unspecified
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be. This unique existence of the work of art determined the history to which it was subject throughout the time of its existence....
Akshat Jiwan Sharma
I thank the American Center for inviting me to a panel discussion on USA’s engineering excellence that has made the USA the leader in deep space exploration. While NASA had its origin in Aeronautics, its pivot towards space exploration during the cold war era birthed the space industry. Since...
John Connors
Superhero films are not generally a lot of fun when there’s serious world saving to be done yet Supergirl ,while it does have some darker hues to its story, is light and breezy enough to make you smile. Unlike the most recent Superman its clear his cousin takes her responsibilities a lot less...
Andy Wightman
The Scottish Parliament has made some welcome changes to its procedures to increase transparency and accountability but, unfortunately, they do not appear to be making much of a difference. The first alarm bells rung for me when the Parliamentary Bureau [1] set about deciding from which...
Blacksteel
I found myself forced to the sidelines here for most of June thanks to some hospital time - there's a first time for everything! - but I am getting back into the swing of things. I'll focus on the miniature stuff today and talk about the rest in another post.I did manage to order and receive the...
Bret Devereaux
This is the third part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. In the last part, we looked at the various ways pre-modern armies might mobilize their armies, a process...
Brandon Rector
The Ten Club has announced that Eddie is headed to Brazil this November for 2 headlining nights at Best of Blues and Rock 2026! These special performances will take place on Friday, November 20 and Sunday, November 22 at Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo, Brazil.#pearljam
Marika Rose
I’ve not read everything that sci-fi/fantasy author Lois McMaster Bujold has written, but from what I have read, she sure loves to set a fantasy world in a key site of the emergence of the modern racial structures whilst trying to imagine what it might have been like if they’d been good, actually....
Alex Postolache
Hello and welcome back to another exciting tutorial! In part 1 we built a symmetrical mandala with smoothing, speed-based thickness, and Tweakpane.Today we're leveling up that same foundation with three ideas:Fading trails — we remember recent segments and redraw them with transparency so older...
4gravitons
It’s been a while since I’ve said this: I’m at a conference this week! Specifically, I’m at Lancefest, which is not just any old conference, but a birthday conference for Lance Dixon. When a renowned academic turns 60 or so, their students and collaborators hold a birthday party-flavored...
Jimmy Maher
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, had been slowly turning from friend to foe of Henry VI ever since Henry allowed Gloucester’s wife Eleanor to be arrested and imprisoned for witchcraft and treason. The Treaty of Tours proved to be the last straw. Gloucester complained bitterly about the dishonorable...
prasangika-matters
king-alexander
Work is inseparable from the human experience. It is the context in which we pour much of our energy and develop dimensions of our character that distinguish us within our communities. Work makes demands on our creativity, rewards our ability to problem solve, and supplies an avenue for us to...
Ankur Sethi
Alistair Davidson writes about migrating a form-heavy web application from a React SPA to a traditional server-rendered HTML-first website. The entire article is worth reading, but I want to draw attention to this bit about analytics (emphasis mine): The results? When we launched, the number of...
A. P. Howell
Check out the Furry Books Summer Sampler on itch.io! (Southern hemisphere folks experiencing winter are also invited.) The bundle runs from June 26 – August 17, $10 for 10 books ranging from shorts to series, science fiction to self-help. My short story “Femme Prédatrice” is included. I’ve...
maragalli
Fredrik
Morgan live and at his very best. View...
Christof
Adam Rowe
A 2008 essay collection of artists discussing the merits of digital tools, including Jael, John Berkey, Jill Bauman, Tom Kidd, Frank Wu, and more.
Adam McLane
The murder occurred in 2006. The senior pastor waited 19 years to go to the police. He knew his former employee had killed his wife to cover up ongoing sexual abuse at the church. You can read about it here. At the time of his arrest I’ll give you one guess where this guy was a working? At...
luisaperkins
slwriter
anthonysdesk
The sports teams I played on as a youngster always lost. Little league. Youth football. Even the impromptu kickball teams formed during recess. Always, always lost. There was just one common denominator. Me. The winning teams were celebrated as heroes. Sometimes with awards, always with awe. I...
AntiPolygraph.org
Q COSTA RICA reports that the country’s Attorney General, Carlo Díaz, is unwilling to submit to polygraph screening conducted by a private company, as Costa Rica’s new president, Laura Fernández, is requiring of members of her “Fuerza Élite” (Elite Force). As previously reported by the Tico Times,...
TomCat
The first, of two, stories making up Motohiro Katou's Q.E.D. iff vol. 3, "Three Killers," concern three women, Kurotsu Yui, Okada Miki and Fujishima Akiko, who have all fallen victim to Yamaguchi Senji – president of a predatory investment company ("let them try and sue me"). They all three lost...
Peter Harmsen
Art.IWM ART LD 4503 Behind every great literary epic, there are real, deeply human ghosts. For the internationally acclaimed Eurasian author and physician Han Suyin, that ghost was her first husband: General Tang Pao-huang. To history, Tang is remembered as a staunchly patriotic, deeply...
Undine
Welcome to this week's Link Dump! Our hosts for this Friday are Goldie and Brownie!Because why not.A plague outbreak from over 5,000 years ago.A case of explosive revenge.A medieval communication network.How angry fishermen saved the American Revolution.A remarkable amber pendant.The liver-eating...
anon0
Happy to say I only ever had Netflix for one winter, long ago, even then I noticed after two months that there was a looot of filler and slop. A way cheaper or even free alternative to Netflix -that is better in every way, and can be set up in under three minutes- is Stremio. This video explains...
jesusrrodriguez
El show de Truman anticipó una época donde la vida, la identidad y la intimidad comienzan a organizarse alrededor de la mirada externa. Una reflexión sobre espectáculo, tecnología y la necesidad de recuperar espacios propios fuera de la exposición permanente.
Dr Marcus Bunyan
Exhibition dates: 24th January – 28th June, 2026 Curator: Emilia Mickevicius, Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography at the Phoenix Art Museum Claire A. Warden (Canadian)GeneticsNdFrom the series Mimesis (2015-ongoing)Cameraless Photograph© Claire A. Warden ...
Prime Number
It is June 26, 2026 and Metallica’s ReLoad (Remastered) is officially released. It comes in: Note: My copy was delivered yesterday, and I found a slug munching on the box. It’s time for me to get lost in the ReLoad moments. I saw Metallica on the “Poor ReTouring Me” tour back in 1998.
afarshadblog
As an Iranian, I normally have to give a lecture about “why I'm not muslim” and “the reasons I don't support many actions of the regime” after meeting a new foreigner. With Chinese people, it doesn't happen quite often. They usually react with “you have a very ancient and rich history,” and “Iran...
definitelystillanamateur
Alexei's character presents Ilya with a difficult choice to make. The only problem is the choice is embedded in the subtext. Read for more details about Ilya's struggle.
Challenger Tom
Avila Beach Drive is an approximately 4.5-mile highway in San Luis Obispo County which connects US Route 101 to Port San Luis. This roadway initially developed east of San Luis Obispo Creek in 1869 at the end of a tram line connecting Port Harford (now Port San Luis) to Avila Beach. The western...
Jonathan Green
It is FREE RPG DAY on Saturday 27th June 2026. But I can't afford to be giving things away so, how about this instead?For this weekend only, you can purchase the PDF of any ACE Gamebook or ACE Gamebooks Roleplay RPG for just 99p on DriveThruRPG!Missing an adventure from your collection? Add it...
Roberto
In Part 1 of this series we explored the friendly foundations of machine learning: Classification Regression Clustering Neural networks Training Testing Overfitting Decision trees Reinforcement learning Data cleaning Feature engineering Model evaluation. That first journey helped...
jlmc
zapier
https://letterboxd.com/alexanderwales/film/clue/ The post Clue, 1985 – ★★★½ appeared first on Alexander Wales.
Alexandre Storelli
Sans commentaire.Dans cette thématique, roman d'Abel Quentin autour du rapport Meadows.Cabane - Abel Quentin - BabelioCritiques (213), citations (242), extraits de Cabane de Abel Quentin. °°° Rentrée littéraire 2024 # 41 °°° Abel Quentin s’est inspiré du…Et du piètre traitement du sujet de...
andrei
The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s. Yeah, probably the best biopic out there, on par with Walk the Line. Not...
zerflinart
I’m in a show. Three of my pieces have been accepted for What Carries Us Through, an exhibition at SBM Gallery in Baltimore running July 3rd through the 30th. The opening reception is July 3rd from 5 to 7pm at 422 S Highland Ave. The show asks artists to submit work with at least a decade...
Andy Rush
The sagas. They continue. The drone life, or lack thereof, is not just one saga, but many sagas. Prompted by my colleague, friend, and fellow blog journeyman, Gardner Campbell, I am providing an update to my post from back in January about My Last DJI Drone. Since then I’ve flown the DJI Neo 2...
abmurrow
NixOS + Drupal Talk: DrupalSouth 2026 abmurrow Fri, 26 Jun 2026 - 13:30
Ankit Gadiya
TIL about the which-function-mode in Emacs. It is a global minor mode that displays the current function in the mode line when enabled.
hello@alexeystar.com
U jednom selu kod Крагујевца živela je velika породица, ali nisu mogli da se slažu jedni sa drugima zbog srpskog писма. Dok su neki više voleli da koriste ћирилицу, drugi su radije koristili латиницу. U цркви je uvek bilo свађе oko toga na kojem писму treba da bude молитвеник, ali to je njihovoj...
johna
How conversations about AI became an exercise in democratic life.
Unknown
It now has eight live endpoints, a tiered pricing page and an alpha banner warning people the schemas might still move under them. None of that was the plan. The plan was to understand how UK rail data actually fits together, and to work out how to use an LLM properly on something real instead of...
82MHz
It's July again! Soon, anyway. And this means two things: Heat waves (hate it) and computer shenanigans thanks to the Old Computer Challenge (love it). This is what I started this blog with three years ago, and I've participated every year since. Last year the community was a bit meh, and for a...
Andy Maleh
The Ruby community in 2026 is dominated by mean discriminators and their benefactors (they're about 50% of the community at least). Many devs in the Ruby community who are indirect (unconscious) or direct benefactors of discrimination have this attitude of "well, if this discrimination problem is...
Chris Weigant
At times, I almost feel sorry for John Thune. This is not a normal thing for me to feel, since he is the Republican Senate majority leader. But watching Donald Trump callously make Thune's job a lot harder than it needs to be almost makes me feel sorry for him. Almost.