Yesterday, I published my first piece of fiction writing in nearly 30 years. It feels silly to say that, but then that’s part of the reason I’ve done it. For as long as I can remember, I…

Critics respond to the latest adaptation of the iconic video game franchise.

Recent federal court decisions have apparently helped the VOA and Radio Free Asia Chinese language websites make a slow, gradual comeback. Albeit not all the way back yet. How far they come back will…

I've been really eager to listen to this album from the moment I saw this fantastic front cover: a step further than just encouraging your fans to play MTG during your live show is to adopt the…

A productivity suite that willfully rejects common notions on how such software should behave, on an operating system most haven't heard of, running on a processor 30 years ahead of its time.

The most human thing about us has always been our urge to build sanctuaries. Now coders, neuroscientists, and AI are helping us build them inside the machine — and the results are stranger and more…

The H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center at Shippensburg University is pleased to announce four newly added performances—Brit Floyd, Graham Nash, Sesame Street Live: Elmo’s Got the Moves and The Rock…

There were 42 principal masonry forts and dozens of smaller batteries built as part of the U.S. “Third System” of coastal defense between 1816 and 1867 to protect major harbors. You know…

How about this great assemblage of nine Italian torpedo boats passing the Ponte Girevole in Taranto between the Mar Grande and Mar Piccolo in the spring of 1960? Leading the parade is the 130-ton,…

In the Newsletter this weekAnalysis: EU rail ticketing reform proposal is out next week: this is what to look out forBullshit Meter, retrospective: Berlin-Warszawa with FlixtrainGood week: Record PKP…

L et's begin the week at The Twilight Zone Vortex , where Jordan watches the comedy episode " From Agnes–With Love " so we don't have to. It's prime, and sad, evidence of the show's dramatic decline…

An old gorilla looks back through scratched glass, and the human animal briefly loses its alibi.

Almost every modern web application will need a REST API for the frontend to communicate with, and in almost every scenario, that frontend is going to expect to work with JSON data. As a result, the…

All’s Well That Ends Well, by William Shakespeare, published 1623, play, 89 pages. It’s based on a story from The Decameron and is one of Shakespeare’s comedies, so I probably don’t need to elaborate…

How we moved a Kubernetes-hosted product from a development setup to a platform with controlled delivery, policy checks, observability, and tested recovery.

Claude for Microsoft 365 embeds AI into Office apps to connect email, docs, models, and presentations with query-aware workflows and enterprise governance.

Jet Lag The Game - Taiwan 2026, Adam Chase, Ben Doyle, Sam Denby My rating: Loved it! This season was amazing! One of my favorites so far. The game mode is great (and would only ever work in Taiwan’s…

Before you get too excited, NO, I’m not giving away any financial advice. However, whatever the global markets are doing right now doesn’t match the physical reality of the Iran war.…

[1962] Before the British Invasion, there was an even more modern invasion from the British Isles, Telstar rocketed up the charts everywhere. I feel like Joe Meek must have gone "I really like the…

Before we get into this issue, I thought I'd just let you know that Scott has launched a free Mindful Design Toolkit , packed with good stuff for you. Polypane snippets store Polypane is already the…

Companies like Anthropic have one advantage in the world of SaaS. They're developing a product that serves their own Industry sector. This is a very rare situation and it's why most SaaS products…

One of the fascinating threads in “The Last Dance” documentary is the set of changes that took the Chicago Bulls from being a top-two team in the Eastern Conference to arguably the…

Perhaps one of the best Apple Intelligence decisions I've ever heard, the company announced this week that users will be able to swap Apple's AI model to a rival's to control the new AI system. That…

Doctorow Provides a Solid Record of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict Initiated by Washington’s Neoconservatives Paul Craig Roberts The publication of my […]

We’ve made it to another Friday and it’s time to celebrate! In today’s post you’ll find out the top 3 sapphic books with the most clicks this week. Maude Winters is our 5…

High School Hallway by Matt Dempsey CC BY-SA "You don't know what you're consuming!*" It's a loose translation of what my grandmother used to say to me when I refused to eat something 'exotic' (in my…

Putin’s Never-Ending, Ever-Widening War Is Widening Out of Control Russia is paying a high price for Putin’s strategic blunder.…

Hyperlink Havoc is basically the classic link dump you’ve probably seen on other people’s pages — only this one is curated by me, filled with things I’ve read and found interesting or resonant in…

a week spent trying to manage my anger and grief. i have therapy soon at least, but it always feels like something new is uncovered. reading a tree grows in brooklyn hasn’t helped, either. anyway,…

We have these beautiful poppies opening in the front garden at the moment. I love poppies - so glad these ones have come up.190 words · 4 more images

One of the most revealing leadership lines I’ve read in a long time came from Robert Caro, now 90, still writing the final volume of his Lyndon Johnson biography. The post Note #37: Strategic…

The writing is not on the wall anymore, it is in print. Anthropic published something this week that deserves more attention than it is getting. Not a press release. Not a marketing document. An…

Your regular reminder that shitting on OSS on social media is a selfish thing to do. Good job sapping volunteer maintainers' motivation in exchange for your "internet points". Next time: try rolling…

Loosening the setscrew didn't release the thimble

I still have no idea what I want this site to be, but at the minute, I don't overly care.

Writing to you from a feverish state, but saw Peige’s monthly reflection over on Pretend Typewriter and was inspired to look back on the month of April. Yes, I know it’s May 8. + The first couple of…

As part of my birthday present earlier this year, Fern got me a half day cooking course for Outdoor Dirty Cooking and smoking workshop from Howl Bushcraft, which took place a couple of Sundays ago.…

I ran across a reference to Moore’s Law the other day. This was named after Gordon Moore, an engineer who later became one of the founders of Intel. In 1965, Moore observed that the number of…

Dune: Imperium BoardGameGeek rank: 6 rating: 8.4 published: 2020 designer: Paul Dennen Print Status in print Why It's On The List <span st

Every now and then, we like a Chardonnay with that rich, buttery flavor produced by malolactic fermentation. You can spend almost as much as you want on wine, but we wondered whether you really need…

C’è una specie di convitato di pietra, nel dibattito furibondo sul caso di Delitto di Garlasco, ed è curioso che quasi nessuno sembri volerlo nominare apertamente. Il confronto pubblico procede ormai…

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If you think your CTO is losing the fight on AI, get them to read this one. The CTO’s Incoming Storms Let me name the six conversations I’m watching land on CTOs right now, and the stance I’d want…

The average cost of a gallon of regular unleaded is now about $4.50 &#8211; so up about 30 cents per gallon since the last War Tax Report, which was published on April 28 &#8211; about one week ago.…

TGIF! Here is this week's mix. Enjoy!Songs to check out:01. Antigravity by Metric02. Little Death by past self03. Dopamine by Robyn04. A Step Ahead by Misty Mountain05. Underground by 2DCat06. The…

Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips,…

As a software engineer, I almost don’t code anymore, but I instruct AI to do so on my behalf. And while I am at it, and I don’t necessarily need to share a lot of of myself in the descriptions I also…

Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 just wrapped with a finale that earned its ending and a run that never once asked you to care about the multiverse. In a franchise that turned every streaming show into…

The traditional BLCKDGRD Bigass Holy Day Pynchon's Birthday post, he is 80 today: I wouldn't be me without his novels, especially Gravity's Rainbow , Mason & Dixon , and double especially Against the…