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Simon Willison has an amazing personal benchmark that he uses on any new AI model that comes out: "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" The outputs are as funny as they are informative about the AI model. The pelican is very...
Flirtations advert, Record Retailer, 29 May 1969, page 21 Originally formed as The Gypsies with three sisters – Betty, Ernestine and Shirley Pearce plus their friend Viola Billups, New York-based The Flirtations were originally brought...
There are a lot of people now making software for the first time. In many ways it's wonderful. We have to admit however, that the raw volume of bad software has gone up.We seem to call that bad software slop these days. Well, we seem to...
Andy Warhol is unavoidable. Still present. Despite being quite dead since 1987. Now he resides in some artistic firmament. Beyond our sphere. Floating free in a cloud of familiarity. Remembered for 15 minutes, Brillo Pads, Campbell's...
Translated by Bryan Karetnyk August is Women in Translation Month and I’ve chosen to start with a collection of short stories by an author often described as Japan’s first professional woman writer of the modern era. Born Higuchi Natsuko...
Okay. This got out of hand.
1961 war, dir. J. Lee Thompson, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn: IMDb. The guns on the Greek island have to be destroyed, and only a small team…
After a week in Japan, with stories new and old, it’s time for a change of destination in our Women in Translation Month travels as we head off to Germany. It’s the 1960s, and the economy is booming, meaning there are plenty of...
A little over a year ago the mountain by my house caught on fire, and I was really upset about it - because it was most likely caused by illegal fireworks. At the time I wrote a post here about it, and included a couple of pictures. I...
Kazuhiro Ishikawa. Marc Weidenbaum. Wallace Chan. morning computer: some useful things first thing in the day. Press the floating Subscribe button to have these notes sent to you. My free weekly newsletter is at...
Subject: Final reminders Dear Nature Wonder Wishing Family, We’re so excited to have your child with us at Nature Wonder Wishing Camp next week. Please make sure that you read the parent guidebook and the camp code of conduct. You can...
Duncan Rawlinson created this work using artificial intelligence to explore a ceramic rupture. A rigid green door-slab has blown free, releasing a thick red flow studded with intact yellow vessels. The torrent carries cups and bowls...
Same place, same curse, different protagonist—and a brand new feature. Set one year after the events of the first game, Nanashi no Game Me gets its unusual title (“Me” as in “The Japanese word for ‘eye’ “) from an early ghostly incident:...
More famous for his science fiction and dark fantasy, Ray Bradbury also tried his hand at crime fiction, with often-fascinating results. Writer, critic, and editor Aigner Loren Wilson talks us through the strange flourishes and tonal...
Personal notes for week 33 of 2026