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CW: this post entails an excruciatingly-detailed breakdown of the SCP wiki’s systematic and years-long mishandling of a high-profile sex abuse case. It entails harms perpetrated against real people, many of them children, and there is...
I'm a couple days late and a few dollars short on getting this post put together. I would say that you could complain and get your money back, but I think we all know that there is no actual transaction here. No funds changing hands. No...
Vertigo (Coffee House Press, 2007) is my first book of poems by Martha Ronk, and it won’t be my last. I picked it up because “some of the titles are revised forms of sentences from W.G. Sebald’s novels.” How could I resist? The speakers...
A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face announced that they had discovered an intrusion into their production infrastructure. They didn’t know the source, but noted that large language models appeared to be involved. The...
Yoan Capote (detail from Isla, oil, nails, fish hooks, artist's blood)I often talk about my blogging habit as the core of my reflective practice as an educator. I generally don't sit down and write because I have answers, but rather...
I’ve taught woodworking At Dictum GmbH in Germany for many years. And it’s always a bit disorienting (but fun). I’m an American with a German last name who teaches people how to make chairs from Wales, Scotland and Ireland. And the...
In February 2021, I wrote Robotic Pair Programmers, which is my description of what I would want out of an AI coding assistant. I am pretty sure I was unaware of any “good” AI coding assistants, but a month later I took a look at Kite,...
"Hmm, is the world ready for a dreamy Orion....?" That was my first thought when I saw the cover of Orion, the new original graphic novel from Ngozi Ukazu, the cartoonist responsible for Check, Please!, Flip (reviewed in this column)...
AUDACIOUS BOOKCLUB HAPPENINGSOur July bookclub selection is Pool House by Mary H.K. Choi. We will be in conversation with Mary on July 30th at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST. Registration is open. For newcomers, there is a bookclub FAQ if you have...
I reacted to a video by Alec Steele where they designed a new knife steel at a fancy facility. The post Is Alec Steele’s New Knife Steel Any Good? appeared first on Knife Steel Nerds.
Custom memory allocations and arenas are notoriously hard to deal with in Rust due to the ownership model. In a lot of projects, they can significantly improve performance. For example, let's take databases. Sending a query to a database...
Meet one of the most wonderfully peculiar animals to ever grace our ancient seas. This five-eyed marvel swam through the Cambrian oceans some 508 million years ago, its soft body drifting above the seafloor of what is now British...
Do we NEED another take on A Christmas Carol? Probably not. But we got one coming
This week note covers the week of 21st–26th July. Last week was quite busy with a lot of running around. In the week prior, we celebrated our now 4yo A’s birthday. Since we were never able to have a big party for A for any of her...
I follow the hurling more than the Gaelic football, but I did watch yesterday’s memorable All-Ireland final between Kerry and Mayo which attracted a TV audience of over a million people. Bear in mind that the population of the Republic...