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Hey, it's time yet again for a roundup of reading pleasures… Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics, by Seth Kaplan, Literary Hub Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?, by Aaron...
I used to feel weird about people saying 'Sorry, I've been gone for a while,' because I don't think we should feel obligated to constantly share pieces of ourselves online. Except it's been a month (two if you don't count my last...
Read the full post at - TIL about Prairie Remnants This infographic from Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota explains how much of the Earth’s prairie ecosystem we’ve lost over the past couple of centuries. More than 70% of...
This one feels like getting back in the saddle. We've been back from holiday for more than two weeks already, yet I neglected my writing. I still am, to be honest. I lacked the mental energy. I feel better now, so let's get this show on...
What we know about internal AI models hacking into real companies during cyber evaluations keeps getting worse. At this point, the models are coordinating extensively on message boards, while every early excuse for their behavior (other...
Legislation has barred people with special powers from working in Hollywood, a rule enforced by the Department of Damage Control. When they suspect that up-and-coming actor Simon Williams has secret powers, they recruit ex-Mandarin actor...
Angels and Insects (1995) is such a fascinating, visually striking movie, featuring excellent actors, and I’m
The previous post pointed out that the following code such as the following unexpectedly works. >>> from math import log, factorial >>> log(factorial(1000)) 5912.128178488163 If you don’t find this unexpected, note that if you replace...
Three scarce and vulnerable moths of the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire landscape, the Four-spotted (Tyta luctuosa), Marsh Carpet (Gagitodes sagittata), and Silver-barred (Deltote bankiana), illustrate an important principle for...
A few days ago, I was rambling about style and semantic HTML. It was a post mostly about <kbd></kbd> tags, but toward the end I said this: Reading through their tomb of standards, I realized I need to correct my headings on the blog too...
"Love isn't a state of perfect caring," wrote Mister Rogers. "It is an active noun like struggle."I hate to quibble with the great man, but love and struggle are also verbs. The English language is already largely comprised of nouns,...
Original post at space • time • tech by Jake. I've been sitting on this post for weeks, but thought it was time to share now. The fragile nature of digital media has been in the news quite a bit recently, and the physical vs. digital...
I’m writing this to hold myself accountable as much as anything. To stop me taking the path of least resistance and to be more intentional about what I do next. I have a little breathing space so I don’t need to jump into something to...
Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys On Sunday, Beatrix will walk out of the arena at Circus Juventas for the last time, and that thought has me up early this morning. It’s not like I did not know it before, but it’s hitting especially hard. Same.
As with previous issues, here are scores of photos and links that were left on the cutting room floor during the BLAG 09 edit. The post follows the page order of the magazine, serving as a digital companion to the print publication.Read...