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Hey folks, fireside this week! Next week we’ll cap off our look at the Carthaginian army by covering some of the ‘odds and ends’ components (slingers, elephants), before looking at how that mixture of troop-types was employed in battle...
This week had a theme, which I didn't notice until just now: everything whether arriving late, ripped apart, or dragged by force was fine. Everything is not perfect but everything is fine. The Onion Sets The onion sets I ordered in...
From Miranda Priestly’s monologue to everyday clothes: how fashion and culture move downstream, lose their origins, and show up as “just a sweater.”
Win of the week: took my bike off its stand and tuned it up, then biked to my doctor’s appointment — wowee biking is good exercise 🥵 also dropped off a return at the mall next door Looking forward to: picked myself up a cookie from the...
I’ve been wondering what it would look like to build audio software in a world where AI agents exist without turning the whole thing into a soulless plugin factory that mass-produces random ideas.
What happens after the feed? And how can publishers remain independent?
Finished reading: Penric’s Fox: A Fantasy Novella in the World of the Five Gods (Penric & Desdemona) by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚 I’m going through these like candy!
Rain Cleanup – Havana, Cuba I’ve featured rain cleanup photos before in this series, including this one early on. For some reason, I’m fascinated by this activity. Maybe because I haven’t seen this anywhere else. There were other...
I didn’t know about the Dashkov Vase until David Zwirner emailed it to me today, and even if its name means it’s connected to Princess Dashkova, who helped in the coup that brought Catherine the Great to power, it still stands on its...
Created by Aphex fan Ryan Verner, the excellent user18081971.com is back online after an absence of several years. Originally created by Ryan during Aphex Twin’s SoundCloud dump of 2015, the purpose of the site was to track fans opinions...
Spent 2 hours in a very long line today, in the hot sun to sign a petition to recall our horrible Louisiana governor. When we left, the line was just as long as when we got there, if not longer. The people of Louisiana have had it.
The Pixel 10 Pro is supposed to be Google’s flagship phone, but it certainly doesn’t feel like one.