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The article “A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence” went viral. It was co-authored by Jacob Tsimerman, who, as the media has made abundantly clear, is the 2026 Fields Medal recipient–as if that somehow adds...
Don’t fear git rebase 💽
Soundtrack to this post. I’m 46, currently working through Couch to 5K (week 6), and I’ve just set myself a proper goal: run the Paisley 10K next year in under 50 minutes. Where I’m starting from Let’s be honest about the baseline. My...
We all learned in science class that water freezes at 0 °C or 32 °F at atmospheric pressure. But what water, exactly? Even after you distill out all the dissolved salts and minerals to get pure H2O, not all H2O is created equal – and for...
Newsletter strategist Dylan Redekop recently wrote about the "context box," his term for the line in a marketing or newsletter email explaining why you are receiving a particular message. (By the way, I think he coined something useful...
Jason and I have been making the same argument for over a quarter of a century now: Small teams can do incredible things when they embrace their constraints. And when they work in software or media or other intellectual realms, they...
Hey! It's been a while. I spent the last month looking for something important enough to share here, but every time I came up empty. Whenever I tried to think of something fun or insightful to write about for the blog, I just drew a...
Today’s TDC asks us to: Tell, show, what a culture of belonging looks like Since about 2016, when I was looking at CLMOOC for my PhD, I’ve had this sketch on my wall HOMAGO flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons...
I’ve had a MacBook Air with the M5 and 32 gigs of unified memory since the beginning of the year, and while I’ve been dealing with seventh months of feeling pissed off at Pop!_OS COSMIC I’ve also been trying to figure out if I prefer the...
erholt Ich habe einfach geduscht und fühle mich deshalb erholt. Diese Woche war okay. Meine Laune war allerdings etwas getrübt, weil ich einige Absagen auf Bewerbungen erhalten habe. Absagen auf BewerbungenAm Montag habe ich eine Absagen...
I got back to smashing up the concrete on the old broken pond this week, something I’d put on hold, what with needing to get scything done and my toe not supporting much weight recently. I did two brief stints with the sledgehammer, the...
Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great...
End of the World, is a track from the first album (Asylum) by Inpatient, and the video is a blast (well, it is the end of the world…). It’s lyrically dense – and very funny (love the line about the Vatican, allegedly, but there are too...
One of the most astonishing aspects of the collaboration between writer Arnold van Bruggen and photographer Rob Hornstra is that the more complex a topic, the sharper the duo manage to bring it into focus, ultimately making their most...
In the summer 2006 I started an open-source C++ library for handling UTF-8 strings. I wanted it to be portable and to work well with STL but did not go crazy with optimizations at the time. Recently, as I started writing about UTF-8...