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Every day, all day long, for the most part, there are some kids from down the street that hang out on the corner. All day long the make trucks beep. Trucks coming from one direction tend to be right about in front of our house when they...
Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1164/when-online-commenters-detect-my-art-as-ai
Finishing off birthday weeks with my own birthday (today). I am going back to a restaurant that I went to on monday with my friends/siblings tonight. (A small ramen business that re-opened up recently where I contributed to their mural...
Finished reading: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow 📚 Good book, it’s really eye opening to see all the ways things have been enshittified. Going to have to think some about what...
Another thing I wanted for the jungle this year is a bird. Specifically a toucan. So I modeled one: And then assembled it: Ha ha…yes…yes… It's interesting to compare these side by side. Some of the sharp angles of the model are smoothed,...
Oh, right, it’s Wednesday again. Time for the weekly “Boston area shows” post. Imminent gigs and recent announcements. Yeah. But I’m just sitting over here bumming out about the apparent death of long-running, highly-esteemed music blog...
About a week ago, I wrote about the iPhone SE3 I just bought renewed, in excellent condition, for $130. Today I realized that is less than the $150 sale price I paid for my AirPods Pro 2. I also realized that at their normal $250 price,...
There's been a lot of talk about superhero fatigue, and that Marvel Cinematic Universe having become less and less of a selling point in and of itself (and I agree the cross-movie mega-story has been completely unmoored and ponderous...
We found ourselves in Chesterfield in summer 2026's third or fourth heatwave - I'm losing count Peak temperatures of 33℃ aren't ideal conditions for rambling around a selection of the town's Beer Guide pubs. But we tried.We started our...
Last week I wrote a post on hiding cryptographic keys in decks of cards. I wrote some code for that post that shouldn’t work, but before fixing I noticed that it in fact did work. The code computes logarithms for integers larger than the...
In staff augmentation, the client is primarily buying capacity. In consulting, the client is primarily buying an outcome, judgment, or expertise. A useful test is: If the client already knew exactly what needed to be done and how to do...
You’re on holiday and something breaks at work. You drive back, you fix it, everyone applauds. And you feel it too: you were needed, and it worked. That applause is where it goes wrong. Praise is a signal: it tells the whole organisation...
This was inevitable, of course. ::chuckle:: [ day in progress... ]
Now reading…Waxing On
It's time for another trip to the dark and dangerous world that is Weird Tales, the essential pulp magazine, edited, from 1940 to 1954, by Dorothy McIlwraith. Today, the September 1943 issue. We've looked into this issue already to...