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A lot of people in long-term relationships become unhappy after a while. They say it's normal. That love eventually fades. They begin to believe love is only ever early infatuation or attraction, and once that fades, the mundanities of...
Is the internet broken? What would your answer be? My knee-jerk response, with little to no reflection, is “bloody hell, yes”. Yet giving it a little more thought, I think my response is more likely to be “it’s as broken as you want it...
We played the fourteenth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here.The roster for this session was as follows:Llombaerth, CG elf thief 4 (Adam)Mirkle, N human...
Can - Palais de Chaillot, Paris, France, September 4, 1975Can you dig it?! After a little break, the Can live series is revving back up again with Live in Arles, a tape from August 1975 recorded in a crumbling Roman amphitheatre on a...
The LA Times published an article on changes in bird populations, Some birds defy overall plunge in bird numbers, and a friend asked me for my thoughts on it, especially compared to early research and studies showing that in North...
Dodo Birds by Daniel EskridgeTwo dodo birds—one warm brown like sun-baked coconut husk, the other a pale, ghostly white with hints of grey—stand beak-deep in the shallows of a river that winds like a silver serpent through the tropical...
Link: How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face, by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai in TechCrunchThe biggest technology story this week was how a combination of OpenAI models hacked into third-party AI provider...
A montage of some asteroids and comets photographed up close by spacecraft. Image: The Planetary SocietyWhy explore asteroids, comets, and other small worldsWhen to worry about an asteroid hitting EarthPsyche, exploring a metal...
And what a handsome statuette it is, too. For those needing a refresher, the Astra is an award given out by the Hollywood Creative Alliance, which mostly has given out award related to film and television, but this last year decided to...
During my recent trip to Japan, I published a pop-up photography newsletter - Tsundoku. Having a "project" gave me an excuse to take the hobby seriously, including waking up at 4 a.m. some days to catch the sunrise light. I also enjoyed...
The role of AI tools (LLMs, mainly) in Linux is under discussion, or it was, until Linus Torvalds “put his foot down” in support of the use of AI in Linux kernel development.I can identify two major ways in which AI is used for Linux...
Sites I like: The Anti-Subscription Catalogue.
While this post is slightly off-topic for this blog, it’s a broader reflection that I really wanted to share. I was recently staring at a recent purchase and that sudden, sneaky wave of spender’s guilt hit me. Did I really need to spend...
Find Me Where It Endsby Cassandra KhawGenres: Fantasy Pages: 128 Rating: Synopsis: Antigone can see death coming. It always takes the form of a black dog, nipping at the heels of the soon-to-be-departed. When Antigone's own black dog...