I had my doubts, but it seems that as long as we have both people and the internet, the former will never stop blogging. Topics evolve and morph, blogs themselves are started and then abandoned,…

There are many examples across Scotland where landowners large and small are continuing to frustrate the ambitions of individuals, businesses and social enterprises through the exercise of the…

Apple Unveils New Mac Studio and Mac mini →Apple has just announced their new line-up of Desktop Macs. There’s a new Mac mini with M6 or M5 Pro chips, and a new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5…

This ain’t going to work. You don’t get to war against all the world’s nations, against most of your own people, against the Earth’s future itself, and expect to come out on top. Money doesn’t work…

Woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatisThe Woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis, was one of the great lumbering herbivores of Pleistocene Eurasia. Its range stretched across northern…

🍦 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 12/? posts. In my quest to try all soft serves from a local bakery , today I got their August Raspberry and Lemon verbena flavour. (Note: this was in the…

Explore how modern algorithms and Silicon Valley's attention economy fulfill C.S. Lewis's prophetic warning in The Screwtape Letters about eliminating silence and self-reflection.

G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero #37 (1985) Art by Frank Springer and Andy Mushynsky • In this issue, writer Larry Hama introduces several characters and vehicles from the toy line (and, by this point,…

A Fu reminds me of Maya Fey... Wen Ko-Hsin's little :3 face is so cute 😭 Mr. Ginger is only one 🥺 Learning that the Philippines was instrumental to the prohibition of opium:

As most of you know, Kenya is one of East Africa's two subsea hubs (Djibouti is the other). The Communication Authority of Kenya requires cable operators to report total lit capacity on a quarterly…

Social media used inside organisations may help engage employees and increase staff retention, according to a paper in the International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies, which looked at this…

The Wheel of Time. 14 books, the first published in 1997, the last in 2013. The author, Robert Jordan, passed away, and Brandon Sanderson took up the wheel to complete the last three books, based…

2026/08/25 Tuesday Hundreds of these mysteriously appeared throughout the city overnight... <img src="https://pirahxcx.neocitie

I’ve been telling you&#160;for years&#160;that data about you is being accumulated and sold by tech companies, data brokers, retailers, law enforcement agencies, telecom carriers, financial…

Source Datafinnovation are out with more impressive research described in a blog post entitled Losing The Blacklisting Race and a paper entitled Enforcement Speeds In DeFi: Limits to a Race Against…

Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. I spent the first half of my life…

In 1918, before the end of WWI, and in reaction to the huge number of American servicemen who had sexually transmitted diseases, two Congressmen came up with a law that allowed law enforcement…

The big difference Apple isn’t really drawing attention to is memory bandwidth. The M6 tops out at 170GB/s and 32GB of unified memory, whereas the M5 Pro offers 307GB/s and up to 64GB–nearly twice…

Those of you longtime Irreal readers who have been following my quest for living a digital life know that I long ago gave up shopping at Walmart. One reason for that is that Covid 19 taught us that…

Next month Apple will be coming out with new phones. I&apos;m looking forward to it.It&apos;s easy to be cynical these days about tiny upgrades, corporate entities sucking us dry for everything…

Apple launched two new lineups of Mac models today (mini and Studio). The Macintosh hardware recommendations on this site were already a bit out of date, and today get even further out of date.…

Privileged take - I need to stop following people that are Internet Warriors. I just don&apos;t care. There&apos;s enough drama everywhere else - I don&apos;t need it in my Internet.

When I was a kid and we would go to Toronto to visit my mom’s family there, this commercial came on the TV: [YouTube embed] There is certainly no shortage...

As a prolific content creator I am a Writer first and foremost, even before YouTuber and Podcaster. Today I wanted to share with you the reasons behind why I write.

I try to not look at Reddit too much nowadays, but I still end up there more often than I'd like to. One of the subreddits that keeps showing up in my feed is r/AestheticWiki , probably because I've…

Everybody says beating short-form addiction is necessary. There are studies showing how harmful it can be to the body and mind. But nobody talks about how to actually quit the short-form addiction,…

Way back in the day, my mom had a part-time business typing up term papers and dissertations for university students. Well, I did say &#8220;way back in the day.&#8221; We&#8217;re talking about a…

The real competition is not Germany versus China. It is Europe’s 452-million-person industrial network against China’s 1.4-billion-person continental factory system — and Europe’s cheap-labor…

At every gathering, there’s someone on the outskirts. Maybe by happenstance, maybe by choice. Some mourn this, being sidelined. But doesn’t it grant you a fantastic view? Best seat in the house. The…

This is the 454th anniversary of the St. Bartholomew&#8217;s Day Massacre, when the French king and Pope ordered Catholics to slaughter tens of thousands of Protestants (known as Huguenots) in Paris…

I&rsquo;ve been revisiting trying to run NetBSD on Wrap030, my 68030 homebrew computer. In the process I&rsquo;ve been running into some truly strange behavior. I&rsquo;ll change a kernel compile…

Good day. Here is your War News Update. Ontario premier Doug Ford told the US president to kiss his ass. He helpfully added that, “there’s a lot of real estate back there.” And instead of puckering,…

MLA, KDA, MoE, NoPE all attack either bytes transferred or bytes resident. MLA shrinks KV per token, KDA replaces a O(n)O(n)O(n) cache with an O(1)O(1)O(1) state.

Chris from uncountable thoughts is hosting this month's IndieWeb Carnival topic on purpose . This is my first participation in such a carnival, and its been fun, if a little challenging on my noggin.…

The boy appeared on a Thursday, which was collection day. Danny Toal had taken over the corner of the big shed from Micky Breen two years before, and he still thought of the week in terms of who…

I&#8217;m pleased to share a new practical guide to the Stoic Attitudes and Behaviours Scale, or SABS, written by Tim LeBon, the research director of the Modern Stoicism nonprofit. I helped create…

It was New Year's Day 2024, and downtown Miami should have been winding down from the holiday celebrations. Instead, Bayside Marketplace became the center of one of the internet's strangest modern…

NatureScot is currently running one of its periodic public consultations on the use of General Licences for wildlife management. In response, RSPB Scotland has today issued the following statement:…

This is the official video for the song All my friends are heathens by Twenty One Pilots. My oldest son who is frequently assumed to be ASD by people who have barely met him had that song on repeat…

At some point today, I'll receive a call from the funeral home to let me know my dad is ready to be picked up. Like my pretend child that does an after school program, only it's my cremated dad. I'll…

In the post I always come back to blogging , the writer mentions the ups and downs of blogging. The challenges life throws at you, forcing you to prioritize one thing over another. And just like the…

Earlier this month, I attended ClueCon 2026 in Chicago. The event was well attended with open source RTC/VoIP community members. Any opportunity I get to spend time with Daniel-Constantin Mierla is…

I wanted to convert a large number of string representations of common Base 10 number to Bijective Base 10. I found a textual method of creating the Bijective Base 10 string representations from Base…

Nashville drops the hammer, Philly keep climbing while the bottom drops out in Utah and San Jose

Even in repetition it is hard to discern clarity, a cog in the editing machine working within larger shapes, invisible in our fragments. I appreciate the passer-by staring for a second, as the…

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life (Proverbs 13:12). Anyone who has ambition will face disappointments. Ambition is not a bad thing. Ambition is a…

In my last two posts on this topic, I provided the history of the development of a mechanical CPR device. I also discussed a recent study examining a very large patient population and comparing…