All One Kind of Story Makes J a Dull Writer
jjezzick
All One Kind of Movie Makes J a Dull Writer
She orders him to have sex
Robert Denerstein
Erika Tracy is a Los Angeles art star. Just ask her. As played by Olivia Wilde, Erika becomes the driving force in I Want Your Sex, director Gregg Araki's satirical look at a conceptual artist who hires a floundering 23-year-old college graduate (Cooper Hoffman) as a studio assistant. Delighted to...
SUMMER MUSINGS: True audiophile aspirations; recent events in the audiophile culture - end of Atkinson's Stereophile measurements, YouTube influencer legal drama.
Archimago's Musings
Returning to Writing: An Introduction of Sorts
jen-guardiner
Returning to writing once more, I have also found that my ideas have moved on from 2019, when I first started The House of the Mind. New ideas have been inspired and old ideas have percolated for longer and developed in new directions and reached new depths...
Heart Check by Eva Ujhelyi
nolitethoughts
Join me on my journey to fight a seemingly never-ending writer's block and rediscover the joy of writing through one short fiction at a time.
Guilty
namvastum
Who am I?
kristoyanova
A little bit about the person behind the writing
Être ou ne pas naître.
namvastum
"Abuse" is the very essence of life.
namvastum
The Wall of Fire
dignitybydesign
#Deva Loneliness
prasangika-matters
Briefing
alobbs.com
Two British Scattered Spider members were sentenced to 5.5 years for the 2024 Transport for London cyberattack, the UK’s largest cybercrime prosecution. A tech support scam at Qantas exposed data of 5.7 million people. An AWS CloudFront outage due to storm winds disrupted sites like the UK...
The Human Algorithm
robotkinz
Cracking ourselves up. But not necessary with laughter.
Arriving Late to a Map Someone Already Drew
dignitybydesign
An academic faces oppression in Iran
Robert Denerstein
Collaborating on a screenplay with Marjorie David, Israeli director Eran Riklis tells a story of academic oppression in Iran, basing his movie on a best-selling memoir by Azar Nafisi. In 1979, Nafisi (Golshifteh Farahani) and her husband (Arash Marandi) returned to Iran. Ayatollah Khomeini had...
Jamoncito FX: My Casio FX870P Logbook Software.
EI3LH
Logging QSO’s on a calculator. Does it add up? UPDATED: I have now published the code on my Github repository. I have added lots of new features including the ability to print records to compatible electrostatic Casio printers. Enjoy! I recently happened upon a fantastic Web-based emulator of a...
Tracking Christopher Nolan's 'Odyssey'
Robert Denerstein
You've already seen The Odyssey. You've probably seen it many times. I'm not talking about filmed versions, one in 1954 and another in 1997. I'm talking about movies that -- knowingly or not -- have retold the Odyssey story, if not literally, then by mimicking its structure. You know the...
Philosophie als strukturelle Eigenschaft des menschlichen Denkens
inga-h
Kann eine Gesellschaft ohne Philosophie existieren? Diese Frage entstand aus einem Gespräch mit Ted Vilella.
A Beautiful Thing
michael-graeme
Briefing
alobbs.com
Microsoft continues using dark patterns to push Edge, a Mozilla-commissioned report reveals, with misleading wording and forced resets—though EU rules curb this in Europe. A former employee’s lawsuit alleges AWS data centers secretly consume water year-round, contradicting its “water positive”...
How Traveling With Friends Can Test and Strengthen Your Relationships
beyondborders
Traveling with friends can be one of the most revealing experiences in any relationship. Shared adventures bring both challenges and beautiful moments of connection, showing us new sides of the people we care about and often deepening the bond in unexpected ways.
What Changes When You Stop Expecting Your Partner to Read Your Mind
beyondborders
One of the most common but rarely discussed habits in relationships is expecting our partner to read our mind. When we let go of that expectation and begin speaking our needs clearly, communication improves, resentment fades, and a deeper, more honest intimacy often grows in its place.
A letter that I sent to my MP about climate change inaction, and you can too!
The Grey Literature
Dear Marie-Gabrielle Ménard, Like many Canadians, I've spent this summer watching videos of locomotive engines engulfed in flames, while our skies have been stained orange for days by wildfire smoke. Ask anyone from Lac-Mégantic, Lytton, or Fort McMurray. Whether through transporting fossil...
The Strategic Imperative of Data Centers: Powering the Path to the Singularity
jt-ai-meets-mindfulness
#Which Body Died
prasangika-matters
Time Is The New Rich
Anthony Isola
True wealth is owning your time. Outlaying money to save time is the integral ingredient for life satisfaction. Funds spent to avoid unpleasant chores and the like provides a tremendous ROI. Research across four countries confirms the vital role of trading money for time for quality of life...
NUTMEG! (Sumo Digital, 2026)
Every Game I've Finished
NUTMEG! (Sumo Digital, 2026)Developed/Published by: Sumo Digital, Sumo Digital Academy / Secret ModeReleased: 26/03/2026Completed: 06/07/2026Completion: Won the Egg Cup with Carlisle!The World Cup grinding on finally gave me a reason to give my time to this, Sumo Digital’s “Nostalgic Deckbuilding...
The Complicated Romance Between Cats and Their People
grumpy-welshman
Five Historical Redefinitions That Hindered the Great Experiment
dignitybydesign
Checkmate - Write-up - TryHackMe
Alexandre ZANNI
InformationRoom#Name: CheckmateProfile: tryhackme.comDifficulty: EasyDescription: Exploit weak password practices across Marco’s internal systems to achieve full compromise.Write-upOverview#Install tools used in this WU on BlackArch Linux:sudo pacman -S legba cewl cupp john ruby var ctx =...
The Coming Revolution in How We Build Software: Why Programming Languages as We Know Them May Be Obsolete
Brian McQuay
Every programming language we've ever built was optimized for human cognitive limits — small functions because we can't hold much in working memory, descriptive names because we forget. LLMs don't have those limits. So why are we still making them write in languages designed for us?
Before Loss
joeychung
Briefing
alobbs.com
TerraFirma, a construction tech startup founded by former SpaceX engineers, raised $115M for remotely operated equipment. Uber is in advanced talks to acquire Delivery Hero for over €11.2B. Google Images launched a Pinterest-like redesign with AI image creation in Search. Switch hired banks for a...
Has the belt and road initiative achieved its objective?
ashwinsharma
What is Belt and Road Inititative and how has it shaped the world
El voto en blanco que se firma todos los días
jesusrrodriguez
Un análisis de la figura del ciudadano apolítico como producto de una inversión histórica, donde el repliegue a lo privado termina blindando el poder que dice evitar
#When Does the Butterfly Dream?
prasangika-matters
The White Space. Chapter 17 Everything went differently than planned
slwriter
Thesis ~ The Strangest of all Attractors || Preface
robotkinz
This is the Preface for my first book, entitled Thesis ~ The Strangest of all Attractors. The Hasmian Rosetta Stone Inscriptions by Mary-Anne Rutherford McGalland
The African Solution
logical-minds-only
African development is world development, Africa is no different in what it needs than any other nation.
I Just Want to Work with Fucking Professionals: Tools Don't Create Professionals. They Expose Them.
jdubyou
Populism, Pluralism, and Collective Power
dignitybydesign
The One Berry That Brought Me Home
Oneberri Blog
My Flyer and I When my father moved to the States, he missed one fruit he grew up with: Jamun. It’s a tasty, sweet-tart superfruit that’s been enjoyed in South Asia for centuries and has long been valued for its medicinal benefits. At the time, hardly anyone in USA had even heard of it, so he...
View from home.
mer
Episode One - The Threefold Death
douglaswright
Biografías interrumpidas
jesusrrodriguez
Hay momentos en que una vida deja de sentirse como una trayectoria y empieza a parecer una sucesión de fragmentos. ¿Qué ocurre cuando la continuidad de uno mismo comienza a debilitarse?
SIDS and Vaccines – A Review of Anti-Vaccine Theories
Vincent Iannelli, MD
Not surprisingly, the idea that vaccines could be associated with SIDS is one of the earliest theories put out by anti-vaccine influencers. “Often the fatality described to me has befallen the infant of a poor mother, who… tried to shield her offspring from the vaccinator’s lancet… only...
Why Small Daily Habits and Steady Consistency Work Better for Long-Term Well-Being
beyondborders
People often chase dramatic transformations, but the ones who enjoy good health for decades usually rely on something quieter: small daily habits and steady consistency. This gentle approach respects real life, builds lasting change, and creates a peaceful relationship with yourself that feels sustainable and kind.
#The Archimedean Sūtra
prasangika-matters
Commitment (fiction) Part III of IV
gregoryadamsfiction
Casper grins right back, and his eyes laugh crazy little quiet laugh. “Oh, yes, I know. Why night, when, if this was before the greater part of Creation, there is as of yet no sun? Why horns, when there is no air, why rank and file and command, when all is peaceful, and there can be no reason for war, because there is no enemy?”
The Loo
keeperofsheep