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Roden Readers — Action items: Doing a book event / reading in Asheville, NC on June 10 — RSVP here! Thinking of a small reprint of TBOT Fine Art — sign up here to be notified This is being sent using my new home cooked newsletter...
Last week’s #newmusicfriday had a neat diptych: The Field released an album titled Now You Exist and Martyn released one titled Music for Existing. This week has something similar: Aja...
The more we engage with real things the more we can remember that we are not machines. The machine does not want you to have the full set of stimuli or emotions. Real life has such a rich variety of experience. Thus spake blogger...
I was in Chennai for the first half of the week. I couldn’t get a confirmed 1st or 2nd class train ticket. So I had to fly from Kochi. It’s such a waste of time and money. Chennai is hot, hotter than Thrissur. But I mostly worked from...
I installed Looq, and it immediately impressed. There was one problem, it rendered just about every type of file (csv, zip, even sqlite databases) just fine, but didn't render Markdown, which was kind of the point for me. It didn't...
Dear Constant Reader, It’s Friday again! Here’s your tip! Naps are nice. I don’t know about you, but at heart I am an old lady who would like nothing better than a good book, a cup of tea, some cats, and an early bedtime. However, I have...
I did my deep dive into the many vocalists of Tokyo Shoegazer last month because, as of the day of the release of their latest album Remains, they hadn’t released so much as an advance track, never mind a promotional video, for me to...
It's a word I've barely heard of, though I did write a post about it two years ago ("A fancy way to say 'fancy'" [9/22/24] — with lengthy, learned discussion in the comments). Yet this morning it turns up at the top of "America's most...
When I last wrote about AIs (well, technically, LLMs), I have noted that I’ll never use LLMs to…
There are a lot of people who are very excited about AI operating fully autonomously and entirely replacing human jobs. My take is that agents are going to replace a lot of tasks but that they largely aren't going to replace jobs.
Every year on domain renewal day I wish I could go back 25 years and talk to younger me about his online identity choices.
You know that you can drag and drop an image directly into the WordPress Block Editor. And you know it’s a really, really good idea to put alt text on it because screen readers and other assistive tech. So, you type (or apparently you...