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Currently reading: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow đź“š
here are some websites/apps i dislike and do not use: website reason instead wikipedia biased, citations missing frequently, relying onbias data, politicized dictionaries, research papers, trusted journalists gmail ads in my inbox, zero...
Proving that "what goes around comes around"—although we should probably just allude to the medieval concept of the Wheel of Fortune—one-time Nicholas Brembre, who had persecuted former mayor John Northampton, would himself be persecuted...
If you frequent the trending page, you may have noticed the recent commentary stemming from Scholarch's post directed at Robert (who replied in turn). It seems to have caused quite a stir, especially if Scholarch's guestbook is anything...
Photographs from when Atlantic City beaches featured artists ornately sculpting sand.
A cartoon coded in CSS from comiCSS.
For years now I’ve thought of myself as conflict avoidant. Maybe there’s another way of framing that. And maybe what I’m about to say is self-justification for continuing unhelpful behavior–but hear me out. If it’s true that we all have...
White noise machines are widely used for sound masking, increasing privacy in offices and helping people sleep. The classic approach is a fan in a box, though in the past ten years people have mostly switched over to electronic ones. But...
Yeah! Go SPORTS! Of course it's easy to focus on the mistakes, so let's take a second to appreciate that somewhere there's a professional baker who actually did this... on purpose. ("I call it, 'Barbie's Dream Petri Dish.'") Could be...
This past weekend, I enjoyed Minor Compositions’ recent book Publishing as Collective Infrastructure (2026). The book offers the most radical perspective on open access publishing that I’ve encountered. Instead of seeing OA publishing a...
FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS: French DJ ​and electropop ‌musician Kavinsky found dead aged 50. Sometimes known as the “father of synthwave”, his track “Nightcall” played over the opening credits of Ryan Gosling’s 2010 Drive, and was...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
I’m still pottering around in the Coptic martyrology area, especially with regard to the Great Persecution of the church under Diocletian. I have a translation of another version of the Acts of St Colluthus to upload, although a...
Samuel from 3×5 Arcana usually plays OSR games and reads OSR blogs, and wanted to know about the theory of “trad” gaming, a style that I follow blogger Kreggar in calling “Destined Heroes” gaming1. This is a hugely popular style, and...
Toaplan invented the bomb. In the now-defunct company’s first shooter, 1985’s Tiger-Heli, the limited-use bomb was introduced to the genre, with the idea being that it gave players an aggressive and exciting way to attack enemies....