Suggestions for reasons behind the order of the prayers and praises of the final canonical Psalter are legion. While there is much to be gleaned from consideration of various views, is there one that…

There’s a thing I find amazing about music that you can demonstrate with a pair of musicians who are about equally popular but have completely different sets of fans. For example, let’s…

Over the past few weeks, I’ve received a serious flood of similar email messages that claim to be from well-known businesses like Harbor Freight, CVS, Kroger, Marriot, Costco, FedEx, Walmart, and…

For nearly three decades, much of the modern world behaved as though the nuclear age had quietly expired sometime in the early 1990s. The collapse of the Soviet Union created the comforting illusion…

Introduction Hopefully you've already read Part 1: Fears, Opinions, and Mental Journey so you understand how I ended up with this mindset and approach. Or maybe you saw how long it was and just…

I tried OmniVoice this afternoon because I saw a post on r/LocalLLaMA and got curious. It's a zero-shot voice cloning TTS model that claims 600+ languages. I recorded two short voice memos on my…

MicroStimuli argues that human decisions are made in milliseconds by non-conscious processes. The entire tradition of trying to change behavior through awareness, information, and rational persuasion…

I will give my first public astronomy talk at TU Chemnitz's Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften on May 9th, 2026 — a journey from comets and auroras to distant galaxies — alongside the Astro Stammtisch…

Via Flowing Data , The Public Domain Review on “The Polish System,” a grid system for visualizing a century’s worth of history : The Polish System — which almost anticipates Piet Mondrian’s abstract…

I ran across this article written by Bob Metcalfe in 1991 about 3Com’s losing bets against Novell. This contained an important fact in our research about Ethernet development in the 1980s. To…

Eschatology and MarxismOne of the most interesting things about The Communist Manifesto is the literary genre into which it falls. Unlike the other works of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, it is…

Tiffany Aching is continuing her training as a witch under the fearsome Miss Treason, though Granny Weatherwax is still keeping watch from afar. Tiffany makes an unfortunate choice during a winter…

What has the church forgotten that moved and energized Abraham Moses David Paul and the great men and women of the Bible? The answer is closer than you think…

The modern church has reduced the Bible to little more than a self-help book—but nothing could be further from the truth. David understood this and mapped it out for us—even more, Paul understood…

Isaiah Rashad “M.O.M.” Have you ever eaten something familiar – a sandwich, a pasta dish, a salad – but there was some ingredient that popped more than usual? Like you’ve tasted a lot of…

I keep quoting him, but here’s another Cal Newport podcast that I can’t stop thinking about: Why do better tools make me worse at my job?. To save you a long listen: when you think about the theory…

Sir Hector Macdonald was an unusual soldier in the British Army in the late 19th and very early 20th century. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Omdurman, being more competent than the…

Once the baords have been added I primed each section with tan hobby paint. Once the paint was dry I added the trim around the windows and doors. See previous

In a previous post, I mentioned that my first AI project was to develop an application to create a archive of US newspapers based on RSS feeds. I initially used Claude Code to review a list of US…

Hago mucho eso de asociar objetos a personas (creo que algo común para todos ¿no?), siempre que veo tal objeto que pertenece o pertenecía a alguien, inmediatamente me acuerdo de él. Estuve pensando…

The weekly ramble this time is about Blur's one album as a trio.

I’m doing a very limited number of events to promote the release of my new book Don’t Call It Art. Monday, June 1 in Austin, Texas: BookPeople event at First Baptist Church of Austin, 6PM. Ticketed…

How Life Uses Atoms As we learned from Part 2 of this series, the ingredients for life are all around us. Some atoms, like nitrogen and oxygen, are abundant, so it comes as no surprise that living…

Introduction This post will be tough to write. There's a lot of discourse and arguing about AI everywhere you look. I've read it all. I don't want to get caught up in arguments, get misinterpreted,…

[2026-05-08 Fri]: Transcript, yay! I chatted with Shae Erisson about Emacs, keyboards, Org Mode, and life. View it via the Internet Archive, watch/comment on YouTube, read the transcript online,…

The Hot Zone is one of those books that gets under your skin. Richard Preston doesn't soften anything. He describes what the virus actually does to a person. The hemorrhaging. The organ liquefaction.…

As you read you start feeling this accumulation of dread because you see the pattern repeating. Failures. Near-misses.

The Commerce Commission will investigate deregulating PSTN interconnection. Ventia plan to grow beyond telecoms with datacentre builds. One NZ builds 29 new cell sites

The legendary Molly Stark was married to a Revolutionary War general whose truncated quote gave rise to a state motto. tag front Her furniture inspired a whole collection; this tag for the inspired…

ZenLake OS 26.04 is now available based on Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute Raccoon). ZenLake is a remix of Debian/Ubuntu LTS with GNOME desktop that is configured to be user-friendly. It is minimal and…

vLLM has very slow time to first token (TTFT). On AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 it can take even 10 minutes depending on exact settings and model size. To make my user experience of using those things myself…

A month or so after returning from our Norwegian adventure, and its heavy seas, I realised that I hadn't written much about Ambience , the cruise ship we sailed on, or the cruise line, Ambassador,…

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Mad Cave Studios Brings A Powerful New Anthology Amplifying Indigenous Voices, Storytelling, and Advocacy, Rooted in Direct Support for Native-Led Organizations A powerful new anthology brings…

Updated coords page majorly.

Just for a little while, under the sunny breeze, I want to crawl back to earth, To the warmth of the decomposing leaves; I want to be buried in the comforting brown, And fall asleep to the endless…

What Railway History Can Teach Us About the Current Bubble

With the exception of my pre-internet elementary school days, I've never been an avid reader. Not that I didn't read at all, but it never was a "real hobby", let alone a habit. 2 years ago, something…

Band:Jungle Rot Country:USA Genre:Death Metal Year:2026 Buy the original! Download

How I used Symphony, OpenClaw, Codex, a home server, Telegram Web QA, and a Windows GPU worker to revive Voicy as an agent-driven maintenance loop.

Omarchy is an amazing distro for “computer dads” like me, and if you’re a computer dad, I’d highly recommend giving Omarchy a try. What, you might be wondering, is a computer dad? A computer dad is a…

In the defense of deceased authors, whose name and works are used to support postmodern ideologies. Introduction Recently, I was listening to an interview given by Hermione Lee in 2014, in which she…

Band:Darkthrone Country:Norway Genre:Black/Doom/Heavy/Speed Metal Year:2026 Buy the original! Download

Overdose deaths, homicides, and traffic fatalities are falling sharply, suggesting America may be seeing one of its most important public-health reversals in years.

The 95 GeV bump is suspiciously close to the mass of the Z boson plus the mass of the b-quark. The 152 GeV bump is close to the mass of two W bosons reduced by the mass of two b-quarks. The…

7OOP3D Live! 20 Year Mixterversary 20 Years. Countless Remixes. We’re celebrating 7OOP3D’s two-decade legacy on ccMixter with a remix party centered around their upcoming EP, Broken Rites . <br…

Okay, I've been meaning to talk about books and games and things I've been into for ages and I keep putting it off. If I can keep up with it better I'll try to go a bit more in depth with my…

GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it might be self-inflicted.

I’m going on tour next month (Portland and SF) and then a bunch of other places around the world in the early fall. Come see me talking Stoicism—grab tickets here. I hated writing essays in high…