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The greater risk lies in its interpretation. “People hear what they think is a scientific justification for having this animal as a pet,” O’Neil said. “People are not going to do enough digging to realize, Oh my God, this is a really bad...
A quick little update to Wasat, bumping the version to v1.7.0. In service of a feature I'm adding to Rogallo, I've added a forget method to the trust store class, so that a certificate fingerprint for a particular host/port combination...
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Here’s some stuff I’ve experienced lately (and not necessarily only new releases)...
A couple of weeks ago I bought an old Walkman, because I felt like listening to some tapes again; something that I hadn't done in at least 25 years. This set me on a path to look a bit more into old Hi-Fi equipment. Not old as in from...
Dear reader,If you have been reading my blog for a while, you may have noticed my distaste for AI. Unlike many people, I don’t view it as “just a tool” or a neutral piece of technology. I see its harms surpassing its benefits.So when I...
Heya! So, a while ago, in this post, i talked about some random quotes which you can view in the random quotes widget on my other website. So, since I have nothing better to do, I might as well share some more of my favorite that I've...
Rationale-“I tried asking an LLM to help me with this database task and all I got back was outdated and wrong answers”-“The LLM said it had written the code but when I tried it it had just skipped parts of it and completely misunderstood...
2026-08-30Hello!When I looked around the internet for street photography, I came across some award-winning images that were monochrome. So I know monochrome can look good, I just don't have the skills to make it shine. I'm hoping that...
I spent the day playing Skyrim. I made it through the Dawnguard quests with Serana "helping" along the way. A vampire princess who is hundreds of years old can't one shot a random bandit but the rat hermit who has been living off...
In 1896, decades before Santiago Ramón y Cajal pioneered neuroscience, more than a century before Oliver Sacks showed us how perception phosphoresces in the 100 milliseconds between the world and us, half a lifetime before he was awarded...
Where did it all go? Every ounce of feeling from my fingertips and toes. The darkness makes room for the twinkle to star. I look up, my smile cast away. Mage, to you, I'm the muse.
Posting LLM generated writing is an afront to the intelligence of everyone that you want to read it, and a direct insult to humanity as a whole. The time to mince words about this is long gone. I saw a piece of writing on Hackernews the...
Today's entries are more 'yes and' of existing stuff but that's ok! When I started writing yesterday's blog post I had planned on doing about 6 but as I got through the first three and looked at the clock I realized breaking it up into...
Version 31.1 of Emacs was just released. I decided to use this 31.1 release as an excuse to clear out the config cobwebs and start over. Restarting a big config isn't something I want to do all the time, but I wanted to try and make...
You really, really don’t need a new app for this I’ve been tracking my loose-to-no-deadline tasks in a Forster list for over a month now. This list lives in an A6 squared notebook that goes with me (almost) everywhere. It’s been a...
The articles that made it into the latest edition of Philosophers Annual have been announced. The list aims to “select the ten best articles published in philosophy each year—an attempt as simple to state as it is admittedly impossible...
August 2026. Wombwell. Greater Barnsley. “You’re weird” says Mrs RM, which I’m taking as a compliment. A week after that foreign holiday in Wales, I’d barely left Sheffield. At Dad’s care home this afternoon, the lovely staff note my...
This ebook by Daina Chiba is an excellent, thorough resource for learning Riichi mahjong. It’s hard to find such good material in English. You need a pretty strong understanding of the fundamentals to follow along with many of the...
There’s a widespread belief that artificial superintelligence (ASI) is inevitable. In this post, I argue that this is false, and believing it is upstream of a lot of bad discourse. Why do people believe it? It’s easy to believe. Samuel...
0:0 Before yesterday’s home match, I was already a bit worried, as Essen had knocked out second-division team St. Pauli in the DFB-Pokal at the weekend, whereas we, as everyone knows, lost 0:4 to Leverkusen. Either a win like that gives...
The clubhouse, once a sportsman’s retreat with a skylit staircase and a rotunda that hosted annual dinners and dances, sits like an empty shell. The second-floor balcony, from which members and guests watched the Regattas and aquatic...
Zine#57 IndieWeb Is Punk、用你的錢包去投票、為終端瀏覧器优化網站 目录󠄃 News | Article Cool Bit Tutorial | Resource Code Related AI Related Tool | Library Emacs 一些话 | 摘抄 多媒体 图1 香港石澳拍的一張胶片，後面是山，山前是一片海灣，海灣中間有一片岩石，岩石上有一些房屋。 這期內容有點多，如果你想聴點歌慢慢看，我推薦 Album#45 - Sweet...
Film Brand New Landscape by Yuiga Danzuka. Ren works as a delivery driver for moth orchids — a common gift for business openings in Japan. Since the loss of his mother to suicide, he’s been estranged from his father, a world-renowned...
My review of “Batman Begins”.
Tras más de dos décadas de desaparición de las redes, regresa de forma fugaz Morkyr con una nueva columna… Como quizá alguien recuerde, cuando comencé a escribir en este blog, recuperé las doce columnas que escribió Morkyr en el...
Chat GPT and Claude continue to drive down my blog traffic. How-to posts and technical coding posts have been on a downward slope since Gen AI has gotten more popular.
Sunday Morning Birding at Dorey Park Slow morning - only 14 species. The highlight was a Great Blue flying into the pond right over our heads as we were finishing up.
Founder and CEO of Passes.Hot HitsI never skip my workouts.Barry's is my nonnegotiable start to the day - it keeps me disciplined, competitive, and plugged into a community that motivates me.Smart StepsI treat my life like a series of...
Via Patrick Grim (who remains as “executive editor ” of PA, but has turned over editor duties for this volume to Daniel Singer): The Philosopher’s Annual volume 45 from the literature of 2025 Evan Behrle, “Desert and Economic...
There was a draft, a detailed version of the week. The week did not go as designed. My mind feels the weight of having no focus, scattered words, learning, thoughts, ideas; scattered brings no peace. I type this, a entirely different...
Our final day of the bike trip took us across two states, and ended with mild disappointment. In retrospect, we'll call the Late Summer VT Bikepacking a success, but the Later Summer NH Rail Trail Riding an abject failure. Our final day...
So Google has put their tongue to the Presidential boot once more, and renamed "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" (joining their previous bullshit of renaming the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America"). Yes, names on a map are really...
That’s Mine, by Hobart based Australian author Adam Ouston (Instagram page), which features one incredibly, outrageously, long sentence of perhaps eighty-five thousand words. No full-stops, chapters, or even a few lines of space to break...
Mood: Ferociously hopeful, buzzing like a perfectly tuned bass string. Come. Sit. Take a walk with me as I imagine the world I wish to live in. The rhythmic, oscillating thrum of rotors shears through the humid air. The scent of hot...
A weekly recap of the articles and posts I’ve read that I think are worth your time. Re-fueling while cycling made all the difference — After-hours engineering — A good lesson if you are getting into cycling as a hobby-ist. However I do...
I never understood why most bookstores in Berlin (and perhaps in Germany) don't sell magazines. I'm writing a new article right now about magazines and how they shaped my life in the last year. While writing it, I realised that for...
When it comes to buying new vidya games and such, for the past few years, I have been visiting my local game store, VIP Games. Mainly because they give me good money for my trades, and back when I was looking to get a PS5, they went...
With Casey visiting family I’m left to my own devices and a backlog of movies he needn’t suffer through. First on the list was Life Itself, a sprawling melodrama from the writer behind Cars, Crazy, Stupid, Love and This Is Us. It’s...
Public domain photograph of Dolly Parton in 1970 via RCA Records and Wikimedia Commons. Look, I know a solid portion of the planet has been sharing their love of Dolly Parton, but damn it, in this instance, it’s the right thing to do....
I like a nice cloud. This is at the abandoned but well-grazed WW2 airfield at Davidstow, Cornwall, where the sky is massive. Often you can't see anything because the sky comes right down to the ground as mist, but not today.
On my birthday, I wanted to take a moment and just say all the things I'm grateful for. I'm grateful for Rachelle and our life together. I know that's a big one and kind of cheesy, but it's true. I normally can only recognize good...
Oh no. I should not have seen those “day live-blogs in timeline format” posts today. Like this and this. Very nerd-snipy, now I want to play with a format like that as well.(Old-school readers might know that I used to have something...
A Shepherds Hut was in an auction In 2021 I read an online article online in a daily newspaper where a sheep farmer had been outbid at an auction for an old Shepherds Hut by someone from London. The point of the article was a moral...
Creating covers for ebooks, editing books, building apps ... It used to cost thousands to do this, but AI is making these services affordable. For creatives (those who do this as a hobby or for work), this opens up a so many exciting...
2026-08-30 Esta lectura me dejo pensando un rato: El valor de vivir en el anonimato Si hace unos años fui una figura algo pública, con varios canales, habiendo trabajado en distintos medios escritos y hablados (que llegaron a varios...
Prietenul Alex a scris cum s-a lăsat parțial de fumat, spun parțial pentru că a trecut de la țigară normală la țigară electronica cu aburi sau vape, cum le mai zice lumea. Și mă bucur pentru el că a reușit să se lase de fumat în mare...
img { display: inline-block; } rose I met Suliman! I'm having a good time playing FFXIV; made it to Heavensward now, excited to play more. My wife gifted me the new Hello Kitty Island Adventure DLC (Tea Garden) and it's been very sweet...
Carl's Doomsday ScenarioAuthor: Matt DinnimanGenre: Fantasy, Sci-fiReleased: 2021Rating: ★★★★★"The training levels have concluded. Now the games may truly begin." The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough....
2026-08-16（日） 時間：10:00 ~ 16:00 地稽古：八段範士 EG先生・HGさん夫婦・THさん・KO先生・OB先生 心得： 每一次攻め和打ち都需要勇气和决心 —— EG先生 在和 HG桑♂ 稽古的时候，自然地做出了骗面打手的技……感觉还是要多练，哪怕是同一场稽古会，手感找回来之后就会打得更顺一些。 在基础练的时候不要刻意加快速度，要做好充足的进攻，再在合适的时机打出一本。尤其可以多去尝试一些进攻的种类，比如 2026-08-21（金） 時間：19:45...
A string of clouds lit up just after sunset, at 2nd St. in Hermosa Beach, California. 夕方の雲 日没直後、カリフォルニア州ハモサビーチで、一列に連なる雲が夕焼けに照らされていた。
Many of you know how much I love the Walter Martin Radio Hour. I’ve been listening (and subscribing) to it almost since the beginning, and it’s been a constant source of pleasure and indeed joy for me. His enthusiasm is certainly...
By: Iain M. Banks | Rating: 5/5At the start I was a bit sceptical about the whole game theme, but the novel quickly became a very interesting tale of the Culture.
24th August - 30th August The combination of a giant honey-coloured moon and distant light pollution reflecting off the sparse cloud cover means, even without streetlights, it's just about light enough to walk at night without a torch....
How has your life changed since the emergence of AI? Life before AI You couldn’t draw. You couldn’t write. You couldn’t code. But you were happy with your life; you laughed and joked, and you got by. Life after AI You still can’t draw...
♠ Previously. I added a TV shows page with a sample of my favorites, inspired by Michael Harley’s watching page and Michael Stapelberg’s series page. The list lives in YAML. Trakt keeps my full watch history; this file stays small,...
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Some photos of people's shadows, taken in Bath in contrasty light. Hi! How are you?
Kosmo - Arizona, 2020 When the weather cooperates, I enjoy a morning on the patio, reading or writing. We had a little West Highland Terrier, Kosmo, who never missed the opportunity to be outdoors. I would enjoy coffee and cool weather....
dear creative soul is a series of letters from my creative heart to yours Dear Creative Soul, Have you ever been hit by a swarm of gnats on a warm summer day? If you have, you know they buzz around your head in great numbers, and all you...
Everything I shared on social.omgmog.net between 24 and 30 August: a website that turns anything you hit into a bell, a word game designed to give you a headache, and flying toasters back on the desktop.
Back in the days of lax law enforcement and youthful immortality, I fancied myself a bit of a psychonaut. I idolized the old acid-heads of the 60s, firmly believed in the visionary intensity and prophetic wisdom of poets like Rimbaud and...
Today is BlogDay, a celebration of blogging and also the end to Blaugust, a challenge to write 31 posts in the month of August. I did not participate in Blaugust myself, but I have enjoyed reading people’s posts. In particular Thomas...
Camera Camp Snap Pro Data 20/09/2026 Location Bruxelles, Belgium ✱ Thanks for enjoying the RSS feed and reading! You can leave your comments by emailing me.
Llevo leyendo en el Kindle desde hace bastantes años y aunque sigue funcionando perfectamente, buscaba un dispositivo algo más abierto en el que pudiera hacer más cosas, además de una pantalla más grande. Después de mucho mirar, centré...
I've followed and engaged in politics for about 8 years now, on and off. A lot of what we see on the news feels way too big to make any difference, and often it feels like no matter what effort goes in, we're just kind of crossing our...
I decided last night I had to leave pagecord. I really did not like some of the AI things and other people's experiences I happened to read about. I really like the service. Like how features and enhancements surfaced. It became how I...
You know that rhetorical question parents like to use? The one about the friend jumping off the bridge, right? I'm the friend who jumped. It's a lot better to be good than smart. I think of that Elizabeth Holmes situation, or the Martin...
It was a good month for me. Very productive, slower than usual. When the rest of the world races, folks go faster, produce more than ever with all these modern tools, I find more joy in doing precisely the opposite. My friend inspired me...
Some Dragonflies we found on a walk around the reservoir. Emerald Damselfly / Common Spreadwing Common Darter Dragonfly Common Darter Dragonfly Male Ruddy Darter Not a Dragonfly. But was watching me watch the Dragonflies.