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Blog is on a summer break until Sep 2. I plan on enjoying my time off and figuring out next steps in my personal and professional life. Wishing everyone peace of mind and good vibes.
Horse laugh. Near Riceville, McMinn County, Tennessee. A few weeks ago I took on the issue of "photographs" created by AI. Are they photographs, or are they not? My position is that they are not photographs. As I wrote before, the...
Well, look at who's on the cover. Groucho! And he's either pulling our leg, or he's undergone something of a change during the six years he's been doing You Bet Your Life on radio and television. Oh, he's still the wisecracking...
“Roughly one in two smartphones sold in Africa is made by a company most buyers have never heard of. Transsion, a Shenzhen-based manufacturer, owns the Tecno, Infinix and Itel brands, which together accounted for about 48% of African...
Hurvin Anderson, Lower Lake, 2005I've been twice now to the Tate's Hurvin Anderson exhibition - a refreshingly cool, air-conditioned experience on these recent hot days, even though many of his landscape paintings depict tropical...
US friends, here are more opportunities to stand up for libraries! Support the Books Save Lives Act by signing a petition and e-mailing your representatives. 📚
Galactic Mutant Animals What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Manuel, the Magnificent Mechanical Man Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club reads the remainder of...
Sweet potato leaves are edible, and a delicious traditional food. While Americans know the sweet, starchy tubers, around the world both the tubers and tender green leaves are eaten where the plants are grown. Edible is an understatement...
At the last Interesting I threatened to come up with a plan to do 'other things'. I love the feeling at Interesting and it'd be nice to have it happen at other times and places, I've never quite worked out how to do this BUT I'm now...
I find that it is now very easy to write a lot of software. In the past, if I was writing this much software I would take that as a strong signal that I was become a better developer. Now, I write more software than ever but the link...
Sheryl and I went to Read by the Sea earlier this month — nice, if far too short. Apple Maps took us on a route I'd never been on, and Sheryl hadn't seen since she was a kid. Read by the Sea was held in River John, a small place I'd...
I've performed a talk at the last three EMFs - so this time I decided to go purely as a tourist. It made things much more relaxing. No waking up from a stress dream that my laptop didn't work. No casually dropping my talk into every...
It’s time once more for another Saturday update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further nine papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 160 and the total so far published...
Always read Kevin Kelly
Solod (So) is a subset of Go that translates to regular C — with zero runtime, manual memory management, and source-level interop. It's designed for two main audiences: Go developers who want low-level control without having to learn...