Developing A Patients AI Bill of Rights - for hospitals & medical centers
Developing a framework for a Patients' AI Bill of Rights for hospitals and medical centers that patients can understand as a standard of care.
Be someone’s “Gary”
I have no proof that the above story happened, but I have had my own “Gary” experience back in the early 2000s, back when I lived in Toronto. And yes, I’ll name the person and place: Joe Sacco,…
Supergirl Review - A Miserable Time Was Had By All
I love seeing films where your hero mopes around the screen for two hours, face tripping them, don't you? Yes, that's why we tune into hugely positive role-model archetype characters like Superman…
Deploying A Development Postgres 16 Container Using Docker & Docker Compose
Running document containing notes on deploying a development PostgreSQL 16 container using Docker & Docker Compose.
It’s a different menu.
Most days, the girls would eat their lunch at school, like school-lunch, whatever is on their menu. Other days, whatever is on their menu doesn’t sound very enticing, so they...
DIY Espresso Water Formula
I have been a fan of Third Wave Water (TWW) for several years now. Their espresso profile mineral treatment gets me pretty close to the coffee I used to make at the cafe we owned for a few years…
Reconcile
And I made a cool thing in Expense that I find incredibly useful. Once a month comes along and I have my statements, I import the PDFs into Expense and let it reconcile the expenses. It looks up if…
1 Goal to know Me
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. In 4th year of school we had to write…
Aestheticization
The Aestheticization of the Left
The Most Relatable Astronaut
Good luck with the kids while I’m in space, dear!
Actors are Actors
Admittedly, both Sharpee and Chord are still very young and cranky. I continually find seams in both through working with Chord. In my latest set of activities, I started to port my old Textfyre…
Andy Grammer Big Stupid Heart Tour – Oakdale Theater
Sunday I woke up at 2am CST, had a lyft scheduled for 3am CST and started making my way home from banana ball in OKC. (That post to come, but it was easier for me to knock...
Speak Your Brain! Part 132. Fads and crazes of the 1970s & '80s.
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** Image by Tumisu from <a href="https://pixabay.com/?utm_source=link-attribution
Footnote Regarding the GDPR and Cookie Permission Prompts
If you already read my “ What Is the Point of the DMA? ” piece yesterday, this morning I added a lengthy footnote regarding the DMA’s predecessor, the GDPR. Click through to read the entire note, but…
Read Not-so-Recently
To keep myself off my phone, I print articles out (reader view, four-pages-per-sheet, double-sided), fold them twice and stuff them in my pocket for later, then onto my shelf if they were…
From Prometheus Alerts to 500 Job Apps: When My SRE Agent Terrorized LinkedIn
It is a well-established law of homelab physics: if a task can be automated, it will be automated—until it violently consumes your entire digital existence. In our Night-Tower setup, our self-hosted…
Page 3 // Are you sure?
After the talk with his sister, Natalia, Rogério went to bed with a heavy feeling. He couldn't pinpoint exactly what it was; his intuition was screaming at him that maybe twins exist – but it wasn't…
Walking in the desert
A picture of my wife in Morocco
Huge cord cutting guide update (Advisorator)
If you're still clinging to cable or want to save more money on streaming, I've got a guide that can help. Read more › The post Huge cord cutting guide update appeared first on Advisorator.
My Adventures with Superman S3 ★★☆☆☆
The show continues to wear its anime inspirations on its sleeve with The Death of Superman by way of the Cell Saga. It’s a fun and pretty enough blend, though the characters continue to be fairly…
Sonic Project Hero: Rewired ★★☆☆☆
I can see why the expressive and fluid moveset offered really grabbed people and inspired to come back and build on the original tech demo, but unfortunately the rest of the game acts as a good…
We might never stop blogging (I think)
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,…
Vital Highland Broadband Service Closes
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 with M5 Ultra; Mac mini updated with new M6 chips
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…
THE WOOLLY RHINOCEROS: BUILT LIKE A TANK, DRESSED FOR WINTER
Woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatisThe Woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis, was one of the great lumbering herbivores of Pleistocene Eurasia. Its range stretched across northern…
august soft serve
🍦 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…
New shoes for sore ankles
On and off since spring, I’ve woken up with sore ankles. They were particularly sore the past few weeks ago.  I tried treating the symptoms by stretching them out with a foam roller, or…
C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape in the Algorithmic Age
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.
Tuesday 25th August 2026
8664/21583We decided to have a lazy day in for the last day of the holiday. I was the only one who left the house, when I popped out for some milk and bread from the local Post Office.I was glad to…
G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero Pt. 9
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,…
Murders on the Yangtze River - case#6
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:
The Wheel of Time (series)
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…
Not A Bug But A Feature
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…
2 Dogs to Know Me
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…
Journal: 2026/08/25 Tuesday (Punk)
2026/08/25 Tuesday Hundreds of these mysteriously appeared throughout the city overnight... <img src="https://pirahxcx.neocitie
The Death Of The Price Tag
I’ve been telling you for years that data about you is being accumulated and sold by tech companies, data brokers, retailers, law enforcement agencies, telecom carriers, financial…
Prepare to Be Furious! Women of a Promiscuous Nature Will Make You Angry!
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…
M5 Pro and M6 Mac minis
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…
Apple’s New Macs
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.…
25/08/2026
Privileged take - I need to stop following people that are Internet Warriors. I just don't care. There's enough drama everywhere else - I don't need it in my Internet.
Putt-Putt for the fun of it
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...
Why do I Write?
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.
"what aesthetic is this?"
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…
In a World of Machines, What Can I Do But to Serve
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 “way back in the day.” We’re talking about a…
Volkswagen’s 100,000 Job Shock Is Really About Europe’s Industrial Model
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…
Watch and Learn
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…
1572: My Ancestors Were Massacred in Paris
This is the 454th anniversary of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, when the French king and Pope ordered Catholics to slaughter tens of thousands of Protestants (known as Huguenots) in Paris…