Timothy S. Brannan
It is August, 1986. I am getting ready to start my senior year in high school. My car was a 1977 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser, burnt orange. Its redeeming qualities were that it was built like a tank, it had an amazing stereo system thanks to my older brother, and it had a V8 engine. Of course,...
Ali Reza Hayati
Have you ever seen a video of people talking or expressing opinions and you think to yourself “what kind of idiocy is this?” How dumb can you be to say such meaningless things? Certainly not dumber than you look. You must forgive my language, as I’m writing this with complete disgust toward...
robotkinz
The first flashback scene for Chapter 3. The title of this chapter is Together. Michelle is very guarded about her past. Of those early years. She only talks about what her life on Earth was like to the people she trusts. And those people are few and far between.
jt-ai-meets-mindfulness
Tested premium ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot & Perplexity on political questions: uniform left tilt. The exception? Grok delivers the balance others won't.
slwriter
Alexander R Pruss
Here are two Aristotelian theses: Complete human flourishing requires the exercise of all the human virtues. Courage is a human virtue. Add a highly plausible thesis that likely everyone will accept: The exercise of courage requires apparent or real danger. Now add some theses that a Christian...
Unknown
A little bit of background: back in 1999, I was working for a large financial services company (you've heard of them). One of the biggest topics on everyone's minds was how to crack the online market. Every major bank was devoting serious money and resources to the question.This was also going on...
lunarhades
george tannenbaum
One of the best periodicals you're likely never to read is "The Economist." I started reading it about twenty years ago. Partly because of David Abbott. Partly because my feed was being fed articles from the Economist. I found them a) genuinely interesting and b) short. Generally speaking the...
andrewspittle
I grew tired of bloated music apps and streaming services. So I built what I wanted: a simple, native macOS app that reads a local folder of files and arranges them into a beautiful library. The app even formats and exports everything for listening on my rebuilt iPod Mini, which is surprisingly...
Alan
Happy day after Canada Day! I’ve been hiding in the basement near the air conditioner outlet myself. Because Wednesday days off are the worst of the days off in the schedule, aren’t they. But it’s still a day off for so many so we should not begrudge the lack of mail delivery and all that does...
<span class='p-author h-card'>Andrew Doran</span>
A swan and their cygnets on the bank of the River Bulbourne by The Old Mill, Berkhamsted. Boiling. In the UK we are not equipped to live through day after day of mid-30s°C heat, with the temperature only dropping into the mid-20s overnight with barely a breeze in the air. Sleeping was a tough...
agentpalmer
Marty Neumeier attempts to bridge “The Brand Gap,” but does he succeed? Two decades on from its publishing, I think there is more in The Brand Gap that is still relevant than some of the more dated material that’s just fun to reminisce as you read. The book attempts to explain and educate the...
joeychung
alysterwho
Recently, the internet has become very frustrating for me. I usually don't mind the algorithm. When they started moving the internet to being algorithm-based at the beginning, I actually liked it. I got to see more of the things that I'm interested in, and I got to enjoy my time on the internet....
antechei
Construct the world that you find most comfortable to live in, out of paper and glitter and glue, a little smattering of truth to hold it all together. Then hold it up, turn it towards the audience, present it as if it is immutable fact. Believe in it. Believe so hard that you convince them as...
miquel-tort
El sistema alimentario global parece sólido, pero descansa sobre dependencias energéticas y logísticas que lo hacen sorprendentemente vulnerable cuando varias …El sistema alimentario global parece sólido, pero descansa sobre dependencias energéticas y logísticas que lo hacen sorprendentemente vulnerable cuando varias tensiones coinciden al mismo tiempo.
Jason Pittock
Mendoza has around 1,250 wineries and makes roughly 70% of Argentina’s wine, spread across three sub-regions: Maipú closest to the city, Luján de Cuyo the historic heart of Malbec, and the high-altitude Uco Valley further south. Below is the map, the wineries I would actually send you to, and how...
Aurel Manea
Krea 2 (and probably other image models): Infinite Character Consistency Using Descriptions + ComfyUI Ok, so long story short, I saw a few workflows that enabled Krea 2 inside ComfyUI […] The post KREA 2 (and maybe others) infinite scene images with consistancy using description (Comfy UI...
ocelot
After years doing other things I'm writing stories again.
Alfred Myers
Hunter Allen
THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD2026Written and directed by Michael SarnoskiSpoilers: moderateThe Death of Robin Hood would have it—or at least star and executive producer Hugh Jackman would have it, as he's explained it thus in a whole trailer for his film, so it must be a sentiment shared by its writer...
Steve Ruberg
The word estimand has exploded into the vernacular of statistical thinking for clinical trials in the last decade or so. Where did it come from and why is it so important now? Welcome back to the sequel of Blog 24 – Estimands Part 1 – Just Do ITT? I will continue with some historical background...
Andrea Corinti
Qui devo ringraziare sia Zel che mi ha fatto conoscere questa ormai storica band romana che Efi che mi ha regalato lo splendido _Dopoguerra_ (disco del 2005) 😌
The Passing Tramp
Last month--incidentally Pride Month--crime fiction author and leading critic Martin Edwards found space on his blog to give two sentences of about 100 words over to a consideration of my essay collection Nothing Darker Than the Night, which was published nearly a year ago in 2025. Here's the...
Robert Denerstein
In Maddie's Secret, director John Early plays the lead character, a woman dealing with a long-standing eating disorder, in this case, bulimia. A comedian, actor, and singer, Early's sex isn't the secret to which the movie's title refers. Early plays a female character. That’s it. The movie’s...
Alec Armbruster
Weeks ago, I found that Anthropic’s Fable 5 was more than willing to help users commit cybercrime—planning and actively exploiting (albeit somewhat known) vulnerabilities against IoT devices all over the internet. Extremely basic prompt engineering was all it took to bypass the guardrails. These...
Unknown
What is the state-of-the-art when it comes to Actual Plays on YouTube? If you are reading this blog you are likely familiar with my tastes, and your own will be aligned, but for the avoidance of doubt I am looking for OSR-adjacent, or OSR-sympathetic, content with the emphasis on sandbox play. I...
Kaitlin Orr
Kadeau has just earned its third Michelin star, joining Geranium, Noma, and Jordnær as one of only four restaurants in Denmark to ever reach this level. For us, this moment feels inevitable. We’ve been coming to Kadeau in Copenhagen for more than a decade. It’s one of our favorite restaurants in...
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Archimago
Manuel Moreale
This morning Mr Overkill sent me the link to the AI Compass test, which I guess is a spin on the famous political compass test. It’s a bunch of questions—27? 29? 15? Who knows!—and at the end you get your location on the map and your archetype, from a list of 30. It’s harmless fun, and I found the...
starterstall
If you’ve ever listen to me talk about coding for more than five minutes, you know that I absolutely loathe letting machines code for me, or even just using someone else’s code base. I’m very Type-A about code output – I want to make sure it’s semantic, accessible, and organized well – not just...
alecm
There is a famous dictum in warfare, attributed as a summary of the strategy of either/both Napoleon or Sun-Tzu: “If your enemy is making a mistake, do not stop them.” So if we look at this situation and flip the script: “Person who has odious political beliefs is co-owner of...
Alkaid
“Tomorrow will be a good day”: The Oddly Hopeful Thriller, Monster I just finished what most people have called a masterpiece. Started a month ago and paced myself, watching 2-3 episodes a day, before scrambling to binge the last bit of the manga because I could read faster than I could watch at...
Aeoli Pera
For the last few months I’ve been ruminating about what would constitute the most minimalistic exercise regimen, to make it as accessible as possible for everyone. Something comparable to the common medical advice to “move for 20 minutes 3x/wk,” where you could make progress and move your health...
beyondborders
When you stop rushing through places and start moving slowly, time itself begins to feel different. It stretches and softens. Here is how slow travel can gently rewire your relationship with time.
Andrej Gajdos
A short case study on building a custom browser tool for an online store, and the increased e-commerce sales it produced by putting a price advantage in front of buyers. A fair number of online stores are in a lucky but frustrating position: they’re genuinely cheaper than their competitors and...
Belghast
Good Morning, Friends. I apologize for not blogging, but this seventh round of chemotherapy has pretty well debilitated me in both mind and body, and I am honestly barely holding in there. I got them to add an extra week to recover, so I am hoping that will make the final round doable. The main...
Cassim
This week was packed. Between LeHack and a round table on AI, I got to see a lot of friends again and meet new people.LeHackLike every year, LeHack happens at La Villette, and this year was no exception. France was in the middle of a heatwave, so I was more than happy to leave my apartment with no...
redp
Official documentation doesn't disclose ConstBank0 (c[0x0]) memory layout used at the SASS level for kernel arguments and special registers (like %gridid, %nctaid) So I've spent last week trying to solve this deceptively simple problem. Names of params are documented in official doc - seems that...
Alex
There was a brief silence. Then Mr. Moran began to speak. Soon Mr. Moran began to shout. Finally Mr. Moran began to scream. Mr. Moran was so enraged he attained a vulgar fluency of expression that neared not just poetry but Homeric verse.He would never equal it again in his life, although when he...
Timothy S. Brannan
I picked up a new Forgotten Realms game over the past weekend. Sorta. It is actually the same game I have been playing in, just with some new characters. In reality, I am worried less about the setting or background and more about the playtest. I am using this game to try out some more ideas from...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; "Well, he won't do that again."We've all said, or at least thought it. And more often than not (but not always) we're right. Like when a child goofs around on the edge of a fountain on a cold day and falls in. We expect that unpleasant...
prasangika-matters
Undine
Via Newspapers.comThis unnerving account of the mysterious deaths of two sisters appeared in the “Patriot News,” March 24, 1968:A soft sigh, a stare of horror, a piercing scream and death that as yet is unexplained…that was the fate of Beverly Stephens and her sister, Patricia, who died in almost...
aiden
The year is halfway over. Did you make New Year’s resolutions? If so, it’s time to check in, see how you are progressing. If not, no worries! Starting on January 1st is arbitrary, anyway. But if you like nice round dates, July 1st could be the perfect opportunity for you. For your inspiration, and...
Anthony Isola
When is doing too little still doing too much? Executing nothing is a viable strategy. In some aspects of life the more you do, the worse the outcomes. In others, it’s the opposite. Let’s take a look at two contrasting examples, baseball and investing. I used to be a big baseball fan but I am...
Olaf Frohn
Here's my map of all active and planned Solar System Missions and their destinations as of July 1st 2026. Data, images and documentation are available on my space exploration history GitHub repository and the associated website.
niko
A. P. Howell
Celebrate Halloween in July with this multimedia bundle. $20 for a bunch of creepy stuff. (My ghost story “Always an After” is in there.) I like the nod to Gravity Falls in the bundle name. As can be inferred from the dogs’ names (Dipper and Mabel), we’re big fans of the show in this...