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Two bits of news on the Biauru front today. One, “Skin in the Game,” the previously announced sequel to “Aleyara’s Descent” and “Aleyara’s Flight,” is scheduled to appear in the January/February 2027 issue of Analog Science Fiction and...
Today is a bit of an outlier. Normally I share something I have read each day, but today I am sharing an essay I wrote recently.Thanks for reading,Etan-- AI and Creative Work, or Worshiping the Idol of Productive Output1.In Jewish...
I haven’t done a Cure post in a while, nor an Iterations, so let’s do both! “Boys Don’t Cry” was released as a single in 1979 but, as was the custom at the time, did not appear on the band’s debut album Three Imaginary Boys on its...
I'm feeling a bit ill today, so I'm going to cheat and bring back an old post from 2024. I had it up for a while, but I eventually unpublished it because my opinions slightly changed. I'm doing some rewrites, so this is technically a new...
Imported the content from micro.vandragt.com and 2020.vandragt.com into this site with the Known CMS importer feature for #Lamb. Sets up redirects so no breaking links. Good URLs don’t change!
Richard Goes to the Movies
It’s Hedgehog Week here in Sweden. The number of hedgehogs is almost down to half of what it was 12 years ago. To get a clearer picture of where they live and where they don’t, WWF launched the Hedgehog Week project back in 2024. Anyone...
By SJ Groenewegen Atrocities in East Pakistan The news out of East Pakistan has been appallingly bad. Back in June, David Levinson reported on the violence and the political situation, and Gideon Marcus acknowledged the horrific images...
Some of Shakespeare’s plays were extremely popular during their author’s lifetime, only to fall into relative obscurity in the centuries that followed his death. Others were less successful in their first runs, forced to wait centuries...
When I was a teen, my dad had a knack for talking small businesses he frequented into hiring me as their newest lowest rung helper. To be clear, I didn't want these jobs, so I developed a knack for staying at them for three days. I don’t...
The Plain English Campaign promote (not unsurprisingly) the use of plain English {{1}}, and have campaigned against “gobbledygook, jargon and misleading public information” since 1979. Their website has several (clearly written 😉) guides...
I have completed my Placement year (3rd) year of my Software Engineering Degree at the University of Ulster. I am awaiting entry into my fourth year. I would like to express my whole-hearted gratitude to those at the Camlin Group who...
HAL JORDAN GREEN LANTERN MOVIE (MATTEL) We’ve officially made it to another Friday! Alright, welcome to Friday! We’re once again doing that fun Flashback Friday Figure Addendum bit, this time flipping back over to the DC side of things,...
Both the title screen and the box agree: The master name of the game is Pagan. Pagan: Ultima VIII United StatesORIGIN Systems (developer); Electronic Arts (publisher)Released 1994 for DOSDate Started: 24 July 2026 I've told this story...
I swear this isn’t turning into an AI blog. But did you see the one about the Riemann hypothesis? Someone at Anthropic did something I’m sure they’re all tempted to do, and tried to use an internal version of their Claude AI system to...