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Be still, my socialist heart:â Yale School of Public Health
A small amount of red string appears on a map in Madagascar (dirs. Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath, 2005). ⲠMadagascar (dirs. Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath, 2005)
Thanks to everyone who entered the Galen Leather Sinclair case giveaway. I wish I had more to give away but I only have one so letâs celebrate todayâs lucky winner: Iâm happy to treat you this beautiful case! More giveaways soon so stay tuned! Iâve emailed the winner directly. If its you, check your spam filter. If...
It seems like Iâve been here before Note: This first ran on this day in 2024. It was well received, but letâs be real; Iâll take any excuse I can get to yap about New Order. If youâre looking for this weekâs playlists, fear not! Theyâre at the bottom of the page. Thereâs even a New Order track on there.P.S. My...
For over a decade, I've been a proponent of writing detailed Git commit messages. I find it a valuable use of my time, and continue to double down on it, even in a world where you can get a Large Language Model (LLM) to write it for you. In the past, I've written about at least 89 strong feelings I have about Git...
[T]he web bubble took a bunch of humanities undergraduates and convinced them to become Perl programmers and HTML jocks. And so, when the web burst around 2000, all the dumb bosses who are shipping 90-pound bags of pet food saying it's the future of the web went back home. And then these workers were sitting around...
Well, of course nobody really knows. Beyond, that is, the obvious and boring answer â by having lots of people buy it. Crusoeâs Books has a go at answering the question in a post entitled Sleepers. They use as a case in point John Williamsâ Stoner. This book is a bit of a slow-burn phenomenon though it has never...
A sober analysis from the News Agents podcast of the press's role in the death of former Cambridge professor Jason Arday. Sopel is right here to repeat the adage stressed in every journalism school in the world: What's interesting to the public isn't necessarily in the public interest.â Bluesky
My friend John Gruber is incensed by the idea that AI watermarking schemes adjust the output of a given LLM so that the output can later be assessed as likely coming from that particular LLM: They say âimperceptibleâ and âdoesnât change the meaning, quality, or readabilityâ. Their words. Not almost imperceptible....
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