America 250: The Essential Paintings of Our Nation
Next week, on July 4, the US celebrates its 250th anniversary. As one might expect of a diverse nation, there is a pluriverse of celebrations. Multiple shows (some listed here) focus on the…
Precedential No. 4: TTAB Affirms Refusal of WEMBY for Athletic Apparel - False Connection with and Lack of Consent from the real Wemby
The Board upheld a refusal to register the proposed mark WEMBY for "athletic apparel, namely, shirts, pants, jackets, footwear, hats and caps, athletic uniforms," finding that the mark falsely…
Adored Image
A profile of the British artist Celia Paul. Much of Paul’s art portrays her mother and sisters in intense, focused images that offer little other than the subject. They seem to reflect Paul’s…
Notes #72: The Organization That Was Always About to Become Itself
Henry James wrote a story about a man who ruined his life without ever making a single mistake. From his earliest years, the man was certain that something rare and momentous was waiting for him.…
Two Roads Diverged
By Aimee Raleigh, Principal at Atlas Venture, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC In most companies I am fortunate to be a part of, there is a strong relationship between investors…
What Game of Thrones Taught Me About Fear
It’s 4am and I’m sitting in bed, blood-stained and battle worn after another (five? six? seven?) mosquito night. I never did buy those magnetic screens and the mosquitoes noticed. With this streak of…
Tuesday poem #691 : Keep in Touch : Elena Zhang
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The Same Paper: On Love, Control & the Limits of the Outside View
I once said, in a public argument about a book that advocated for divorce, that if I found my wife reading it we would have a conversation about it. My wife is a surgeon and the family breadwinner;…
High-Visibility Low-Visibility
I’ve mentioned before that our work is usually invisible in completed projects. With a few exceptions you generally can’t even see the portions of a project building that were our…
What We Don’t Talk About: Essential Tips for Writing Dialogue
Often, the emotion is found under, behind, and between the words, not in the words themselves By Dinty W. Moore Here is something entirely true: people are fascinated by the way other people speak,…
new partnership with KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology) on digital research and technological cultures
We have set up a new partnership with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) to develop research collaborations and exchanges, with an initial focus on digital methods,…
Brighter
When she smiles The day’s a little better
Audio Test
Testing how Claude Cowork can help me create a music player element in Hugo, so I can share my music experiments on this blog.
Grab shots
Can you guess what this is? Give up? Riding through the car wash! (click to enlarge) Lucky for you I've had no profound thoughts lately so I thought I would post a few lighthearted ’grabshots’ I made…
Art Fight 2026 Cover
I'm prepared for Art Fight (I think)!!! I finished this cover two days ago (28th) but I was too tired to upload it, travelling is tiring! (28 Jun 2026)Open album
Priests.
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day eight - the circumnavigator and the boat builder
Up at 5:30. Sleeping gear stowed, boom tent tucked away. Third customer of the day at The Bean, a cranberry muffin and a glass of iced tea. Keith drops by for a quick breakfast. He says a small…
Writing: Recipe
Start from a slip. Decide what the note does. Title it Phrase: Role . Write in fragments. Shift register. Link related notes. Date revisions. Break the rules. Sometimes. + Slip: Phenomenon
twofer.web.ideas 06-30-26
The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear The Web will not vanish overnight, but the Web as we know it, the open place where people search, click, read, browse, publish, and discover, is already being…
SPEED SPEED SPEED
I have a song in this new Amiga diskmag, Speed #77 by Nah-Kolor. It’s happy summer chip style, just the way we like it (while the world is burning). This title screen pixeled by .misha. Nice…
Bunny's Mat Marks Her Spot
Thanks, Laurel and bunny Chloe!
Tuesday 30th June 2026
8613/21532Disappointingly the injections don't seem to be affecting my appetite this time. So I might not lose another 5kg, but I guess that's a small price to pay for it all essentially…
Keep Your Customers
At least make the fonts bigger, dammit.
📝 2026-06-30 11:37: Our 2 hens have finished sitting on the Guinea fowl eggs - out of 10,...
Our 2 hens have finished sitting on the Guinea fowl eggs - out of 10, we managed to hatch 5 of them. The chicken eggs we have in the incubator won't be ready for another week or so. Excited to see…
hardware dresser pt XIV........
dry fitted dividers I applied glue to the underside only. I didn't put any glue on the vertical ends. hmm.....
Its Time for a Time Crystal Update
It's Time for a Time Crystal Update Scientists connect “time crystal” to real device in quantum breakthroughScientists Discover “Levitating” Time Crystals that You Can Hold in Your HandCan Time Flow…
My mental model of React
Like many programmers, I started my career more comfortable on the back end. Unlike many, I now love React. 1 Here are some things I've found myself repeating to colleagues who don't feel comfortable…
Among the Wildflowers at Sunset
Wildflowers are lit by the setting sun at Erwin Park, McKinney, Texas. The post Among the Wildflowers at Sunset appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
TIL: One escape sequence makes my terminal follow my AI agent into a worktree
The thing that made me grin today: I tell Claude Code to “work in a git worktree,” the agent jumps into a fresh checkout, and my Ghostty terminal follows it — new tabs and splits open right inside…
170,927 AI Papers Reveal the Biggest Research Shifts of the First Half of 2026
A deep data analysis of arXiv reveals the defining AI research trends of mid-2026: the agentic boom, Qwen overtaking Llama, and what's fading The post 170,927 AI Papers Reveal the Biggest Research…
Empower Struggling Students to Turn it Around in a Baffling System
This channel is for people who want a world where education gives ALL kids, including outside-the-box learners, the tools to truly write their own scripts in life. Education should empower learners…
The stories behind my Heiresses paperback cover...
I’m delighted to share the beautiful cover for the Heiresses paperback - out in September but available to pre-order now. I thought you might be interested to know a bit about the images we…
Name that Ware, June 2026
The Ware for June 2026 is shown below: This board is from my personal collection of “favorite boards” that I’ve collected over the years. A lot of old memories associated this one…
Moving to El Salvador: A Great New Option for Flexpats, Nomads, and Tropical Retirees
A tropical destination closer to home than Bali or Thailand, cheaper than Panama or Costa Rica, more welcoming than the EU or US, safer than you think, and nobody’s there yet El Salvador. A…
Meditation on This Sunday's Gospel
The readings for Sunday, July 5, 2026: First Reading: Zechariah 9:9-12 First Reading (Semi-cont.): Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67 Psalm: Psalm 145:8-15 (Psalm 145:8-14 NRSV) Psalm (Semi-cont.): Psalm…
The Song in Mr S.'s Head
A further curious case arose, recorded in a now obscure German medical journal in 1898. It seems that a certain Mr S. from the city of Düsseldorf had gone to a physician with a rather atypical…
Some photos to please the dead... or not
I was having these ideas in my head for some days about a subject that I was really excited to write, something about how it was my experience growing up and having my formative years as an…
Updates 2026/Q2
Life and project updates from the current consecutive three-month period. You might find this interesting in case you're using any of my open source tools or you just want to read random things. :-)
Batteries Included
Friends, I recently learned of companies creating new products which include big batteries. The products? An induction cooker, an electric boiler and a heat pump: all items which have not…
Solution, Name that Ware May 2026
The Ware for May 2026 is, in FETguy’s words: “one of many large pc boards of a Rodgers Instrument Co church organ. The core memory was used to store and recall settings of the…
Climbing Limo GDP Forecast for 2026-Q2
The U.S. economy received an upside surprise in the third and final estimate of GDP for the first quarter of 2026. In nominal (not adjusted for inflation) terms, the nation's GDP reached $31.866…
A 5,000-Year-Old Settlement in Western Anatolia Was Destroyed, Rebuilt, and Finally Abandoned After Ancient Earthquakes
A new study of Panaztepe, an Early Bronze Age settlement near modern İzmir in western Türkiye, has revealed one of the earliest and most detailed archaeoseismological records yet documented along the…
Revisiting the Arcades Project
Deep diving into Walter Benjamin’s “Arcades Project”/“Passagen-werk” again after many years and it’s almost like reading an entirely different book. It has always…
Our cars are outgrowing our cities
Now that a car seat lives permanently in the backseat of my car and I have learned how much it compresses the passenger seat in front of it, I have on more than one occasion thought to myself, "I…
Rethinking the Fall: Ancestral Sin Versus Original Sin
In The Slavery of Death I introduce readers to the Orthodox vision of "Ancestral Sin" as opposed to the vision known as "Original Sin." Through the influence of Augustine, especially in his debate…
Taking Roads and Bridges literally
Reflections on UN Open Source Week 2026
Chapter 6 — Building the First Kernel Heap
In Chapter 5, we enabled paging with a simple identity map: That gave us a working paged kernel, but not yet a comfortable way to allocate variable-sized objects. The physical memory manager gives us…
AI Gives You Wings, Be Careful Not to Hit the Roof
That time of the month when I get skeptical about things, this time it landed on AI, the learning phase, and metacognition.
Maui Adventure - Day 6: A Pretty Gecko, an Unwelcome Mongoose, and the Mighty Sea
[Composed 1/6/2026] Pulling into the parking lot at 12:20 for our 12:30 slot, I already felt like the day was a win — because a genuinely tricky part of visiting Waiʻānapanapa State Park isn't the…
How to monitor your CPD points as an optometrist
How to determine if you need to attend more seminars.