Bubbles
Latest Posts
Finished reading: The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst 馃摎 A worthy follow-up to The Spellshop, about Caz鈥檚 creator continuing her forbidden magic. Sort of. I like this world, and I enjoyed seeing another part of it. Felt a bit...
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund鈥榮 Jeff Trexler caught sight of this headline appearing to announce a very unlikely musical. And since I鈥檓 sending something out, let me note that Free Comic Book Day is coming up this Saturday. (Also, so...
The fourth installment in the monthly Foundational Texts series looks at the first book in the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure series, and how new choices are always possible.
In my opinion, SCOTUS' decision in Louisiana v Callais is based on two flawed beliefs. First is that it is ok to make voting districts for partisan reasons, in other words, allow a majority party to create districts that favor their...
Tiffany Aching is one of the great characters of Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasies. While the novels she is in are aimed at young adults - Tiffany is only 11 in this one - they are profoundly clever works exploring our moral universe...
This is the sort of bread Rachel turns out on a random Thursday. She鈥檚 gotten so good over the last couple of years.
Blue Heron, an absorbing debut film from Canadian director Sophy Romvari, begins as if it's going to be an idyl about the joys of childhood. Romvari introduces us to the kids of a Hungarian immigrant family that's settling into a new...
It鈥檚 time to be right. Outcomes continue to matter. Earlier this week, I spoke at AI Dev 26. This is what I spoke about there. I鈥檝e been making money, in some form, building software for nearly 30 years. The last five months have been...
Over the past several weeks, Dave Snowden has been writing a very extensive series of long blog posts that serve as a watershed declaration of the state of his work thus far in the field of anthro-complexity. The posts both define what...
Imagine a world where political servants actually served us, and whose decisions were backed by the will of the people, rather than their greed. If it sounds like fantasy, you may want to check out author Brenda W. Clough鈥檚 newest novel,...
Does it matter if AIs can feel pain? Short answer: NO. Full answer: no, here鈥檚 why.