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The smoke is clearing and I’m slowly getting back to the computer games. Played a bit of Noita and the Reanimal demo with my friend Artwo. The latter brought to mind Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Munch’s The Scream, which may be a “sign of...
The smoke is clearing and I’m slowly getting back to the games. Played a bit of Noita and the Reanimal and Vein demos with my friend Artwo. Vein seems like a 3D Project Zomboid. Reanimal brought to mind Pink Floyd’s The Wall, and Munch’s...
The anonymous blogger Gwern recently completed a thirteen thousand word post called Human-like Neural Nets by Catapulting, in which he offers a theory about why LLMs don’t possess truly flexible human-like intelligence, and how we might...
⚠ Partial Outage Dan Alive Work In progress Busyness Elevated Book cancellations 0 incidents in 3650 days Patience Major outages reported Work hours spent writing actual TTRPG stuff instead of performing admin work a chimp could do 15%
It might shock you to know that I put in an order for a retrocomputer earlier this month. Alas, it’s not going as well as one may hope. After saving and searching for this specific machine for months, I eventually tracked one down in...
Thinking in terms of dichotomies – either/or, tradition/modernity, people/nation, myth/reality – is rarely productive. The most effective formulations will combine tradition with modernity, the secular with the sacred and reality with...
A client recommended the Three Capes Track in Tasmania recently, and it looks stunning. From the Tasmania Parks and Wilderness Service: The 48-kilometre track has been designed as an achievable experience for a wide range of ages and...
The first recording today is Pokemon: Battle Frontier – We Harley Drew’d Ya. The friends have arrived at the indigo plateau for the culmination in May’s coordinator competitions. There’s a big crowd there, including Jessie, pretending to...
There were a number of sweet family films made in the early 1960s and Safe at Home! is one of them. It was released by Columbia Pictures in 1962. The film was publicized as a light-hearted comedy but there really is very little comedy...
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 31st July 2026 British doom titans The Salt Pale Collective have been pretty quiet since their stunning 2023 debut record, ‘A Body That Could Pass Through Stones and Trees’, but that doesn’t mean they...
Many moons ago I wrote a class for the the Citizens of the terrible imperial metropole. This was in the very early days on the blog, and many things have since changed. I was never really happy with it - it ended up being a sort of...
Maybe a slightly provocative title, but it’s true. I am keeping busy, working in my software testing job, getting Cicada Ink going, packaging and posting orders, tweaking the website, doing Instagram posts, etc., also trying to get my...
image by AI; my own prompt Earlier this month, I was looking at my ‘upcoming blog post ideas’ list just before going into my bathroom for my morning shower. I was lamenting that none of the subjects on my list were very interesting, and...
On Thursday the state government announced the date of contactless payment 'tap and go' roll-out on Melbourne buses. That date is Sunday 26 July 2026. This is a big deal because tap and go makes payment for bus travel easy for any full...
CPI cools, moving housing affordability to the center of Fed policy. Circle gets its national trust charter approved. China competition heats up with Kimi K3 and US election tampering announcements. with Matt Dines and I