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Cigarette Holder, Hard carved (I believe a Scrimshaw piece or carved from a bone?) Striations are visible which would indicate some nature material. Origin unknown. Weigh in with expertise, Only 3 1/2” with a small Metal insert for the...
Not everyone believed that race and ethnicity were purely a result of being descended from the sons of Noah. Some felt the natural world/environment played a part.An Afro-Arab Islamic philosopher named Al-Jahiz (c.776 - 869) took on the...
I dream about being the type of cook who wanders through a farmers market, gets inspired by whatever’s in season, and runs home to make something simple and delicious without consulting a single recipe. The reality is that I am extremely...
Ray Dalio says the world is reverting to China’s ancient order of kowtows and hierarchy, the tribute system.1 In his account, it runs on deference, not force: lesser powers acknowledge a dominant center, and in return get trade and...
Easy though it is – especially as a grumpy old fucker – to shout at the moon about how bad everything is and how much better it used to be in the old days – I’m firmly of the belief that actually, at the heart of it, people are generally...
Heute hab ich mal was ganz Spezielles für euch. Ein Track der momentan in aller Munde ist, nämlich „Gut genug“ von Kitschkrieg feat. Blumengarten & Shirin David. Also Boombap ist es auf keinen Fall, ich würde es aber schon Richtung Hip...
Merlin, eastern US (photo by Wm.H. Majoros via Wikimedia Commons) 25 June 2026 Have you heard this sound in your neighborhood? It’s a merlin! Listen. video embedded from Carl Barrentine on YouTube Merlins (Falco columbarius) are small,...
An incredible 5 minute documentary that left me in tears. link here Thank you Riley.
As I probably mentioned before, if you have any interest in the film and television industry, KCRW's The Business is essential listening. Kim Masters was one of the key figures breaking the Me Too story and was arguably the dean of...
Recently, I've improved my Python library, hexora. I wrote it to detect malicious Python code using static analysis. In the new v.0.3.0 release, I've added new detections, and we now also use a simple machine learning model to analyze...
We just purchased a (used) display case, so it finally became time to put together the set of Japanese Snoopy’s Book Cafe miniatures that I’d purchased a couple years back. Rather than using the two-pieces-of-cardboard backdrop that...
When you start thinking deeply about a mathematics problem you may enter the "zone", a period of intense focus where you think solely about the problem and potential solutions, and more importantly block out all other thoughts and even...
Sam Reader Under Review:Pandemonium Waltz. Jeffrey Ford. Lethe Press, February 2026. When approaching a work like Jeffrey Ford’s Pandemonium Waltz, a recent collection from an author who’s been putting out master-level work for decades,...
With artificial intelligence models becoming more autonomous, a new market has emerged to help them settle down. Enter Selma Haus, an “agent’s agent.” Selma is a human real estate broker who specializes in helping AI models find the...
For years I used yt-dlp which is a “feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader” and most importantly, can download YouTube videos. But yeah, it is a command line utility, easy to use for simple things but sometimes a GUI is nice...