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They've finished remediating my apartment. A small part of me still feels like it's a toxic environment, though, with lingering dust on the walls and in other nooks and crannies. If I open these bags up, will a pouf of cement dust come...
My greatest professional achievement is never having created a LinkedIn account.
A podcast I just listened to raised again the thorny issue of blogger’s guilt, and tried to make it seem like nothing, that you are answerable only to yourself, that you can blog at any cadence that suits you. Almost all bloggers,...
IG-11 — NEVARRO MARSHALL STAR WARS: THE BLACK SERIES (HASBRO) “The blasted fragments of the assassin droid hero undergo a complete rebuild and reprogramming, including the addition of marshal stripes that denote IG-11 as Nevarro’s new...
Blue Swallow Motel – Tucumcari, NM – Fujifilm X-T5 – Vivid Velvia I’m writing this article while on a big roadtrip. Specifically, I’m traveling Route 66, photographing the neon signs, abandoned gas stations, old hotels, and whatever else...
This series about the notable changes in CIDER 2.0 continues with the change you’ll bump into first, whatever your workflow: the transient menus, and the broader push to make CIDER’s functionality discoverable. The problem: CIDER is huge...
Tell me if I got this straight, Two group mountain bike rides where I got to hang out with my riding group and shoot the shit, two drumming sessions (circle and practice on djembes), a basketball game, drawing and one skateboarding...
This April Max Rudin gave a nice history of Library of America at the 2026 Whiting Awards ceremony. LitHub brought us the speech. As Mr Rudin, President and Publisher of LoA, puts it “What we now think of as American literature was more...
In their book Scarcity, Eldar Shafir and Sendhil Mullainathan suggest that scarcity often starts with abundance. Imagine you have a deadline next week. That’s plenty of time to do the task—abundance—so you figure you’ll do it later....
Around two weeks ago, we went to a nearby Chinese buffet for my birthday lunch. The restaurant had just changed owners, and was still working out some scheduling kinks with a new supplier. After the host seated us, he said:...
It's time once again to revisit Larry Hama and company's original 1982-1994 Marvel Comics series, G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero (via Image Comics' 2024 G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Compendium Vol. 1). Today we we'll be looking at...
I get flowers and I get poems written for me. I get showers of praises directed to me. All these compliments, even more promises, I get everything, every fucking thing to me. My beauty is a symbol of power through views. A power that I...
Iron Arachne has been undergoing a lot of changes this year. It's the first year where I really started experimenting with using large language models for coding in general, and it was inevitable that I would try using them with Iron...
I used to think making friends was just something that happened to you, like weather. You went to school, and there they were. You got a job, and there they were again, standing next to you at the copier or on the loading dock, and...
Sony Pictures Entertainment / YouTube: From the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian) comes a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise. In an all-new story, Resident Evil follows...