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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
ben
this is a Chris Granner appreciation post
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...
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...
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...
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.
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
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....
Ben Crowder
Misha Glouberman on how worried we should be about climate change, based on what the studies actually say. This was hopeful. While we still ought to do everything we reasonably can to avoid making things worse, it’s good to know that current indicators don’t lead inexorably to a post-apocalyptic...
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...
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...
at-the-cafe
It's day 2 of the UK heatwave and I have a few issues on my mind that I need to discuss. In the run up to this I was monitoring the discourse online about it because I am a masochist who wants to combat climate change disinformation. So against my better judgement I started actually reading social...
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...
Bart Wullems
There's a moment in every agentic workflow where you pause and think: wait, what exactly is Copilot allowed to touch right now? For a long time the answer was: pretty much everything under your working directory and whatever shell commands it decides to run to get the job done. That was fine when...
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...
Atul
It requires a different sort of mental toughness to run an enterprise. The juggernaut of switching context is one; the uncertainty is another. It feels like sailing a rocket ship in uncharted territory. The only thing that keeps you going is the undaunted faith and confidence in your actions. ...
BasicAppleGuy
Let’s take a 3,000-mile zigzag tour across California, tracing the past decade and a half of macOS releases. macOS, the operating system formerly known as OS X (2012–2016), Mac OS X (2001–2012), and Mac...
FAQ Editor
With care. AI is not yet intelligent — it cannot think for itself, only make guesses based on statistics and inference [added]