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pretty-little-fools: Hatton Cross Underground station, Piccadilly line by J Wender, 1976, from the London Transport Museum’s collection.
After I published AI is the New Netflix, Surj Patel, a former colleague, intellectual sparring partner, and long-time reader, asked a sharp question. Given my argument that AI will drive the next wave of upstream traffic, are we headed...
Kirjad sõgedate külastOut 25th April on Antiq Five years since their debut and a very different beast has wriggled free of the Kõdu moniker. Where ‘Unusta kõik’ unfolded a jagged, dissonant array of plodding black metal, at once surreal...
At least we probably won’t have another pandemic. And we still have a partial Jones Act waiver. For now. Small victories. Table of Contents Hanta Hanta I Don’t Wanta. Bad News. Predictions Can Be Easy Even About The Future. Good …...
When I catch myself in those useless thought loops, what if I just recall a time when I felt calm and open, let my body drift toward that feeling, and watch the loops gradually dissolve? It's less about forcing mental discipline and more...
As threatened, I was in Oklahoma at the tail end of last week and over the weekend, mostly to give talks. My Friday evening public lecture was on horned dinosaurs, and it was tied in with the launch of a temporary exhibit called “Bizarre...
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Here it is!...
Nice and sunny at first but dull later. Went to see Harry Welch. He doesn’t look too bad. Did all the mowing when I got back. Went to pub at night. Put new shirt on for the first time.
This month, 7 years ago, we lost Wesley. He’s not gone, he just changed addresses, but he’s not here, but then he is, very much alive in our memories! It seems to me that the value of a life is contained in what you leave behind. The...
After dissecting the minutiae from the ongoing battle of the bozos ⊕ [Note: To save you a click: it is about the Musk-Altman trial. ] , Andrew Sharp’s weekly column ends with this paragraph: The reality is knottier. Had the OpenAI...
I’ve been a committed Luna fan for about 30 years now, starting from the day I bought a copy of Bewitched during university at the Kitchener location of The Beat Goes On when I probably should have been studying instead of cruising the...
I’m going on a 5 mile, 20 pound ruck next weekend. That’s not terribly far or heavy, but I haven’t done it recently, and my backpack on today’s practice trip is already heavy.
No jurisdiction can ignore stablecoins. They can be banned outright only in the most effectively authoritarian countries, or accommodated and even encouraged, which suits the United States and hub countries. For most countries, benign...