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When I was young, you told me the scientists couldn’t agree. I argued when you blustered, that one volcano meant our emissions didn’t matter. I plead when you complained, it was hotter when you were younger. I whined when you joked, that...
An end of week recap “The world is full of great and wonderful things for those who are ready for them .” – Tove Jansson (Moominpappa at Sea, 1965) There seems to be little stirring in bookish circles this weekend, however, today brings...
Variety: An anime TV series based on the hit video game franchise “Kingdom Hearts” has been ordered at Disney+ and Disney Channel.Developed in partnership with video game creator Tetsuya Nomura and game developer Square Enix, “Kingdom...
I never fail to be amazed at how perfect crab molts are. A’ama Crab molts have the added benefit of being a robust shade of red.
Published in 1953, Paycheck dares to ask the question, how much of your life would you sacrifice for money? It reminds me of Johnny Mnemonic, the Johnny Depp film/William Gibson short story, where people carry sensitive information for...
It’s August! Headed for the shore, you lemmings? Looks like fun! I’ve written about illustrator and concept artist Peter de Sève three times in the past, but that’s not often enough to feature his delightful, whimsical and insightful...
Finally had some time to update a few things on my website. I added a projects page and a pets page to gather up all my cute pet photos. Next up is getting my reading page up to date and a few design tweaks :)
This update covers Sunday 08-09-26 through Saturday 08-15-26 (icon Glossary, if needed). LIFE 🈁 Once again, it’s just too hot to think. Or do. 📕 When reviewing old posts for my Les Ketchup project, it’s clear there were a couple of...
Legit impressed by Kagi Assistant. It always does a web search and analyzes that first, meaning it doesn’t just rely on years old training data like a lot of other shit on the market. There’s also something about how it presents...
What you choose to react to says a lot about you. If you train yourself to observe what people choose to react to, you will learn a lot about them. The intensity of their reaction is proportional to how much something bothered them....
On this week’s Intelligent Machines, we cohosts had a spirited disagreement about Anthropic’s watermarking of text, as required by EU regulation. The company just released more detail about how it will work, and now I’m upset for a...
Read: The Captains and the Kings by Jennifer Johnston ★★★★ 📚 Taking Clare by the hand, he had begun to run. Now he realized that, in all their years together, he had given her nothing, only a child that he had not allowed her to enjoy....
Catherine Leroux' book "Republic of Glass" is a speculative look at Montreal's housing crisis, and a well-meaning solution gone horribly awry.
One of the most useful ways to understand the mess we are in today is to ask a deceptively simple question – what comes first – the individual or the network? #Mainstreaming economics startes with the individual, were sociology,...
In 1961, Charles Schulz designed a promotional character for the United Fund (i.e., the group that is now called United Way.) He gets named “Little Angel”… or, depending on the press release, “Little Good Guy”. The character appears in...