bg de en es fr it nl pl pt sv tr zh

Shakeup In Michigan's Democratic Senate Primary Race

Chris Weigant

A surprise announcement shook up the Democratic primary for an open Senate seat in Michigan over the holiday weekend, as Mallory McMorrow announced she was suspending her campaign. This leaves the race as a two-person contest, which will pit a favorite of the Democratic Party establishment...

Oops, I did a modular

Alison Wilder

I recently felt a sudden deep desire to try my hand at some west coast-style/experimental synthesis. After looking at a number of possibilities over a few weeks, I decided to try out the fully modular Pittsburgh Modular Voltage Lab 2. I’ve never had a true modular system before, so this is my...

FIREing Our Way to Financial Literacy

Allen Cheung

It seems like FIRE survived after all. The acronym stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early. It's a movement I've been following since the late 2010s, with the emphasis on financial calculations and statistical analysis tickling my mathematical brain. At the same time, its core tenet of...

How to make a good group photo

Aigars Mahinovs

Taking a good group photo consists of multiple aspects: hardware scouting organization preparation execution processing publishing I can say with confidence that nearly everything here comes from having failed to do these things right at least once, even on the latest attempts, so this is an...

Bremen’s Hidden Gems: Town Hall, Musicians & More

AngiesWeb

AngiesWeb I spent three days in Bremen, and from the moment I arrived, the city felt like a place where stories linger in the streets. Bremen is compact enough to explore on foot, yet rich enough in history and culture that every corner seems to hold something worth pausing for. My visit became a...

Life is too precious

Amy Tries Life

Maybe it's the music, maybe it's the feeling of achievement after a good day of work, or the feeling of freedom after a messy breakup. Regardless, somehow for the first time in forever, I suddenly feel an inexplicable resurgence of hope for life. There's so much out there, and life is far too...

The phantom listening booth

Andrew Womack

Spring/summer 2026 playlistsBuy Music ClubDeezerSpotifyRight now I’m listening to the new Fire-Toolz album inside a CD listening booth at a record store that no longer exists.The booth is a small room, five or so feet square, carpeted on the floor and all sides, and closed off from the rest of the...

Unfit

Doug Muder

A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. - the Declaration of Independence This week's featured post is "Capitalism vs. Socialism? Get Serious." Ongoing stories Trump's assault on American democracy....

In the weights

Ali Reza Hayati

There’s a site called IN THE WEIGHTS that I came across through Kev Quirk’s blog post . It checks whether you’re someone who lives on inside certain LLMs. Large language models encode their knowledge and reasoning through billions of numbers called “the weights.” The amazing capabilities of...

Face of Love / Death + Essays into the Supernatural: The Werewolf

Mr. Karswell

Another 70's comic book that made a huge impression on young Mr. Karswell was the April 1974 issue of Red Circle Sorcery #6. Awaiting readers behind that amazing, Vampira-esque cover design by the late, great Gray Morrow, (one of my most favorite covers ever), was a nifty little tie-in tale about...

A11y 101 – 3.3.1 Error Identification

rhomexblak

We’ve all been there. You fill out a form. You hit submit. Nothing happens. Maybe the border turns red. Maybe a little icon winks at you. Maybe your computer hums aggressively. But nobody tells you what went wrong. You stare at the screen. “Did it fail? Did it work? Am I…

Quiet morning runs

andrewspittle

These quiet, cloudy mornings are the best time to get out for a run. The roads are quiet and the temperatures are cool. I feel so grateful to live out here and get to experience the quiet shifts of the countryside. It's especially fun when I inadvertently scare some cows who are otherwise enjoying...

The Mario Meeting

rands

Review season. You start your career thinking the review is the most important milestone of the year, but as an individual, you only see part of the picture. Everyone cares about the compensation (base salary, bonus, and stock). That’s the data they care about, but where did this pile of...

Post-Nats Video Update

idiotking

Here’s a long-delayed video update covering everything after Nationals to now, including yesterday’s excellent Travelall update: The truck is starting again, after I ran out to the 800, stole the ignition switch from that, and swapped it in. As I was testing the old one I found that the lock...

Alien Waterfalls

Adam Rowe

When crafting an atmospheric landscape on an alien planet, it's always best to borrow the coolest, most interesting elements found here in the beautiful natural world. As a result, waterfalls tend to pop up fairly frequently.One of my favorite examples is actually very recent: Michael Böhme's 2019...

What goes up must come down: the toxic hangover from the Freedom 250 fireworks

Chris Parsons

The “Freedom 250” activities in Washington DC have been controversial for a number of reasons, but after the fireworks display in the early hours of July 5th, the environmental and health impacts of this event became a concern. In the aftermath of the fireworks display on the National Mall,...

Tom Hanks Is an OG FF Fan

Sean Kleefeld

Tom Hanks first drew a lot of attention in the sitcom Bosom Buddies back in 1980 before making a very successful transition to movies with Ron Howard's directorial debut of Splash. Hanks has since had an incredible career with everything from the Academy Award winning Forest Gump to the...

Data dependence as "constrained discretion"

Mark Rzepczynski

Ben Bernanke and Rick Mishkin called the use of data dependence in monetary policy "constrained discretion". We are in another of those periods of constrained discretion regarding inflation and monetary policy. Robert Hetzel, a former Fed economist, said that policymaking has a flavor of "guess...

Charades: A Jane Austen Rarity Revived

Mark V

Withnail Books of Penrith, renowned for their chapbooks of literary rarities, have just announced a facsimile edition of Charades, Written a hundred years ago by Jane Austen and Her Family, originally published in 1895. This charming collection of riddles devised by the family for their own...

Unsuspected Kindness

Nige

On today's Anecdotal Evidence, Patrick Kurp writes of the 'unsuspected kindness' of which, happily, the world still has abundant supply. He leads up to the subject by way of an anecdote about an exemplary act of kindness – of Christian charity – by that great poet and man, George Herbert, as...

The Goat Head of Strumpshaw

Undine

"Norwich Evening News," February 3, 1970, via Newspapers.comIf you’re at all familiar with my Twitter/X or Facebook feeds, you know that I periodically share old newspaper reports about the seemingly endless varieties of mayhem carried out by goats.  (Why do I do this?  It’s just how I roll, I...

← Newer Older →