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We're paying A.I.'s hardware tax on everything we buy, and most people don't even know it's happening.
Netflix has a new Little House on the Prairie (2026-), adapting the semi-autobiographical novels by
I’m very much a Moon person but I’ve written a bit about Mars over the years as well, highlighting a few key aspects about the red planet’s exploration which I thought aren’t discussed as much or in detail.NASA explores MarsA comparison...
%%yellow%%5:30 AM%%, fifteen minutes before my daily alarm. like clockwork, i am awoken instead to the squealing and screeching of a bird and the violent chirps of her friends. goddammit, that damn cat is up to it again. i swear, every...
The sky is white, though the weather app insists it’s clear: thick haze from wildfires far to the north, I think. Goldfinches dominate the morning soundtrack, beginning to nest just as many of the migrants are wrapping it up.
5-star hike • 4 mile out-and-back • Moderate | Gain 1,010 feet • The Dalles, OR | Oregon . Views beside the trail near Rowena Crest Overlook. The Columbia River Gorge cuts through the volcanic Cascade Range, exposing layers of basalt...
For the first time since 1946, the total debt of the United States ($39.5 trillion) is greater than our GDP ($32-ish trillion). The interest on this debt is currently about $1 trillion per year, which is more than we spend on defense....
We’re having another wildfire smoke day in Chicago (previously), with air so thick that your nose gets black and you taste it in every breath. As I walked my daughter to school this morning I talked to her about how this smoke has...
Years ago, during my second time at IndieCade, and when I was fairly new to attending video game events, there was a lot of talk about prioritizing events that focus on local community over an international crowd. The conversation being...
Dear germs colleagues, I acknowledge receipt of your interminable diatribe letter. As your Supreme Plenipotentiary I am of course conscious of the anxiety that these entirely indispensable exterminations regrettable redundancies may be...
Roughly speaking, Bayesian Workflow is to Bayesian Data Analysis in 2026 what Bayesian Data Analysis was to earlier Bayesian books in 1995: it builds upon everything that came before. With Bayesian Data Analysis, the big steps forward...
Part of the reason this blog exists is so I can infect the minds of my readers with knowledge of all the obscure video games I happened to play as a child, and today I want to tell you about a handsome yellow egg-shaped fellow named...
‘Chain Letter’ invites a sign painter or lettering artist to share a piece of lettering that has influenced or inspired them, before passing the baton to someone else, in a never-ending chain.In the last one, Meghan McDermott nominated...
by Joanna Sodeman-Taylor If you’re anything like me, you walk away from the Oscars each year under an absolute fugue state against all new films. If it was made in the last decade, then no thank you! When it comes to 2026 features, I’ll...
Marlon Brando in The Fugitive Kind (1960) Vitals Marlon Brando as Valentine “Snakeskin” Xavier, guitar-playing drifter seeking redemption Mississippi Delta, January 1959 Film: The Fugitive Kind Release Date: April 14, 1960 Director:...