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Easily the best show I've seen at the Fringe. For plot-related reasons, a television company asks a literary genius to create a "pro-weapons sitcom". It is a fast paced mix of the sitcoms 2012 and Episodes. The jokes come at a steady...
Looking a small dying dog in the eye
We develop a formula for counting the number of bags of length \(l\) containing \(d\) distinct elements drawn from \(t\) objects. The formula involves multiplication of combinations without replacement and combinations with replacement....
From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 73-74: Politically, most of the country was quiet for the first years of martial law. Local politicians were...
We started the alpha about four weeks ago, but almost all of that time has been devoted to getting set up and preparing ourselves to do research and testing. In an alpha, it can feel like you’re not making progress if you’re not shaping...
Word of Honor is a popular wuxia Chinese Drama from 2021. It’s based on the novel Faraway Wanderers by Priest and is basically a boy’s love (BL) story disguised as a bromance. It follows Zhou Zishu a former spy master/ assassin after he...
A New Yorker piece by Shayla Love looks at the consequences of our increasing dependence on GPS. It’s nominally about Katherine Dunn’s new book, Little Blue Dot (previously), but it’s one of those pieces that… More
Tension. Tense. Expectations. Expectations of what should be but it’s not. Or hope, maybe? Feelings. Sadness. Insecurity. Self consciousness. Judgement. Jarring. Non-belonging. Change. Changed. For so long things were the same. Now they...
I wanted to recommend two artists whose work now features prominently in my house which I’ve recently been having redecorated room by room. One of the aspects I really wanted to freshen up were the wall hanging pictures. Previously there...
Erasmus, Complaint of Peace VI (tr. Betty Radice, with her notes): My hopes have been dashed so often; where then shall poor Peace go now? Well, princes are powerful rather than learned, and moved more by their desires than by true...
lingthusiasm:lingthusiasm:101 places to get enthusiastic about linguisticsIn honour of Lingthusiasm’s 100th episodiversary, we’ve compiled this list of 101 public-facing places where linguists and linguistics nerds hang out and learn...
Antonio Antoine also has something to say about generative AI in cartography. As I did in my piece about generative AI, he takes as his starting point the question of gatekeeping; unlike me, he’s coming… More
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
Scenario There are two pods: “logger” and “logshipper” living in the default namespace. Unfortunately, logshipper has an issue (crashlooping) and is forbidden to see what logger is trying to say. Could you help fix Logshipper? Because...
I’ve cited Kat Lay’s “What effect will Donald Trump’s childhood vaccine recommendations have in the US and beyond?” Since appointed in 2025, Secretary Health & Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr sought to loosen vaccine regulations....