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Publishing Perspectives reports that 55,000 copies of the French edition of Heated Rivalry are being pulped. The book is described rather charmingly at Actualitté as a “saga érotico-homo-hockeyeuse“. Is it only me that finds it a nice...
Only three days after the release of Claude Fable 5, Anthropic was forced by the United States Government to make it unavailable, when a jailbreak was brought to its attention, rather than the previous situation of ‘yes obviously experts...
A view of Maui from the entrance to Lapakahi State Historical Park. It looks quite close, but the distance is about 40 miles.
I’m only 20 minutes into this episode and it’s so fascinating and depressing that I wish it were much longer than 50 minutes. The Economic Lie That Let Companies Sell Us Out with Eric Ries
I still use my Kindle 3 Keyboard ereader from 2010. It has physical buttons and a physical keyboard and no backlight and no ads and very good contrast. I have read hundreds of books on it. It lasts several weeks on a charge and the...
Part of the Big Tech's War on Users series. Apple announced this week that Brazilian developers can finally distribute apps through alternative marketplaces and offer payment options outside Apple's own system. Cue the fireworks. Cue the...
John Higgins / The Verge: Kaleidescape gets movie files directly from the studios, encodes them at reference quality, and makes them available for download to its high-end media players and servers. They offer 4K Blu-ray quality, or...
I am back from Chennai. It was fun meeting lots of students, hearing what they think, etc. This time I met some old-time friends, which was a bonus. Conducting the workshop was also fun. I hope to build on that workshop to demystify LLMs...
I probably don’t keep up with things properly, but the last thing I expected to see today was a new single by Queen’s Roger Taylor. And featured on Come On Summer (It’s Party Time) is none other than the Ndlovu Youth Choir from South...
We have been undergoing a consuming and distracting Edward Medical Situation (Crohn’s-related) this past week, and things are finally improving: procedure done, fever gone, color restored, eating and drinking normally. Edward is...
We drove our truck about five hours from our home base to Oregon Motorcoach Center in Eugene to pick up our coach after its annual service, repairs, and improvements, then just 47 miles, about an hour of driving, from OMC to Blue Ox RV...