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I meet Rob for a drink. I’ve known him since university, when we both read the same books and watched the same films and mistook that for a life. He works for a housing charity now and attends council meetings, … Continue reading →
I heard about the above-titled book by science journalist Jesse Singal when it came out, actually before it came out, as the author had talked with me about some of the topics in the book and had run some passages … Continue reading →
On Tuesday evening, Rachel and I were discussing the extent to which members of a certain personality cult are responsible for their actions. As we talked, Rachel said that the root of our disagreement was probably in a disagreement...
Today's xkcd: Mouseover title: "They rounded down to 182.8 instead of rounding up to 182.9 because 182.9 might make the statement incorrect." The cited statement is clearly a violation of the Maxim of Quantity. But I don't think I've...
"Humans 40,000 y Ago Developed a System of Conventional Signs." Bentz, Christian et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123, no. 9 (February 23, 2026): e2520385123. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520385123....
Dave Martin: At WordPress.com, we believe short thoughts deserve a real home. Today we’re introducing a new theme built for quick posts, replies, and reblogs: the kind of writing that lives somewhere between a tweet and a blog post, on a...
AI;DR – This blog post was mostly generated by Claude (via Claude Code) as was the app which is described here. If you don’t want to read “AI slop”, stop reading now. First some background: I did not start with the idea that I wanted to...
Almost all the local marmots appear within the space of a minute: a groundhog pokes its head up beside the porch, a chipmunk is chased out of the black walnut tree beside the road by a gray squirrel, and a red squirrel scolds from the...
Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI The layoffs come during a bad year for the tech workforce. The tech industry has already cut more than 100,000 jobs this year, per Statista, and is on track to outpace both 2024 and...
There it was again. Another dream about me in my other lifetime. And there I was, small again, a kid, and afraid of the old things that used to scare me when I was too scared to defend myself.I remembered the way things were. And I can...
Township Leader Resigns in Tears Over OpenAI Data Center Death Threats Marion also said that the Township’s lawyers gave them a rough estimate of what losing the lawsuit would have cost and it was grim. “It was gonna be about $29,000 per...
I figure it’s time for me to review the big Wuthering Heights movie — no,