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Back home this week, Brattle back open, and the blockbuster one-two meaning Fantasia hasn't go tme too enormously far behind! The big opening is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, with Destin Daniel Cretton taking the reins for the Tom Holland series which sees all Peter Parker's friends no longer aware of his dual identity...
I cleaned out a closet this past week with the vague thought that I might have an old CCD sensor point-and-shoot camera. It turns out that I have TWO, both Nikon CoolPix: a P5100 and P7100. The former doesn’t seem to have a battery, but the latter, despite having been used quite vigorously on a number of...
X.AI – the company was-trillionaireElon Musk built in 2025 by smashing together X (the former Twitter) and xAI, which he founded in 2023 – is suing the state of Minnesota, claiming that its new law banning access to nudification technology violates the First Amendment. X.AI, which SpaceX swallowed early this year,...
In Virtue Hoarders, Catherine Liu’s polemic against the professional managerial class, she calls attention to how Obama talked about reading in the waning days of his presidency. In his farewell address on January 10, 2017, he said: Social attitudes oftentimes take generations to change. But if our democracy is to...
Virtue Hoarders by Catherine Liu (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) Catherine Liu argues that the professional managerial class (PMC) are marked by their use of meritocracy, philanthropy, and virtue signaling to promote the core premise of neoliberal economics: an isolationist individualism that simultaneously...
And I say this to you, despite the craziness of all the things around me . . . the morning is perfect.Nothing is pressing and nothing is weighing too heavy at the moment.The day is young and fresh, as if to just be born or perhaps I should say the day is born again.And for now, this is more than good enough.For now,...
DC's Hawkgirl Summer Cover Date: September 2026 / Release Date: July 26, 2026Script Meghan FitzmartinArt: Meghan HetrickColorist: Nick Filardi Letterer: Travis LanhamEditing: Andrew MarinoCover: Guillem MarchHawkgirl (Kendra Saunders) scores the cover and leading story in DC's latest anthology, a pretty rare feat...
John Wyver writes: When the BBC television service at Alexandra Palace began operations officially on 2 November 1936, it was fitted out with four Emitron electronic cameras supplied by the recently-established joint venture company Marconi-EMI. One or more of these cameras was mounted on a crude dolly, and so was...
On July 21st OpenAI published this piece about how they and Hugging Face partnered to address a security incident during model evaluation. Like many people, I was shocked by the news of how agents at OpenAI broke out of their secure environment and attacked the Hugging Face site. Later, though, in reading other...
And in a follow-up to yesterday’s post on the ‘Minutemen’ of the old 328th, here is a second piece from the TEC4 William Faucett collection: the Grapevine unit newspaper of the 26th (Yankee) Infantry Division from October 1945, which details the outfit’s march from Utah Beach to Czechoslovakia and Austria. The 328th...
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