Insecure By Design
Way back in November of 2025, Valve made several hardware announcements that seemed to build on its previous releases. A new Steam Controller which took a lot of notes from the popular but still niche Steam Deck; a new VR headset called the Steam Frame that could connect to your PC wirelessly; and...
canderson1914
Brian McBrearty
Evoking versus infringing, and a helluva case for originality clearance. I caught this one in Aaron Moss’s Copyright Lately newsletter, (link to sign up), where he flagged it among four suits (!) Lee Mendelson Film Productions filed in May — against the Interior Department, an auction house, a...
Angie Jones
A practical look at how Karpathy’s LLM Wiki pattern can serve as long term agent memory, turning raw sources, markdown pages, and schema instructions into a living knowledge system for semantic, entity, episodic, summary, and procedural memory. The post Karpathy’s LLM Wiki as Agent Memory appeared...
madelynnchatwin
advantageonarcana
A Lakelands setting post Most of the Unbound crave human worship, attention, or service, but not all of them do. Some of them lack any interest in humanity. While the Howling Rustic decided to make its own version of a terrestrial hominid, the Sulphur Herald remembered its former subjects. Long...
Susan Stepney
I've just flown in to Trieste, for the Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation conference. It is HOT (low 30s, plausible for Italy). But it is just as hot at home (low 30s, totally implausible for the UK).While waiting in the heat for the train from the airport, there was a sudden...
Phil
I felt many emotions seeing Keir Starmer announce his resignation outside Downing Street on Monday morning. Not one of them was sympathy. For those who've spent the day celebrating the Prime Minister, demanding we respect the human frailties of a hard-done-to public servant, of Starmer's cracking...
Mike Farley
I feel like I’ve written about the idea that God does not coerce but instead lures us toward greater justice, beauty, and etc a few times already. So rather than focus on this, or indeed the relational nature of the text [Matthew 10:40-42], I want to point out that process thought insists that...
Alik Khilazhev
Two years ago, my work laptop was force-updated by the IT team and got broken so badly that I had to set it up from scratch. I was frustrated. As an engineer, I don’t like repeating the same actions multiple times, and this gave me the motivation to set up my laptop as code. Why I Tried Nix Some...
Fredrik
Miles in a experimental mood. View...
Joy the Baker
Friends, it’s time – and we are suspiciously on time for this year’s Summer Bucket List! My timeliness likely has everything to do with the fact that I’m writing this in the very wee hours of the morning. I’m up out of habit from the last 12 weeks postpartum, but here’s the thing: my baby seems to...
zapier
https://www.tumblr.com/alexanderwales/820151506794889216/what-did-you-think-of-obsession-ive-gone-to-see The post What did you think of Obsession? I’ve gone to see it twice now (may have become a little obsessed) appeared first on Alexander Wales.
bababooey
Orginal post: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Johann Henrich Nölken, son of Johann Henrich and Maria Catharina (Wenneman) Nölken, was baptized in Glandorf 4 March 17661 and died there 5 September 1839.2 He married first in Glandorf 16 September 1794, Maria Christina Holkenbrink.3 She was born about 1771...
prasangika-matters
Alex Shvartsman
I am curating a humor Storybundle! It features funny books from some of my favorite authors, and you can get the entire bundle for as little as $30! That’s just $2 per book, or the price of a cup of coffee (in 2019). Seriously you can get all of these for the price of like three Starbucks...
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...
Steve
The latest Commando and British Weekly Comic Swap Meet took place on Saturday. June 20, at Wolstanton Methodist Church in (the clue's in the name) Wolstanton, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, although it is known amongst the organisers as the Stoke swapmeet, as Stoke-on-Trent is nearby.Last year, we...
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…
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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...