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Most of the attention around AI in recent weeks has been on the nervous stock market and on hacks carried out by poorly controlled tools. Here are some more stories from the floodwaters. AI-using college graduates are hitting the...
Cloudy and humid, with a steady stream of goldfinch and Carolina wren chatter. The sun appears through a hole in the clouds and multiple holes in the forest canopy to strike my face, summoning the demon of a sneeze.
After hearing so many stories of life in rural Northern Ontario from my father, you'd think I'd get sick of them. But I don't. He told me a story the other day of growing up in Chapleau, Ont., where his father (my grandfather) worked as...
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to manufacture scarcity (and savory ice-creams or perfumes) as desire engine. Because eating is also a ridiculous activityHi there! I'm probably on a train right now and I will be on a long...
Excited to announce that my long time Emmy-award winning friend Yasmin Elayat and I have received a generous grant from AFAC to adapt THE SOLAR GRID into a videogame: THE SOLAR GRID: VIDEO GAME is a narrative adventure set in a...
We were driving on an unpaved road the other day when a car appeared from the opposite direction. As it passed, we all exclaimed at the cloud of dust it threw up. And then I stole a glance behind us. Sure enough, we were kicking up an...
The good folks at Thermal Master have sent me another Thermal Camera to review. The last one was a big beastie with a huge touchscreen. This one is much smaller and is designed to plug into your phone's USB-C port. The T2 Max is a chunky...
The attention economy really had this poor guy held hostage.
Back a couple of years or so ago, when the evidence of an AI bubble was just starting to accumulate, the standard rebuttal to skeptics broke down into two basic categories. One was that large language models were going to have such a...
Tobacco hornworm in hand while eating a tomato plant (photo from Wikimedia) 5 August 2026 This very large green caterpillar is a tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta). Though its name suggests it feeds only on tobacco, its hosts include many...
Via Newspapers.comThis eerie little tale appeared in the “Shamokin News Dispatch,” November 26, 1929:To have been haunted day and night by the apparition of his wife who passed away just a month ago with the result that he could not...
Here are more links for your bedtime or whatever-time reading pleasure… not that I want link-blog-like posts to be a regular feature here… but looks like I'm doing it… happy reading! The Accidental Architect of the Internet’s Brain, by...
Life Update 8/5/26A whole lot happened, but not much has stuck.
In many ways, today is my last day of summer 2026. A year ago, I'd have been going to CPE early and then driving to Williamsburg to help my parents recover from my mom's near death pneumonia hospitalization--I am so grateful that this...
By Dougal CochraneSelf PublishedDolmenwoodLevels 3-4 Recent events have awakened the antler-crowned wraiths and the ancient mound now yawns open. The Antler Wraiths have begun kidnapping victims to bolster the ranks of the Wights that...