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...
ABC Taylor
An insanely unusable UI, burdensome unnecessary compliance flows and lack of decent security has made Twilio more hassle than it's worth
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...
BobTheScientist
In the 1991, the fellows of Trinity College Dublin elected a new Provost, a well regarded Classical scholar who wrote the books on Cicero. So far, so conservative. But Mitchell was the first Catholic in the post for 300 years . . . and <frisson> the first who still had children young enough...
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.'
Jonathan Green
100 Aker Wood - which is soon to become the ninth ACE Gamebook - funded on Kickstarter last Thursday. Since then, seven people have joined our trek into the Ashdown Forest by placing a Late Pledge, via Kickstarter.If you would like to place a Late Pledge, and receive a set of art postcards along...
Vincent Iannelli, MD
As measles cases in England continue to rise, it should be no surprise to anyone that children are dying. “Two measles related deaths have been reported to date in 2026: one was an acute measles death in a child, and another is a death in a child due to late effects of measles.” Confirmed...
Alex
J’ai rencontré une étudiante en traductologie qui travaille sur la traduction du non-binaire en français. Elle cherche des gens pour répondre à son étude, pour son mémoire de Master : https://ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eXOodSkXpqdKemW Toute réponse de personne francophone est appréciée,...
Belghast
Good Morning, Folks! I’m in the recovery cycle after my last round of chemo. I got my pump disconnected yesterday and then went to sleep around 7 pm and stayed that way all night, with a few brief wakeups here and there. Normally, I crash after coming home from disconnect, but I had someone ring...
Dennis
Accessibility Test Engineer at Cognizant in Manchester area, England, UK Accessibility Program Manager at Project Management Institute — USA, remote Digital Compliance and Accessibility Analyst at University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, USA Accessibility Specialist — UK, hybrid Sr. Accessibility...
Steve Saideman
I have been arguing that the heart of NATO, Article V, has been dead for since January 2025. It took a while for the Europeans to believe it:Anton Hofreiter, a German lawmaker, said: “NATO’s main problem is that, as long as Trump is president, there is no longer any faith that the U.S. would...
Andi
Interesting comparative interrupted time series doing the rounds in the press at the moment. Chamberlain, R. C., Hodsoll, J., Cai, C., Griffiths, C., Kelly, F., Beevers, S., Stewart, G., Blangiardo, M., Elliott, P., Davies, B., & Fecht, D. (2026). Association of vehicle emission...
Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist
Everyone asks if AI will replace them. The better move: replace yourself on purpose. What I automated, the numbers behind it, and the playbook to start.
Ben Crowder
Unimportant administrative note: I’ve imported the posts from my original blog back in 2001–2005, when the site was called the slate and, later, Blank Slate. (The posts were in a handful of PHP files I left behind and forgot about when I moved to Blogger in 2005. I stumbled across them recently...