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I did get a decent amount accomplished today. Got rained on for some of it, which I didn’t mind. First up, I just had to share this clip from the outside critter cam that I found. That’s Sweetie in the front. The cats gets along with the...
Anything written by French twistmeister Sebastien Japrisot is worth reading or watching. ADIEU L’AMI (1968) is one of his few original scripts. It seems to be the only film directed by Jean Herman that anybody much likes. It’s pretty...
Elder Scrolls fans have become a patient breed, with developers Bethesda clocking in almost fifteen years since the release of the last mainline game in the series, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Skyrim has sold over 60 million copies to...
And why is it so amazing?Surprises [about physics in two dimensions] occurred in the 1980s when it became possible to study Landau levels [the quantised energy levels of electrons in a magnetic field] in Flatland. This happens when the...
. After lunch we all file into the auditorium for the next presentation. There is a long introduction about how the next person who will take the stage is the reason we’re all here. How when, years ago, he was fired from the university,...
Table of Contents Pre Post Mortem. Important Correction: OpenAI Didn’t Know About First Message Board. There Were No Snitches And No AIs Got Stitches. I’d Like To Speak To My Supervisor. I Am Jack’s Relative Lack Of Surprise. One Does...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
There have been times in history when Marvel published, "Star Wars," comics, but there was never any crossover with the Marvel Universe. Decades ago, they did so before Dark Horse acquired the license for a good long while. Eventually,...
VC Backed IDEs So I was as excited about Zed as other developers. I initially downloaded it, found it didn't do what I wanted, and left. And then a year or so later I came back after 1.0 and liked what I saw! It had good theming, some...
Conversational NormsA common feature of bad conversations is when person1, call them Jesse, is obviously not listening to what person2, call them Celine, is saying and doesn’t even attempt to engage. Sure, Jesse may be nodding his head...
Winter has ended, and Lady Whent of Harrenhal has called a great tournament to celebrate. The great and the good from the Seven Kingdoms are attending, most notable amongst them Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, the entire Stark family bar their...
Movie Night! We watched The Last Samurai. Hiroyuki Sanada eats up every scene he's in. 👉 View one more image
Singapore-based stablecoin payments company Triple-A confirmed that an attacker stole $11.8 million in company funds from its treasury wallets. The company briefly took some services offline while they investigated the hack.Triple-A did...
Three drought/heatwave summers in the past five years bears out the contention that the Mediterranean climate will move northwards to the south of England. The epithet 'hardy' is traditionally applied to plants that can survive freezing...
[photo from ACLU] An article in this week’s High Country News highlights the mistreatment of a trans woman in Arizona’s Eloy Detention Center. ICE’s detention centers are designed to mistreat inmates badly enough that they will sign...