Brazil v Morocco.
Brett g Porter
Brazil v Morocco. At the Philly Fan Festival. The city is for you to use. Instagram photo 1 Instagram photo 2 Instagram photo 3 View original post on Instagram View Change History
Tribeca was amazing. Next stop: SIGGRAPH!
Cassidy Curtis
Fresh off our official world premiere at Tribeca Festival, our next stop is SIGGRAPH 2026! We’re doing a Production Session about Dear Upstairs Neighbors on Thursday, July 23 at 11:15am, and the film itself will be showing immediately after our talk, in the Computer Animation Festival, Animation...
The Language Room
awanaltrove
There was a girl in the language room with hair the color of a small fire. That is how I remember her first. Not the date. Not the weather. Not what I was wearing, or where I sat, or which page of the book we were supposed to open. Memory, I have learned, is careless with facts and loyal to light....
What is wrong with this button?
Alfred C Thompson II
Recently I was going through my memory box and I came across this button. It was given out by the hundreds at a conference in the 1970s. . What is the spirit of 100110 you ask? That represents the number 38 which doesn’t seem to mean much. And it really doesn’t because that is not the number that...
The cladding of Art Nouveau buildings
Olga Harmsen
The Cladding of Art Nouveau Buildings | Theory, history & practice of architectural covering materials. This is my summary of the second international symposium organised within the Creative Europe project “Art Nouveau as a New EUtopia” (2024–2027). Continue reading →
Vindman on Russia and Ukraine
Burk
Not enough appeasement, or not enough deterrence?I have been watching the Harry Potter series of films, a decade or two after first reading the books. Aside from being extremely entertaining, they show Rowling to have been weirdly prescient about the moral dilemmas only developing as she was...
I Fractured my Leg Traveling Central Asia’s Silk Road
Blaine Bonham
Above image: Four men, including our guide Alex in the yellow jacket, carry me down the hill in a blanket. My sneaker pokes out near the bottom of the rescue scene. ﾿ A Travel Memoir About Risk, Rescue, and Why Preparation...
The Clearing
Alison Wilder
I’m super excited to be starting a new series with Greg Wilder called The Clearing: The Clearing is a monthly secular sound environment held in downtown Keene, NH. We present 90 minutes of live, slow-moving, beautiful music, composed and improvised in the room for deep listening, rest, and...
Skate Attack (PS2)
Jonny
As a publisher, Midas were famous mainly for two things: localising occasionally interesting Japanese budget games, and also publishing mostly-terrible original budget games. Skate Attack isn't one of the former, so my hopes for it weren't high. But I tried it anyway, being the fair-minded person...
macOS Golden Gate
BasicAppleGuy
macOS Golden Gate deserved a wallpaper inspired by its namesake. Apple announced the next version of macOS at its annual developers conference this past week, introducing macOS Golden Gate. But one thing...
Two steps forward & one step back
Paul Bailey
It's a case of two steps forward, and one step back at the moment, but the main thing is I'm moving in the right direction. The good news - the two steps forward, is my desktop has been repaired, and is now back up and running, faster and more efficiently than it was before it gave up the ghost,...
Why Some Friendships Feel More Like Home Than Family Ever Did
beyondborders
Some friendships give us a sense of home we never quite found with family. This is more common than we admit, and it carries both love and a quiet grief. Here is how we can hold both truths gently.
Secure SSH Access Using Cloudflare Tunnel With No Open Ports
Ahmet ALMAZ
I set up Cloudflare Tunnel (cloudflared), to stop worrying about open SSH ports on my server. No public IP exposed, no ports forwarded, no DDNS to maintain. Instead of opening a port and hoping for the best, I let Cloudflare handle the connection entirely. My server initiates an outbound tunnel to...
Chinese MANPADS In Ukraine
TAB
While officially China has no involvement in the ongoing war in Ukraine a substantial number of their weapon systems have been seen in theatre. Setting aside the tens of thousands of Chinese manufacturer commercial drones which have been used during the conflict we’ve also seen Chinese RPGs,...
fl trip 🐟
andie
ive been spending the weekend at my aunt’s house 7 hours away from ours at home. it’s gorgeous here and im already dreading our leave tomorrow!!!! i want to stay forever. they live in such a nice subdivision that theres numerous canals and lavish gardens just outside. cottontails and birds hop...
Congratulations, Dr. Sridhar!
David Eppstein
This past week was the final exam week for our spring term, and in it we also held the doctoral defense of another Ph.D. student, Vinesh Sridhar (advised by Mike Goodrich). Vinesh organized his thesis in an unusually symmetric way, with two parts on computing with noisy primitives, two parts on...
Live gig on Telephone Radio Hotline
info
I’m playing a live show on the Telephone Radio Hotline tonight! You can listen by calling +46 60 60 70 593 (normal charges within Sweden). I start at 21:00, Swedish time (UTC+2).
Weekly Post #127
Abhinav
∞ Untitled buffers
bluesky
Alex
had a dream that I signed up to bluesky and immediately had a few thousands smart and kind followers who liked all of my posts, so clearly my mental health is great and the four years since deleting my accounts have completely fixed the effects that twelve years of microblogging had on my brain
The Dictator
sbr
STQK: EP.7 (All roads lead to the Hatch)
ancientshell
New to the ongoing blog series called STQK "Would you like to know more?" Hello there, We continue with the next episode in the Suldokar's Wake system. (Content Warning: Violence, Gore, Traumatic Events) Scene 1 As the group approached the temple doors, the markings on the walls, the scrolls that...
The Forsytes on TV
jameswharris
by James Wallace Harris, 6/13/26 Would anyone still be reading John Galsworthy if British television didn’t keep producing new versions of The Forsyte Saga? Galsworthy did win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, the year before he died, but that recognition seldom guarantees an enduring...
Shipping Pumpkin and Hare Krishnas
Nat
First, let me note that the Great Pumpkin Carols book which I talked about a while back is now available for preorder. And while I’m doing that, I’ll remind you both that when you preorder, Amazon will give you the lowest price they list the book for between now and when it’s released (often a bit...
We the people, pending review
Wojtek Powiertowski
Juneteenth is next Friday, and it's had me thinking back to a few days we spent in Washington DC in May 2017.We walked around the main monuments after dark — fewer people, the marble lit against a black sky, the spring heat finally off. Earlier that day we'd been through the Smithsonian American...
We're Not Ready for Self-Building AI, But it's Happening
Sabine Hossenfelder
Our MongoDB TLA+ Workshop
Murat
Shortly after I joined MongoDB research, we ran a TLA+ workshop. It was a two-day ordeal. We had a 1.5 days of instruction on TLA+ and syntax, after which we tried to help people get started with modeling. People liked learning about TLA+ on the first day, but except for a person or two, we didn't...
I like the Uruky search engine
Akseli
Silly name but works wonders. I have been using this search engine called Uruky for about a week: https://uruky.com/ As a software dev, big part of my workflow is searching for information. As search engines in general keep getting worse and worse, it has became more difficult. However with Uruky...
Kan Extensions in Double Categories
Bartosz Milewski
Previously: Kan extensions in Haskell. In a double category that is also a proarrow equipment, we have the ability to bend arrows. In particular, in the definition of the counit of the right Kan extension: we can bend the vertical arrow, replacing it with its horizontal conjoint . In a profunctor...
Of life and death;
schnark
What is death, and how does it fit into life?
Decision making in hard situations
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...
Best of the internet
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...
Book Review: Hitler Moves East: A Graphic Chronicle, 1941-43
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...
New version of libccid: 1.8.2
Ludovic Rousseau
I have just released version 1.8.2 of libccid the Free Software CCID class smart card reader driver. This version resolves an issue that was introduced in version 1.8.1, which was released three days ago. Composite devices (devices with both a CCID interface and also another interface, such as...
Censorial, pro-age-verification pro-surveillance child safety charity *suddenly* against Government attempting to render them irrelevant via age verification to ban children from social media
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
bother with a hover
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...
How I Ran a Swarm of AI Agents to Prepare a Legal Case
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....
Biomechanoid Shape Studies
David Stark
Sketching out various shapes biomechanoids could have in the game, inspired by organic shapes like skulls, sea creatures, and more.
How to weave without a loom
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...
When Structure Kills
dignitybydesign
THE JOURNEY OF THE BLOOD
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...
Trip report: June 2026 ISO C++ standards meeting (Brno, Czechia)
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...
Steven Spielberg, part XLI: Can your heart stand the shocking facts about bad drivers from outer space?
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...
Cryptogamic Oracle
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,...
Book Review: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman
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...
My (Mis)adventures with "Vibe-Coding" by means of Grok and my 1988 Cathode Ray Tube Television
robotkinz
"Oh, wow. I made my own program that does things. Sort of."
GreenClaw — Because Not Everyone Can Afford To Run Local AI Agents
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...
The Fable of the ant and the grasshopper
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...
These Walls
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...
Friday Talking Points -- Some Good News, For A Change
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...
HammerDB tproc-c on a large server, Postgres 14 to 19 beta1
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...