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Response to: arXiv:2511.00926 The AI Self-Awareness Index study claims to measure emergent self-awareness through strategic differentiation in game-theoretic tasks. Advanced models consistently rated opponents in a clear hierarchy: Self...
Erin and I inherited Rusty from her grandmother Doris; we brought him home with us on on May 5th, 2013. He died a couple of weeks ago, on November 14th. Erin, EJ, and I were very lucky to have him in our lives as long as we did. He was...
Vanuit Narvik reizen we zuidwaarts, via de Lofoten naar Oslo, een tocht met de nodige ‘uitdagingen’. Wel of niet naar de Noordkaap?We hadden graag de Noordkaap willen bezoeken, bij voorkeur per boot. Helaas bleek dat qua planning niet...
OK, eu acho que já fiz alguns posts reclamando da situação atual, principalmente do Spotify, sobre como plataformas de música agora são quase um TikTok musical, tem que ter anúncio quando abre o aplicativo, antes de ouvir música, tem que...
I have three main repositories for storing all my digital information: My File Cabinet (iCloud storage) Financial Archive (local storage) Writing (local storage) Everything is indexed in DevonThink for easy access and searchability. The...
It is not easy, in these lives haunted by loneliness and loss, menaced by war and heartbreak, witness to genocides and commonplace cruelties, to live in gratitude. And yet it may be the only thing that saves us from mere survival. In...
The last month or two have been extremely busy for me — work wise. I seem to have had little time to socialise and have been working much more than usual. I blogged at the end of last year on how I completely changed my career — it's...
For three days Dorothy heard nothing from Oz. These were sad days for the little girl, although her friends were all quite happy and contented. The Scarecrow told them there were wonderful thoughts in his head; but he would not say what...
On November 25, 2025, President Donald Trump proclaimed that November 27, 2025, would be a National Day of Thanksgiving. From the start of the Proclamation: In 1789, just years after America’s triumph over tyranny in the Revolutionary...
My Sweetie lost her long battle with cancer a week ago today. Honestly, loosing a loved pet has to be the next worst thing to loosing a child. The house feels empty without her and life doesn't move with the same rythem. Sweetie joined...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 558 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 1600 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla...
Title: Digital Prairie Website: digitalprairie.blog RSS Feed: digitalprairie.blog/rss A personal blog by an artist in the Midwest. Topics include illustration, design, printmaking, fiber arts, nature, attention, community building,...
Utsab was wearing the escapement mechanism. “I had to envision it connected to the switch,” Wemly reiterated. Utsab waved away her advice. “Already there. I can see the default model file on the device, and the new file on the server,...
Reflections and practical tips from 20 years using Getting Things Done, plus a short workshop plan for leaders who want actionable routines.
I've heard from a couple of people that they'd love to make a bear card, and even have it in their to-do list or open tabs, but never found the time or got overwhelmed. For those people, if the time you need or the overwhelming feeling...
I’ve built and released my first colorscheme: Compline, with its companion light theme Lauds. Compline: from the Latin “completorium” - completion. The final prayer of the Catholic Liturgical Hours, a time for deep contemplation, to be...
“Leaders at these institutions want to ban only certain topics from discussion. To do so, they have issued vague directives that no one knows how to interpret.” That’s philosopher Jacob Beck (York), writing about higher education in...
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The manufacturers of Zorin OS, a Linux distribution, or operating system (OS), similar to Linux Mint, which I use, claim there have been nearly eight-hundred-thousand downloads from Windows devices in the last month. This approximately...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Mon 11/24/25 - Ralts Random number generation led me here - I have no attachment to this thing whatsoever. Lucked out and found both of the acknowledged-in-pokemon...
Pablo recently added me to powrss[1], and wrote about reading the web seasonally[2]. When I first started using RSS, I thought I’d found this great tool for keeping tabs on news, current events, and stuff I should and do care about....
日常#8 Zen 浏览器、白描、博客图片压缩脚本 最近把浏览器从 Chrome 换成了 Zen，Chrome 现在有点一家独大的感觉，它有更多的话语权决定一些事情，例如 Removing XSLT for a more secure browse，所以我打算换个阵营，做一点微不足道的反抗。 可选的浏览器有很多，例如 Firefox、Safari、Arc、Zen、Vivaldi 等。主流的浏览器使用体验都差不多，Arc 以前用过一阵子，感觉交互还不错，但已经停止维护了；...
Not much has changed After crossing the 40th mark. I have always had strong grandpa energy. And while I still don't sleep for 5 hours a day (between 8PM and midnight, of course), I still to do my best at channeling the inner grandpa...
Whilst doing some Karabiner configuration spelunking I came across a blog post that had some neat styling of keyboard shortcuts. As one does, I inspected the code to find an element, <kbd>, that I have never seen before. Cool! Before...
Ghostty has a Quake-like1 mode to pop up a terminal (console) from the top of the screen, no matter where you are. Enable it with this setting in your Ghostty config: keybind = global:cmd+;=toggle_quick_terminal global: is what does the...
It's the day before Thanksgiving. I've a few things to pick up before making a mess of every surface in the kitchen. Currently Listening: Bing Crosby “I've Got Plenty To Be Thankful For”Reply via email
There are plenty of CLI tools to calculate the checksum of files. But, which one is the fastest?
The Holy Bible is a collection of books. So I have split them up. I will read it in 1 year, every day ~15 minutes of reading. Why read it? The Book of Acts, written by Luke around 80 AD, tells what happened after Jesus rose and went to...
Interlan.dev ha estado corriendo desde hace 911 días sin reinicio. es hora de un mantenimiento Introduccion En realidad solo quería probar un servicio que al parecer requería una versión superior de Debian, así que no me quedo mas opción...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the...
November 2025. Ely. Two hours to kill in a freezing Ely before the 3 hours back to Sheffield, with all the pubs that would have offered warmth and comfort packed with a Christmas market crowd. Celebrating Christmas ! On the Cathedral...
2025-11-19（水） 回数：86/100 時間：19:45~20:50 地稽古：NO先生、FM先生、TG先生、HT先生、MTO先生 心得：在交剑之前就要做好打击的心理准备。...
Disclaimer: these are little more than reading notes. I'll list some excerpts and highlights from a paper I've loved reading recently, with only marginal explanations. Rougher than usual, but this shortcut allows me to share things I...
Red leaves and moss on the roof of a gate at Enrian Temple. 厭離庵の門の屋根に紅葉と苔。
Sleep Review, November 25th to to 26th, 2025: Weird, as it has been the last few nights. On paper more than enough sleep, my body feels pretty awake and rested.But oh boy, am I having a lot of weird dreams lately. Not nightmares, really....
The most popular link last time was this piece about packing for a 25-city book tour, with this look at Dua Lipa's dream job second. If you're a productive procrastinator like me, you might need this: Things That Aren't Doing the...
Part of most people’s learning curve when they start coding is trying projects that, with luck, might become useful to themselves and others. In May I wanted to get a better handle on the WhatsApp API. I set up my local environment,...
As soon as the sun rose on November 1st — All Saints Day — the Christmas music began. All of it, including the two monumentally maddening hammer-stroke repetitive songs “The Twelve Days of Christmas” and “The Little Drummer Boy”. My...
The Brain Of Charles Babbage Charles Babbage, (1791–1871) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. Considered the "father of the computer", Babbage...
I use an IQUNIX Magi65 keyboard at home, and absolutely love it. I didn’t get the Pro version, as I don’t really need a dial or media keys, and I preferred the smaller size anyways. The only real criticism I noticed in reviews was that...
El naufragio de la Segunda República es un libro de la hispanista sueca Inger Enkvist que analiza este período en la Historia de España. Como su título deja entrever, se trata de un libro que puede resultar polémico, sobre todo porque...
I saw Chris McLeod's post fly by and got the itch. Here's mine! Operating system: macOS. Also tried this year: Linux (Fedora) and ChromeOS. Notes: Obsidian. Also tried: Logseq at work. Great ideas. The execution just wasn't quite there...
Happy Thanksgiving! It is important to say thanks. So, I’m just going to say thank you. Thank you to my family for putting up with me. Thank you to my buddies who have been with me through it all. Thanks to all of those people who have...
A short set of anecdotes, apropos of nothing. The Death of Software Engineering as a Profession When I was younger, I really liked programming! I loved the sense of accomplishment, I loved the problem solving, I loved sharing what I made...
If you’ve ever wondered how to take control of your digital life without immediately diving into the deep end of server racks and command-line chaos, I want to recommend Laura Hargreaves’ latest post, “Self-Hosting for Everyone”. This...