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Posted to Warp’s social media channels today is an image that simply says tomorrow. Displayed using the typography taken from the keyboard of a Sinclair ZX81, this is almost certainly a reference to the long awaited Drukqs repress as the...
How can craft help you gain traction? That was the question Harry and I explored in episode 41 of Traction Heroes. I brought to the conversation a short reading from a book that had a big impact on my career, Chris Crawford’s The Art of...
So it has been a really long time I have not been blogging. I kept telling myself everyday that I need to update my blog, with something, but I cannot find anything really blog-wrothy. A lot has happened since my last post. Like I piggy...
Today I visited a refugee school that house 96 students. It is located in the poorer parts of the city. The school is right on top of a restaurant. They took about 3 floors. When I walked up the stairs to the school, the first thing it...
This week’s edition of Culture.pl contains an article by Zachary Mazur written in 2022 that heralds his new book entitled To Kill a Spy: Everyday Nationalism and Political Violence in Fin-de-Siecle Europe from Amsterdam University...
In speedrunning, there's a common routine where the runner is focused less on improving skill and consistency and more on beating the Law of Large Numbers. At times it can feel like the payoff of "more practice" is just less than the...
A new seasonal song, for this moment in American politics! 99 Bottles of… What?! Americans of a certain vintage are acquainted with the tedious children’s song, “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall”. [1] We have a somewhat more immediately...
Models are getting easier to swap out, which makes them a weaker advantage on their own. The part I actually own is the tooling and process around them, configured as a workflow.
My post from yesterday on permutation roots ends with a Mathematica code for finding the probability that a permutation of n elements has a kth root. This is done by finding the coefficient of xn in the generating function I wanted to...
I’ve been a fan of Trespassers William for almost 25 years now, going back to their 2002 second album Different Stars, a monumental document of country-space-gaze-core. You might think that wouldn’t require much effort considering their...
You mean not a single Trojan horse-dragger was, idk, lazy enough to ask “Why is this thing so damn heavy, anyways?!”?
Hum: Buttercup Festival 3-391…and there are 4 days left on the shirt pre-sale! topa.to/buttercupfestival
TIGRA MARVEL HALL OF FAME (TOY BIZ) “Blasting out of the Marvel Universe are its most powerful heroines, the She-Force! Joining together to fight evil are mutants Marvel Girl, Wolfsbane and Dazzler along with Avengers Tigra and Ms....
Imagine you are world hegemon and some shitty little country sidles up to you with an idea of making war on some other country. How can you tell if this is a bad idea? I mean, it’s already a bad idea, how can you assess how bad an idea...
Back in February, I discovered Pure Blog, and it has stayed in a corner of my head since then. A few days ago, I installed it locally and gave it a try. Long story short: I spent most of my free time during the last ten days or so...