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I don’t normally make separate posts for different reviews of the same book, but Colin Burrow’s LRB review (9 July 2026; archived) of Arnoud Visser’s On Pedantry has so little in common with Clare Bucknell’s for the NYRB (LH), and it’s...
“We can take a day trip to Shanghai from Nanjing,” Feng suggested. The post Right at Home in the Wrong Shanghai first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.
I have had the Arch Linux linux-hardened kernel installed on my Qotom fanless server since I bought it a couple of years ago. The Qotom has had kernel panics on the last two linux-hardened updates. I changed to the plain linux kernel. It...
"Close your eyes and think of England." That is the quote I always return to when I think about the way that it feels like AI is being shoved down our throat without a single thought to our own consent. When Microsoft tries to force...
For its August 2002 issue, Musica Jazz turned toward ECM’s Scandinavian constellation and produced a compilation whose geography liquefies under scrutiny. The disc crosses eras and temperaments, yet identity travels freely between...
A lot of white butterflies (mostly green-veined, large & small) out & about on Friday. Some flightily red admirals too. Later, beside the track an excited green-veined white butterfly fluttering amount the leaves. Underneath a leaf a...
Airports are special places. So many stories start, end or take place in airports... Returning from a short trip to Dublin. Last time I was here, it was nearly 30 years ago. Ireland has a special place in my heart.
My file manager is coming along nicely. I am getting more comfortable with bubbletea and lipgloss. This means (aside from fixing one or two smaller bugs) I can start adding useful features and start refactoring the code a bit. I am not a...
Subscribe and Listen: https://youtu.be/7X-Z7ib_WAg🎙️ The “Do You Know Where Your Models Went Today” EditionWelcome to What The Fudge podcast for August 2, 2026 at 10:19 AM EDT. This week’s digest covers the rapid acceleration of the AI...
🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 I've been recently thinking about how Open Source maintenance seems to be becoming a little more a slog recently - largely with the increased amount of contributions possible with AI agents...
There's this friend I used to see much more often some time ago, and due to a series of circumstances (first of all, me living abroad) it's become very hard to see each other. It's one thing to keep in touch online (most of my...
Free TTRPG Day Experience The outside of Games and Stuff This was my second year participating in Free TTRPG day. Last year I was in New York at the time and visited a shop in Brooklyn. This time I was home and decided to visit on of my...
I like my routines, which means when I make my drive from Nova Scotia to Ontario and back, I tend to stay at the same hotels along the way. However, on my last trip I tried some new hotels, due to availability, prices, and timing. This...
There are those games one hears the concept of and is immediately intrigued: a new title in GMT’s Irregular Conflicts Series (ICS) that is semi-cooperative and instead of some battle that happened a long time ago is set in the relatively...