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The U.S. Navy christened the future Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS George M. Neal (DDG 131) during a ceremony at Ingalls in Pascagoula on Saturday, after launching back in April. She is the first warship named for Ohio-born...
When I think of a sleeping Ali, I also think of other images of iconic Black men in domestic spaces, and the way that that domesticity, in my eyes, acts as a protestation of capitalistic time, a slipping of the yoke of extractive labor....
Good morning! Saturday, I talked a little bit about two music “hot takes” I have. At the risk of sounding like a broken record (sorrynotsorry), there’s a third: I’m not especially fond of Nirvana’s In Utero. Writing about the record in...
The Battle of the Sea of Azov 2026 by Ivan Aivazovsky According to the ISW, Ukrainian forces have struck no less than 90 Russian commercial shipping vessels (mostly coastal tankers but also a smattering of tugs, cargo ships, ferries, and...
In Saturday's article about Sesame Street, I mentioned how about 20% of the stations showing the program were commercial, not educational. We can see that in today's listings, where three commercial stations have it on; all three are CBS...
Some records quietly end up listening to you. This EP has become the soundtrack to a period of my life where every sound seems to resonate a little deeper than usual. Its electronic textures never chase impact for its own sake. Instead,...
“If you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life but still the same amount of snow.” I saw this in James Clear’s newsletter and chuckled. For what it’s worth, there’s a lot to love about the snow.
I thought of a new idea for finding new material for my blog. I asked Google AI if there had been any new discoveries of Pleistocene fossil remains in Georgia since 2018. Google AI said “yes” and it cited a paper published in 2012. I...
This year's edition of the traditional post, odometer honest: Sixty-six today, this guy. When we met in 5th grade fifty-six years ago neither of us predicted the weirdest year of our lives would be 2026. Always this: thirty-three years...
I had about 10 minutes to sketch yesterday, so I took my new Stillman & Birn Nova sketchbook (5 1/2 in. x 8 1/2 in.) a fineliner in sepia and black and a sepia brush pen and sketched this: Sketch of people waiting to see the sunset over...
Look at the past history of this blog. There are many blog posts about programming with AI, a few of them date back to January 2024 (like this: https://antirez.com/news/140). I’m a relatively well regarded programmer, after all. I don’t...
One of my favourite coffee places in Malmö is Café № 6, on Mäster Henriksgatan. I first visited when I was staying around the corner some years ago, and I like stopping in for a coffee every time I’m in the city.When we were in Malmö in...
Back in February 2026, I documented my work setup based around my trusty M1 Pro Max. In that blogpost, I mentioned that things have changed significantly. For a recap:My work stack from 2020 to 2025This blog post is to document my work...
So Much Meat on the Hoof. Can Cornel Bring One Down?STS: Three That Speak to SurvivalBeen fasting this week. Told by You Tube that it’s a good idea. They could be wrong, in which event I’m in little better circumstance that casts of...
Just to show that life is full of unexpected turns, on June 18, 1178, a group of medieval English monks threw a fine puzzle in the laps of astronomers that lingers to this day.On that day, shortly after sunset, five monks at the abbey of...