Allen Cheung
"The world is moving faster than ever…", and all of its paraphrased clichés, have become a personal pet peeve. It shows up in business articles, podcasts, and plenty of advertising, to trigger a sense of anxiety and uncertainty about change. Just before they try to sell you something. That's not...
soplepel
an exploration of the meaning of being with fealty to ontological realism
Aurooba
We keep calling AI a tool, but the more interesting question is which parts of how we work only existed because intelligence used to be scarce. Source
Andy Wheeler
AI disclosure – I used AI to write this blog post. I figure having an AI blog post is better than not writing it at all. I will always disclose though if I use AI to heavily write any content on this blog. (I use it for minor copy editing all the time.) For the tech details, I used gemini flash...
Arun Chandrasekaran
Andrew Thaler
Last week, I published an OpEd at The Hill arguing that the Trump Administration has fundamentally altered the United States’ relationship to the international maritime community and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. It’s tough to capture everything I wanted to say in a few brief...
jimmy
– A friend recently picked up This Is Happiness by Niall Williams. That’s a book I often praise. I love its deep Irishness and humor. She laughed at the opening chapter, which I had forgotten: It had stopped raining. That was it. – – There are many, many more words that come later, but there are...
absurdthoughts
I realized a few days ago, that over the last few weeks my youtube usage on the phone and PC got a bit out of hand again. So I looked into how I can reduce my youtube time and with that my screentime further. I mentioned before that it is possible to deactivate the youtube history. So I went...
arimamary-afterdark
Trying something new. I've grown weary of my main Obsidian vault. I want a place to take notes on ideas for my stories. Paper doesn't attract to me but it's probably the best idea as a quick catch-all. ANYWAYS, yesterday while I was putting on my mental home video/daydreaming sesh, something...
kojobaffoe
Doug Muder
These are the values and traditions I believe in, and they are not Republican or Democratic values. They’re American values we can all share. - Barack Obama, opening the Obama Center Friday This week's featured post is "Story Games". Ongoing stories Trump's assault on American...
adansix
A poetic text for Mondays, in German and English Das Auge - das Tor zur Seele. Damit können wir reflektieren und einen Blick in die Zukunft werfen. Wir sehen, fühlen, leiden mit bei allem, was wir beobachten und wo wir nicht eingreifen können. Alle in diesem Zug merken es, schreien innerlich und...
rhomexblak
Imagine walking into your favorite library. You know exactly where the fiction section is. It’s always on the second floor, to the left of the stairs. The librarian knows where you go. Your feet know the way. It’s muscle memory. It is a week later when you walk in, and…
slwriter
ahmetasabanci
Intro In my hometown, Adana, summers are really hot. Which means most people do the bare minimum during the summer months and just wait for it to be over. That’s why my brain just doesn’t want to accept the fact that I’m having a really busy June — and possibly a busy summer in general — and it...
adamfineart
I’m joining forces with my friend Dominic Sanchez-Cabello this week in a talk at the Royal Academy, bringing to life our work on rebuilding the oeuvre of Emma Soyer (c. 1809-1842). The audience of Bendor Grosvenor’s connoisseurship course will receive our first public talk on the matter, which has...
Simon Dalvai
As expected v0.8.0 introduced a bug with the save game editor. Thanks to a player that reported the reproducible bug, I was able to fix it already. So this version brings two bug fixes and small league/team size checks in the editor. No new features are introduced. Here the full changelog as...
Aaron D. Campbell
Product teams shouldn't begin with a feature list. They should define the customer experience first, then let that shape the flows, interface, design, and functionality. The post Start With the Experience, Not the Feature List appeared first on Aaron D. Campbell.
Amanda Hinton
I have many small goals and curiosities lined up for my batch at the Recurse Center, but also two big themes of proposed work: build Chromaculture and get better at wielding LLMs. While I didn’t set out to develop intense scaffolding for an AI, I did end up learning a lot about the project under...
robotkinz
These were written as two separate posts, over on my Substack. But they're both related to each other, so I slapped them together as one thing. If you're going to read this, do so at your own discretion. This is why I named these collection of editorials "Awful Opinions."
Adam Rowe
Three new limited-run John Berkey prints went on sale recently. Granted, they're not cheap: Each of these will cost $300. They're beautiful, though! I particularly like the first one I'm including here."Portal""Battle Of The Spiral Star""The Sightless Bird"And no, I'm not being paid to promote...
hydrobates
Here I consider a system of ODE or equivalently a vector field on an open subset of Euclidean space. The question is in what way it can be simplified by a coordinate transformation. This leads to the theory of normal forms. My main source for what follows is the book ‘Qualitative Theory of Planar...
4q
What is Dave wearing today? Dave looks athletic this morning in a a white running top, green running shorts, white socks, and gray sneakers. How does Dave feel today? Dave feels good and you knew that he would now. What are the factors affecting Dave's mood? Dave enjoyed a sunrise constitutional,...
Andrea Badgley
For whatever reason, reading as a pastime doesn’t seem to elicit side-eye or shame like playing video games or watching TV does. Reading is just as much of an escape from the real world as screens are, and as an avid reader, I often wonder, what am I trying to escape? I wonder if I spend too much...
Nige
McGonagall, thou shouldst be living at this hour...'Twas in the year twenty twenty-six, on the twenty-second day of June – Which many political commentators and others said was not a day too soon –That the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, stood outside 10 Downing Street and announced his...
alasdairroberts
I spoke with Nicole Brockbank of CBC News about recent changes to Ontario’s freedom of information law. Read the story here.
Undine
"Owensboro Messenger," January 29, 1911, via Newspapers.comEarly in 1910, American newspapers breathlessly carried the story of what appeared to be a particularly shocking double homicide. This account comes from the "Republican News Item" for January 6:The mystery of the death of Miss Grace...
Belghast
Good Morning, Folks! If you have not been around this blog for long, one of the things that you have to know is that mixtapes are really important to me. I have spent large swaths of my life creating carefully curated lists of songs for the purpose of creating an experience greater than the parts....
beyondborders
Sometimes the days begin to feel like they are repeating inside your body. Stepping away from old routines, even briefly, can give your nervous system space to breathe again. Here is why distance heals in such a gentle way.
Kanjo Bassett
JR East catches a lot of criticism, some rightly so, for having outdated, old fashioned apps and web services with crusty, confusing UI. As for me, I’d rather have something […]
joeychung
TomCat
Percy Montgomery "Monte" Barrett was an American author, newspaperman and cartoon writer from Mitchell, Indiana, who co-created with artist Frank Ellis the original "spunky girl reporter" character, Jane Arden – cited as the prototype for similar characters like Lois Lane. More importantly than...
anondev
Probably to own a self sustaining business. Something that can generate enough revenue that grows with the inflation, and not against it. That is all we want in life, isn't it? The reason for it is to own things and experiment with things to fulfill the drive to create and share. Sure, we can go...
Audrey Watters
Witold Jaworski
In the previous post we projected scale plans onto 3D model surface: Figure 127-1 Reference drawing, mapped onto model surface In this post we will use so-called “texture baking” method to unwrap this image into the UV space. This way we create an accurate reference image for various...
Ben
tuhat
Douglas A. Anderson
Darkly Bright Press's new Arthur Machen collection, The Guide, is a 260+ page compilation of "eighty-two works originally published across twenty-seven periodicals and spanning nearly three decades," to quote from editor Christopher Tompkins's "A Brief Introduction." It is subtitled "A Collection...
garyglass
The privilege of creativity
Meg Elison
My coming-of-age American mythos satire is out, and I have curated a playlist to accompany it for your listening pleasure. Most of the songs are about who we are and where we come from, and what a pain in the ass that all is. Some of these songs are about the unbearable weight of history, both...
ashermind
arnold-gamboa-dev
I am increasingly convinced that the first question pastors should ask about AI is not, “Can it write this sermon?” A better question is: “Can it help me work with the notes I already have?” That difference matters. A blank AI prompt invites the tool to lead. It asks the machine to decide the...
jlmc
alecm
Oh look! It’s ITAR for AI, done worse and with an option for both supply-chain AND salt-typhoon/type attacks, to no great benefit: The CSA aims to address those loopholes, mandating that chip exporters better track where advanced chips are sent, via either bespoke location-verification...
VJ
We're no strangers to the glory of the Icelandic black scene, which has always aimed for production of music with ever-present ferocity, and continental significance. Most of the bands active during the previous decade dominated my playlists of favorites, some of which I still consider recordings...
Mert Bulan
A couple of years ago, I was taking a walk in Stadtpark when I saw a group of people holding clipboards and pens. They were talking to people who were sitting or walking around the park. Later, I learned that they were collecting signatures for a popular initiative (Volksinitiative).At that time,...
Joe Crawford
First thing firstly: I went to OB this morning. It was uneventful. Chilly. Wonderful after several days of not being in the ocean. I was in Northern Virginia / Washington D.C. Instagram used to be where I’d post trip photos. As the platform has worsened, I do it less. That obliges me to post here...
andrei
A Memphis law school graduate battles an insurance giant. Strong legal drama about a young lawyer that fights an army of layers representing an insurance corporation. Under the direction of the great Francis Ford Coppola, the movie shows strong performances from a lot of great actors, and keeps...
Adam Young
Getting a little more organized in my workshop. My pain point was boxes of nails or screws falling off shelves. And, of course, I wanted an excuse to use the laser cutter. I took a lesson from Minecrafters and put an instance of what was inside the box on the front id the box.
Jack Shear
The other day, someone asked me if there were any specific authors that influenced the way I wrote Ornamental Women. (What, you don't have a copy of Ornamental Women, my Gothic Fantasy novel, that is available in print and ebook? Well, you can remedy that here.)These are some of the authors whose...