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I'd lived in LA for nearly 11 years without ever visiting the Getty Villa. I finally managed to get my ass over there last week. It was fun! I enjoyed it. I think I was surprised by how small the Villa is, but upon reflection, I...
I’ve really been getting into The Hellacopters recently. So far I’ve been working through their releases on Bandcamp, with Head Off and Grande Rock the primaries, but I’m looking forward to expanding my listening beyond that. 🎵
From Laura Michet's blog, a post about an abandoned project to catalog Los Angeles' "No Pedestrian Crossing" signs: The main thing I'd want to communicate is that the places where these signs go up are uniformly miserable. It sucks to be...
Created by ChatGPT Dec. 2025 by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy I recently described the district court’s decision in the case of Amazon v. Perplexity as “a shockingly poor effort to grapple with CFAA applicability to agentic AI...
I confess that I am "first among sinners." Why? Because all that I behold I only know through the shattered lens of my ego, distorted by a mind that projects its own blurred vision on the other. The world I see is fragmented, flawed...
We’re delighted to announce a 2026 Chicago session of our “inexcusably fun” two-day intensive course in public transit network design. This course, which we at Jarrett Walker + Associates have been teaching since 2011, is a chance to...
gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background...
Ben Yagoda has a post about the recent rise in frequency of the word alongside: The American-born University of Sussex linguist Lynne Murphy recently remarked on her blog (Separated by A Common Language): “A few months ago, an American...
Puffbird similar to Fossil Birds found at Driftwood Canyon Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park covers 23 hectares of the Bulkley River Valley, on the east side of Driftwood Creek, a tributary of the Bulkley...
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Because it had just been payday, the bank account still looked reasonably healthy. Because it was on a 15% discount plus another 20% for already owning the base game, I treated myself on Saturday to Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand.It is...
For the past year, I've been very curious about the intersection of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the European Portuguese language. I've built evaluations, classifiers, and eventually the largest pretraining dataset in European...
This handsome well preserved bus, registration RC 7927 fleet number 417 is a 1940 BMMO SOS ‘SON’ single-deck bus originally built for Trent Motor Traction.
Casimir Liberski has produced two of the finest The Legend of Zelda inspired jazz albums I have ever heard—and I listen to a lot of Zelda jazz and lo-fi. The Z Suites and Zelda Suites (The Live Album) are instant additions to the daily...
I learned when I was very young — so young that I don’t even remember what age — that I needed to tightly control anything my parents knew about my life because, as soon as they became aware of something, they would decide what the right...