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   Never try to open a flower. You might ruin it. But you knew that. Let sun and rain have their way with every petal. Be patient and watch. The flower I speak of is your soul.…

I'll classify their imagery with an OpenAI model and examine their EXIF metadata.

There is a small genre of data-visualization writing whose whole purpose is to give readers vocabulary for the moves bad-faith presenters make. Nathan Yau's "Defense Against Dishonest…

The AI Pandemic • Samsung Hits $1T • Supreme Court Rejects Apple • Anthropic/SpaceX • AirPods with Cameras • OpenAI's Aim to Own Vocal Computing • Google Gunning for OpenClaw • Anthropic's Colossal…

There's nothing more terrifying than getting a "Hey, quick question. Are we on track to launch by X?". It's not the question itself that's terrifying. It's everything you don't know when you hear it:…

我手中拿著一個名為CPR的鎚子，逢倒地不起失去意識呼吸脈搏的肉身安妮，就開始胸外按壓的高品質敲打。給我OHCA，我要OHCA! 用力敲，快快敲，胸回尻，不停敲。那個斷肢湧血的？壓了！紫舌長吐的？壓了！頭頸分離的？壓了！浮脹滲漿的？壓爆了！紅的壓成黑的，黑的當成紅的，用肚皮與臀部的搖晃跳一場虔誠巫術的復甦之舞，平均值的社會大眾與鏡頭熟悉這份象徵熱血公義不容辭的感性語言，即便被施救者的魂魄已一瀉千里到…

I'm reviewing Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari one page at a time, sometimes four. Today's post marks the end of Chapter 1. An Animal of No Significance. But first, a…

You know Kevin Stitt – the Oklahoma governor who uses his power and influence to steer government contracts, appointments, and state-government goodies to friends, donors, and political allies? Well,…

I saw how NPR had a segment discussing, " The worrisome return of the R-Word, " late last month. It is a good listen and only 14 minutes long. The general idea is how the word, "Retarded," started…

what will ever make us change? diamonds floating in front of our eyes? I doubt it, much too easy does the truth make you queasy? ecstasy, permanent fulfillment living proof that there is no roof a…

Prior to this month, all of my posts this year have been for records that I picked up in 2025. Moving into May, it is nice to finally start writing about records that I've bought this year. I've…

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), one of the two instruments on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has observed renewed gamma-ray activity from a source positionally consistent with the flat-spectrum…

Well… I took another website trip again. I ended up reading declassified CIA files for a while and somehow drifted into learning about hemi-syncing. I still have more to read later. It feels like one…

Hi, long time no see! Got a few (spoiler-free) screenshots of my twins fresh out of the 7.5 update oven! I love the cackle emote way too much. 7.5 gave me so much to be excited for for the next…

Hello, Very Fine People. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. I'm writing today from Chicago, where I was chair for the Society of…

An essay about the past AI-promises-era and how we got here in the first place

Plastic Bags for Paperbacks Update: May 2026 It's nearly been six years since I last posted on plastic bags for storing paperbacks . I thought I would revisit the topic and update on where you can…

I am sitting in my car in front of my grandpa’s. I am writing for the next twenty minutes. My head and body are excited this morning. A hint of stress. Good stress. This morning I drove over in the…

yerin altında bir süre kaldıktan sonra bir daha dünyaya asla aynı gözle bakamazsınız. dünya, anlatılamayacak kadar güzelleşir gözünüzde ama yine de bu güzellik öylesine geçici, öylesine gerçek dışı…

I’ve been covering leather bags and backpacks for so long that I’ve started my own leather bag and backpack company on the side (they’re made from feral hogs, it’s awesome).…

i had previously cluttered my digital environment. i used to have multiple instagram accounts, a website i kept trying to optimize to fit my needs but never really could, countless photos and files,…

Hold still. Mexico City, 2021.

Next up on our reviews of the LEGO Editions Soccer Highlights FIFA sets, we take a look at the Kylian Mbappe – Soccer Highlights (43013). It has 490 pieces and also retails for $29.99 like with…

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Application code is stateless. You can tear down a container and spin up a new one in milliseconds without losing data. Databases are stateful. When you deploy new application logic that requires a…

Binders and binders of the Epstein files have been printed, cataloged and are now displayed at Mriya Gallery on Reade through May 21.

Neoplatonism is a philosophy of intelligible experience. Human beings overflow their experiences through story, art, and social connection. Everything Denethor sees and infers is correct at a certain…

The Plein Air Art Festival takes place in New Bern, May 11 – 17. But on May 12 & 13, the festival comes to Oriental. Plein Air artists set up their easels around town and near the waterfront,…

This month will conclude with debut performances of two full-evening operas. Fortunately, both will be presented on all three days of the weekend, meaning that there will be no difficulty in seeing…

Serial/NYT's recent season from M. Gessen on unforgivable family is solidly constructed and reported. Is that enough?

During this semiquincentennial summer, there are a number of new red, white, and blue products, and one of the most intriguing is this Firecracker Pop Oreo. Designed to mimic a patriotic ice pop, it…

Day 11 of the protocol. First seven-plus-hour sleep in the entire dataset. New HRV ceiling, weight a kilogram and a half down, blood pressure dialed in. Then the morning NAD+ pulse hit harder at half…

Diesel has launched Only Desire, a new floral amber fragrance for women...

Maybe I just haven't had enough coffee yet? But to me... not really. "High Concept" means that it's easy to understand from a nutshell, one-line pitch. These are probably very plot-driven stories,…

Opus 1: The Comedy of Errors In other news, I’m afraid there will be no article next week, as my wife and I do some much-needed springtime home-and-garden work. I’ll see you in two weeks…

Value of things #Philosophy

Back when I learned to drive (in the era of manual transmissions) they taught us to merge into another lane of traffic by safely slowing down and yielding...

Seb Gorka's attack on Europe for not defending what he calls freedom of speech, appearing in a counterterrorism policy that refuses to defend against terrorists whose ideology he shares, is a demand…

I have always wanted to build a personal knowledge graph. Something that connects my Slack conversations, emails, local files, and project context into one searchable, intelligent layer. I tried…

Courtland and Channing have a new app 💰 Plus, all the week's best indie startup news

With thanks to Kim Bastin in Melbourne, who put it in the post. Spring has finally arrived in Stockholm. I mention it only because there's a quality of north European light returning after winter…

You probably already know about this but just in case you don't… Jack Kirby, when he was around twelve years of age, sold newspapers and, at times, fruit in his neighborhood known as "The lower…

I worked with project managers at Micron in Boise. One of the PMs told me that Idaho made three chips: potato, wood, and computer. I suspect that it's tough to get reservations at the few fancy…

1991 Super Mario Bros. store display from Germany.Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source: TheUltiMarioFan

The course of life can change very suddenly, and without warning, context, or expectation. April started positively, with a short trip to the homeland to reset myself in anticipation of my final term…

Dromio S. Master, shall I be porter at the gate? Adriana Ay; and let none enter, lest I break your pate. Beginnings can be funny things. Before the Beatles could commence transforming pop and rock…