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...
george tannenbaum
All I know, I learned from Bazooka Joe.Last Tuesday, I got briefed on the fifth of what is slated to be ten projects from a Fortune 100 company. The first four of my assignments have gone well. The people I'm working with are pleased (they keep coming back) and the client is pleased (they keep...
Nige
July already, and my late mother's birthday (she'd have been 105 today) – and it's Canada Day, marking the anniversary of the Canadian Confederation, formed on this day in 1867. It was on Canada Day in 1980 that 'O Canada' became the country's official national anthem (and one of the best). Here...
Florian / Abandoned Kansai
The perfect place for Sen and Chihiro to get spirited away...
Jack Shear
Things that brought me delight in June, 2026. Johanna van Veen, Bone of My BoneI enjoyed Johanna van Veen's haunting novel My Darling Dreadful Thing, but I really enjoyed Bone of My Bone. Bone of My Bone centers on a Catholic nun and a Protestant peasant girl who are carting around the skull of a...
mrgreen
Pleased to announce the release of ArchBang running the MangoWM window manager. This marks a full rebrand from FruitBang back to ArchBang. A new ISO image, dated 1st July, has just been uploaded as promised — carrying up-to-date packages and the latest kernel. Getting started: hit the yellow...
Challenger Tom
The city of Sonoma historically has been the terminus of the American Auto Trail known as El Camino Real. The Auto Trail since 1906 has terminated at Mission San Francisco Solano at the intersection of 1st Street East and Spain Street. Since August 1934, the city has been served by California...
Agam Brahma
Driftwood is an experimental runtime I've been building for stateful AI agents (the kind that remember!). Each agent is a WebAssembly actor whose full state can be snapshotted to disk, killed, and restored (ideally/eventually, even under a different model than the one that created it).I've written...
logical-minds-only
Where do you look for the Abomination of Desolation. What form do you think it will take? Will it have a sign on it, or will a notification be issued? Or, perhaps, will you have passed it by and shook hands with it and perhaps danced with it along with your generations and saw it every day of your life. Perhaps when you see it, nothing will have changed, but you will see it because the scales have fallen off of your eyes.
vmbrasseur
In January of 2024, the leaders of Open Robotics contacted me with questions related to the governance of their projects and nonprofit foundation. They were at an inflection point and thinking of trying something new and innovative to ensure the sustainability of their open source projects. We had...
sbr
评论尸
If you rely heavily on overseas AI tools while living in China, you have probably long since grown used to being treated like a kind of cyber second-class citizen. You need a clean proxy node. You need a foreign credit card. You constantly worry that the account you painstakingly kept alive...
advantageonarcana
This June I have been the host of the RPG Blog Carnival and my chosen topic was "Cyclopes, Ettins, Hill Giants, and Ogres." My intention was that we could collectively make these big folk more interesting: "I've chosen this topic for a simple reason: ogres and their ilk are too often boring, and...
Alex Leighton
By Blood CulturesPublished on 2026-07-01Tags: listening-to, musicSkate Story: Vol. 1 by Blood Cultures Psychedelic synthwave. The Emptylands track is powerful; wear headphones.Read the post →
Aaron Pham
up: mit 18.156 Orponen and Shmerkin proved a sharp projection theorem for sets with self-similar spacing. metadata type: video youtube: I6ZSrgxiofs source: mit opencourseware
ansh
Out beyond ideas of inventions and innovation, there is a field; I'll meet you there. I first came across SpicyIP (and Swaraj) in 2024. I had recently joined the FOSS United Foundation full-time, and one of the first orders of business was grant communications, and the Tech Innovation Fellowship...
@popolony2k
In the original Macross series, the SDF-1 doesn’t set out to fight anyone. It launches because an alien fleet is already on its way and there is no other choice. The ship is barely understood, its fold drive untested, its crew a mix of civilians and soldiers who never signed up for an interstellar...
Travis Frisinger
The current AI conversation is obsessed with loops.Build loops. Agent loops. Review loops. Coding loops. Self-improving loops.The language is useful, but it is also getting sloppy. A lot of what people are calling loops are not really loops at all. They are repeated workflows with retries. They...
vimoh
A look at what AI means for the human attraction to religion.
rands
What’s it like to be you? Where did you get your name? What’s your story? What do you want to be when you grow up? What haven’t you done? What do you want to change? What are you most proud of? What achievement are you most proud of? Are you happy? What makes you happy? Are...
ambulo
Spoilers ahead! finished: mysterious skin dungeon meshi finally! after taking a two year break lol. i think it's really solid storytelling with a great concept to boot. i jumped back in to where i left off last time so i forgot some smaller details but still a great read (which i suppose is...
Dave Hook
The Short: In my non-expert but also non-lay opinion, the MyShake app and its underlying ShakeAlert system are useful to me. It is useful and even essential for improving my personal safety in earthquakes, including the recommended “Drop, Cover, and Hold On”. Although it is less direct, it can...
Author Name
When I started this blog, my goal was simple: write about technology and share my experience with the tools and technologies I work with. Even in my last article about the internet blackout in Iran, I deliberately avoided discussing politics, or the reasons behind it. I focused only on the...
Alperen Keles
Two days ago, I've defended my 5 year, 5 chapter Ph.D. thesis. Today, I write about what's next, a spiritual 6th chapter! My dissertation, titled "Designing Effective Property-Based Testing Frameworks", comprises of the results of four research papers and projects I've worked on during my Ph.D....
Alex Shtoff
Intro Up until now in the series we discussed mainly the expressive power of different variants of our model family, \[f({\boldsymbol x};{\boldsymbol A}_{0..n}) = \lambda_k \Bigl({\boldsymbol A}_0 + \sum_{i=1}^n x_i {\boldsymbol A}_i\Bigr),\] where each \(\boldsymbol A_i\) is a symmetric...
Tom 7 Radar
Hello my blog, my ball and chain, my primary source of -1,000 points for lateness. Did I know the month was ending? Yes. Was I sitting at my computer doing something else? Yes. Did I then just get tired and go to bed, forgetting about my chore? Again yes. One piece of cover is that my site was...
Lisa Creech Bledsoe
I can’t help myself. Years ago, someone planted onions on the mountain above our house. This year, the bloom heads grew taller than I am. This morning, in the cool fog, I climbed up and, against all good sense, cut a handful to bring inside for a bouquet. On the way back down, I gathered yarrow....
Allen Pike
Word on the street is that the cost of building software is going to zero. Zero? Sounds like a good deal! Over the last year, my co-founder and I have iteratively automated our coding loops. Each time better tools revealed a bottleneck, we’d address it. Agents would sometimes break things or...
Jack
Meet Lawrence Lawrence C. Harris is a speaker, author, and advocate who helps teens and young adults navigate trauma, mental health, and personal growth. Through his writing and speaking, he encourages others to face difficult experiences with honesty while reminding them that healing is possible....
chronicles
South and westerly from the mainland, the Agglehorn Sea stretches into the horizon, beyond which lie the legendary nineteen other sides: The Icosahedron. Of note: the Isle of Lewis, home to Lewis, the rumored 13th Deathknight. Thousand Island and its Bland Sirens. Oars Rest, waypoint of sailers,...
CLM
I have always enjoyed the type of fantasy where strange things start happening to ordinary people, and there were some series like Narnia or the Edward Eager books that I reread multiple times. But when I discovered a new author at the library – especially one who had written more than one book,...
aeryn
I have been updating my monthly post for May with some microposts from the end of that month and I can see we had a heatwave back then. And here we are coming out of another one. Yesterday (27th) almost finished me. I really felt very weird and not myself at all. June has been quite good for...
Chris Weigant
As one of the last decisions the Supreme Court handed down in this year's term, they upheld the concept of "birthright citizenship" enshrined within the Fourteenth Amendment. Barely. The stunning thing wasn't the ruling, which was expected. The truly stunning thing is that the decision was...
Mark Rogers
Back in the day, reporters would record their phone interviews by attaching a suction cup to the back of the earpiece part of the handset. It was attached by wire to a machine that did the recording. You can still buy them. There was a time when their use was widespread enough to warrant their own...
advantageonarcana
A Lakelands setting post OgreIn a dreamzone, anything can become more than what it is, so long as some sapient mind nearby attaches unconscious significance to it. Those objects that are more symbolically potent, like a skull or a rose or a cross, are therefore more likely to change, and anything...
Barbecue17
Want to check out a somewhat obscure Masters of the Universe villain? Then let's take a look at Blast-Attak from Masters of the Universe Origins. Blast-Attak was part of the 1987 series of action figures and is a bit unusual as he was initially listed as an Evil Warrior summoned by Skeletor but...
Susan Stepney
Late March, we decided to experiment with a new solar PV usage strategy due to the relative rates of chear rate grid power overnight (costing us 6.4p/kWh) and the amount we are paid for exporting during the day (15p/kWh). Rather than use the battery to power the house during the cheap rate, we...
Chris Townsend
Andrew Varsanyi
Neoliberalism has eaten everything except the bet. The current American economic landscape is defined by a pervasive, systemic shift toward speculation. This shift manifests in two seemingly disparate ways: the gambling scandals involving college athletes and the astronomical, often detached...
Alexander R Pruss
I am toying with the thesis that each person’s self-consciousness is qualitatively different. Perhaps all persons have uniquely individuating properties, something like haecceities, and for each such individuating property there is a different quale of seeing oneself as an instance of it. One...
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Download Versuche (Tries) Introduction T. S. Eliot μέγα βιβλίον μέγα κακόν1 —Callimachus An introduction to a volume of verse exists chiefly to absolve the reader of the obligation to read it. I propose to disappoint that expectation. I have read these poems — with admiration and...