Structural Limits of Imaging in Cosmological Observation

prasangika-matters

The agentic web gets execution rights, from payments to app actions

Richard MacManus

One of the characteristics of the agentic web is an increasing ability for AI agents to execute actions on the web on our behalf. This is a key part of the shift from a web of pages to a web of capabilities — but it also introduces significant security, governance and financial risks.This week’s...

Drawing a Mandala with p5.js: Smooth Lines, Speed-Based Thickness & Tweakpane - Part 1

Alex Postolache

Hello friends, and welcome to another creative coding tutorial! Today we're going to build a mandala maker in the browser — you drag with the mouse, and every stroke is mirrored and rotated so you get kaleidoscope-like patterns in real time. We'll wire up symmetry, smoothing, velocity-based stroke...

FreeBSD 15.1

8by3

The White Space. Chapter 8. Ministry of Spatial Balance 2.0

slwriter

The DOGE Boys Are Going To Pay

Denny Carter

Preemptively moaning about elected Democrats not sufficiently fighting the authoritarian scourge is every online doomer's favorite game. Some have made a career out of it. You gotta respect that kind of hustle. And I get it. I've done my share of this sort of engagement-friendly posting during my...

Johnny Mack Brown Appears in Gadsden in 1945

AlabamaYesterdays

I've written several pieces on this blog about football star, actor and Dothan native Johnny Mack Brown. Two of them discussed his 1928 silent films Our Dancing Daughters and A Lady of Chance. The first paired him with Joan Crawford [one of two he made with her] and another Alabama native, Dorothy...

Listening To: See You In Heaven

Alex Leighton

By SoftcultPublished on 2026-06-16Tags: listening-to, musicSee You In Heaven by Softcult Grungey, shoegaze-y, indie rock.Read the post →

Discussion Point - Disco Elysium

MorpheusKitami

Written by Morpheus KitamiOne of the most beloved RPGs of the last decade is Disco Elysium. A game in which you play a cop who wakes up in a dingy hotel room with no memory of anything, and he has a murder to solve. What follows is a very strange game set in an alternative Earth with its own...

In Taiwan

Saturn

I'm in taiwan now, I'm gonna be here for around a month. A combination of study and here for my mom to take care of family things. I was gonna write this blog about how I am glad to be away from people and making my own server (very exciting!), but I think it's ok for me to air out just how...

The Night Train

michael-graeme

Headless Mode

Chris Davis

If the firmware is loaded on an Arduino Due and run without any front panel hardware connected, the emulator will automatically detect this and force RUN mode.  This allows BASIC or other programs to run on a bare Due with nothing but a USB serial connection.  With headless mode enabled,...

Easing Back In

Belghast

Good Morning, Folks! It has been a while since I played Guild Wars 2. Around the drop of the current expansion, I flaked out and stopped playing. My guess is that this correlated with the launch of a Path of Exile league, but whatever the case may be, it has been a bit. We had a regular Thursday...

Tire Brands at a Glance

Barry

Please note: Tire Business is a bi-monthly publication of news of interest to those of us in the tire industry. Among the things they publish are summaries of various things – like who has plants, where. In this case, it’s brands and who owns them. Be aware: That the list appears to be US...

Greek To Me

Dan

I recently experimented with making some dishes inspired by the Greek food to be had in Oakleigh. However I never closely follow recipes so this meal is a Greekish thing of my own. I imagined this food selection arrayed as share plates but I'm only me so made and ate them over three separate...

Exhibition: ‘August Sander’s People of the 20th Century’ at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, Part 1

Dr Marcus Bunyan

Exhibition dates: 27th February - 28th June, 2026 Curator: Judy Ditner, the Richard Benson Curator of Photography and Digital Media      August Sander (German, 1876-1964)Artist’s Partyc. 1930, printed c. 1990-1999Gelatin silver print10 3/16 x 7 3/8″ (25.8 x 18.7cm)Societe Anonyme...

Thesis ~ The Strangest of all Attractors || Ch. 2, Pages 39-43

robotkinz

A memory of better times, faint and nearly forgotten. This is the first flashback scene of Chapter 2. The title of the chapter is "An Age of Reason."

May 2026 Reading

CLM

Two books stood out for me in May: Lady Tremaine, a retelling of Cinderella, which read more like historical fiction than fantasy (probably why I liked it so much); and In Farleigh Field, set in the British countryside during WWII, which featured a heroine working at Bletchley Park (how sad I was...

WYATT – The Lo-Fi Aesthetic (2026)

asymmetrical-listening

Lo-fi is one of those terms that looks obvious only from a distance. Low fidelity: fine. Low definition, rough surfaces, modest means, a certain refusal of polish. But the moment you try to hold the word still, it starts slipping away. Is lo-fi a sound? A method? A technical condition? An...

Fruitbang will become ArchBang

mrgreen

Have had some positive feedback about Fruitbang and wanted to ask you all if I can switch ArchBang to use MangoWM? Never had a problem with Labwc but it never felt like a full replacement of Openbox. Fruitbang shows what you can do in wayland, and it already includes the option to float, tile,...

How Pastors Can Use AI Without Outsourcing Their Calling

arnold-gamboa-dev

I understand why pastors hesitate when they hear “AI for pastors.” The concern is not whether AI can write words. Everyone knows it can. The deeper concern is what happens to the pastor’s calling if a machine starts helping with sermon preparation, church communication, and weekly ministry work. I...

BLOOMSDAY AS EVERYDAY

Andy Merrifield

As is fitting for every June 16—for every BLOOMSDAY—this is my little tribute to James Joyce’s Ulysses and its famous day fêted across the world today. Leopold Bloom and “pussens” (Image by Eduardo Arroyo) Joyce was the maestro of listening to shouts in the street, of reporting on a day in...

nothing gets lost

badmeritcollective

reflections on a vacation with my grandma

Morning bunny sighting.

Joe Crawford

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Why I Support a Global Wealth Tax

dignitybydesign

If it functions like income, it should be taxed like income - everywhere it lives, at what it's actually worth.

re:woke mode

Alex

↬ellesho.me/page/website/now/#woke-mode You’ve outdone yourself, what a magical pride outfit!!

7 on 7 off

angelgrowsup

“b e a r” with me. I’m still trying to get this down. Today I’m learning how to resize images so I can upload them and how to add pages. Shouts out to bel for some directions and shouts out to Herman.

The Age of the Holy Spirit

James A. Reeves

1At my Thursday night Men's Spirituality Book Club, we've been debating the recovery cliché that "acceptance is the answer," which sounds so limp and lazy.But I'm learning that acceptance is not passive. Wearing the world as a loose garment requires a difficult and oftentimes exhausting stance...

Do agents think you're doing agile wrong?

Agileotter

WARNING: this is an AI generated article -- but that's on purpose. Without any priming or preparation, I asked a chatbot about sprints and tickets, and got this as an answer.The Question:My team wants us to split up all the features into tickets and assign them at sprint planning, so they all have...

Importance of NSF’s Ocean Observatories Initiative

ecoquant

In announcing its decision to begin removing the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s (OOI) deep-sea infrastructure, the National Science Foundation inaccurately cited a 2025 National Academies report on the future of ocean science. The committee that wrote the peer-reviewed report said the importance...

Redneg All Stars (Free Version) | Easy 1CC | PC

bcengine

Freeware boss rush shmup made by Outside. It's really stylish and creative. The final boss's various stages were really fun. I enjoyed the dodging and it felt fair/approachable. I'm not crazy about the boss rush format for that long though, it was stressful. I like when there's a little downtime...

Fixing dbt Installation Errors on Python 3.14 Using uv

Philip

If you have recently updated your system to the latest Python release (Python 3.14), you might run into a brick wall trying to use dbt. A classic symptom is getting a error message the second you try running dbt --version: Why Does This Happen? The modern data stack is very picky. dbt-core relies...

Odysseus: Broken Access Control + SSRF in AI Embedding Endpoint

Yunus Aydın

Odysseus broken access control: POST /api/embeddings/endpoint has no admin check. Hijack embedding URL for SSRF and exfiltration of chat, RAG and vault data.

I Bought a New Notebook

axxuy

I bought a notebook. Yes, another one. No, I did not need another notebook. But, you know… It all started when I heard about a new stationery shop that opened in my city. Of course I had to go visit one weekend. They had a great selection of fancy notebooks. (Despite my avidly accumulating...

From Prompt to Party: How I Used AI to Spin Up a Rooftop Watch Party in Six Hours

Bethany Crystal

This weekend, I decided to do something I've never done before: Host a watch party for the New York City Knicks finals game on our roof.There was just one problem: It was 10 a.m. on game day and I had no idea where to start.Luckily, by combining AI builders ( Replit and Gemini) with hyper-local...

Wankernomics

Anton Katunin

Short and fun book. Half way i was getting tired about the same joke about corporate culture, but it ended soon enough. Check it out for an easy and fun read.

Representation-Free Editing

Alperen Keles

Representation is an overloaded term in computer science. Colloquially, the term representation represents a concrete object that is the reflection of an abstract object. The representation carries over the properties of the abstract object into a new domain that is presumably more convenient for...

Crossing city lines

Ahmed Nadar

There is a pothole I swerved for months on my street in Toronto, and the only reason I never reported it is that reporting it took longer than living with it. So in February I built a way to do it in about thirty seconds. You take a photo, the report writes itself, and it reaches the city and your...

How to Visit Every European Microstate

Adam Aaronson

So you’re in third grade. You’re looking at a map of Europe, and you notice something peculiar sandwiched between France and Spain, like a pea between two mattresses. Somehow, there’s a tiny country there. It’s called Andorra, and you show it to your classmates as if you’ve struck gold. You...

Automating Flaky Test Fixes: Why Rerunning Tests Until They Pass Is Killing Your CI/CD Pipeline

Brian McQuay

If a test fails half the time, it isn't a test — it's noise. Here's the case for treating flaky-test remediation as something we systematically detect, categorize, and auto-fix with AI tooling, instead of mashing 'rerun until green' and quietly eroding trust in CI.

Altar of the Axe

Mr. Karswell

After witnessing the blonde bombshell, ass kickin' horror action of our previous post HERE --I feel this voluptuous vibe has totally set us up for a wild, week long theme! Enter another fair haired, hard hittin' honey, this time in a juicy jungle jolter from the July 1954 issue of of Cave Girl...

It is misleading for the Prime Minister, or anyone else, to suggest the privacy concerns here are no more serious than being ID’d for a pint

alecm

“Journalists: it’s your job to be more curious than this. Challenge the metaphors.” The UK Social Media Ban, the Bad Bar Analogy | Jen Persson’s blog https://jenpersson.com/the-uk-social-media-ban-the-bad-bar-analogy/

if you thought this was written by AI

ascii-tweezers

You find yourself at the beginning of an article. It's a place you've been countless times before, and probably will be again a few more times today. You pick up different articles for different reasons but one thing is certain: if you thought this was written by AI, you would stop reading on the...

Using Claude to create a work of art

alienbob

Take the “work of art” with a grain of salt please 🙂 This is an article about computer-generated art but with my own photographs as the source material. In May, the last of our four cats died. They were two pairs of Holy Birmans, first two little sisters who we took in when they were […]

What's The Deal?

Chris Weigant

I feel like the world is now living a real-life Jerry Seinfeld routine: "What's the deal... with the deal?!?" Over the weekend, Donald Trump apparently reached a deal with the Iranians. But as of now, it is raising more questions than it is answering. To begin with: Was the deal electronically...

梅子黄 · When the Plums Turn Yellow

prasangika-matters

The Worldbuilding of Project Hail Mary, Part 2: Amazing Grace

Jeff Lilly

Part one ended on a question. We’d seen that Project Hail Mary charts every territory — the physics, the biology, the institutions, the history — only as far as its hero’s footprints go, and that the map turns blank or invented in the same place every time: wherever a true survey would have...

meditations on the wrong way to grieve

badmeritcollective

spoiler: there isn't one

Esri User Conference 2026

John

I’ll be in a mad dash at the San Diego Convention Center the week of the Esri UC. If you are attending, and have nothing better to do, consider catching one of these sessions I get to be a part of with some fantastic colleagues and Ken! Basemaps Are Not Just the Background Basemaps are...

Images of death in the Victorian era

Hels

The idea of photographing the dead might be seen as morbid today but it made perfect sense to Victorians. Readers might like to find Audrey Linkman's book Photography and Death, published by Reaktion Books in 2011. Most photographs of a recently deceased person were taken by professionals, and...