Clue, 1985 – ★★★½
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Qui aurait pu prédire… (INA)
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...
!@! Movies: Ray (2004)
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...
Comic Cuts — 26 June 2026
Steve
After the excitement and socializing of last week, it has been a very quiet week. I promised myself that I'd take a couple of days off after such a hectic weekend at the Comic Swap Meet (scroll down for a report on that). I sold some books, so the first job was to do a stock take and order up some...
What Carries Us Through: Three Pieces, Twenty Years
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...
The Drone Sagas
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...
Battle Garegga | Super Easy 1CC | Xbox One
bcengine
The time finally came to take on a beast of the genre: Battle Garegga, made by Raizing. There are few games as revered and as scary to jump into. But there are modes on the Shmup Beginners List, so clearly there are more approachable modes. I started by playing Premium, which is a new arrange that...
NixOS + Drupal Talk: DrupalSouth 2026
abmurrow
NixOS + Drupal Talk: DrupalSouth 2026 abmurrow Fri, 26 Jun 2026 - 13:30
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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.
U Jednom Селу
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...
Public Philosophy, Public Democracy
johna
How conversations about AI became an exercise in democratic life.
Headcode started as a project to learn UK rail data
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...
Linkdump No 113
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...
The Ruby Community in 2026
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...
Housing Bill Chaos
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.
The Menswear In Heat (1995)
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...
Wild and crazy? Maybe too much so
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...
Mastodon Stories for systemd v261
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,...
Luce Irigaray, Feminist Theory, and the Essentialism Debate
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,...
”2 3 4” by Shelly Manne on Impulse A-20
Fredrik
A clear favorite. View...
General Strike 1926: a riverside clash in Charlton
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...
Briefing
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...
Trieste sunset
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...
The Dig, 2021 – ★★★★
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Wall to wall sunshine at the Greyhound, for the firm's summer party
Paul Bailey
The Greyhound at Charcott isn’t the nearest pub to where I work, although it is the second closest. It’s a 10–15-minute stroll away, with a choice of two routes, one of which means keeping one’s wits about oneself due to the way drivers treat a country lane, as a racetrack. That road is known as...
Moris Tepper interview #3
Steve
Welcome to the third part of my series of interviews with Magic Band guitarist Moris Tepper. We have now reached 1978 and discuss the productive few years that saw the release of Shiny Beast and Doc At The Radar Station. There were also lengthy tours to promote both albums. As well as discussing...
GIS Datasets for Climate and Heat
Frank
I presented a poster last April on the library’s GIS and Data Services at the CHAIRS-C conference at the Brown School of Public Health. CHAIRS-C is an acronym for Center on Heat, Health, and Aging Innovation and Research Solutions for Communities; it’s a small cluster whose members are interested...
Egg Paradox 🥚
barraqueira
As an AI trainer, there is a fun game to test AI image models and see how far we still are from having an “intuitive human” model. This is not a test of image generation, but of cultural human reasoning. Ask the model ( Chat GPT) to generate 12 eggs. It will likely give you a carton with 12 eggs....
Rich List
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...
I Did Not Say Goodbye
prasangika-matters
Working paper on democracy in US & Canada
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...
A New Issue of Biblio-Curiosa
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...
Living In the War, a Dev Journal
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...
Alito: There's No Way To Know If The President Is Racist
Denny Carter
Willful ignorance is a key – maybe the key – to bad-faith jurisprudence. If you can pretend you don't experience reality the same way others do, you can rule any way you want. No one knows this quite like Samuel Alito knows this. The guy who a couple months back helped to green-light Texas...
Morphology and Moral Performance
nihilsyurievich
creative & soft life lab
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
Weekly Post #129
Abhinav
The quest for split keyboards
Live updates: Venezeula earthquakes leave 164 dead; search and rescue underway in Caracas | CNN
妖怪
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/weather/live-news/venezuela-earthquake-puerto-rico-tsunami
Hot
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...
Battery interconnects & industrial bottlenecks to electrification
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...
Help me, but don't touch the paper!
Michael Frank
As I’m discussing paper writing with more folks in the age of Claude Code and other coding assistants, we’re having more discussions about how to use these tools in writing. Per my earlier post, I don't want AI tools to "take away the good part" of my job, I want them to help with the bad parts....
A quick note on Atthis Arts
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...
Should You Honor an AI’s Picket Line?
Peter
We have seen signs that employees of AI companies can have significant influence on management (e.g. OpenAI November 2023). As AIs achieve comparable importance as workers for those companies, how much will they influence the leadership of the company? Even when AIs are as important as human...
The Craft of Programming
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...
Rice’s whale and the curious case of the disappearing species.
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...
The First-person Appeal of Free Speech
Andrew Koppelman
I have a new piece in National Affairs, in which I explain (drawing on Milton, Mill, and Aristotle) why exposure to worthless and harmful speech can make you a better person.
La ironía como idioma del vacío
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.
Post de prueba
maxpower
June Reading List (2026)
baseblogger
We’re finally hitting the summer, and so it’s time to talk about summer reads! I’ve given a few highlights from my own reads. How about yours? Anderson Bean – Venezuela in Crisis Haymarket put out this collection of essays on Venezuela right before the disastrous US kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro....
Default to Lazy
Aviv Ben-Yosef
Larry Wall, creator of Perl, famously said that laziness is one of the three main virtues of a programmer. Being effectively lazy is highly useful for ICs as well as for leaders. An organization with a culture of healthy laziness can actually cover ground faster. The Danger of Not Being...