef von Amazon allen Mitarbeitenden ein berühmtes Memo geschrieben, welches als “The Jeff Bezos API Mandate” in die Geschichte Eingang fand. Kernaussage: All teams will…

I went down the Japanese knife rabbit hole over Christmas. Getting into something new can feel quite overwhelming, especially for me. I tend to skip the Dunning-Kruger effect and immediately notice…

Last week I deployed six AI agents to Slack and gave each one a job title. Not as an experiment. Because I needed them. I&#8217;m running five active projects right now — a SaaS product…

The world won't be the same without Tony Stella in it, but his spirit, integrity, and passionate love of movies lives on in the work he left behind.

I recently bought a new watch. It's the Casio MQ24-9B. I got it for ~20€. Here are some picture of it: I didn't expect much from the watch. It's extremely simple, and it only really does one thing,…

Innocent people confess to crimes they never committed. It sounds extreme, but it is a real and documented problem. Photography Book Spotlight

AI is fantastic for extending thinking. The trouble is that the people crossing the line from extension to substitution cannot tell, from the inside, that they have. Including, possibly, the person…

Modern agent harnesses make work durable across restarts, devices, background jobs, and sub-agents. That durability is a runtime property, not a governance property. A session answers where the agent…

In the 2026 World Happiness Report, all but one Latin American country scores above what income predicts. East Asia shows the opposite pattern.

Note: Experimenting with quick writeups as I play around with LLMs using my homegrown agentic workflow system. Today’s idea (and the workflow system itself) both came from a dream of building a…

A friend asked if I was familiar with the crawfish enchiladas offered at Ninfa’s in Waco. While I had never had them, I looked at the restaurant’s online menu, and... Source

A poem by R L Raymond published in a defunct journal

John Roberts issues warning on Supreme Court overruling precedent Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts said at a Wednesday judicial conference that the Supreme Court must be cautious about…

So, I was talking to my wife about trying to blog again, and her assessment was pretty blunt: “Blogging is dead.” I can’t say I disagree. Even at the outset of the reboot, I wondered whether the…

On of the first programs I ever ran on a computer was a text adventure game, also known as Interactive Fiction. I think the first one I played was Adventureland by Scott Adams, which was based on the…

Jesus Christ and the Antichrist will be facing off this upcoming January with Dark Horse Comics' next installment in the Millarworld Library. The American Jesus Library Edition will feature all three…

Nasser Mashni amplified David Miller’s Deir Yassin blood libel during Australia’s antisemitism inquiry, ignoring historical context and facts. Continue reading Nasser Mashni Amplifies Blood Libel…

My Dogs (2009) I get a lot of newsletters, the traditional way, via email. Those newsletters often contain links to interesting things. Unfortunately, people love metrics, causing many of those…

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Gisele Pelicot, the Girl Guide we all need, is about to be framed and sent to FaB (Fringe Arts Bath) to be exhibited there. Many thanks to @chloesavageartist and <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n…

“It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope."

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** T his week in 1976 saw disaster hit the Friuli area of Italy when an earthquake struck,…

The problem is not that Google wants more AI inside Chrome. The problem is that Chrome appears willing to treat users’ computers like rollout infrastructure. There is a version of this story that is…

Print to digital was a mantra from the 2010s, it's not a mantra in the 2020s

...was the question on the cusp of my dreaming mind as i woke from the last of it this morning just now. not i certainly not. the graying threads on the skull, politely demur. the ache on a molar's…

In the current AI gold rush, the conversation has shifted from &#8220;Can it do the task?&#8221; to &#8220;How efficiently can it do the task?&#8221; For engineers moving Large Language Models (LLMs)…

At $699, the Angry Miao Relic 80 'Raw' edition is far from value-oriented—but it is undeniably striking. Leaning heavily into an off-white, hypebeast aesthetic, the board features a beautifully…

The funny part about old arcade games is realizing halfway through the final stage that the enemies are less dangerous than the screen itself. So there I am in TMNT The Arcade (not TMNT in Time) on…

Release Date: September 2025 RRP: $49.99 Over the last few years Chinese company Blokees have taken the toy collecting world by storm, wowing buyers with their range of affordable yet accurate…

Mark Zuckerberg had his hands full last week trying to calm the storm at his company. In an employee conference call, he had to quell a great deal of panic over the company&#8217;s performance.…

from Dean Baker Productivity growth is an old concept; we’ve been seeing it at a substantial pace for more than 200 years. Nonetheless, many elite intellectual types like to claim they know nothing…

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"You're either going to win and be the world's top power, or lose and get a lesson in strategy from your mother-in-law." Source

I hope we all now understand that forging strategic policy partnerships with fascists is like trying to develop an intimate relationship with a running chainsaw.

I finished reading A World Appears appears a few weeks ago and have been thinking about it off and on ever since. The author, Michael Pollan, appeared as a guest on the Colbert Show on February 20,…

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If you don&#8217;t know what success looks like, neither does your AI. Almost every single failure I see mentioned on social media around AI, from deleting a company&#8217;s entire database to…