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Day one in the books. We pulled into Forrest City, Arkansas, at 8:30PM CST, so it was 9:30 in Charlottesville. That comes to 14.5 hours of driving, including breaks for gas, food, and other things. Approximately 718 miles, or 1,155...
dynomight recently wrote an article calling for bloggers to state publicly whether and how they use AI. Here are ways I currently use AI in ways that might show up on this blog: I use AI to find papers and explain bits I don’t understand...
Why do those humans on Avatar get so impressed by that tree? I'm sure they could connect to the Metaverse and talk to AI slop of dead people just fine at home too. (2026/07/17 22:57)
About Brennan Kenneth Brown Queer Métis writer, cultural critic, and web developer based in Mohkínstsis (Calgary), Treaty 7 territory. Author of nine books and counting, the founder of Fireweed Writing School and Berry House Studio, and...
I have been married for more than 20 years. My wife has been with me both good times and bad times. Actually, it is mostly bad times. Money is always tight and she has to tolerate my non-sense. I know she loves a model of premium car. It...
Today’s word is effluviant. As in, Donald Trump is an effluviant windbag.
The midterms won't save us. The only thing that will save us is a really smart think piece here on Substack, or perhaps the perfect meme.
I’m already really tired of hearing about The Odyssey.
Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on UnsplashMost writers choose a niche by looking outward.They study what’s popular. Possibly, compare audience sizes. They search for gaps within established categories: productivity, personal finance, business,...
Finished reading: Mythos l by Stephen Fry 📚🎧 It’s just delightful to hear Stephen Fry read this aloud.
This week’s newsletter from Culture.pl contains several articles on language, one of which, by Mikołaj Gliński, answers How much Polish is there in Esperanto? Here are some excerpts: The Slavic Esperanto lexicon is generally considered...
If you are building a commonplace book, you must learn how to create an ontology that works across books. Unfortunately, developing this ontology is anything but trivial. We must be able to store ideas (entries) and find them later to...
I visited Kyushu, Japan on a family holiday. Needless to say, being a gamer, I looked up boardgame stores to visit well before the trip, and also took the opportunity to look for games at bookstores, 100 yen shops and such when I was...