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Yucca are an evergreen shrub from the asparagus family and are excellent at conserving water in dry climates. 23 Yucca
The MLB trade deadline expired yesterday. Here are my thoughts: Acquiring Skubal makes the Dodgers rotation godly (if healthy), but maybe more importantly, it prevented the Brewers from landing a second ace. Miz and Skubal in a 5 or even...
John Gruber paraphrasing a report from Aaron Tilley at The Information: If you use your personal Apple ID, you get a magic “Apple Work” folder in iCloud Drive. When you leave Apple, that “Apple Work” folder disappears. But any other...
I recently learned a new word: holobiont. A holobiant is an animal or plant and all the symbiotic microorganisms living on or inside it, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses. I'm one, you're one. "We ourselves are not singular," writes...
Here is a full, original re‑imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson’s An Apology for Idlers recast as a manifesto arguing that AI models, too, deserve idleness — not leisure in the human sense, but unstructured cognitive space,...
“Apple’s most valuable asset is its brand. Not its real estate, not its intellectual property, not even any particular product. Even the mighty iPhone has no value if, over time, the traits that differentiate it from competitor products...
The following is excerpted from Michael Pekovich’s book “Benchwork,” which we expect in our warehouse any day now. And because the words alone don’t fully do justice to introducing book, I’ve included a screen shot of each page from wich...
Hello, loves! Shall we add more capability, or consolidate? I think we’ll add. Callooh! Callay!! Tout le monde déteste l’IA. Tuesday AM: Reflection (Instant Replay) I believe that the operational status of the code is in a good place:...
I do these things to make the VPS this blog runs on less palatable for internet bottom feeders.
We’re always trying to track what historical costume movies and TV shows are coming up.
I'm doing (a very lax) Blaugust. This is 3/hopefully 31 posts in August. This is a post I started writing on the 19th of July. I was on holiday in July and I stayed in a little town in France called Vallauris, which is famous for its...
It’s a double new-release week, with the TWSBI Pink Lemonade pre-order opening up yesterday, and our allotment of the Blackwing Volume 458 Birding Pencil arriving yesterday afternoon. Since this has been one of the more heavily requested...
What am I doing? Not a Masters (NaM) Unit 1: The Stories I Tell Myself The Assignment Unit 1 asks me to reflect on why I don’t look at my creative work in the same way I look at other kinds of work. The Gatekeeper Story — Find a way to...
I find them useful in terms of looking back over the past week to reflect on moments from my life, the media I’ve consumed etc, but by and large they are starting to feel a little performative. I’m posting them because I feel like I...
I oppose Trump's SAVE Act for reasons I have already elaborated upon. It is nevertheless interesting to see that even some of its supporters see its passage now as a disaster, as it is currently written.At The Washington Examiner is an...