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On KPop Demon Hunters and the limits of self-acceptance In KPop Demon Hunters, a girl group called HUNTR/X plays sold-out stadiums by day and holds a magic barrier against demons by night. Their leader, Rumi, is hiding that she is half...
—Rusty Epstein
For years I've been trying to find a single roast to become my house coffee. I've had some really great roasts, and I end up chasing those flavors. When the bag is gone I try to find more of it again.
Can we complete a perfect Sunday-Friday Pook-Emu Bee link week? With this, we are 5/7 of the way there. Free discarded furniture on Love Lane in Brooklyn Heights. I took this photo on August 6, 2026. Articles 1 | New $472M electronic...
The University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts is trying out something new this coming term: a dual grading system in which professors give students ordinary letter grades based on the quality of their work, but...
Strathfield is a suburb located in the west of Sydney, Australia. I don’t know many people living in the area, so I’m not there often, but have occasionally wandered the streets near the railway station. About a third of residents were...
Pictures from seeing the opera Carmina Burana live in San Francisco with a full chorus. Here you go. You can watch a performance (not the one we attended, unfortunately) here if you like.
RebirthAuthor: RR HaywoodGenre: Sci-fiReleased: 2026Rating: ★★★★☆How do you prevent a hero from saving the world?In the first trilogy, three heroes were extracted from their timelines to save the world. Now we need them again. Meet Ben...
Figure 1: My view of Liberty Square (自由廣場), as well as the National Concert Hall (right) and National Theater (left) from atop the steps of Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall. Writing this, I have arrived at the island of Formosa, the adopted...
There’s been buzz recently about how a nascent web and mobile astronomy app, Dark Hours, got wildly incorrectly rejected from Apple’s App Store. Then maybe it turned out that the rejection wasn’t so wild because Apple may well have been...
During our time in China I’ve been amazed by the number of EVs on the roads. Nearly every car you see is rocking a green license plate, signifying it’s powered by electricity.There’s two big driving factors behind the Chinese EV push....
After I learned how to make a Mac widget with TerminalWidget and how to determine the locations of celestial objects with Astropy, the natural thing for me to do was combine the two into a widget that tracks the planets. I’m using the...
I got fairly busy after my perfume escapades yesterday, both of these times I was fighting for something I believe in. One of them was a lot more draining and unpleasant than the other. Organising ProtestLet's set the scene: Tuesday,...
Estos últimos días hemos estado dándole forma al nuevo Hitz. Refinando, proponiendo ideas, descartando otras, viendo qué podemos hacer para que sea un lugar acogedor donde la gente pueda caerle a conversar, ver qué pasa en la escena y...
The second day of Thor's birthday celebrations included dumplings, museums and a cabaret performance overlooking New Jersey.Currently Listening: Kate Bush “Nocturn”Reply via email
I received my pre-ordered Clicks Power Keyboard this week. It's a quality iPhone accessory and it made my thumbs very happy. But a Clicks account is required for firmware updates, and that's a deal-breaker for me. I was excited when the...
This post is strictly for schools that expect to do hiring this year. In order to protect the privacy of our candidates, please e-mail me to get a copy of the narrative profiles of our candidates who are on the entry-level market this...
Meteors Shower, one might say! Long exposure of the stars from the 2017 shower; you can see one (1) streak on the right side Since I was a small child, a thing I looked forward to every year is a near-end of summer tradition where we'd...
Why read the book? Robert Louis Stevenson published Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886. The story is short and direct. A lawyer named Gabriel Utterson investigates the strange behaviour of his friend Dr Henry Jekyll and the...
When I first created GopherMap, I made it pretty strict about what it did and didn't consider a valid map. Unsurprisingly, reality did what reality does and, pretty quickly, Rogallo met maps that didn't fit with this strict approach. So...
I have been subscribed to Clarkesworld for more than two years now—I blame Amin—but it took me this long to finally finish one of their issues. I am just terrible at reading I guess, but since they are a great sci-fi magazine I don’t...
I found an old blog post about my reading habits, and decided to update it for my current habits plus some funny things related to me and reading.What are yours? I mix up physical books, audiobooks and e-books and I always have several...
August 12, 2026 I saw this in my RSS feed this week. It caught my attention, so I wanted to learn more about it. Embedded watermarks in text When a supported Claude model generates text, it weaves an imperceptible watermark directly into...
A long time ago, in what now feels like a galaxy far, far away, large language models were next-word predictors. You gave them an unfinished chunk of text, and they continued from where it left off with plausible-sounding sequences of...
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“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.” The year of reading more and writing better is well underway with writing advice the likes of David Ogilvy’s...
It's been 21 days since we've had to say goodbye to my soul dog, Cocoa. It has not gotten easier, but I am trying to learn how to hold the grief that is within me. I have hard days, and then harder days. There has not been any easy days....
Erst mal wachwerden, dann rein und rausschälen in die eigene, dann die Routinen der anderen. Dann Kaffee, dann schnell durch die Abfertigungshalle. So läuft’s, so laufen die Tage. Morgendliche Tortur de force. Kompromittierte Zugänge in...
This is my rebuttal to a response of my response to a response about a post (Andreas, look what you’ve started!). One thing that the internet never fails to remind me of is that I tend to see the world in broad brush strokes whereas many...
A few days ago I wrote a post titled "Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change". I don't write posts with the intention of getting lots of clicks, but this one seems to have struck a nerve (or the headline...
It means knowing every time we leave that the passport we’re holding is a political object that represents rights and privileges together, that a return ticket isn’t just a piece of our logistical organization, but – as we were saying...
I started this a few times. It’s been some months since we have gone anywhere here in Cambodia. For a long time we did the quick trip to Battambang but we have gone so many times I got bored with the whole thing. I can’t really leave...
Avec le retour de la chaleur à nouveau, j’ai vraiment pas eu trop le courage de bosser sur mes projets à part mettre à jour ma configuration Iocaine et rajouter de la completion pour les emojis/images dans ma configuration SilverBullet...
Weird switches Another time-consuming but deeply rewarding home repair. I love my 43-year-old Technics SU-Z15 amplifier far too much to replace it, and I’ve no excuse when there’s a detailed YouTube video of a Turkish chap repairing the...
Jazzy Listenin': New Groove - Peter Beets From 1990 to 2003, my dear Grandpa presented a weekly show on the local radio station called Jazzy Listenin’. In this series, I’ll discuss his albums to honour his memory, as I listen my way...
Remember when discourse used to be called rhetoric? Even though those French deconstructionists aptly foresaw its collapse, I still find myself itching for some kind of good argument. No, I don't mean in that "discourse" sense either....
♠ Previously. Problem statement: make my cdg shortcut jump from a linked Git worktree back to the main checkout when already at the worktree root. The shortcut originally stopped at the current checkout’s root: alias cdg='cd "$(git...
A little over 10 years ago, I got into Reprap because I was intrigued with possibility of a machine that could print most of its own components. A self-replicating factory still sounds like a cool idea. I was intrigued with the...
The Gnome Shell user interface has mostly seen minor refinements and quality of life updates in recent cycles, but on the design side we’ve explored a lot of longer-term things we’d like to do. Some of these we have relatively complete...
Here’s a cool fish trick: abbr --add jjc --set-cursor -- 'jj commit -m "%"' This adds an abbreviation, which is a like an auto-expanding bash alias, that puts your cursor at the % character. So when I type jjc in my terminal and hit...
Hace un tiempo os hablé de cómo instalar la última versión de Vim en Linux y de sus ventajas frente al clásico vi. Sin embargo, si usáis Vim recién instalado de serie para vuestros... La entrada Vitaminas para Vim: Plugins,...
My review of “Iron Man 3”.
Dear reader,I have been trying to reform my relationship with technology. From filling small moments of boredom with algorithm-driven content to spending hours on end with my devices, these issues have bothered me for years. It was time...
This one is a few days late. Most of my free time last week went into personal projects, and I kept choosing “one more thing” on the server over sitting down to write this. LOL.The vibeRestless, but in a good way.My brain has been stuck...
There's this eclipse happening today, and later this month, another one that, according to what I've read, will be visible in Brazil. In other times, maybe in another life, I would've been excited to watch the phenomena. Idk when it...
On a whim, I decided to ride my eBike on a 30+ mile ride. Men of a certain age love WWII or Civil War history; I love both types! Some quick searching of the Richmond area led me to pick Malvern Hill Battlefield as my destination....
a half-assed review"> 2017 came and after getting enough play time in AC Syndicate, I bought the new AC title, Origins. While not a reboot, it does move the time frame of the game way in the past, during Ancient Egypt, exploring the...
An account of the anti-iconoclast rebellion of 726–727 in Byzantine Italy, from the "Historia Langobardorum" by Paul the Deacon.
I currently have 70,000 unread emails in my inbox. Do not @ me. (Unless you want to send me an email; then definitely @ me.) Send me an email Latest 3 posts 13 Aug, 2026 I am Deadly Serious 11 Aug, 2026 A Foggy Longing 10 Aug, 2026...
JTR from the blog The Art Of Not Asking Why sent me a few questions regarding Emacs themes, my opinion on the Solarized colour scheme, and even my choice of wallpaper. JTR asks about Solarized because I consider Ethan Schoonover’s...
August 2026. Bath. I’d opted for a couple of nights down in Bath, a little luxurious but the student residences on the edge of town were cheaper than a Doncaster Travelodge, Twerton Mill’s riverside rooms near Bath City FC spotless and...
Three days ago, I wrote the post Geohashes for my photos about my recent use of Geohashes as a short alternative to long GPS coordinates and expressed my hope that my favorite platform, Vernissage, would support them… and I created a...
I had fun cosplaying at Matsucon and I went on stage too! At Matsucon this year I spent bunch of money on the artist alley, but I also had signed up for a "cosplay catwalk" which was very spooky but interesting. Photos But first some...
If you read my last post about being unhinged, here's an update. I feel re-hinged. I am not in total fucked up despair mode anymore. I did spend the last two days barely able to get out of bed without feeling super tired and with a...
Denominación de Origen es un documental que puede verse en RTVE Play que sirve como preámbulo a la consecución del segundo Campeonato Mundial de Fútbol por parte de la selección española. Sin lugar a dudas, ha sido una de las alegrías de...