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I had 4 players this time: Boris, ex- (free?)mason Bennett, extreme sports enthusiast Borg, miner Angela, Reform councillor It's been a week since the first expedition up Mass 2 ended in disaster. Since then security has been tightened...
Sun in the treetops. A doe emerges from the woods to browse the road bank, followed by her two grown fawns already in their unspotted, gray-brown winter coats. Head up, her ears swivel toward a distant crow.
Modern technology is truly a miracle. A hundred years ago, if you wanted to travel from New York City to Chicago, the fastest way was by train, which took a minimum of 20 hours. Whereas today, thanks to technology, you can simply go to...
It feels as if I’ve been writing about our autumn holiday in 2024 for a very long time. As it turns out, I’ve just looked back, and I wrote the first blog post in the series, about Godstow in Oxfordshire, in October of that year. Anyway,...
In my latest Film Data Scientist video, I’m going deep on “The Greatest Movies Ever Made”©®™ to understand what makes a movie great and why that classification may slip over time. I am uploading new video essays every couple of weeks, so...
There's a bright yellow lump of a play structure in Brooklyn built at exactly the height a grandmother can sit on next to her granddaughter, and somewhere in the metaphysical ether, an Indian prince who died in 1966 nods approvingly.Let...
The “frog days” of summer are coming to an end and the first hints of fall — changing leaves, cooler nights, and shorter days — are more and more present. That means it’s time to return to my Friday tradition of quick hits and varia,...
Let’s discuss the big scandal at the center of the novel. What did the L— family’s cancellation expose about the state of race and class in Hollywood? Many of Raj’s thoughts about post-2020 Hollywood are scathing and cynical. Is this...
Today is my last day of work until 2027. I’m going on parental leave for four months to welcome our third, a baby girl! She is due next week, which gives me just enough time to try and reset, recover from burnout, and attempt to catch up...
The monkey-punchers at Google never quite seem to finish any of their apps. There's always some useful bit of work left undone, or showstopping bug which remains unfixed, a thousand jagged edges as yet unsolved by the greatest minds of...
Clodoald (522 - c.560CE) was (along with Theodebald and Gunthar) one of the three sons of King Chlodomer of Orléans. When Chlodomer was killed during an expedition against the Burgundians, his sons were taken in by their grandmother,...
One has a ruler, one doesn't. One is in the common vernacular one is new. One is about ownership, one is about shared home-land/sky-scape. I'd like to introduce a new word for our time (long overdue): KINDOM. Perhaps you'd like to...
Welcome to this week's Link Dump!Just watch out for Strange Company HQ's resident flirt.How the California Gold Rush birthed the modern world.The sound of King Tut's trumpets.I suppose the moral here is, if you're going to commit murder,...
A track exchange, like a painting exchange, involves two people prompting each other to pen their thoughts about a track that the other has chosen for them. A copy of this note is published on James’s website as well. James’s pick for me...
OpenAI finally gave us a technical report on What Happened, as did METR together with Redwood Research. The OpenAI report is very straight man, corporate, checking boxes, some good prosaic stuff in the action plan but distinct lack of...