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The last couple of weeks I’ve continued to work on the Bear Blog library. The plugins section is now live. Besides improving all the old ones, there’s also a brand new and nifty Proofreader plugin. When it comes to the Bear palettes...
Welcome to another The Simple Catholic Sunday Funnies! Growing up, one of my favorite parts of Sunday was flipping to the comics section of the newspaper: a little pocket of humor, color, and light-heartedness to start the week. Now, in...
Blue Dragon is here! Blue Dragon is here! This issue is going to be just a tad bit leaner than usual, as I'm off traveling for my first honest-to-god extended vacation in more than a year. But I wasn't going to pass up the chance to dig...
Portrait of a Papermancer Post Nutrition Label Content Type: Photos Read Time: 5 min Topics: Accessibility, IndieWeb Tone: 🧠 Thoughtful, 🐙 Weird I have ideas and vision but do better remixing to hit my visionI've been a collage artist(?)...
In a previous video, I talked about the things that cause MMO players social anxiety. Turns out that playing tank and healer roles is a big fear trigger for a lot of folks playing FFXIV.
Finished reading: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 📚 This book could easily be interpreted as a commentary on AI, especially some of the quotes from the character Malcolm, who is very critical of science and scientific progress. Just...
LEDE ONThis week I write about new products, existing (Adobe), announced-but-not-imminent (Ricoh), and upcoming (additional new cameras coming in September). So it seems only appropriate to also say something about Apple, as they have...
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Ancient Trees and Fossil Capitalism - KPFA For as long as we’ve known, humans have revered ancient trees. We’ve also destroyed them, especially since the advent of...
Finished reading: The Grid by Gretchen Bakke 📚
An alert lands. You were eight hours intensely into something completely unrelated to that alert. You have this alert now, and you are not just tired. You are spent. The log says the sequencer failed. You open the crate that returns...
A vulnerability in a smart contract belonging to Rain, a crypto payments infrastructure provider, resulted in $1.1 million in losses to various firms. Customers of the Avici cryptocurrency neobank, which offers a Visa credit card through...
A lot of people struggle with managing their emotions and blame themselves for making emotional decisions rather than rational ones. But first of all, there is no such thing as a purely rational decision. A decision that benefits you in...
a picture says a thousand words but a picture doesnt say My words so im gonna tell you My words and you'll just have to deal with it.
✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form Content: Random word choice watermarks in chatbot output; Getting "opted in" to Google scanning your stuff; Meta settles; Books are destroyed to feed the chatbots; EU mandates driver-facing cameras. 🌞...
Things you see at the SF Pen Show! Stay tuned for a recap, plus our On The Paper Trail Panel discussion from Friday night. The Best Thing About Pen Shows (and My DC Haul!) (via Inky.Rocks). Totally agree that interacting with the...