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There are some beautiful moments on Michael Cloud Duguay’s Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go album—a document of place, people, and old church organs. I’m married to a Newfoundlander, so I know places like Cupids, Brigus, and Bonavista pretty...
Tyler Cowen serves as interlocutor in “Joel Mokyr on Clans, Corporations, and a Culture of Growth” (Conversations with Tyler, July 8, 2026). Mokyr (Nobel, ’25) has a genius for looking at broad trends, and then sorting out kinds of...
I have traveled a bit and have, wonderfully, a little mental cabinet of moments; they lie like orbs in the dark until I take them out into my mind’s light. One such is evoked by this poem by Lola Ridge. I had arrived after a journey to a...
You need to use FIPS 140 because of compliance, but have you ever asked what that requirement is actually for? What security properties are the authors of these policies trying to achieve? In high-assurance deployments, the practical...
Yes, it’s that Jim Henson but you won’t find any Muppets here. The Cube was an hour-long TV play made in 1969 for NBC Experiment in Television, a series with a contents list that shows the US channel making a break from the conservatism...
This is one of those weeks where a LOT happened, but I didn't really record it (outside my journal). There are some things I don't really want to share, or that I've shared already. My Obsidian "week in review" file for this week is...
Book 20 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year! On track with my reading! My link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there. This book was a two-fer for...
I have five free one-month subscriptions to David Benjamin Blower’s Substack to give away. Use the reply by email function on my blog (not the micro.blog timeline) if you want one.
The further away a topic is from your expertise, the smarter an AI will sound.This is a blind spot that not enough people are aware of or take seriously.The best possible way to test the expertise of an AI system is to have it perform...
On my way home from the grocery store, I saw some Flower Power sidewalk chalk art on Irving St at 8th Ave. "I 🌼 SF" #SanFrancisco (In related news, I have replenished my supply of celebratory bubbly and am repeatedly refreshing the news...
There are a few places to sit along the active transportation trail that’s part of the new Cogswell district updates. But there are no trash cans. I was walking from my place downtown to a friend’s place so took the new path. This...
When I was a young boy, I saw Windows XP for the first time and thought it looked really nice. My family had an old beige desktop computer with Windows 98, so I spent many months asking my parents to buy the new Windows XP OS. They...
FROM RIT SPORTSZONE TO THE WORLD: Behind the scenes with RIT alumna and tech expert Katie Linendoll. We’ve never met, though our times in the IT department overlapped.