Mr. Karswell
One more Chilling Alcazar Adventure into Sorcery for you this month, and it's a gorgeous tale containing verified proof that monsters walk among us! Don't believe me? Just put on these glasses and you will indeed see that --THEY LIVE! From issue #5, via Februrary 1974, and this story also holds an...
Sean Kleefeld
The cover image here is the first variant cover from The Fantastic Four and I think it might be the first variant cover from Marvel. Although it wasn't an intentional one! The story, from 1971, is fairly unremarkable relative to other issues for a good stretch both before and after it. Stan Lee...
prasangika-matters
CLM
Kendal Carter is at a playground on the outskirts of Zurich with her four-year-old, Rosie, when she notices two men in suits lurking nearby who appear very out of place. She is instantly wary, especially because if the men are a threat, they are between her and the apartment where she has a “go...
Tim Carmichael
I was born and raised in Appalachia, and the mountains, valleys, farms, rivers, and hollers that I have known my entire life mean far more than scenery. They are home. They are where generations of families have worked the land, raised their children, helped their neighbors, and held onto the...
Alain Connes
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Anthony Isola
True wealth is owning your time. Outlaying money to save time is the integral ingredient for life satisfaction. Funds spent to avoid unpleasant chores and the like provides a tremendous ROI. Research across four countries confirms the vital role of trading money for time for quality of life...
afarshadblog
"Ceasefire" is by far one of the most meaningless words in the dictionary of the Middle East. Since the alleged ceasefire between Iran and the USA/Israel, the war has not really stopped. While the capital and bigger cities such as Tabriz and Isfahan have not been a target, as they were all bombed...
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
My spouse started his day by pulling a tick out of the back of my knee--we're romantic that way. I was sitting at my desk and felt a weird bump, which I assumed was a new skin growth, which I assumed would mean a trip to the dermatologist when I saw it was black. And then I saw legs on either...
Unknown
If you've been following AI boom skeptics like Ed Zitron, you've heard this a dozen times in more detail and in far less dry language.Over the past year or so, this message has been increasingly making its way into the discourse of mainstream economists and publications like the Financial...
Undine
Via Newspapers.comA ghost that was, you might say, all things to all people was reported in the “Moncton Transcript,” February 1, 1922:London, Jan. 30-Eastbourne is being troubled, or entertained, by a "ghost" mystery.A strange apparition has been seen several times gliding along the Crumbles,...
Andrew Steele
I’m genuinely sorry to hear that Bryan Johnson is unwell. He was recently diagnosed with an autoimmune condition, and it sounds like he’s had it for some time. As ‘The Most Measured Man in Human History’, you’d expect this to have been caught years ago. So how did it slip through the cracks?...
adikel
IntroductionToday we have an exciting TryHackMe challenge that we will go through . It is a XOR encryption based challenge that tests how well you understand XOR cipher and know how to use it to decrypt the encrypted flags. Sounds like a fun challenge! On their website, it is given as an easy...
Perfumeshrine
The tender, sometimes playful associations of violet and iris-powdery references account for the popularity of several sweet florals in the market, especially when coupled with the intensely feminine note of roses producing an almost "makeup" vanity-table effect. Here is an experimental list of...
george tannenbaum
Two things happened yesterday or the day before that not too terribly long ago would have had a profound impact on my life.First WPP, the holding company that's shed more than half its people over the last ten years, has just announced yet another round of "restructuring."It's hard for me, a guy...
Ralph Boumenot
No new project on the horizon but I have one hanging out in the back of the brain bucket. It is a stick chair - I have the patterns for a LAP stick chair. I don't have the stock for it but it is looking like the #1 project. When I was looking for the patterns/plan that I decided to clean up and...
antonyhall
Instagram: @tonazoid Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antony-hall/ Substack: https://substack.com/@antonyhallart Cryptogamic Oracle 2026: An urban eco-technological oracle for noticing moss, infrastructure and more-than-human life:Cryptogamic Oracle Moss WorldsMossWorlds is an...
Florian / Abandoned Kansai
An abandoned upside down house in Japan.
grumpy-welshman
Challenger Tom
Browns Valley Road is an approximately 3.5-mile rural highway corridor located in the Corralitos area of the Santa Cruz Mountains. This short corridor begins at Eureka Canyon Road in Corralitos and extends northeast to Hazel Dell Road. Browns Valley Road is historically significant as it was the...
Murat
Moving is not for the faint of heart! The surgeon general should issue a warning against moving houses after age 50. Coordinating our cross-country move was one of the hardest thing I had done. Selling our house in Buffalo, finding a suitable rental house in the Bay Area, figuring out the...
<span class='p-author h-card'>Andrew Doran</span>
The latest heatwave has weighed heavily on everyone here. It is just too hot. All of my time seems to be spent working, watching World Cup football, or lying on my bed without any covering, hoping that I will be able to sleep. On Thursday I met one of my neighbours on the train and he offered...
Cassim
Another solid week spent trying to get my money's worth out of my Claude Max subscription.The nice thing with Fable is that it's fast, and it lets you really ship on anything dev related. Sadly not for bug bounty yet.This week a product I've been waiting on for a couple of years finally came out,...
Christian Arzu
I'm doing a weekly coaching session with Protesilaos and we're learning vanilla Emacs from scratch, here's the keymaps learned in the second lesson
dignitybydesign
Marcus Hammarberg
AI is arguably one of the biggest paradigm shifts in the digital product development industry ever. Even if it stopped right now with Fable 5, we still would have changed so much that the before feel like a distant past. Writing the code by hand? Please... A discussion with a friend, that works...
MPorcius
What now? What did the forces want her to do next? Leave the house, try to get away in the darkness? No. The murderer was out there, watching, waiting; he would see her if she tried to leave, and she couldn't outrun a man through the snow. Hide? No. There wasn't anywhere to hide that she...
Adam Achrati
This past Saturday July 11th I took a ferry trip from Provincetown to Boston on one of the few services still running during the Tall Ships Parade in Boston Harbor. The ferry followed the Portuguese Sagres into the harbor and saw a few dozen ships docked and a few thousand people watching from the...
Alexandre ZANNI
InformationRoom#Name: CheckmateProfile: tryhackme.comDifficulty: EasyDescription: Exploit weak password practices across Marco’s internal systems to achieve full compromise.Write-upOverview#Install tools used in this WU on BlackArch Linux:sudo pacman -S legba cewl cupp john ruby var ctx =...
robinadventures
Hiya! We’re just a few days away from the opening of Christopher Nolan‘s latest “epic” film, The Odyssey. I guess I’ve been living under a rock because, although I have been anticipating this movie, I didn’t really know anything about the controversy revolving around it. Then again, that’s...
Andreas Fertig
I published a new C++ insights episode: New, better, lambda visualization in C++ Insights. In this episode, you'll share the latest change in C++ Insights regarding visualizing lambdas. Andreas
Andrea Corinti
Oramai è parecchio che la bolla AI imperversa nel globo, e i vari modelli hanno fatto un sacco di strada rispetto alle follie generate da Midjourney o Centipede Diffusion solo una manciata di anni fa.
Brian McQuay
Every programming language we've ever built was optimized for human cognitive limits — small functions because we can't hold much in working memory, descriptive names because we forget. LLMs don't have those limits. So why are we still making them write in languages designed for us?
Adam Johnson
Just as cars painted red are known to be faster, libraries implemented in Rust are also known to be faster. Today’s example is orjson, a Rusty replacement for Python’s built-in json module, boasting 10x faster serialization and 2x faster deserialization. Such a library is great, but adopting it...
Scott VanderPloeg
Presenting the first five issues of original art, complete and fully painted. Plus a small gallery of sketches, an introduction by Richard Pini, an afterword by Wendy Pini, and a one page biography of the creators. The series used digital lettering and it is not included, showcasing Wendy’s...
Alexandra
From individual developers running out of tokens on a daily basis to Uber famously burning through the yearly budget in just four months, AI cost in both tokens and dollars is at the center of attention. Even for those who are happy with their AI subscriptions, the API-equivalent cost matters....
joeychung
alecm
Too bloody right “it can be overridden” – this is arrantly “flying a kite” to see if/how hard it fails rather than to commit to failure: From next spring, Britain’s oldest children will be urged to refrain from using certain apps with a midnight to 6am block being switched on by default. But...
jimmy
– It’s July. I know, I know. But blink and, alas, school days come ’round again. Then Autumn comes and with it, book festivals! Because this is the time of year when we try — oh, we try — to encourage & foster a love of reading. A love for books, and writing, and critical thinking. And one...
Allen Cheung
What are the rules to the game? What game are we even playing? A couple years ago, we caught the Super Bowl on TV, with the 49ers playing in the biggest sporting event of the year. As my son was asking why things were happening, I found myself having to explain, more and more, the strategic...
andresanz.com
Some nights just hit different, and this was one of them.
annelieskamran
Many years ago, when I was a grad student in Prof. Caryl Rivers’ journalism class at Boston University, I wrote an article about my family and immigration, interviewing my father and my grandmother (mother’s mother) about their respective sides of the family. I haven’t read the piece since I wrote...
Andy Maleh
RubyConf 2026 is not a safe environment for everyone. They have an in-group and an out-group. If you're in the in-group, they will treat you well and accept talk proposals by you even if you don't have top-level skills in Software Engineering. If you're in the out-group, it doesn't matter if you...
Barbecue17
Since I reviewed Gray last week, it seems fitting to review his main adversary this week: The Great Black Wizard! Like Gray (and He-Ro, Sharella, Red Shadow, King Grayskull, and Veena), the Great Black Wizard is a character from Preternia, Eternia's ancient past. Now part of The Powers of...
Blacksteel
Can't rally argue with that art ...Sure, I'll hype it because it looks interesting, I've been hearing about it for years, and I like what I see of the guy running it. It feels a little like Spaceballs - it's Deathbringer: The Crowdfunding!I like a lot of what Professor DM puts out there. He's a...
Svend
Svatie Brewing – Baker’s Cider Medium 2026 5Blue Barrel – Cuckoo Returns 5Cromwell – Oliver’s Session 5Blue Barrel – Paradise Perry 5Thatchers – Cheddar Valley 4Curious Brewing – Curious Apple 4
Michael Petychakis
For twenty years I’ve had the same argument in different rooms: with product teams optimizing engagement, with boards optimizing quarterly ROI, with brilliant engineers optimizing food-delivery latency. The argument is never about the work — it’s about the direction. Does this look up or down?...
ashwinsharma
What is Belt and Road Inititative and how has it shaped the world
Mark Rzepczynski
The SEC proposed that firms would only have to provide information on a semiannual basis. Yes, it is a burden on companies to provide quarterly reports, but what makes US markets so liquid and effective for all investors is that corporate information is readily available. Now, there may be some...
Dave Hook
The Short: I love the Lydia Duluth stories by Eleanor Arnason, although they have not been collected yet. Lydia Duluth is a location scout for an interstellar movie company; interesting things happen to her. My favorite is the first, the superlative Hugo Award runner-up and Nebula Award nomination...