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Is it possible to tame the A.I. beast in higher ed? I am a college professor who sees the handwriting on the wall: it’s only a matter of time before university administrators begin using “A.I. tools” to replace costly faculty. Although...
Hello, loves! If there was a feature I wanted, I’d do that. There isn’t, so we’ll look for some more small but significant improvements. Fiddling while Rome burns? Why not? In a Mastodon exchange involving flying monkeys ( my pretties!)...
The short answer is you, the taxpayer. The explosive growth in automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) has caught many communities off guard. This is especially true as details about their capabilities far beyond simply flagging stolen...
When I started an independent editorial studio, most of my business came from referrals. I continued this as I rebooted my business writing practice several months ago. I also wrote thoughtful cold emails to companies I very...
A true story of grace and transformation, originally published in the Quaker journal, 'What Canst Thou Say.' I share it again for the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, which begins at Vespers on July 21. In all wisdom traditions, she is here...
Cattle graze under the watchful gaze of the NEXRAD weather radar. The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 750....
I recently had a project in which I had to reverse engineer a data analysis. There was some ambiguity regarding which of several possibilities someone chose for several of the variables, something analogous to the following example....
Picked this up last month on vinyl at a local record store for about $10, and it was worth every penny. All 1000 of them. This jam session differs from Pablo's other recordings in that it includes the great English tenor Ronnie Scott...
Whisky Still The original function of a Web server was to respond to queries by revealing the appropriate part of their internal data. This necessarily meant that repeated queries, for example from a search engine's or an internet...
I've been working on my neocities website for a long, long time. I've tinkered with that damn site longer than this blog has even existed. I've had probably 5 different redesigns, ranging from a really basic site to look like the 90s, to...
I want to be really clear about something because the internet has trained all of us to flinch: the catalog entries for The Cryptid Cataloger are free. Actually free. Not “free trial,” not “free if you give me your email and your...
Classic investigation boards appears in Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (Headfirst Productions/Bethesda Softworks, 2006). ▲ Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (Headfirst Productions/Bethesda Softworks, 2006) ▲ Call of...
Replay the EuroPython 2026 Python quiz. These are the questions asked during the EuroPython 2026 quiz. They will test your knowledge of the Python language, the community, and of EuroPython 2026. Since we were celebrating 25 years of...
A few weeks ago when I was browsing JetPens, my attention was captured by the Daigo Tea & Diary Time diaries ($11.50-12.50). These looked like the perfect little books in which to record a few simple thoughts of the day. Since I’ve...
On Sunday, I published Side One of my album on Bandcamp. The name of the album is also “Side One.” It is instrumental music with roots in Soundtrack, hip-hop, funk, jazz, 19th Century Romantic classical, ambient, electronic, and art...