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I’ve enjoyed John Gruber’s posts about ads appearing on an increasing number of Apple surfaces: the App Store, Apple News, and – soon, perhaps – Apple Maps. (Just for reference, here’s an example of such an ad.) In a post earlier this...
Read the full post at - Kids’ Freedom To explore This is why kids are on their phones. They aren’t allowed to do anything else whether by law, by parents, or norms. ->...
Talking Heads + Television - CBGB, New York City, July 29-31, 1976A little expanded 50th anniversary repost! I first shared these recordings … 15 years ago?! Let’s take a trip back in time, shall we? Not too long a trip, just 35 50...
Talking Heads + Television - CBGB, New York City, July 29-31, 1976A little expanded 50th anniversary repost! I first shared these recordings … 15 years ago?! Let’s take a trip back in time, shall we? Not too long a trip, just 35 50...
It’s all going too fast.
In which my brain hits itself in the face
There is an interesting discussion going on in the OSMF run discourse instance on community.osm.org regarding regulation of use of LLMs in communcation there. First a bit of background The OSMF in 2021 introduced a new behavior control...
Like many others1, MEEK’s Fabulous has been stuck on-loop in my head for most of this year. What a fucking banger of a track, amirite? And yet… somehow, today was the first time I figured I’d watch the music video. If you’ve not seen it...
Thomas Frank writes about politically noxious nostalgia for Harpers. It’s connects the bicentennial in 1976 with our current impoverished political moment. I think it strikes a chord. Donald Trump didn’t invent the eternal return of...
While Alex and I usually top our vanilla ice cream with a simple drizzle of olive oil and flaky sea salt, we might have to start rotating with Eric Kim’s No-Churn Ice Cream with Dalgona Butterscotch Sauce from Korean American! The ice...
In early 2026, Charles F. Millhouse, creator of New Pulp character Captain Stephen Hawklin, came out with a new collection of short stories set in the 1930s: The Classic Adventures of Captain Hawklin, one for each year from 1930 to 1939....
We drove our truck from home down to Cummins, then drove our coach back home on the same day; 255 miles (each way), about five hours of driving (each way), from Cummins Coach Care in Coburg, Oregon to our home base near Shelton,...
Slip beneath the surface of a Late Cretaceous ocean—if you dare—and you enter the domain of one of Earth’s most spectacular marine predators: the mosasaur. Long before whales ruled the deep, these muscular, paddle-limbed lizards...
A while back, when I was talking about my witch Elowen Hale, I said that the Daggerheart playtest witch played a big role in who she is and what her character was like. I also said then, "When the new Dread add-on for Daggerheart is out,...
Continuing the series on the notable changes in CIDER 2.0, let’s talk about ClojureScript - forever the trickier sibling in the CIDER family. I’ll start with a confession I’ve made before: I rarely use ClojureScript myself, which is a...