strongest
Pasted up on the base of a light pole, framed by silver steel, is this hand painted flower. Quick and dirty, alive with the rush of creation. The magenta center dot is the only thing that feels considered. The rest is all organic and emotion. The sticker addition is also quite respectful. It’s not...
fb1066
The floating spirit is looking over your shoulders and feels what you feel and more intimately than love.
prasangika-matters
Unknown
See here and here for the rest of the thread.the thing is all state AGs have to do to deep-six this merger is delay it until OpenAI can't pay Oracle, Oracle's stock dives, Larry's collateral goes poof, etc.[image or embed]— Christopher Mims (@mims.bsky.social) July 20, 2026 at 11:09...
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
Three weeks from today, my onground classes start at Spartanburg Methodist College; it will be both similar and different for me. It will be my 3rd year of full-time work at the college, after 1 year of adjunct work, but the beginning of the tenure track for me. I'll write more about that in a...
jesusrrodriguez
La Ilustración Oscura no ataca la democracia con un puño, la ataca con una hoja de cálculo. El rey vuelve a la escena, pero con traje de director ejecutivo.
george tannenbaum
I finished late last night during another losing battle with Dame Insomnia, Andrew Ross Sorkin's great book you-should-drop-everything and read, "1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation." You can order it here for $12.52, with free shipping.If you...
Ralph Boumenot
not last nightAfter dinner when I checked this it was still tacky. Got the 2nd (and final) coat on it this AM. I tried to sand it with 320 grit and that didn't go well. It wasn't tacky to the touch but the sandpaper grabbed and stuttered like it was. I'll have to let this set up for while...
trE
requested a referral toan orthopedic specialist,left knee reigns with pain, ruler of my everyday routine…I am changing, and it hurts.
Dave Hook
The Short: I just read The Big Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow editor, 2025 Open Road Integrated Media (a re-issue of the 2008 Del Rey/Ballantine The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy). It’s an original anthology. The title is somewhat of a misnomer, as I believe it...
Neil Pasricha
It happened late last night. Cruising down the highway, heading home from the airport, my friend Shiv absentmindedly rifled through my passenger side door full of old computer-printed directions, parking stubs, and cracked jewel cases. “What’s this?”, she asked, popping open a flimsy case and...
Aaron Pham
study route The default route is fourteen days at three focused hours per day. It yields forty-two scheduled hours with 45% assigned to PyTorch model construction and mechanism repair. The baseline can compress this to seven days. Each day names a primary implementation block that fits inside...
Abhijit Bhaduri
A sales leader spotted weak signals of disruption months before his leader took him seriously, and by then it was too late. This is a REAL story about why leaders need to trust the weak signals their frontline teams bring them, before those signals turn into a crisis.
adammiceli
hey :) I just wanted to remind you quickly about how important it is to pay attention to the ENERGY in which you're doing things!! the quality of energy that you're experiencing WHILE completing a task... is just as important (if not even more important) than the actual completion of it! Life is...
jlmc
FAQ Editor
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Victor de la Cruz
It’s been a while since I took a trip down nostalgia lane. We tend to do that a lot over here at 3rd World Geeks. This time around, I’d like to take you back in time when I got my second gaming console, the Nintendo Family Computer. Yeah, the Family Computer, or Famicom for short, wasn’t the first...
Zack M. Davis
When I started An Algorithmic Lucidity back in 2011 when I didn't know anything about computers, I used WordPress—briefly on wordpress.com, but then on my own site on Namecheap's true-to-its-brandname shared hosting service. Even early on, the technical limitations of WordPress were chafing. In...
Brian McQuay
Point an LLM at your database and tell it to respect tenant boundaries, and you've swapped a deterministic security control for a probabilistic one. Here's why data isolation has to be enforced structurally—through database-level or API-level controls—and never left to the model.
Erik L. Arneson
The majority of search engine optimization (SEO) experts continue to say that original content is the most impactful in moving your website up in search engine rankings.1 For years, writing for SEO has involved artificially jamming as many search keywords as possible into web copy, creating some...
Annie Vella
This is the second post in a series I’m writing about the most interesting findings from my Masters research on the impact of AI on software engineering, as well as some of the thoughts I’ve had since. This one is about how AI made engineers feel more productive, and why that productivity might be...
Chris Weigant
What was expected to be a free-for-all contest among Maine Democrats instead turned into a coronation this weekend. After Graham Platner ended his campaign to take on Senator Susan Collins in November, Maine's Democratic Party only had a couple of weeks to name a replacement to appear on the...
Feuerfest
A little while ago Kevin mentioned he saw the Edge4Go OPNsense hardware from Thomas Krenn at a Linux convention. And yeah, it looked nice. The specs are really nice compared to the price. Especially the Intel Celeron which beats most China-hardware sold on Amazon. The problem? Thomas Krenn only...
CLM
Eve Travis has always admired Jeff Kilburn and is worried that his heart is broken when her cousin Moya dumps him for a British peer. After the wedding, she impulsively offers to marry him instead so he is not alone and vulnerable when he leaves for a business trip to South America. Jeff is...
940707
16:47ive got nothing of urgency to say so perhaps ill do a little blog its july and i have a decent tan got a haircut a few days ago and my tanline looks bad on my neck hairline i love the sun.. without sunscreen my diet this year has been pretty consistent eggs, sardines, evoo, mixed nuts 2-6...
Jack
I’ve noticed something about living with CPTSD that I never expected. When something good happens, or we accomplish something we’re proud of, it isn’t always followed by a celebration. Instead, it can be followed by an emotional crash. It’s as though doing something positive comes with the...
Nige
Just for the record – I recently wrote a piece on Ivy Compton-Burnett for Engelsberg Ideas.Here's a link...https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/ivy-compton-burnetts-forgotten-genius/
abhi-writes
I started learning martial arts toward the end of high school. Looking back, it was driven by two things: self-defense, and a desperate need to channel my internal energy into something structured. Before that, I used to beat up kids at school. I wasn't a bully. But if someone tried to play tricks...
Aaron Parecki
Hi all, I owe the working group a review of the "OAuth Profile for Open Public Clients", and apologies for sending this so late after the last IETF meeting, and the night before this IETF meeting. Please note that I have not followed all of the discussion about this draft on the mailing list or...
Doug Muder
You may think the camps are for someone else. DHS has already floated “100 million deportations” as a real number. Only 47 million people living in America were born somewhere else. Hitting 100 million means coming for citizens too, native-born and naturalized alike. "These concentration camps...
turbodb
Our tent is old. That's a good thing, I think. We've had it since we started this whole adventure thing, now almost exactly a decade ago. It's performed well during that time, and though I've often lusted after something GFC-ish, I can't say that the tent has ever let us down in any way that a...
djrivard
Your attention span isn't broken; it's operating on specifications you never agreed to. Why 47 seconds might be exactly enough time to reclaim your presence.
after
This old crone got bitten by the PKM bug and almost went into a heady fevered state of trying out all those wonderfully structured digital brain. I'm so grateful for my partner who laughed when she looked at the rabbit hole I was in. Broke my shiny new thing crazy right there. Because as I was...
afarshadblog
I am still baffled by the number of people who want to become influencers and share their "life" with 8 billion people on Instagram. You might think I am also sharing my life on this blog, writing my views and exposing my incredible soul to the world. While you might be right with my inclination...
Alex Berger
I find myself sitting here digesting a surreal moment. Somehow, like sands carried by a rushing river, moments have swept into minutes, days, months, weeks, years and now a decade and a half. On July 19, 2011 I held back tears of joy and sadness as I gave my folks a big hug, turned and boarded my...
lunarhades
The beginning of a (hopefully long running) series, where I take a look at one of gaming's deepest worlds, through the lens of a character we are playing as
adikel
IntroductionWhat is Roundcube? Roundcube is a free, open-source, browser-based email client that lets you access, send, and organise your emails from any web browser. How does it work?Roundcube operates as an IMAP client. This means it connects directly to your mail server to read and manage...
Jeff
It’s championship or bust for Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton — not only in softball, but for all but one of its sports teams, period. The Spartans are a 1-seed playing in Fort Dodge today at noon. Seven hours later, in Audubon, the Audubon school board is scheduled to meet and approve athletics sharing...
prasangika-matters
rhomexblak
Before I Can Fill It, I Need to Know What You’re Asking There’s a form I encountered recently that had twelve fields. No labels. Just placeholder text inside each input that disappeared the moment you started typing. If you forgot what a field was asking for, you had to delete…
Inspired by design leader Hardik Pandya’s Stuff I Use, I dug through some old folders to find photos of my past workspaces. Each one touches on a unique chapter of my adult life. As Hardik says, “It’s fun to share things you use.” Here are my workspaces across the past 15 years. After graduating...
jnml
The last few posts here have been about pieces of a toolchain without saying what they were for. egg, the LL(1) parser generator. The flat AST and the ergonomics of walking one when you have decided that allocation is the enemy. And underneath both, ccgo, which turns C into Go. This post is what...
Adam Rowe
I'm still not entirely sure if Wojtek Siudmak is intentionally making a "wormhole" visual pun with his 1985 cover to a French-language edition of Jack Vance's The Blue World.On one hand, English isn't his first language. On the other hand... just look at it.Via LookcaitlinIt inspired this post...
Timothy S. Brannan
The Satanic Panic and the Secret Appeal of Forbidden BooksI am currently reading Manly Wade Wellman for my Witches of Appendix N. He has a lot of occult investigators and talks a lot about dangerous occult texts. There is a strange magic to being told a book is dangerous.Not real magic. Not the...
the-quiet-journal
Sean Kleefeld
We're in the back half of July, which means that we'll inevitably start seeing some people making note of the anniversary of the Fantastic Four (and therefore Marvel Comics in general) on August 8th. Supposedly, this is because many people claim August 8, 1961 as THE day that Fantastic Four #1...
beyondborders
Your environment shapes how you feel every single day more than most people realize. Small, thoughtful changes to your surroundings can quietly support better mood, energy, and well-being, making healthy days feel more natural and satisfying.
jimmy
Books take forever and the waiting is *not* the hardest part. – Just for fun, Audrey Vernick and I started writing together about 10 years ago — we bonded over our love of James Marshall’s “George and Martha” books. We worked on and off and, though we finished more than a dozen stories, never...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; We were all afraid of Mr. Turner. He was the principal at Meadowfield Elementary in Columbia, SC, and, it was rumored, he had a wooden paddle in his office with "holes drilled in it" so he could swing it faster. Even as an...
Adam Cooper
I've written before about running GitHub Copilot coding assistant with local models on Windows and Linux. Autonomous agents let us take a step up from working on a task in collaboration with an agent to allowing one or more agents to collaborate on tasks while you do something else. We can use...