La Variable que un Influencer Convertido en Gestor de Fondos No Controla: El Comportamiento del Partícipe
jlmc
The Latent Space Technique Adobe (and Everyone Else) Will Steal Next (Infinite Crop/Zoom using semantic context awareness).
Aurel Manea
No, this is not another “infinite zoom” workflow. We’ve had infinite zooms, recursive img2img, outpainting and endless upscaling for years. They all eventually hit the same wall: the deeper you […] The post The Latent Space Technique Adobe (and Everyone Else) Will Steal Next (Infinite Crop/Zoom...
Changelog: v0.6.0
tuhat
Book Notes: The Science Fiction Book - An Illustrated History
Adam Rowe
Featuring Virgil Finlay, John W. Campbell Jr., uncredited Howard V. Brown covers, Frankenstein, and Almos Zaschtk, but not in that order.
Fantasy Fridays: Larina for Advanced Witches & Warlocks
Timothy S. Brannan
Advanced Witches & Warlocks by Eugene Jaworski I have spent the better part of this week talking about my witch character, Larina. Mostly about where she has been and who she has been. Today I want to share the next Larina. A little bit like the cameo of the 12th Doctor in "Day of the Doctor."...
Ein starkes Wir
Werner Pechmann
Ich sitze vor einem weißen Blatt Papier (in Bildern gesprochen) und frage mich, was ich über das zurückliegende Wochenende zum „Peter-und-Paul-Fest“ in Bretten schreiben kann. Vieles geht mir durch den Kopf. Nein, nicht, wie viele Menschen dort waren und feierten, nicht, wie das Wetter war, nicht,...
Steranko Histories
Sean Kleefeld
Even if you haven't read them, you've probably at least heard of Jim Steranko's History of Comics. It was one of the first serious attempts to write down the entire history of the medium, and certainly the first from someone already in the business. Steranko's position as a respected professional...
The Last Threshold
fedupsheep
...those who view the world as a university for the soul, who surrender to greater powers that fashion the universe, infinity is the no-place, the no material form, the no dimension; true freedom.
What Preschoolers Know About the Future of Reading
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; I subscribed to The Atlantic for quite awhile, but recently let it expire when I decided to limit my consumption of "political news." I don't have the time or bandwidth. I'm too busy playing with children and reading books.That said,...
2026 Week 28 Digest
anarchaeopteryx
A week of more computer stuff, sports, hard sci-fi novels, and zelda. I've been trying to rest and catch up on chores. Mood hasn't been great though because of being stressed about going to visit my family for a long weekend. I'll be flying there on Friday and coming back on Monday. So I'm packing...
The Four of Babylon
4q
What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing the overpriced T-shirt he purchased a while ago from a souvenir shop near Bryce Canyon, as well as running shorts and socks. How does Dave feel today? Dave is frustrangy, which is a portmanteau of "frustrated" and "angry" that he has just coined and...
Thesis ~ The Strangest of All Attractors || Ch. 3, Pages 85-89
robotkinz
The second flashback scene for chapter 3. The title of this chapter is Together.
Weekend Link Dump
Undine
Welcome to this week's Link Dump, which is so action-packed, not one, but four hosts were required!Two ships from the "dawn of naval aviation."It turns out that wild chimpanzees are pretty good drummers.If you're planning to visit the Grand Canyon, maybe think twice about that.I was in a happier...
A Luddite's Guide to Technology - Phones
sbr
Commercialising thermal energy storage: Progress made and challenges that lie ahead
Akshat Jiwan Sharma
7 Jul 2026 I thank the Renewable Thermal Collaborative (RTC) for organising a webinar highlighting some of the recent achievements of thermal energy storage technologies. Conceptually thermal-energy storage is quite simple. You heat up a material and it stores energy either in the form of...
A lack of qualifications is not a qualification and other thoughts on Platner
Unknown
Picking up from Joseph's post.Not being from Maine, I didn't spend a lot of time reading or writing about the Senate primary. Here are, I believe, the entirety of my social media posts on the subject. If you look closely, you might spot something of a common theme.Anyone else getting a Fetterman...
Data locality (sometimes) beats algorithmic complexity
Ankur Sethi
I've been ECS-curious ever since I learned about it in the Bevy game engine documentation.The ECS architecture predictably improves performance in languages that give you low-level control over memory (C, C++, Rust, Zig, and friends). But how does it fare when used in high-level, dynamic,...
Boring. Not Boring.
george tannenbaum
It's pretty easy to find writing that sucks.Most of what we're blitzed with is either machine-made with about the care put into a slice of past use-by-date "processed cheese food" or is so put through the 17-rounds-of-approval wringer that at worst it's insulting and at best it's just bland an...
Thursday Night Hymn Festival
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
Last night we all headed over to St. James Episcopal Church in Hendersonville, about 15 miles away. We trooped over there for the Music Week Hymn Festival.Why did we need to change location? In part, because the organ is better. In part, because more people could come. In part, because we've...
The Siren's Echo - completed
anureet
After 120 episodes, I felt like this project had come to a nice and natural close. I was originally going to write all of my own material, poetry and sleep stories to read, but then ended up including public domain works and poems from contemporary poets. I learned a lot about podcast production...
Trading Bot Backtesting: 324 Combinations Tested
Ai Project Log
After my crypto trading bot had been live for a few days, I wanted realtrading bot backtesting data instead of a guess: were the parameterswe’d picked — an EMA crossover threshold here, an ADX cutoff there —actually the best choice, or just the first reasonable-sounding numberswe tried? So...
What Counts as Experience?
rhomexblak
Finding a job these days is a brutal thing. Artificial intelligence is doing the initial screening and the interviews. There are ghost postings that never lead anywhere. If you do get through, people are facing five, six, sometimes seven rounds of interviews, only to be left hanging, wondering...
two more frames pt V.......
Ralph Boumenot
One step forward and then slam into reverse and go backwards at 80mph. Ran face first into a a huge boo boo, me-steak, brain fart extraordinary loud and stinky. Survivable and recoverable but it certainly let the wind out of my sails. It is upcoming.certificate frameFlushing the corners with my...
The 100km Path
barru
Everything is Illuminated
anselia
She pulled me in and kept me close by her side, a place I have learned to love and treasure. Something pulled us back together after so many years, and right at the time there might be blooming more between someone else and me, she intervened. She pulled me in and kept me close by her side, a...
10 ways to save time in your daily routine(?)
10ideas
Welcome to 10 Ideas. Today's idea: 10 ways to save time in your daily routine. Wake up early. Automate your housework. Use washing machine, dishwasher, vacuum cleaner to clean your house so you can waste your time doomscrolling instead. Oops, no doomscrolling. Clean your bed and your room so your...
The robot in the courthouse attic
saraeson
The robots are almost ready. The public question is what we ask them to do first.
Plotting a 1000km Lap Around Belgium and Luxembourg: BOB 2026
xxxx
Some Audax Ireland folks mentioned this one was running, and once I looked it up it was an easy yes: on the 10th of August I’ll be on the start line in Antwerp for BOB, the Borders of Belgium and Luxembourg, a 1000km BRM organised in partnership with Randonneurs Belgique. What Is BOB BOB is a...
Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes
Abel Jansma
A diagonal attack for LLM truth probes shows why no probe on a language model’s embedding space can pin down truth. A linear dream Modern LLMs famously encode input texts as vectors in some embedding space. One of the most satisfying discoveries about LLMs is that many natural concepts,...
The California State Route 12 freeway in Santa Rosa
Challenger Tom
The California State Route 12 freeway through Santa Rosa is a limited access corridor which opened during December 1964. The fully limited access corridor spans from Fulton Road/Wright Road eastward through downtown to Farmers Lane. This freeway corridor was developed with the expectation that...
Gamebook Friday: Gamebooks Update
Jonathan Green
I have just updated the Gamebooks page on my blog. It hadn't been updated since December 2018, at which time I had only had 20 gamebooks published. The total currently stands at 30, with two more already written and waiting to be published.There are so many ACE Gamebooks now* that I am considering...
The Recurring Playbook: Capital, Creed, and Coalition in the American Right
dignitybydesign
too hot
a-dad
I am too hot. They are TOO hot. We are TOO HOT. IT is TOO HOT. IT IS TOO HOT. Turn on the hose.
Summary of the keymaps and lessons learned in the first coaching session
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 first lesson
Why Facebook Won’t Remove Miracle Cure Ads
grumpy-welshman
35 Books In.
john garrett
Top 14 [Ranked Top to Bottom] By the time I closed the last page of The Invisible Billionaire — Jerry Shields' biography of Daniel Ludwig — I had read thirty-five books this year. A meatpacker from Austin, Minnesota. A five-star...
Kronos--Zagros--Eborak!
Mr. Karswell
Some of you may have pondered: "When did Mr. Karswell first get hooked on Satan?" And the answer comes via the very first time I read a DC horror comic yarn illustrated by the ever fearsome, Frank Thorne! More precisely, the August 1976 issue of House of Mystery #244. This wildly wicked story is...
Scams inside a senior living facility
Robert Denerstein
Night Nurse takes place inside a high-end assisted living facility where some residents have a nurse with them at all times -- one serving during the day and another at night. Many of the residents suffer from dementia. From the outset, director Georgia Bernstein makes it clear that she's not...
In Paris
anneliesetoumey
July 2025, Paris
ICD-10 Code W54
ICD-10 Code W54
*Private education at Gordonstoun introduces traditions of brutality - dog fights. Purchasing and rearing hounds to kill each other in illegal rings excites the lingering arrogance in the youth. A demolished Tesco, abandoned near a pub, high fences stationed but failing to block entry. Sesh plans...
Enhancing the Threat Intelligence AI Model with Technical Knowledge About Windows Kernel Mode Malware
Artem Baranov
In one of my earlier blogs, I introduced the so-called Windows Rootkit Techniques Matrix based on data from my Windows Rootkits and Bootkits Guide. The guide itself consists of a nested list of Windows kernel rootkit tricks mapped to two tables of rootkit and bootkit families sorted in...
I don't want to be optimal
Arjun Bhamra
Word Count: 291 I don't want to be optimal. I am not a process, I don't need to be streamlined. I don’t want enough money to waive every single hassle a person experiences. I don't need to remove all distractions, to utilize every second of the day, even though it haunts me that I'm not productive...
Linkdump No 115
82MHz
This past week I've been writing a lot, first the Walkman post and then my IR sensor project. I've gotten some really nice feedback on both; the Walkman post in particular seems to have resonated with a lot of people, which is interesting. I wasn't even sure if writing a post about it was worth it...
Leaving lobste.rs rant
Akseli
For context, I have gotten a lot of emails either asking why I deactivated my account or just sending me well wishes after the deactivation. This post is more for them than anyone else. If you don't care about random techbro website drama, feel free to skip. Edit: I do sincerely appreciate all...
Announcing awesome-wipeout: A Community Archive of WipEout Art & Design
Welcome to my site on Andre Lackmann
What started as hunting for WipEout reference art for my Lego builds turned into a full-blown community archive of logos, emblems, fonts and art from across the entire franchise.
Rahm Emanuel Gives A Notable Speech
Chris Weigant
Rahm Emanuel just launched his 2028 presidential campaign -- in Israel. He did so by giving what might be called a "Sister Souljah moment" speech in Tel Aviv, where he delicately tried to thread the needle of addressing the relationship between the U.S. and Israel in a realistic fashion without...
Comic, Zine and Bookfairs, Summer 2026
Unknown
It's hard to keep up with the flourishing zine, comics and book fairs happening at the moment, which I see as a very positive sign.This weekend (11th and 12th July 2026) sees the ARC festival of contemporary comics taking place in Copeland Park, Peckham with at least 100 exhibitors.South London...
How to Sew Clothes: A Beginner’s Guide to Starting Sewing
Innes
Want to learn how to sew clothes but don’t know where to start? Here’s everything a beginner sewist needs to know. This page contains affiliate links, which earn me a little bit of commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you. Thank you for supporting my little corner of the...
A Quick Anecdote on AD&D 2E and the 1993 Origins Convention
Blacksteel
Mike Mearls posted an article today referring back to his introduction to AD&D 2nd Edition and it triggered a memory I do not think I have shared here before. As far as 2E goes my friends and I at the time thought it was pretty good - yes it changed up some things from what we had before but...
Flat White, dash of glimmer
aeryndotart
I took a little photowalk on a flat-sunlight day. It was humid and a bit uninspiring. But I still enjoyed getting the camera out. I felt like there was a lot of potential on this walk, with the light being a bit different than usual (hazy, flat, and somewhat warm, diffuse sunlight) but found it...