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Today's links AI and amateurism: When is generative content vernacular? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Disney characters x clean underwear; Transparent Pontiac; Makers v dog with LED collar; Microsoft buys...
Another new week, and thus a new Fantasy with Friends post: the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about the […]
The Quantel Paintbox was one of the first computer systems designed to create and manipulate digital graphics in a manner that was much closer to painting and drawing than computer programming. The technology was launched in 1981, and...
The World Cup is here and I am loving the wall-to-wall football. The scheduling of the matches isn't ideal for our timezone, but I'm enjoying waking up to video highlights. And although the politics and grubby monetisation are awful, the...
I like scientific papers. When a blog post or news article cites an actual research paper, I am pleased. Not only does that mean that it is using […]
Okay, so maybe the backlog doesn’t completely win. But after 12 years of trying to work through growing Steam backlog, I’ve finally come to the point where I feel like I’m done with this project.
2 years ago I wrote an op-ed of that title for a prominent Lib Dem blog* , arguing that even liberals should support what Labour has announced today: namely banning under-16s unrestricted internet access. “The internet is not, and...
The online casino industry has experienced remarkable growth over the past decade, attracting millions of players worldwide. Among the various casino games available, slots remain the most popular choice for both beginners and...
Google PageSpeed flagged a stylesheet on ohdear.app the other day: front.css, the bundle for its public-facing pages. That surprised me, because Cloudflare sits in front of ohdear.app and Cloudflare does Brotli, and a Brotli’d copy of...
Todd Spangler for Variety: Fox announced Monday that it has agreed to acquire Roku for $160.00/share in a combination of cash and Fox Class A common stock, giving Roku an enterprise value of about $22 billion. The companies expect the...
Last week I was walking through town with my wife and our son in the stroller. We ran into a former high school classmate. We were both pleasantly surprised to see each other after so many years. He looked at my wife and said: “He […]...
"This playlist transports me to the dining room of my childhood house, or the interior of my beloved Volvo station wagon, which was covered in bumper stickers, or expat bars in dusty alleyways and the shared connection those spaces...