Ethan
This is a blog post that goes along with the most recent bonus pod! You can listen to the first 15 minutes of the bonus pod below, but you’ll have to subscribe on Patreon to get the RSS feed of the full episode (as well as access to our Discord). Being a proud card-carrying AMC...
Robert Denerstein
Boots Riley directed an impressive and entertaining debut film with 2018's Sorry to Bother You, an eye-popping critique of telemarketing that hit a broad range of satirical targets. Riley boosted his distinctive aesthetic -- bold colors, sight gags, and preposterous turns of plot -- with giddy...
Lennart Poettering
On June 19 we released systemd v261 into the wild. In the weeks leading up to that release (and since then) I have posted a series of serieses of posts to Mastodon about key new features in this release, under the #systemd261 hash tag. In case you aren't using Mastodon, but would like to read up,...
Ilgın Yıldız
In 1974, following the publication of her thesis, Luce Irigaray was effectively excommunicated from Jacques Lacan’s circle and from the École Freudienne de Paris (Freudian School of Paris), the institution where she had trained and which Lacan founded. She was, as one of her commentators puts it,...
Fredrik
A clear favorite. View...
Unknown
It is now a hundred years since the General Strike of May 1926, when workers all over the country walked out on strike in support of miners. The strike was strongly supported in South London industries, and there were major clashes with police. One such episode took place by the Charlton...
alobbs.com
Apple is hiking Mac prices due to rising RAM costs, though iPhone prices remain steady. The EU moves to designate Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act to ensure fair competition. In hardware breakthroughs, IBM unveiled a sub-nanometer chip with 3D...
Susan Stepney
After a long day of great talks and discussions, a small group of us went out to dinner. It was still hot, but not as hot as it has been. We found a nice fish restaurant, and I had a marvellous herb salmon and green bean dish. Walking back to the hotel via a gellato shop, we stopped to admire...
zapier
https://letterboxd.com/alexanderwales/film/the-dig-2021/ The post The Dig, 2021 – ★★★★ appeared first on Alexander Wales.
Rory
A commenter on Mefi gamely stated today that “Billionaire = Bad is a hugely popular argument both on this site and elsewhere. It’s also an argument that I don’t agree with.” The idea of arguing in favour of billionaires was objectionable to most others present, and you’d imagine should be to...
prasangika-matters
alasdairroberts
I’ve just finished a draft chapter for a forthcoming Edward Elgar volume edited by Maria Aristigueta and Calin Hintea. The volume is titled Democracy and Public Administration: At Risk Around the World, and my contribution is on the interconnected crises of governance in the US and Canada. Title...
Douglas A. Anderson
I look forward to every new issue of Chris Mikul's Biblio-Curiosa. The most recent, no. 12, came out two years ago, and now no. 13 is newly published. It has especially interesting contents, but one particularly sad piece is a memoir of Sandy Robertson (1952-2025), a rock journalist (and author...
Ben Robbins
I’ve talked about how This Means War strives to simulate a believable (but surprising) war. But now I want to talk about the other half of the game: the character-side. The idea all along was that this was a war-game that wasn’t really about war, it was about the people living through the war. All...
nihilsyurievich
anureet
Early last year I took a career break and started focusing on living a more creative and softer life. I wrote up my thoughts into a creative and soft life lab, of sorts. Learn more: creative and soft life
Abhinav
The quest for split keyboards
妖怪
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/weather/live-news/venezuela-earthquake-puerto-rico-tsunami
Nige
These are not the dog days – they come in August when the dog star, Sirius, is rising – but, by heaven, they feel like it. It's proper hot, as we say around here, and more to come tomorrow. At least the butterflies are loving it – to the extent that a Silver-Washed Fritillary paid a fleeting visit...
Akshat Jiwan Sharma
I thank ASM for organising a technical discussion on lithium ion battery interconnects. A typical battery pack could contain anywhere from a couple to thousands of cells depending upon whether it's being used for consumer electronics or high power EVs. Battery chemistry requires different...
A. P. Howell
A while back, I decided to limit my involvement in Discourse, in part because it’s a time sink (but let’s be honest, I’d find some other way to procrastinate) and mainly because my contributions are rarely significant. I’m making an exception here, because I’ve previously spoken well of Atthis...
Paul W. Homer
Back in the eighties, when I was a student, there were only two choices: you used ‘vi’ or you used ‘emacs’. I picked vi, my roommate picked emacs. The stuff he did with his editor was way cooler, but over the decades, vi has pretty much been everywhere I have stumbled. I assumed it would fall out...
Southern Fried Science
Another example of the Trump Administration ignoring science There are many ways to make an endangered species less inconvenient. You can weaken regulations. You can exempt industries from environmental review. You can convene the Endangered Species Committee—the infamous “God Squad”—to override...
jesusrrodriguez
Una reflexión sobre cómo la ironía y el lenguaje digital transformaron la manera en que expresamos el vacío, la incertidumbre y la búsqueda de sentido en una época dominada por la saturación de estímulos.
maxpower
Nat
We just purchased a (used) display case, so it finally became time to put together the set of Japanese Snoopy’s Book Cafe miniatures that I’d purchased a couple years back. Rather than using the two-pieces-of-cardboard backdrop that comes with the set, we purchased a larger, plastic set of walls...
Alan
Taking a break from the TV and all the fitba, I was out and about this week doing a bit of visiting and looking for ice cream. Fields of grain. Sunny skies. I heard Indigo Buntings on separate country roads. Had me a mango sugar cone, thanks for asking. And no brain melting heat like the reports...
alecm
Digital Sovereignty has exactly the same problem that Cybersecurity has / always has had: it is an abstract concept which has been co-opted by the state, the state having mistaken it for a political and administrative goal that it is in their gift to create and bless, rather than an emergent...
joeychung
<span class='p-author h-card'>Andrew Doran</span>
My regular morning view from the hotel gym, looking out across the Rosebank suburb of Johannesburg. When last week’s Sun City-based conference was announced, I decided to extend my stay in South Africa so that I could spend some time with our team members who are based there. It wasn’t perfect...
Mrs. Agent Palmer
When it came to finding another “Blind Date with…” option, my choices were limited. However, when I came across this one during my search, it was definitely right up my alley. And as you have probably already gathered from the title of this post, I am of course talking about a coloring book.
Tony
Some sad news to share on the blog this week: the passing of Exidy co‑founder and arcade pioneer Howell Ivy. His impact on the early years of arcade gaming cannot be underestimated. After serving in the US Air Force, working on missile instrumentation and drone systems operation, Howell entered...
EI3LH
An Elecraft KH1 and FT8? Together? On the same platform? That can’t be right? I am not a great fan of FT8. That concludes this blog entry. Thanks for reading. Okay, I’ll write a bit more if I must. I don’t really hold a candle for all of the new-fangled data modes e.g. FT8, FT4, […]
soplepel
step for step has a between that can blur and when it does, it has a quality, and on a continuity with size, such as how color is related to wavelength
dignitybydesign
arnold-gamboa-dev
Pastors are often told that the solution to better AI output is a better prompt. I think that is only partly true. A better prompt can help. But if you have to re-explain your church, your sermon series, your theological boundaries, your congregation, your voice, and your approval standards every...
Joe Crawford
Last week I took some days off for a family event. It was a lovely trip. It’s commonplace to dread flying in the United States these days, and so it was terrific that it was uneventful. In addition to family time which I won’t share, Kelly and I got to tool around D.C. and Virginia a bit. Kelly...
andrei
A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger. Continuing the John Grisham streak, this ie one of the few movies I knew about, but never seen. Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts in their prime do a great job at filling the roles, but the whole ocnspiracy thingie feels...
Andrew Woodward
I have upped my Mac game this week with the arrival of a new M4 Mac Mini from the Apple Refurbished Store in Australia. I picked up a 16/256 for USD600 including Sales Tax. It’s for my amateur radio operators and I’ve written up a post on it. SDR Play says iOS and Android apps are on their way...
S. Brady Calhoun
HA HA HA YES! Double Dragon undefeated. I’ll take almost any movie where everyone knows Kung Fu but how wonderful it is to get one that is so well made. This flick is not interested in character development because it sticks to its lane of noble good guys verses unique and in a few...
anthonysdesk
A gorgeous canvas invites you in. I cannot speak for those who paint or sketch as I have no such skill. But for the written word there seems to be an enormous chasm between note apps focused on the aesthetics of writing and all the rest. I find it somewhat ironic, or perhaps even tragic, that the...
Jack Shear
The current Krevborna campaign continued with an adventure adapted from the old Ravenloft scenario book Chilling Tales. CharactersDario Diego Durant, swashbuckling swordsmanDoctor Anastasia Nadya Strahov, a gun-priest who says strange things about bloodJohanna Albrecht, a lycan bard with a...
FAQ Editor
With care. AI is not yet intelligent — it cannot think for itself, only make guesses based on statistics and inference [added]
Chris Weigant
Perhaps it is time for some reflection. That (or similar jokes and puns) is now the easiest way to poke fun at Donald Trump's absolute incompetence. Trump subscribes to the Silicon Valley maxim "move fast and break things," which you will note does not include "and fix things" or anything...
Andre Costopoulos
About three years ago, archaeologist Lee Berger and a number of colleagues published a group of papers claiming that Homo naledi, one of our cousins who lived in southern Africa around 300,000 years ago, intentionally buried their dead, and created engravings on the walls of the Rising Star cave...
jesusrrodriguez
La llegada de la inteligencia artificial no plantea solo un cambio tecnológico, sino una pregunta más profunda sobre la naturaleza del periodismo y la mirada humana que lo sostiene.
abmurrow
Readable Theme abmurrow Thu, 25 Jun 2026 - 11:11
ashermind
Robert Denerstein
Here we go again. DC Comics has added a new name to what feels like an infinite number of comic-book villains. It almost seems as if there are as many villains as there are drug commercials on TV. Some of these fiends even have names that sound like missed opportunities for drug companies. ...
Frank DENIS random thoughts.
The new lazy comment’s “AI-generated”. On Hacker News, every thread about a programming language that isn’t Rust eventually gets a Rust comment. It doesn’t matter if the topic’s C, Zig, Go, PHP, Elixir, or a database. Somebody will find a way to turn the discussion into Rust. We now have the...