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The problem is not the models. The problem is the circus that comes bundled with them. Scratching the itch(es) # In my MeTube fork, I have a gh action (oof) that periodically checks upstream releases, generates a diff and sends it to an...
I read today a piece about digital cameras and wired headphones making a bit of a comeback. It’s not news. I’ve read about this a few times over the past few years. What comes around and all that. However, it struck a chord with me since...
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Steve Rose • The Guardian In April, Gil Durán was permanently banned from Elon Musk’s X for posting just two words. Durán was responding to a post from the tech company Palantir outlining...
I got curious about how DeepSeek actually works. Not the model architecture. That part is well documented. I wanted to understand what happens when you hit their API. How does the server receive a request, queue it, load the model, run...
Bruce Reynolds called it his Sistine Chapel. Ronnie Biggs got a folk hero's send off. Buster Edwards got a film named after him and a flower stall by Waterloo station. Sixty years on, the Great Train Robbery still gets talked about like...
You’ve heard of the Silurian Hypothesis, now get ready for the Eschatian Hypothesis! Eschatian Hypothesis David Kipping February 3, 2026 draft
And more than anything, I have to say that “it just can’t stop.”Nothing stops.“It just doesn’t work like that.” The dreams, I mean. Nothing stops when it comes to matters of the heart and as for the mind?Well? The mind is the biggest...
These are “super” early, just observations I’ve had that could easily be wrong. We are in the early stages of discovery (at least I am) where it’s difficult to evaluate some cards because you need to see them interacting with other...
Something I sent to this game jam to make me write a little. The game is here. You can see many of the last year's entries condensed in that single page, Of course, it is not tested, its written in just a couple of nights as a test, but...
As I try to write more here after a bit of a dry spell, I thought that I would share my Bandcamp Friday purchases from yesterday. Bandcamp isn’t perfect, I understand the concerns that some people have with it as a platform but with...
It’s a popcorn, wine, and Tim Tams kind of trip to the shops. 🔗
Updated 2026.08.08 Recent Status: Back from Beijing! Feeling grateful for how nice the trip was and being able to meet up with old and new friends. Travel post on it coming soon. Recently Watched: Successful use of flight movie time: •...
Virtue signalling, the web as notes and we all need to stop things sometimes. In many ways all the ideas this week tie into the one idea that sometimes we need to change our minds, and sometimes we need to stick with what we were already...
If Gabrielle is the Chanel perfume I most frequently forget exists, then Coco Mademoiselle is the one I most struggle to understand. Goodness knows, I’ve smelt it enough times. Since it first appeared in 2001, it has been as ubiquitous...