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Codeberg recently changed its terms to exclude projects that are largely written with generative AI. Since I want GitHub to face competition I have thoughts. Codeberg is entirely within its rights to do this. It is an association with...
Cousin Kula has made an album that is inescapably happy. As soon as the first few seconds of 'Clothes Off' play, it's impossible not to go any further without a smile on your face and a spring in your step. Source: Far Out Magazine With...
The World Cup is over and I am still playing Zelda, reading some anthologies, and catching up on tv. It has been another work week. We are officially over halfway through the season, so I need to start looking into jobs for the winter....
I found a magical package on my door step this week, filled with the sweet Moomin stationery in celebration of The Summer of Moomin, an event at the New York Botanical Gardens. This summer, NYBG has filled their gardens with the...
The potential benefit of having the government require that certain jobs require an official license is quality control and protection. Personally, I rather like knowing that my nurse or doctor or dentist has gone through courses and...
A flock of Yellow-fronted Canaries feeding on grass seeds.
A prediction to return to in 2029When we develop quantitative tests for consciousness and propensity to psychosis we will find:Consciousness varies a lot across humans.A majority of humans live on the edge of psychosis.Mythos and the...
You lye, you are not sure; for I say, Woman, 'tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes— Toby Guzzle, in Christopher Bullock, The Cobbler of Preston, p. 21 (1716) Today I bring you news of an entirely predictable event;...
Yesterday, I had a 1.5-hour flight over Northern Jutland in a Jabiru J170-UL. Wielding my Nikon D810 in such a small airplane was out of the question, so I had to make do with my Olympus PEN Lite E-PL7. Aerial photography is hard!
Today I discovered tsx, a REPL that evalutes TypeScript. You can run it with npx: npx tsx And it evaluates TypeScript. > const onClick = (input: number):void => input + 1 undefined > onClick(1) 2
%%red%%perhaps never in our short history, has our technology had more of an influence on how we look and act.%% algorithmic propaganda, persuasion, influence, and radicalisation means that machines are helping to shape the 21st century...
16th July. Another one of those days where I set off in search of one thing, don't find it, but then other stuff appears along the way. Today I was inspired by old pal Abbie M. She passes her photos on to East Lothian Rangers who post...
I’m headed home to Upstate NY today, to meet some of my high school and college friends for our annual reunion in Saratoga. This year marks the 27th time in the last 28 years we’ve done it, 2020 being our only miss. Thanks a lot, COVID....
A Friday HodgepodgeEditor's Note: I'm taking a blogging break next week, although I plan to post on X/Twitter now and then in the meantime. I'll resume posting here on August 3rd or 4th.*** Whenever possible, I list three wins at the end...