The demo sets an anchor nobody wrote down, and then your team spends a quarter losing an argument to it.

Rigorous thinking about the future produces extreme outcomes.

I decided to lump these together because we need all the SMIZE answers, and we need them TODAY. [Ed. We got a SMIZE answer from…

 Barnaby Sherlock patiently sits for me as I help raise funds for PAWS. (photo courtesy of ArtSpot)When I look back on the 15 years that I’ve been drawing, a few experiences come to mind as the…

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this enamel cuff bracelet since I had the pleasure of seeing it in NYC, so today we’re going to talk about it. This Victorian enamel cuff…

With New Horizons now 63 AU out, it’s time to ponder that record hibernation period that the spacecraft just went through. Over 10 months long, this one had the same goal as previous such periods, to…

The more I think about it the more I feel that the future of everything is indie (Or my hope at least) Think about it every time I hear a complaint about something wether it's games, shoes, movies,…

On this Arizona Colorado River thing: pretty much anything the Trump administration has ever done has been grift, racism, or other malfeasance. (I give him credit for killing the penny and letting us…

Time, Discomfort, Payoff Well, that was a Monday. Between local fires, some personal news, and the awful unrelenting heat, I’m glad to be done with the whole thing. Today promises to be warm…

Part four of our summer adventure: Amsterdam!

The development of air-to-air refueling changed aerial warfare and gave US Air Force SAC bombers global reach. KC-135 tanker on display at the Barksdale Global Power Museum in Louisiana The first…

Three years ago today we returned for the third time to our favorite beach. As we were reflecting on what it's meant for us to keep coming back to the same place, he went down on his knees and asked…

The Magnetic Fields ' 1999 triple-CD magnum opus 69 Love Songs is such an embarrassment of riches that I've largely declined to give it its due in this list, 'cuz where would one even begin? But for…

August has not been kind to me. Work draws taxes from my soul and the weather from my body. I read in deep, hours-long gulps on the weekend, then spend my time craving the feeling of crafting good…

The anxiety is enormous. It grew both deeper and wider. Regarding this collapse (not merely nervous, for that matter), an interesting point is that some small changes in everyday life turned out, at…

♠ A serendipitous discovery: macOS continuity. Picture this: I am using my corp Macbook Pro, whilst my personal Macbook Air happens to be close by. Both of their lids are open. In my corp Macbook,…

We need to speak either way. The important words have their place now. Yet the merely human ones have proved, paradoxically, to have devastating consequences when they are addressed to human beings…

This article includes sponsorship or links with referral codes which will earn me an affiliate fee. These are clearly marked with a 💵 symbol. My Oops! All Servos! expansion boards are now available…

I have argued for a while that MDR has to move beyond alert triage and become a cyber risk reduction service. A recent conversation with an experienced MDR operator added another piece to that…

The medieval understanding of intelligence is exactly what we need in the age of A.I. -- Boyd Taylor Coolman in America Magazine Dance Or Die the radical embodiment of wholesome Catholic…

My new home is definitely smart - CAT5 cabling, smart thermostats, wireless access points, gigabit internet, and more. But there's the thing - there's no manuals, diagrams, or help guides. So far…

Marc Lore sells the controlling stake in the Timberwolves three years after getting in. The flipping will continue until morale improves.

From Pilgrim by Timothy Findley

I listened to two great podcasts this week exploring the tangle of human/AI relationships. In “Computer Love,” the guests explore whether these relationships are good for us, and in…

I want to write a new crowdfunding module, and it's probably going to be for Eco Mofos!!. I'm thinking: Bestiary - Monsters with all kind of extras, like hooks, biome, and habitat - Villains with a…

We celebrated Eric’s 50th birthday in northern Spain and I also wanted to enter into a new decade overseas. From the beginning we knew that most of Europe would be too hot and busy in August…

"Nyzoura's Pendant" is a fun ride.

The battle to control streaming has shifted...

iPhone Mirroring is one of those little Apple inventions that – when it works – is quietly excellent. When I first heard the concept I really thought it was bananas....

Intrepidina the cricket stowaway in my suitcase made a ‘new leap forward’. She crossed an ocean, was cooped up in a suitcase and nearly died getting to her destination. Crickets, in China, are…

Some interesting insights from my past six-plus months of geeking out with Anthropic's insane AI tool.

My discomfort triggers my negative self-talk.

Author Ross Dunbar kindly sent me a copy of Click Clack Boom , the first in his Blackjack Harrigan Files series. Harrigan is an intelligence officer who specializes in finding unusual people who are…

Gaming Science | It's cool to be a criminal in-game. Violent video games were shown to drive aggression. But is this also true for the crime rate? Today's study analyses a dataset of 50+ million…

Palantir has access to the personal information and news-reading behavior of—if USA Today Co.'s own reports are true—158 million average unique monthly visitors, or 48% of the American people.

August 25, 2026 18th century illustration by Charles Reuben Ryley. source. Everyone knows monkeys but I think most people think about cute white-faced capuchins or macaques or the langurs of India.…

A Chinese AI lab shipped a model that got so good at hacking, mid-training, that they decided to hold the open weights back and spend two more weeks hardening it before they let you download it. The…

In a short period of time, I’ve rebuilt my Kenner Star Wars collection from its humble new beginnings. Y got me an Ikea Billy bookcase for my birthday, which I used to display most of it now.…

I got fired, chat. How cooked are we? 😱 It's never a good time to lose a job - but to lose a job in this economy? No thanks! So... What happened? Background About 4 and a half years ago, I joined…

I recently read a great post from Matt Haughey about his time spent working in a bike shop as a teenager and it got me a little nostalgic about my own teenage “bike shop” experience and…

Five data channels, no HTTP for app data: using WebRTC as an app transport between iPhone and Mac. The community framework whose macOS slice ships one header, the WebSocket storm, ICE restart vs…

In one week of late-August 2026, Agent Sandbox, Kueue, and LeaderWorkerSet each shipped a limiter on their own elasticity: a warm pool that refills more slowly, a field that used to be editable and…

The standard recommendation on time out duration is one minute per year of age, often capping out at 5min. In my experience (n=3, not independent) this is much longer than needed; I typically do…

I set a 5 a.m. alarm for years and kept snoozing it. On swapping inputs without quitting the goal, and letting go of who you used to be. The post Make It Easy to Win appeared first on Christopher…

Bulova Lunar Pilot Blue & White, and Super Seville Precisionist Introduction There are many factors I consider when looking at watches, here are a few of them: Is it funky or strange looking, but…

[1967] A scuzzy fuzz monster with a neanderthal beat sweetened by the use of some very cool bells! The fuzz and bells in this snarly stomper are an unusual but excellent combo!

Digital tools make it easy to capture and store information before we have really processed it. But once the device has it, the mind may quietly let it go. As soon as we come across an interesting…

China’s Chang’e-7 lunar probe sitting atop its Long March-5 Y14 carrier rocket has been rolled back to the assembly and test building at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan.…

First, a PSA: Do NOT use Omarchy if you care about security of your machine even a little bit . You can't polish a turd Omarchy 4.0 shipped with a collection of security issues which I can only…