Dispatches from the Realms of Soul

michael-graeme

The Hantavirus Outbreak Reinforced the Importance of Real Public Health Experts

Vincent Iannelli, MD

If you have ever doubted the importance of real public health experts, you saw their importance during the recent hantavirus outbreak. During the hantavirus outbreak, Secretary RFK, Jr enforced a mandatory quarantine in a Nebraska facility over the recommendations of public health experts for a...

Pretty sure the app is making these names up, but let’s try out multiple captions! Orpine Stonecrop Wild buckwheat Scarlet Gilia Hooker’s Onion

Gwyn Fisher

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SomeBing Inspiring

Unknown

Like any right thinking person, I hate and fear Microsoft Bing. But on my office computer at work, each day a free Bing wallpaper is downloaded and automatically set as my desktop wallpaper image. They are surprisingly inspiring for campaign or adventure site ideas. Viz:This is quite literally a...

Murena Tome 10 Édition Unique

Scott VanderPloeg

The happiness Rome derives from victory brings misery to all peoples except the Roman people. What value, however small, should be placed on a joy that imposes so much suffering? What does the satisfaction of a single city mean amidst such an accumulation of misfortunes that foreshadow the end of...

A counterexample for Steiner triangulation

David Eppstein

I’ve been hesitating in writing up a blog post about my latest preprint, “Minimum-weight Steiner triangulation of convex polygons requires interior Steiner points” (with my student Zahra Hadizadeh, arXiv:2606.25302, to appear at CCCG) because, despite being a completely concrete two-dimensional...

Added AriGPT overview to search

Arija A.

Added AriGPT overview to search

(General) My New/Old PC/Server

arantius.com

The quick opening context: I had some spare computer memory lying around. After RAM prices were almost perfectly flat from early 2023 to mid 2025 things got wild. The common narrative is that many companies, in a drive to build new AI systems that they can charge money for, drove demand for...

Harlan Ellison: "The Silver Corridor," "Bright Eyes," and "Are You Listening?"

MPorcius

In my last blog post I mentioned that I own a signed paperback copy of Harlan Ellison's Alone Against Tomorrow.  Over ten years ago, at a Half Price Books location in Iowa or Ohio, I paid just two dollars for the volume, a 1979 Fifth Printing.  Let's look at the contents page and figure out which...

1926-2026 – BBC Radio 4 Longwave: An Obituary.

EI3LH

Goodnight, Sweet Prince… We are gathered here today to mark the passing of a voice that has been a constant, quiet companion to so many of us for a century. BBC Radio 4 Longwave, born in 1926, left us in the early hours of this morning, June 27th 2026, at the age of one hundred. […]

Midsummer RPG Action

Blacksteel

Things have been on hold for a few weeks while I was touring the local hospital but we are finally getting back in the saddle today with more Dungeon Crawl Classics. We're all level 1 and whoever survives will likely make it to level 2 after tonight which will be about as far as any of us have...

banana bumpy

Susan Stepney

While I was away in Trieste, some bananas back home went too black to eat.  Usually when this happens, my other half makes banana buns.  Given the current heat, however, this time he decided to try making banana ice cream.It came out a bit lumpy (despite having been blended for quite a while), and...

THE WORLD’S LARGEST PONZI SCHEME IS HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

Garry Rodgers

Something big is happening in the world’s financial system, and it’s got the smell of an old fraud wearing a new suit. Not a boiler-room scam, not a crypto hustle, and not even a Bernie Madoff-style investment fraud with fake statements and real victims. This is larger, quieter, more complex, and...

what can I say

uzwi

The Goalkeeper’s Parent

Steven Garrity

The most difficult position in soccer must be the goalkeeper’s parent.

The She-Beast

Mr. Karswell

We're heading back into the teeming, screaming jungle for another eerie, horror adventure encounter, and this time with the monstrously macabre maiden "REPTA" via the slithery, September 1953 issue of Horrific #7. And of course Marty Elkins art is always a welcome addition to the THOIA Archive,...

I Don’t Like Mondays…..When Is My Retirement?

Anthony Isola

Retirement is just the beginning of your plan. Read more in this week’s terrific links.   Wealth and money aren’t the same thing. Darius Foroux The real purpose of your retirement plan lives inside your home. HumbleDollar Money stress isn’t about money. Safal Niveshak Baby Boomers won’t crash the...

Touched by Creation Part 3: A Conclusion

tjschanaman

The Worst Thing

andy

Nick Cave on the worst thing about becoming a really old rockstar. Which, it turns out, is just one variation on the worst thing about anything that goes on a while. Nicely written though.

Neocities

Joe Crawford

Screenshot of the default view of a new website on Neocities Note that it helps a newbie visualize a website as a set of files. Note that it includes a link to download the entire site. This came up because I’m listening in on a session at Nuremberg IndieWeb Camp 2026. Sign my Guestbook | Contact...

El mito de estar fuera del mito

jesusrrodriguez

Este trabajo analiza la relación entre el mito, la desmitificación y los límites de la razón. Explora la transformación de los relatos humanos, la persistencia del sentido y cómo la propia crítica participa de los marcos simbólicos que intenta deconstruir.

The Patience of the Meadow

whitelight

The Universe Inside a Kaleidoscope

joeychung

Britain, or Russia?

alecm

“I don’t really understand how to regulate VPNs, because it became clear to everyone fairly quickly that this is an extremely complex system and that banning or switching off VPNs is simply impossible” [he said] “If you try to shut everything down, the entire vast internet system could simply be...

Postdoc position in finite geometry and Ramsey theory

Anurag Bishnoi

We are advertising a 3 year postdoctoral position at the University of Western Australia to work at the interface of finite geometry and Ramsey theory. The project is led by John Bamberg at UWA, Sam Mattheus at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and me. It includes funds for extended research visits to...

What’s Your Career Survival Kit For The Artificial Intelligence Age

Abhijit Bhaduri

You have certainly heard that, “you will be replaced by someone who uses AI.” It sounds logical. It may be the wrong bet. The most dangerous career advice circulating right now is this: learn AI tools or become irrelevant. You have certainly heard that, “you will be replaced by someone who uses...

SEMANA 1. ¿Qué es el decrecimiento?

miquel-tort

¿Qué es el decrecimiento? Es lo primero que te preguntan cuando lo mencionas, y la respuesta no puede ser un eslogan. Este módulo te da el marco sólido para responder sin rodeos: no es volver a la Edad Media ni privarte de nada esencial. Es entender que vivir bien tiene un límite material.

aspect sight

soplepel

In the Hand of Dante, 2025 – ★★

zapier

https://letterboxd.com/alexanderwales/film/in-the-hand-of-dante/ The post In the Hand of Dante, 2025 – ★★ appeared first on Alexander Wales.

favourite U.K suffragette: Leonora Cohen

Hels

Police court summons and photo, Nov 1911 Photo credit: Leeds Museums & Galleries Leonora Throp Cohen (1873–1978) was born in Leeds to Canova & Jane Throp. Her father was a stone carver but died in 1879 when Leonora was only 5, after he devel­op­ed TB of the spine. This left her widowed...

Arrivederci Paolo

jonkalev

Friday Talking Points -- Rushed, Simulated, And Oddly Sterile

Chris Weigant

If anyone needed any further proof that everything that Donald Trump touches turns to schlock (or worse), this week's opening of the Great American State Fair certainly provided some. The initial idea wasn't too bad a concept -- have all 50 states send an exhibit to the National Mall, and it...

Frontier

arbourtrary@gmail.com

Relief of being somewhere unknownPlace of no pretenseNo face to put onTension giving waySome final sigh dropping expectationInto the slowest, kindest aimless walkEyes panning, absorbingLittle joys

Open Knowledge Format: I Already Do This, and Now It Has a Name

Alexander Opalic

TLDR Google Cloud shipped the Open Knowledge Format (OKF): a directory of Markdown files with YAML frontmatter that any agent can read and any human can edit. No SDK, no runtime, no database. I already do something like this in every coding repo. Markdown files the agent reads before it works,...

Hidden Cost of Hydration Mismatches

Ivan Akulov

I regularly help people with performance of their React apps. Here’s a common but surprisingly obscure issue that I keep seeing over and over: A single hydration mismatch on a page can tank Largest Contentful Paint from green all the way to red To avoid it, it’s enough to avoid hydration...

Hands

alvinsoon

When I was growing up, someone close to me labelled people. My brother was the creative one, the brave one. And by comparison, I was not, even though I wanted to be. One afternoon, they flipped to a sketch my brother had made and exclaimed how good it was. I recognised it immediately as a tracing...

Python: store extra data for objects in a WeakKeyDictionary

Adam Johnson

In several programs, I’ve wanted to solve the problem of associating extra data with an object. For example, in django-upgrade, the individual “fixer” functions often want to store extra data per visited ast.Module object. A common pattern in Python is to store the data in an extra attribute...

Ruby Memes 2026-06-26: The Ruby Clown

Andy Maleh

The brief version:The explained version:

Switching Gears for Summer

Anna Worden

My adrenaline officially crashed at 4 pm today as I walked through the door following the close of school for my 21st year. While I still have 2 days to wrap up the year, I can officially switch gears to my summer plan, both mentally and physically.  As you recall from my previous post about […]

Cleaned Isn’t Fixed

Aaron D. Campbell

Operation Endgame's SocGholish takedown was good news. It was also a warning. The cleanup bought time. The fix is what happens next. The post Cleaned Isn’t Fixed appeared first on Aaron D. Campbell.

VenusRootLoader progress report: We finally have a map entity API!

aldelaro5

I’ve been debating about how to introduce this blog post because what I have to show here is so huge, it can completely change how Bug Fables modding is done and I am not overstating it. So let’s cut to the chase and look at the results of what I have before I explain things. Here is the code I...

Be a shiny needle: crafting standout startup job applications

Archy de Berker

How to signal that you're a driven person who solves important problems.

'Couture' skims the fashion world

Robert Denerstein

Director Alice Winocour takes us to Paris for fashion week in Couture, a movie that tells three loosely related stories, one featuring Angelina Jolie. Perhaps you can already sense a problem. By having to switch the movie's focus from one character to another, Winocour loses the opportunity for...

Action Figure Review: E. Honda from Ultra Street Fighter II: The New Challengers by Jada Toys

Barbecue17

Some of you might be wondering where I've been for the past couple weeks as it's been about that long since I last published a review. We actually went on a family vacation and took a sleeper train (with a dining car) to New Orleans for a week. It was a lot of fun and I had the chance to ride in...

Sharing is Terrifying

anothersoulwandering

There's something in our brains as humans that prevents us from opening up naturally with a potentially global audience. The difference between extroversion and introversion play a massive role here. I never considered it a possibility for someone to shift from an extrovert to an introvert, but I...

Signals and noise

honza

On the moments we don't get back

The Bill That Wants My 3D Printer to Police Itself

Allen Hutchison

There is a printer humming in my workshop right now, laying down a part one 0.2mm layer at a time. It is a slow, almost meditative machine. It does not know what it is making. It does not know if the object taking shape on the bed is a bracket for my garage shelving, a fidget toy for my son, a...

Merril-approved 1959 stories by G C Edmondson and George P Elliott

MPorcius

We're still doing this, looking at the list of Honorable Mentions at the back of Judith Merril's 1960 Year's Best SF anthology and reading selected stories from it.  Last time was "D"s, today is "E"s.  Only two stories today, because Merril only has three "E" recommendations, and one is Harlan...

The Algorithmic Order

Audrey Watters

The history of education technology is inseparable from the history of standardized testing.That’s part of the argument I make in Teaching Machines, where I trace the development of both the machinery of teaching and the machinery of testing back to the early twentieth century. There are more...

2026 Week 26 Digest

anarchaeopteryx

I am still sick, still watching soccer, reading some more mysteries, and playing Zelda. I am STILL SICK and I am NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT. I felt like I had to take Mon and Tues off work, but really didn't want to take too many days and develop a reputation for unreliability. So I went in Wed and had a...