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A rant, again. I've been navigating (un)employment as a disabled person for 6 years. There are a lot of public disability programs for adults in my country but most of them are inefficient, to be honest. I'm so tired of being swung...
As with many things I enjoy, I end up sharing the sketchwalk sessions with friends. "Halfway-dragging" might be the term some of them would use, but thankfully they did welcome the notion and we had fun scouting our sketching subjects....
Math is hard. Math used to be strangely hard for LLMs. People used to gloat about that. Remember? Math is getting easier. AI is getting more capable. Life comes at you fast. Remember this meme? Why yes. Yes it is. We don’t know the...
Another excellent Camp Bestival. Strongly endorse.
@WeirdWriter oh gosh, this is something I hadn’t thought of. How do we delineate between ethical use of machine processing vs AI craziness.
I love writing in Markdown because it is simple. I don’t need to open a particular application, choose a template, or think about formatting. I can create a file in my home directory and start writing immediately. The problem comes...
Browsing the Web with Helium 4 August, 2026 I wasn’t looking for a new web browser1. In fact, I’ve been perfectly happy using LibreWolf. Having said that, I’ve been hearing about browser called Helium for a little while now and recently...
Spider-Man: Brave New Day (2026) • View trailerFour stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for action violence and occasional profanityAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 8.9.26After the chaotic...
On the one hand, there are plenty of HTML entities that can be used as icons on your blog. On the other hand, just try finding them! I wrote about this recently when I pointed out that there is indeed unicode for the magnifying glass...
AUDACIOUS BOOKCLUB HAPPENINGSOur August bookclub selection is The Simp by Roshan Sethi. We will be in conversation with Roshan on August 26th at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST. Registration is open. If you missed our conversation with Mary H.K. Choi,...
In November 1942, in a Berlin coffee shop, a Jewish woman living under a fake name sat down with a woman married to a soldier serving Hitler's army, a woman who reportedly liked to boast that she could smell a Jew. Two years later, the...
...Well? It ain't gonna fill itself! Howdy, Farmhands! Into The Oddish, written by Warren F. Smith of Prismatic Wasteland, is a heist-funded parody hack of Chris McDowell's "Into The Odd", using the chassis of the system to emulate (and...
Wowee, it has been such a hot and very dry summer here. There has been no proper rain for months now and we’ve just had a drought declared, despite having had a very wet winter. The countryside is currently looking completely parched and...
NEW RELEASE – CHRIS HAZELTON Oscillations and vibrations on repeat. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Chris Hazelton (organ), Brett Jackson (tenor saxophone, bariton saxophone), Peter Schlamb (vibraphone), John Kizilarmut...
This is an interesting tool to use on super-wordy or super-mixed-metaphorical LLM conversations: rewrite in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English I’ve set up a snippet/shortcut at work so when I type ;ste it gets expanded to ASD-STE100...