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More fun stuff from Matt Levine's newsletter. There are a couple of stories here, both interesting but only one important. The inconsequential one is a ingenious variant on the paradox of the heap. As Levine cleverly points out, under...
This detail from In The Mood For Love (2000) represents the essence of HK as I imagine it. The realty is slightly different but somehow it keeps the feeling.So many layers to learn about Hong Kong.
In 1981, the journal of the Northern Earth Mysteries Group (now known simply as “Northern Earth,”) published an article by Frank E. Earp where he described a fairly indescribable “close encounter” he and some friends had years before. It...
Tonight I left my apartment, walked down to the station, tapped my phone at the gates, went down some more stairs and stood in front of train car 4 door 3. I took the train to Nihonbashi, walked through the station, weaving through...
Today, Monday 3rd August 2026, being the first Monday in August, is a Bank Holiday in Ireland. This holiday was created by the Bank Holiday Act of 1871 when Ireland was under British rule. While the August Bank Holiday was subsequently...
Scrawls Library Updates Next August doesn’t have many holidays for us to latch onto, so fair warning, this month’s developer diaries will end up naming themselves for an assortment of sometimes-odd anniversaries. Case in point, today...
First, a thank you to Kristopher Mosby for his kind letter about The Color of Paper. He raises several great points, so with his permission, I’m including his email here, followed by my wandering response. Kristopher wrote: “I just...
By Mario Barbati0one GamesShadowdarkLevels 2-3 They say the well ran dry generations ago. They do not say why. They say the Pickmans have always been good stewards of this land. They do not say at what price. The villagers go on tending...
Bea Gull slid the application across the metal table and folded her hands.“So, Ryder. You are ten years old, and you are looking to adopt six dogs today to form a Paw Patrol. A German Shepherd, a Dalmatian, an English Bulldog, a mixed...
Most people have never eaten a McDonald’s McCrescent. That includes me. The sandwich only existed in Rockford, Illinois, for about three months in 1983, and it never expanded anywhere else. It was a food ideas, as others would...
Dear Friends, Happy August, Merry Lammas. I'm writing this from a moving car journeying up the length of Vancouver Island, cutting it a bit fine before I vanish into the Wayward Retreat for the next ten days (about which I've written at...
After having gladly wasted an entire month watching an unholy amount of football in what was by far the best World Cup of my life, after having seen either the entirety, or part of, or the highlights of most of the 104 (!) games that...
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →
Can you bootstrap your way from annotating data to training a frontier model in one thousand days? Play Idle Frontier! In this blog post, I want to share my experience developing this game with the aid of Opus 5 (which I’ll just call...
In a gratuitous display of violation of consent, BMW forced their way into their driver's luxury vehicles to play an ad on their dashboards.That's not a dystopian nightmare – that's the lived dystopian reality. Got this commercial in my...