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It sounds like ceding ground to the pro-AI crowd, however if you get people to be honest about it then everyone benefits.
Hello! Only a day late this time. October was another busy month but it didn’t yield much content. I ran a second half-marathon, this time with much less training, but only finished a few minutes slower than I did earlier this year. Next...
At a conference I was at, two companies talked about implementing AI into all areas and layers of their company. For the talk, they specifically zeroed in on AI in the hiring process. They began to describe that their goal (which they...
I noticed this morning that the front page of one of the nationals claimed that the Lichfield heckle was the 'last straw' for the King, and stung him into decisive action, banishing his brother, the erstwhile Duke of York and Prince...
i finally got around to buying and reading comics from this year’s ShortBox Comics Fair and wanted to briefly (very briefly!) record them here note: as of writing, these are no longer available to purchase on SBCF; i’ve linked to the...
I'm currently in the airport waiting on my flight back home to start boarding. I feel spiritually hungover since yesterday was such a long day. Once all of the reception stuff was finished, I went straight back to the hotel so that I...
"Compari alla Malvasia" (Malvasia Companions) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
A wall designed like a traditional paper screen door (shoji), only in glass, with visitors passing in front and behind. At the "Self-Study Room" in the former Rissei Elementary School (1928), now The Gate Hotel. 伝統的な障子の...
Lists are like Lays potato chips, apparently: I can’t write just one. Mmm, potato chips…
The Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! that aired on November 1, 2025 was the very first show that had a panel consisting of three men: Adam Burke, Alonzo Bodden and Josh Gondelman. This happened a little over 10 years since the very first show...
Ein Käfer wohnt in dieser Welt, die ist jetzt nicht so neu. Er hat keine Name, weil Käfer natürlich keine Namen haben, sondern er hat auch keinen Grund für Leben... er nur wohnt und nicht lebt. Lust und Absicht sind Leerheit und...
Krishna Kumar keeps stunning me with observations I’ve made all my life and experienced as a child but never deeply looked back upon after learning so much about children and education. Here’s an excerpt from a chapter on writing from...
A reflection on why not every team meeting topic is worth your energy. Except when it truly matters.
Bon vent i barca nova es una expresión que se utiliza en Valencia cuando pierdes de vista a alguien, con pocas ganas de verlo en un futuro y aún así le deseas que le vaya más o menos bien. Así es como me siento después de haber sido...
Over the last few weeks I have undertaken a higher than usual level of travelling and hotel stays, for work related activities. I tried to make use of trains as much as I could as the distances were several hours driving. I love driving,...
In Stockholm, traffic lights have a push button that pedestrians are supposed to press when they cross and all the type A personalities that’d press the button even when it had already been pressed and lit up used to bug me, an annoyance...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. Books I read, games I played, things I watched in October 2025. Do we have similar tastes, or will you be questioning how we ever got connected? Let's find out! Media Notes: October 2025, by Guy...
El otro día me vi en la tesitura de tener que enviar cambios a un repositorio alojado remotamente, a partir de una copia del repositorio que tenía clonado en local. La gracia está en que Github eliminó el acceso por login convencional en...
ssp 2025-11-02T14:49:59.058Z@gobino Haven't hit their 10mb/month limit yet! gobino 2025-10-30T13:42:52.000ZProtecting your email identity with free tools (Proton, Duck, Mozilla, Addy) 📱I got more serious about online safety,...
It looks like the end for Lineage OS on Samsung handsets, at least in the UK. Here's why.
The second novel in the Hainish cycle was released the same year as the fist. This would often spell trouble, but not here. I liked Planet of Exile much more than I liked Rocannon's World Let's start with the most important aspect, which...
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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENUO7dbZ-TYI Simplified My Smartphone by Bullet JournalI know I wrote about dumb phones being a fad the other day, but I do find it fascinating when people keep their smartphones and are more...
This year's Weird Web October came to an end yesterday. Part of me is relieved because trying to come up with something in the form of a website…
Sometimes I feel a little off. Discombobulated. Struggling to find my rhythm. There is no shortage of advice on what to do in these situations, but here is a simple plan that has consistently worked for me. Take out a pen and paper (I...
I saw a kindred spirit in Hamburg.
Things I read recently
November 1, 2025 This morning, I updated the homepage of this site. I've been wanting to add my 10 most recent posts to it, and I finally managed to get it done.
Sonia considered the enticement of white people by route of peacocks, monsoons, exotic-spice bazaars—exotic to whom? you might ask—but there was legitimate concern over how India would be perceived in the larger world, the fear that...
I stopped charting Apple’s quarterly results back in 2019 and don’t intend to return to it, but after seeing the recent posts at Six Colors and TidBITS, I thought I’d try out a new graph.
Thursday: Back seat of your parents' car, wearing your mother's clothes, sleeping on a long ride like you haven't done since you were a teenager. The wake shows you your family like a hall of mirrors. Your teeth smile back at you in...
October 2025. Whitehall. London. While I sat in the Admiralty I scribbled down a few notes, mainly about queuing tourists and naff modern pop, but also “another week another two (2) London pubs two minutes apart“. Should have been 30...
I was today years old when I learned about the Coogans
This is a critique of the following paper, which was recently promoted on The University of British Columbia website and being promoted on Twitter. Consequences of Undecidability in Physics on the Theory of Everything Mir Faizal,...
Got a 21 day backlog of journal entries. Maybe if I exercise some of the brevity I use for this 5 year diary I can get caught up.Currently Listening: Stereolab “Fed Up With Your Job”Reply via email
The air in the bank was thick with the scent of old money and new anxiety. It's a smell I know well. But today, another element was added to the mix: fear. It wasn't my fear. It was coming from the teller's window, and it was pointed,...
Some time ago, I played around with decompiling Java class files in a more efficient manner than traditional solutions like Vineflower allow. Eventually, I wrote an article on my approach to decompiling control flow, which was a great...
Exemple → js, interactive
Now: November 2025 Self Healing from long covid since Feb. 2022 Daily sādhanā: including meditation practice, prāṇāyāma and yoga āsana. Exploring bhakti yoga. Short walks when I’m capable of it Home After 1.5 years, the municipality...