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Last year, Elon Musk promised that xAI would donate a large sum to the Memphis-Shelby County school system to help rehabilitate four schools near its data centers. Laura Testino reported on the commitment at the time: In its proposal to...
A lot has been said of Atari’s E.T. game, over the years. It’s a game that really strove to offer the player a more in-depth experience than what other licensed games were doing at the time. Aliens was made into an Atari game, and it’s...
Read the full post at - The Case for Blogging in the Ruins An excellent blog post on why blog posts are best -> https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/ When I write for social media, I’m writing for someone who...
Thanks to a wonderful Redditor, Ana and I were able to update the Pen Show Calendar with a few new offerings, mostly under the paper and planner category (scroll down below the first list which is all Fountain Pen Shows.) As always, if...
Vanillaateaa asks: CW: very brief/non-explicit mentions of sex My character is a Punjabi South Indian-coded woman who does not consider herself religious. She is a vampire NPC in a gothic romance/horror TTRPG. The game is set in an...
In June, the first ever Artist Corporations bill was signed into law in Colorado. Beginning in early 2027, artists and creators will be able to form a new kind of company designed around creative purpose, ownership, and...
The second cemetery we visited on our May trip, following Carpinteria Cemetery, was the larger and nicely maintained Santa Barbara Cemetery. It has lovely seaside views.This visit was particularly special to me as the cemetery is the...
Hello there! Today (July 28th, 2026 in case you are reading this on a different day) is Romance Book Blast. Over 950 authors have made their romances free in ebook forms. Including my Repeated Burn which you can find on the short reads...
Venkatesh Rao: Cognitive Farmsteading. From the man who came up with premium mediocre (2017), the cozyweb (2019), and the Internet of beefs (2020) here is another tone-setting phrase. He spent the better part of this decade working on...
One of my favorite GMless games is i'm sorry did you say street magic, largely because of the following rule: A true name: Every Neighborhood has a magic all its own. To confer a true name, come up with two or three descriptive, sensory...
There's no shortage of mosquitoes for you to eat
When I began my professional career in advertising in the late 1980s, the work of Mendell & Oberer in Munich raised the bar of contemporary graphic design. Their unmistakable visual language influenced an entire generation of art...
When I’m stuck on a route, getting pumped out, with no way to cleanly make it to the next hold, I often say: "Well, I guess this just became a dyno”. [^1] I’ve been repeating this for so many years that I made a little tattoo-project...
knows she is dying as colour drains from her sty - rusted bolts bleed ruby, grass and feed shudder like memory - as if this present moment has already evaporated. Breaths long, precious. Now a spasm a contortion between shoulder blades a...
Well they always say you shouldn't be afraid to try new things. I was unsure I would like M. John Harrison's latest book The End of Everything after I read the Guardian review here. As quite a literal reader I am uncomfortable with...