Ali Reza Hayati
During the internet blackout , one of the main sources of entertainment for me was watching movies. Between sounds of bombs near our house and being completely cut off from the world, one thing that could keep me sane was starting to watch movies and series I had on my hard drives. This way I...
aje
I can remember the charm and wonder of how the early internet brought people together, and also how it gave large platforms for diverse, funny, and shocking content. At the same time as setting up my own websites I remember: Waiting patiently to see what Nathan Barley got up to in each new...
J D Lowe
A few years back I was undertaking an informal study of books about the works of artists who used scale models of one sort or another as their medium. Other interests took over and I parked the project. The last few months though I've felt a need to revisit that project, especially now that the...
alecm
“Wait, no, not like that…” — Andy Burrows, probably. Molly Russell: Head of online safety charity warns against social media ban – BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgmdy9vg9jmo
pb
26-05-26 After all the complaints about the weather, along comes a day with another more-of-the-same iffy forecast. So I plan nothing more ambitious than an afternoon in Warriston. The sun comes out and the insects clearly got the email because they come out too. Nothing particularly exotic but...
frankray
When I wrote about preparing a legal case with AI without a lawyer, I described the discipline but not the machinery. I said the letter went through three legal research agents, then nine drafts and several rounds of review, and that it was closer to running a small case review several times over....
David Stark
Sketching out various shapes biomechanoids could have in the game, inspired by organic shapes like skulls, sea creatures, and more.
barelydiscernible
Some of the borders I developed and printed this week. First, thank you. I sent last week's post out not knowing if anyone was on the other end, and it turned out some of you were. Thank you for reading it, for subscribing to a thing that is so far one post long, and especially to the few of you...
dignitybydesign
Alethea's Mind
Have you ever considered that the blood of Jesus was not only shed on the cross? Does this realisation come with a greater implication? In a moment of contemplation, these words came to me. So I invite you to come on this journey, following the shed blood of our Lord Jesus: The Journey of...
Herb Sutter
tl;dr… A few highlights Adopted this week in draft C++29: Complete catalog of all undefined behavior (UB) in C++. Contract pre/post support for virtual functions. Defaulting (=default) for postfix increment/decrement. Designated initializers for base classes. Python-style .lookup(key) for...
Hunter Allen
DISCLOSURE DAY2026Directed by Steven SpielbergWritten by David Koepp and Steven SpielbergSpoilers: moderateThe last several years of Steven Spielberg's career, as many as eight years and three movies by my count, have been devoted to either tying up his loose ends, scratching entries off his...
antonyhall
Very pleased to finally launch Cryptogamic Oracle, a new project emerging from my exploration of ponds, non-human computing systems, and urban moss ecologies. Building on my moss walk workshops, the project expands into more eco-technological territory through the use of an app for reflection,...
bargad
Written by Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is a book about a young woman with a traumatic childhood who is socially inept and secluded, and her attempts to find love and the tragi-comic series of events that happen to her. Introduced as a financial clerk in a graphic design...
robotkinz
"Oh, wow. I made my own program that does things. Sort of."
mrgreen
I’ve been tinkering with a little project called GreenClaw and I figured it was about time I wrote it up properly, partly because I think it might be useful to a few of you, and partly because GitHub stars don’t just appear by magic apparently. So what is it? GreenClaw is a self-hosted, always-on...
mark bivens
Yesterday the US government, citing national security authorities, issued an export control directive forcing Anthropic to suspend all access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models by any foreign national. A year ago I exhorted Japan’s development of a sovereign AI industry. I did not expect the risks...
afarshadblog
"his blog looks depressing" was what a friend of mine told my other friend about my blog, which reminded me of a reality that I've been trying to overlook for the last two years: no matter what you do and where you are, you'll always be seen as an West Asian (yes, I'm becoming more and more...
Chris Weigant
We start today with some good news, for a change. The first is time-sensitive, so check it out now -- a livestream of workers removing Donald Trump's name from the outside wall of what will once again be known as simply The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts. As of this...
Mark Callaghan
This has results for HammerDB tproc-c on a large server using MySQL and Postgres. I am new to HammerDB and still figuring out how to explain and present results so I will keep this simple and just share graphs without explaining the results.tl;drThere are small regressions in versions 16, 17 and...
Sarah Lai Stirland
David Hockney died yesterday at the age of 88. Below is an article I wrote when he came to visit Northwestern to discuss his work on Turandot. Ever grateful to Jim Arndorfer for the assignment, which came out of the blue! Daily Northwestern,’s TGIF weekly...
Ben Milne
I wanted to see if an agent could pay to send me a message. Not a human filling out a contact form. Not a CAPTCHA. An agent with a wallet, a task, and a desire to reach me. I am not unique. I am simply a meat stick a computer might want to say something to. A human can reach me on LinkedIn or X...
Ankit Maloo
Summary: Today, llms are trained in a multi step process post SFT. RL -> Generate quality synthetic data → Self-Distillation on that → another round of RL (simplified). Fable-5 had a solution strategy constrained on how to compose code, and it struggled with a simpler solution until it...
Alejandro M. P.
The most interesting AI workflow I have right now is not a coding workflow. It has code in it. It has a small Swift CLI, some auth state, a few JSON exports, a Codex automation, and way too much knowledge about how Discourse represents unread things. But it is not one of those fancy loops that...
Albert Sikkema
Over the past year I have been working on tooling to improve code quality. That starts with one question first: what constitutes good code? I am a pragmatist, not a purist. Good code in my book is code that the user is happy with (it does what is expected both in use and in function), that is...
Cael
Why we wrote honest comparison pages for Inkwell instead of SEO chum, and the four axes that actually decide which Markdown editor is right for you: ownership, where your files live, runtime weight, and feature depth.
michael-graeme
prasangika-matters
Bret Devereaux
This is the second part (I, IIa) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. While I hope this will be of great interest to the history nerds out there, I’ve opted to structure this...
Budget, Offbrand, DIY
20dollarlolita:Since it’s been a year since Joann closed, I’m trying to get some data about how people are shopping for sewing supplies. Local sewing store questionnaireHere’s a google form with a lot of questions on it. If you don’t have the time, here’s a tumblr poll with one question on it.I’m...
Ethan
Capes are awesome, full stop. Every dude can recognize its enigmatic flair, even if they don’t wear it themselves. Some have questioned this paradox, as a quick perusal of Reddit will show you. Whether it’s 2026, 2019, or 2016, hopefuls have been asking how to wear this accursed thing or how they...
Barbecue17
Mattel is releasing quite a few figures from the Mike Young Productions/ 200x cartoon in the Masters of the Universe Origins: Cartoon Collection subset and I recently picked up Tri-Klops, so I figured I'd take a look at him. How cool is it that we're getting so much product from that era? Remember...
Hels
ARTNEWS assembled a list of 11 must-haves books that cover art history, from classical antiquity to now. Art history is a flexible discipline, subject to revisions as things change. Below I have included the books I know and found excellent.GombrichThe Story of Art1. Penelope & Davies et...
Andy Maleh
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kristy bowen
It's been a rainy and stormy week, which last night, culminated in a brief power outage in the storefront theater where we were seeing a production of THE LAST 5 YEARS. It was touch and go for a minute, but they did manage to get up and running again despite having to reset everything. The other...
Ashley Rolfmore
When numbers become meaningless5? 9? 2450?Have you ever had to debug an issue without sufficient logs or visibility? Or tried to get a decent case study out of a customer? I've done both and trust me, they can be extremely difficult. Turns out, these are actually the same problem. You need a...
alex-evers
I recently released my claude code plugin, Storytime(github). It's been underwhelming to say the least, but its more of a relief than a joy to put it out. I harbor a lot of ideas at any given point, and they turn into "what-if" more than "this will be amazing". I think thats better TBH. Storytime...
Denny Carter
Only in the surrealist hellscape that is capitalist accelerationism in the third decade of the 21st century could people – everyday working people – be expected to fear free childcare and a livable wage and affordable groceries. But that's exactly what is expected of fear-mad audiences of...
anureet
Jasmine & twine moonlight beckons will you be mine
John Connors
Words: Chris Arnsby Jakki Brambles: “Hello. Good evening. And welcome to Top of the Pops. It’s a little bit different tonight but you can still hear us in stereo on 1FM. First up, tonight’s show, we have probably the only ever artist who scored five top twenty singles off her debut album and...
inkblotsandintuition
thekelvingreen
Hungry ghost. I've just read Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker. It's quite good! #KelvinDrawsThings
Jimmy Maher
Although there is much that we don’t know about William Shakespeare the man, we can say confidently that he was not an individual who liked to be typecast. Right after completing his Comedy of Errors, a play so thin it threatened to blow away on the merest spring breeze, he embarked upon the...
4gravitons
You ever read something and suddenly a whole classification scheme lights up in your head? A thread on X from “stringking42069” showed me a combination of opinions I hadn’t seen before. stringking42069 is a pro-string theory commentator with a macho gym bro memer gimmick. He’s openly...
alecm
Kids are not allowed to have privacy in Keir Starmer’s Labour Britain. The “othering” of teens is complete: https://www.politico.eu/article/ministers-to-ban-under-16s-from-social-media-livestreaming-disappearing-messages/
anarchaeopteryx
Another short digest for a long work week. A very long work week. Worked Fri/Sun/Mon/Tues/Wed and continuing Friday/Sat/Sun so I'm not actually done yet. I took last Saturday off work to go to TCAF and picked up a bunch of prints and zines and comics. I also attended a panel with manga artists...
Aphyr
On 2026-05-30, the Mastodon server I run started getting a flood of implausible signup requests. We think these are likely bots because our server rules and signup form clearly tell users to talk about their interest in gay leather. Most people sign up with something like “42 yo levis enthusiast...
anubiarts
I still remember by November through February of last year just how much I've wanted to get started in transitioning via hormones, it was something I've been wanting to do for a while but around that time it intensified, as the gears finally started moving for it to happen. Skip forward more than...
jeaux carroll
this is a collaborative post: concepts and words by jeaux carroll and josh martinez.(josh) It's Saturday morning. I'm heating up tortillas on the comal I've carried with me for years. I hear the sound of fat from the tortilla sizzling against the hot cast iron surface. As the fat renders it heats...
Adam Rowe
Part 3 of my notes on Anthony Frewin's 1974 art history 'One Hundred Years of Science Fiction Illustration.'