Riots Are Easy. Ballots Are Harder

I recently dropped a comment about how modern tabletop roleplaying game systems don't differentiate between door-opening approaches substantially enough and I implied that I, sexy gaming genius that…

Not too far into Hettie O’Brien’s The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself, it occurred to me that I was reading a familiar story. The financial sector found a…

Fine-tuning Qwen3-0.6B on a Mac so it stops making things up when it summarizes my blog in your browser. What worked, what didn't, and how to do it for your own site.

SortListModel has no watch-items, so a list goes stale when an item's data changes. Have the store report its own changes with items_changed(pos, 1, 1), and every filter and sorter above it keeps…

Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments. Neil Strauss, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships

Warming up for Web Studies in Alessandria, I spent most of the day in Pavia looking at Medieval churches and early modern universities. The back to Alessandria and a lovely dinner at Gallo d’Oro,…

For a Tinderbox demo tomorrow at Università del Piemonte Orientale, I put together this assortment of recent publications that are about Tinderbox and adjacent topics. In case that’s useful to…

vrfy, for those few who don't remember nineties email debugging tools, reports on an email address. I run it occasionally and made a git repo ten years ago, github:arnt/vrfy . Today I converted the…

I recently set up a new desktop and named it rotanev. Let's see why... Skies of Arcadia shows up in this journal a couple times already in artifacts and music in games. This entry makes three. If you…

This week, when your brand is not for everyone (especially Zuckerberg), and that's a good thing.

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A volatile, three-game week meant just about everybody dropped points as desperation time nears

Generating almost lifelike audio from plain text is possible with Gemini text to speech models like the Gemini 3.8 TTS model . Instead of relying on robotic, monotonous voices for your applications…

“We are transitioning from an era of proof scarcity to proof abundance. For thousands of years proofs were hard and… it required understanding and expertise and a bit of luck and talking…

Just edited a Wikipedia page on the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to add a number other than 42 (direct link to edit, in case it’s removed). The radio script uses “two the power…

Half a year after this experiment, I keep seeing it play out with founders I’ve spoken with across domains, and the original didn’t say one thing about it. Take away an agent’s goal…

Just received a message from the maintainer of the QtDMM digital multimeter software project to announce that the QtDMM2 v 26.2 has just been released. It’s packed with quite a lot of…

I recently wrote a blog for the Manchester University Press ‘Race, Empire and Resistance’ series, in response to some brilliant questions by readers of Sexual Violence in Racial…

A rant about the state of the interface world

We're back in post-war England. There's less emphasis on austerity, and more on social stirring: people coming back in new patterns who cannot clearly be identified. At least, that's the plot: it…

It turns out the Environment Agency have done a LiDAR scan of England. They provide point clouds with 1 metre lat/lon resolution, showing the measured height of the terrain at each point, across the…

Track Everything You Own With HomeCenter When was the last time you changed your furnace filter? When does the warranty on your fridge run out? If answering either one means digging through a junk…

So yes, I have been studying medicine for 3 weeks now. 《黃帝內經》, a text considered the origin of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) (it’s not. it’s a compilation of curing techniques popular at the…

Install Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on an old 2015 MacBook Pro with this step-by-step guide, covering bootable USB creation, installation, and troubleshooting.To read full article, please click here

Streaks, Streaks Workout and Hexiled all now support iPhone Duo. Here's what changed in each app, from moving controls into the new vertical bar to a seated mode that splits the screen across the…

A classic xkcd comic. ([source](https://xkcd.com/386/)) A while ago, someone was wrong on the Internet, and I couldn’t let it go1. 😄 A LinkedIn post asked whether small PRs are only…

It is a challenge to get smaller types made in 400 scale by the mainstream diecast brands and even more […] The post British Midland Commuter | Saab 340B | G-GNTI | JC Wings first appeared on…

Often Andy Unedited gets spam replies to my posts. These are easy to spot, and I delete them before they are published. But this month I began getting my first AI generated replies. In the past…

Anchoring (also called focalism) is a cognitive bias in which we become inordinately influenced by initial information (considered to be the “anchor”). Once we accept the anchor, all future…

nikitonsky: What are you? A slider? Radiobuttons? Switch/toggle? Thanks esp for the picture #Slider #Radiobutton #Switch #Toggle #Settings #Preferences #SendGrid

Why crawl back when shit happens? Why blame others for the things that didn’t work out? Some things are just hard to understand — too complex to comprehend. Relationships are complex.…

October 20, 2026 Meta is now charging to post links. Business and creator accounts get two free links a month. After that, they need a paid Meta One subscription , with tiers that run up to $499 a…

This week, Netflix announced substantial layoffs. Moreover, content chief Bela Bajaria and film head Dan Lin have been pushed out this week too. What's wrong at Netflix? According to the Wall Street…

Which companies build both their own model and their own harness for it. USA Anthropic — Claude Codehttps://code.claude.com/docs/en/overviewhttps://claude.com/pricingOne of the best-known tandems:…

As a rule, I don’t include students – PhD or other, working with me or not – on my social media network. Sorry – it’s nothing personal. I fear this can escalate to…

Homemade bread looks quite different than bread from a package. Take your average loaf of Wonderbread. It’s going to look the same no matter if you buy it in Pennsylvania,...

Hexagon is a new preprint-style repository focused on research in mathematics and theoretical computer science. It launched in public beta around late September 2026 and…

It's not AI that will destroy mankind, it's capitalism's insatiable greed. It's the billionaire class that always wants more.

In this month's blog status update, I note I've shuttered my Instagram page; also, I look at Instagram alternatives. The post Blog status update (October 2026): The Instagram page is shuttered…

My wife and I were driving past CN's Symington Yard, en route to bird watching somewhere, when I spotted a Bessemer & Lake Erie locomotive on the loop track adjacent to Lagimodiere Boulevard.

Hey folks! Welcome back to another appointment with my Unpublished series! Did I say thank you for all your support already? I mean, you’re all awesome and I value the time you dedicate to…

Harley-Davidson (click to enlarge) Here are some recent random photos I made of subjects that simply caught my eye. Photos seem to be everywhere if you are sensitive to your surroundings. <a…

Three walks and a Civil Partnership Party in Brum. Two visits to Winchester for tech support and dinner with Aunty A. Admin on Tuesday morning, plus MCS quality audit for the ASHP and CW dropping by…

Games and temporary worlds

There's a huge bias towards talking about people who were very notable or "successful" when young. So here are some interesting people who came through a little late.Kevin KellyI always admired Kevin…

so if the PQ-led Quebec government can shirk its constitutional obligations under the pretext Quebec never ratified patriation of the Constitution in 82, i should be able to refuse any of my…

Join over 900k others (goal is 1m!) in signing Open Doors Canada’s Arise Africa petition for the United Nations by November 2nd Hi friends, I hope the title of this blog/newsletter grabbed your…

Jim Rohn reckoned you're the average of the five people you spend most time with. Mine are my wife, three sons and a motivational speaker on YouTube. On learning by proximity, and why a chair is…