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Spotted this piece while crossing Clark and Chicago. They start out covered in tar which is eroded away by traffic over time. This one has been here a while.I had been out for a little stroll during lunch when I passed it. I thought of...
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New blog post, new folktale "Warrior Maiden", two ballads "The Russian, the Foe" and "The Daughters of Mana Scold Me", the myths "Origin of Fire" and "Lifting Fire up to the Skies", and an incantation for igniting the northern lights. In...
The Holy Sea published the Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo's first Encyclical letter. And to my surprise, he speaks of how the world, humanity, should deal with AI, in great detail, and with great care. And clearly not a simple "AI bad,...
I am a bit late on today’s Pook-Emu Bee links, but the links are better late than never. 1. Ghost CMS SQL injection flaw exploited in large-scale ClickFix campaign (Bill Toulas for Bleeping Computer. May 24, 2026.) PSA for those of your...
BlogMore has been bumped to v2.30.0. This release is pretty heavy on new features, but it does also include one small accessibility tweak too. While looking through some of the neutral feedback from PageSpeed Insights I noticed it...
Trăim în vremuri în care ai un calculator puternic în buzunar, cu acces la hărți detaliate ale întregii planete, cu GPS, cu indicații vocale pas cu pas, cu estimări de timp în timp real, și totuși o grămadă de oameni nu știu să se...
Read on the website: Internet learned to speak gibberish that doesn’t always coincide with literary text. But it can be converted back to that. Here’s my experiment along these lines.
May 26, 2026 I am aware that my time on Earth is finite. At 81 years old, I don't plan on going anywhere soon, but I recognize that I won't be here forever. Lately I’ve been thinking about making things easier for the people who will...
¿Querés que tu app funcione como vos esperabas? ¿Como era antes? En el ambiente del hacking de software hay un grupo muy particular de seres que crean parches para software que no es de ellos, sino de terceros. La...
May 2026. Alba Iulia. Romania. See ! This blog isn’t all closed micros and Singapore rice. Staying overnight within the Alba Iulia fortress gave us a best spot at the changing of the Austrian guard the next morning (Press PLAY). I’ve no...
Petri AS, Krarup TG, Traustason S, Hajari JN, Hardarson SH, Kyhnel A, Kiilgaard JF, Stefansson E, de La Cour MD. Acta Ophthalmologica. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/aos.70159 If you detach photoreceptors from their choroidal oxygen...
January is now behind us, making it the first month of 2026 to come to a close. Time to take a quick look back. For me, January was the second month in my new job. I’m really enjoying it so far. The topic of certificate management is...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. Ever since announcing that I’m on the market a couple of weeks ago, actively looking for my next gig, I’ve already had some great conversations with people offering insights, connections, and...
One in nine of the physicians in the largest recent study of doctors who left American medicine never practiced it. They finished medical school. They finished residency — eight to ten years, the better part of a million dollars, the...
Staying slim and fit has always been a goal that has guided me throughout my life. I have been exercising with varying intensity and frequency since I was a teenager. Of course, there were the usual benefits of working out: Staying...
Recently, I learned what “disagree and commit” truly means, a concept everyone struggles with a lot. Committing to an idea that you disagree with is difficult. Or, let’s say it was, until today. The idea is that you may disagree with...
While I was at the conference, my wife explored Brussels on her own. As you might know, she doesn't have a smartphone, and the only similar thing she has is a tablet with only WiFi capabilities. Public WiFi is more and more common, but...
TIMBRE SI LA REVOLUCIÓN FUERA EL ÚNICO CAMINO [La Jornada, Mayo 19 2026]Fue ya hace años que la crítica Christina Sharpe, autora de ese libro fundamental sobre las postvidas de la esclavitud y las violencias racistas en el mundo de...
This week I read Ben Lerner’s new book Transcription, a fictional dive into the early days of the pandemic, technology, and the effect of both on memory and experience. One particular sentence (actually, just a part of a sentence) late...
Use Any Means or Method mtift Tue, 05/26/2026 - 08:13 Last Thursday night, I asked a Tibetan monk if we should keep using the same practices in a world where the political climate feels unstable and AI threatens to change everything. He...
I hate how my brain doesn't play nice. I was having a rough afternoon yesterday after dealing with all that car stuff, and thankfully over the evening I was able to get a loaner from my folks until I secure funds for a new vehicle. Today...
Table of Contents Two Definitions The Consequences of Digital Artworks Industrialised Production Two Definitions Art has always been one of the most central aspects of human lives. It is not unique to the human experience, but it has...
...But failed to address what I think is the most important unanswered question about them: the degree to which these "robots" are actually autonomous. You can read the Guardian's coverage here. I think that as newspapers continue to...
Well today in my patient undertaking, I found that now I can use obsidian with the pika publish plugin. So I am doing just that now. Alternatives are nice to find and the whole micropub API support is a fun one. Hello Phnom Penh! What...
Veamos cómo previsualizar el renderizado de archivos en formato markdown en el editor Kate de KDE Utilizo mucho los archivos en formato markdown y si no los edito en la terminal mediante Vim utilizo Kate como editor principal. Y me acabo...
Dear Ciara, It seems I have worked my magic too well. When I first moved into our new property, I spent the first month or so establishing a wildlife garden in the front yard. I planted a mix of natives and exotics under the rambutan...
It’s 2026. Whenever I’m idle in the gym, or in public transit, or in a queue, or waiting for GitHub to become available again (boooo!), I can simply open Claude Code on my phone and unleash my boredom creativity. I can open my corporate...
Un par de dibujos hechos de forma completamente digital: "Turbo Skater" y "Vamos a jugar" Turbo SkaterFinalizado: 2026-05-23 › Ver más »¡Patina todo el día!
En mis viajes saqué muchas fotos a paisajes, monumentos. En muchas de ellas ni siquiera aparezco, ni tampoco nadie que conozca. ¿Que hago con esas fotos? ¿Tiene sentido tenerlas si ni siquiera yo aparezco en la foto? Me pregunto a mi...
There’s a bit of an event going on in the TWG Online Discord server where everyone agreed to set a goal, to finish at least four out of ten selected games. This usually runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day—May 25 to September 7 in 2026....
Hooded oriole Thanks to everyone who came out to my birding birthday walk yesterday. I had a great time hosting and sharing my love of birds with you all. And the group spotted quite a few birds themselves and had great questions. The...
I recently had one of those RMM alerts that looks simple at first, but immediately turns into a small rabbit hole. The alert was for a potential disk failure, and the important part of the event log message looked like this: The driver...
Cerca de mi casa hay una escuela secundaria, y no sé como sea en otros países, pero dónde vivo se suele poner un señalamiento sobre que hay una escuela cerca para que los carros disminuyan su velocidad. Lo raro de esa secundaria, es que...
youtube • video ID: er416Ad3R1gclick image to load player Remember when people used to be creative? Love how this looks! This article was originally published at:...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] The sixth way we’ll derive the formula for the center deflection of a uniformly loaded simply...
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Venho tendo um problema insuportável: hipersonia e fadiga excessiva. Por meses discuti com o meu psiquiatra que isso talvez fosse um efeito colateral de uma das medicações que eu utilizo. Fazia sentido, afinal isso é comum e ela também é...
I am now generating this website with Clojure (yes, right after rewriting it in GNU Make and shell; I have a problem, ok?). In a personal tradition, I used writing a static site generator as the project to play with and learn Clojure as...
102: The use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom. Important and sensitive decisions — concerning employment, credit,...
I got “tennis leg” two days ago. Tennis leg is an acute strain of the large calf muscle. I found some other guy detailing is journey with it, and that was helpful to me, so I figured I’d do the same. I’ll update this as things progress....
“Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.” “Memory is never a precise duplicate of the original… it is a continuing act of creation,” researcher Rosalind Cartwright reminded us...
Change my design since I was off today! ✨✨✨ Still need to work a lot on the library section... but the rest is basically done! #website #updatesThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
“I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me” by Lorna Shore
A couple of nights ago, I was about to post a song on The Headphonist, my music journal, when I decided the design I'd put up a couple of months ago wasn't doing it for me anymore. And because who needs sleep?, I went ahead and started...
Historia de como ahora yo y mi novia somos padres.
This is a very minor release that fixes a couple of bugs and tweaks some of the development experience. Download Taylor v0.4.2 now! Changelog Lock the MRuby version used in the export docker image Refactor talyor-config.json handling...
Alright gang WHO’S READY FOR SOME SEA-SPOOKUMS (it is me, I am ready to be saltily spooklepated) ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ Alright, legacy character in Elizabeth and Will’s son, whomst I guess technically we have seen onscreen (from when they did they...
If I get back on the GTD wagon there’s a lesson I want to take with me and really hammer home. When I’m off GTD the bad thing that happens is that I get an idea for an essay or something and I have to go do it right away because there’s...
I had the opportunity to test Indigo before its launch — on the 12th — a social media app that unifies the timelines of Bluesky and Mastodon. The duo of developers, Aaron Vegh and Ben McCarthy, have experience in the field. They’re also...
On May 22, 2026, TechCrunch published an article by Ivan Mehta titled Spotify’s AI bet: more of everything, less of what you want. I preface my thoughts by noting that I have never used Spotify—or is it now SpotifAI?—and nothing I have...
One of the things I like best about blogs is that posts stick around (or at least they should). I enjoy scrolling through historic posts of bloggers and reading about what they were thinking about 1, 5, or even 10 years ago—if I'm lucky....
Sometimes, I get frustrated with the writing community. I’ll casually post something about using AI for writing, and almost immediately, someone would drop a rude comment without finding out how I use AI to write! They immediately jump...
or, the dark side of convenienceDespite what pretty much every advertisement tries to convince us of, convenience isn’t always the answer. We shouldn’t shun friction from our lives; it plays a vital role: it uncovers what’s meaningful in...
Co-authored-by: ur mom I don't get why people just gleefully add these ads for companies to their open-source projects that do not pay them a penny (but actively take money from them in subscription fees). "Assisted by blabot",...