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American viewers may know Al Waxman from his role as Lieutenant Albert Samuel from the TV series Cagney & Lacey, but we Canadians will always remember him as Larry King from the home-grown sitcom King of Kensington (the Kim’s Convenience...
I'm running a class for the School of Poetic Computation! It's about making creative tools. Nick Murray is going to be my assistant teacher. Applications are open til Monday 10th August! Let me explain what I mean by creative tools,...
In the hard-edged years of the Great Depression, when darkness settled across the American economy and hope felt threadbare, President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched an unprecedented experiment. His New Deal programs sent electricity...
I’d been hoping that Malcolm Whitehead’s Snaps might be made public eventually, and here it is, a 25-minute film documenting the northern end of a British book-signing tour undertaken by three artists and their publisher in October 1979....
📚🗯️ Just read Detective Comics #359, the debut of Batgirl aka Dr. Barbara Gordon. I love it and I love her.
You have a chance this week (ending August 7th) to pick up five apps at the lowest prices I've seen them listed for. Sale Details. Reviews of Apps I Have Personally Tested TextSniper - Better Than Native OCR | AppAddict ($7.99- On Sale...
You have a chance this week (ending August 7th) to pick up five apps at the lowest prices I've seen them listed for. Sale Details. Reviews of Apps I Have Personally Tested TextSniper - Better Than Native OCR | AppAddict ($7.99- On Sale...
I have been the Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives since the first issue in Summer 1987. The JEP is published by the American Economic Association, which decided back in 2011–to my delight–that the journal would be...
Play, as in strategies, tactics, and moves. In a sport, a playbook contains all sorts of plays and diagrams. Teams practice plays all the time. When they execute them, they’re “making a play.” 20 years ago, Ryan Leslie noticed a lot of...
AI image, my own prompt; text screenshot from the website of Soundraw music software. All music lovers who perform others’ work are constantly walking a line between plagiarism (stealing music from other artists without acknowledgement)...
It wasn’t until 1959 that any being on Earth saw our Moon’s farside for the first time. Because the Moon is tidally locked to Earth, we only ever see its familiar nearside face. In the early days of space exploration, the Soviet Luna 3...
For many years I used to be able to say that I’d never unexpectedly bumped into anyone I knew. That ended when I sat down in an internet cafe (showing my age I know) in New Zealand and the person next to me lived on same floor as me in...
A few months ago a regular on the CachyOS forum asked the community what they thought about increasing AI usage in posts. This is my response. (All typos original to the source & retained for posterity.) As more and more people are using...
This hen at Mahukona looked remarkably clean and bright for a stray.