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Today’s musical question: how to describe the music that came to me this morning on my Comcast cable’s channel 942, “classical masterpieces”. Well: some delightful band music in a thick Viennese pastiche of Mozart’s melodies. It turned...
Breathe, Relax, Feel, Watch, Allow, Repeat mtift Tue, 07/28/2026 - 09:18 The first time I heard one of my Kripalu teachers say “BRFWA,” I thought it sounded kinda like a sneeze. Not the tidy acronym RAIN, which rolls off the tongue when...
Dear reader,From time to time, I encounter people advocating for big tech products because of their asserted security advantages over smaller, privacy-conscious providers. ldstephens was the latest to claim this:By choosing to avoid...
Artificial intelligence is relevant to so many philosophical subfields, and its increased presence in our lives makes it a ripe topic to cover in philosophy courses. [Book sculpture by Stephen Doyle]Philosophical writing on AI is at that...
In this video I provide an overview of the default interface for minibuffer completions in Emacs. This is an interface that has been improved considerably over the years. In Emacs version 31, this interface gets some nice new features...
A quick little update to GopherMap. v0.2.0 greatly relaxes the validation of incoming lines, being a lot less fussy about missing tab characters and also about fully empty lines. In the first take on this I was being pretty strict but,...
Conocer el espacio de trabajo o de ocio de una persona es entrarse un poco en su privada, es conocer a un poco más sobre ella. Al menos es lo que sentía cada vez que veía algún lugar de trabajo publicado en la web Workspaces. Si bien...
Eu sempre amei ir aos fliperamas. Desde criança eu tive a oportunidade de visitar vários graças ao meus irmãos gostarem de jogos também. Mesmo sem ter altura o suficiente ou pior, coordenação motora pra certos tipos de jogos. Ainda assim...
The universe flees as fast as it can, stretching, expanding infinitesas we rattle our chainshungry to hurtle free of EarthIn the distance,black holes screamplanets combustbinary stars death spiraldesperate to escape our...
Its pretty old movie—thirty four years old, but its songs are still popular. So I must have heard it somewhere, and therefore decided to watch it. Since it was released three decades ago, it is for a different audience. The movie is...
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, / you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.” “Let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped,” Carl Sagan urged in his beautiful and timely case...
Quelques semaines loupées, j’ai continué ma veille quotidiennement, mais vraiment pas le courage de me poser pour poster quelque chose avec la chaleur des dernières semaines (heureusement l’investissement dans un brasseur d’air aide...
Vivo en un ático con una terraza algo particular. Tiene una pérgola de hormigón y entre la pérgola y la azotea del edificio hay una pared vertical de 1,50m aprox. El otro día observé un par de avispas en la terraza y se dirigieron al...
“Patience, my young Padawan” is not actually a line used in any Star Wars movie. It is, however, something that seems to be in dwindling supply online. The prevailing culture is one of everything now. The technology train is leaving for...
As part of my Scottish road trip I mentioned on the Now page, I headed to Dundee as my partner had one thing she wanted to do (The V&A Museum) and I had one thing I wanted to do. To see the Lemmings Statue. The Lemmings Statue is a...
Zine#55 嘗試才是罕見的 當下沒有特別想分享的音樂，如果你想找點音樂聴，去聴聴 天使音乐 (Hint Notes) 吧。 我寫 Zine 的習慣是先在一周里收集各種連結(大部分都來自我訂閱的網站)，然後集中一個時間去处理。有的連結讀起來會比較花時間，有的我一時也不知道怎麼總結，以往我會把這樣的連結放一邊，拖到最後才处理，或者先去干點別的放鬆一下，簡而言之就是先逃避它。除非我選擇舍弃它們，否則這些連結最終都是要处理的，逃避并不會有什麼用。在 Zine#53...
Astronomers may have discovered the first moon, or satellite, outside the solar system, about seventy-three light years from Earth. Plenty of exoplanets, planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, have been found, but this might be the...
Loved the movie and made an audio recap for friends to feel better prepared to see for themselves.Currently Listening: Ludwig Göransson, James Blake, and Travis Scott “When I'm Home”Reply via email
Every frontier lab runs the largest canon-formation project in literary history and calls it a data pipeline. Look at the actual operations. Crawl the written world. Deduplicate it. Filter it for “quality” — a value judgment wearing a...
♠ I found drskill through Drew Breunig’s post about managing an agent’s loadout. Problem statement: lint skills bundled in a Claude Code plugin with drskill. Running it through uvx is easy enough: % uvx drskill scan --detailed drskill...
Elizabeth Williamson, writing at The New York Times:In the Opera House, which no longer has an opera, there is an empty orchestra pit scattered with trash. On the grand terrace overlooking the Potomac River, the flower beds are wilting...
I'm walking in the cool mornings at the moment, as the problem with my right knee is preventing me from running right now, which is driving me bonkers. On the walk this morning, I listened to a couple of episodes from two great podcasts...
July 2026. Whitchurch. Shropshire. By law all blog posts must show where the subject of your writing is in relation to Wrexham. Well, Whitchurch must be close, as I had Magic Dragon’s beers in three (3) pubs last Thursday. A fourth was...
Part 1 of the Blue Team Fundamentals track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series moves from personal-device hygiene to a Windows baseline that can be measured, piloted, and supported.Hardening a workstation is not a contest to enable...
En el juego «Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work» (a partir de ahora Larry 5) te mueves en avión y en taxi/limusina. Tanto cuando manejas a Larry como cuando manejas a Patti. Pasarás en la aventura...
they discovered that the minerals at this site contain record-breaking concentrations of gold, reaching as high as 1.9 wt% (19,231 ppm). Scientists strike invisible gold in the deep sea—locked inside fool’s gold How long before they are...
Ecma International 65 years: A milestone celebrated. Nied, Earl. Royalty-free Licensing in Standards. 2026. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7080858 Why in Building Protocols, Like Code, Starting Over Is Dumb, by mt. Tigers, Giants Locked...
NeoSearch este un motor de căutare axat pe confidențialitate, lansat de Bart Jellema, un antreprenor olandez care a cofondat anterior Tjoos, unul dintre cele mai mari agregatoare de cupoane de reducere, vândut ulterior. Din câștigurile...
These were the go-to joke gift. Your grandparents had one, your boss had one, the shady sales guy at the car dealership had one. There was one in an episode of the OG British Office. If you haven't seen it, it's just a plastic robot toy...
Always fun when your bike runs out of electricity on the way to work. Note to self: connect the trickle charger TONIGHT! (Wife is on the way with my jump box to save me) Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you....
Back last year, I attended my first Fleadh, Irish music festivals with a focus on competitions, as very much an intermediate tin whistle player. So intermediate in fact, that we had an accidental misunderstanding about what was meant by...
A stop to look at the view on the Isle of Wight. We only have another couple of weeks together as a family before our eldest heads back to start his sophomore year at college in Texas. Our youngest finished school last week, so my wife...
A few years ago, a Malaysian friend told me during the Twitter meltdown that she’s carefully cultivated a Malaysian safe bubble for herself on Twitter and she’s leery of losing that. Back then, I wasn’t very active on social media; I...
I've been thinking about how to selectively hide the toast button. Yesterday I wondered: how do I hide the toast button on all my #weeknotes posts? After I figured it out, I wondered: how do I hide the toast button on all my posts except...
Every morning I open a terminal and type three words: "plan my day." Charles comes back with a briefing. Tasks in flight, project updates, what's overdue, what's coming. Then he gets to my calendar. I said yes. Fifteen minutes later he...
It looks very much as if the swifts have flown, from Lichfield at least – a notably early departure. It's been a strange, but ultimately successful, season, beginning with the newly arrived birds absenting themselves for long periods...
Llevo estos últimos meses metiéndole mano a mi sitio tras bambalinas y creo que llegó el momento de documentar todo lo que he ido agregando antes de que se me olvide. 😂 Ahí les va(ilongo): 💬 Reply context Si sigues mis posts recientes...
I’ve had the pleasure in my career of sitting in tons of different board rooms talking with executives and getting a rundown on different charts and graphs they care most deeply about. As expected, “number chart go up” is always the...
Driving UpdateTime really flies because I’ll be having the last two lessons next week, completing the driving course (9 x 1.5hr sessions). Although my instructor behaved increasingly unprofessional in the lessons—being on his mobile &...
Robert Hopkins (aesthetics, philosophy of mind), Professor of Philosophy at New York University, will take up a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford University in October 2026.
defector.com Don’t go giving me hope now…