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We recently talked to our very good friend Sam Tyner-Monroe about folks clogging up the courts with AI-generated lawsuits. Fascinating! Apple Spotify YouTube
I ran across a geometry theorem with the following diagram. The theorem corresponding to the diagram is interesting, but I found reproducing the diagram more interesting. The segment AB is a diameter and the line CD is perpendicular to...
Testing a small POSSE improvement: this Note should carry a link back to its canonical copy on joshuapsteele.com when it reaches Micro.blog and Bluesky.
Here’s a long-delayed video update covering everything after Nationals to now, including yesterday’s excellent Travelall update: The truck is starting again, after I ran out to the 800, stole the ignition switch from that, and swapped it...
There’s been a lot of debate recently, on whether it is more important to read books, or analyse them, in a scholarly way(Obviously, ‘analyse them’ sounds as a more rigorous, sophisticated and high status answer)Now that’s what I think:I...
Many people can guess the current time to the minute whenever they pop awake in the middle of the night. It feels like a superpower, but it's not. Whenever a cashier adds you up, flash a total. Don't calculate. Don't try to be right....
mssv - See You ThroughSome bands go on tour. Other bands really go on tour. mssv falls in the latter category. In 2025, their 69-date trip was crammed into about that many days, as the trio traveled tirelessly from state to state, from...
mssv - See You ThroughSome bands go on tour. Other bands really go on tour. mssv falls in the latter category. In 2025, their 69-date trip was crammed into about that many days, as the trio traveled tirelessly from state to state, from...
The Venice Art biennale, like many contemporary art affairs, has never been big on tech. This year, the omission is more conspicuous than ever. At a moment when anxieties around the evils of technology are intensifying, the art event...
Nuclear reactors taken offline in France, as extreme heat pushes river temperatures into danger zone
Over the weekend, some branches fell on a neighbor’s power service line. They still had power, but the branches had to be removed. That removal occurred this morning. I saw the trucks at about 6:45 AM as I walked past. I suspected I...
Since we’re currently lost somewhere in the middle of wars that seemingly have no end-point, and arguably no point, I wonder just what film director Christopher Nolan will make of The Odyssey, his blockbuster movie of which comes out...
After reading a story, then singing our final song together, the children came forward to hug me, not one at a time, but all together, and there we were, a massive scrum of bodies, wrapping one another up in our arms.Since my first year...
Dr. Skull is a serialized thriller from Lewis Clay that ran in 10 issues of Detective Fiction Weekly from Sept. 17, 1938, through Nov. 11, 1938. It was cover-featured with the first installment, and this cover is used by Steeger Books...
The Witch Queen and the Girl in Homeroom: What I Learned from Forty Years of One Character I created Larina in July, 1986. That sentence feels simple enough, but it carries a lot of weight. It means she has been with me through six...