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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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 The Macintosh hardware recommendations on this site were already a bit out of date, and today get even further out of date.…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…

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…

First time trying sake - WOW. I'm not a fan of drinking in general, wine and beer especially - the hangover is too much for me. Strong alcohol is better, but still, I usually don't like the taste.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 haven&#8217;t been able to stop thinking about this enamel cuff bracelet since I had the pleasure of seeing it in NYC, so today we&#8217;re going to talk about it. This Victorian enamel cuff…

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&#8230;

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

I listened to two great podcasts this week exploring the tangle of human/AI relationships. In &ldquo;Computer Love,&rdquo; 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…

"Nyzoura's Pendant" is a fun ride.

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.

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.

In a short period of time, I&#8217;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 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 &ldquo;bike shop&rdquo; experience and…