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Listen to me: You do not need the new Harry Potter show. Or movie. Or tie-in game. Or collectible. This has nothing to do with casting choices. This has everything to do with Rowling’s anti-trans activism. (Yes, she has an executive...
I’ll be performing at Full Moon Festival. Further details TBD. #VRChat #FullMoonFestival
"Why should software paid for by taxpayers stay locked behind proprietary licences?" This is 100% true here in the UK, as well. £330m paid to the company-who-shall-not-be-named for the NHS' FDP - which should have been part of a huge...
Listened to this What Now? with Trevor Noah episode with Lera Boroditsky, a cognitive scientist and linguist expert, discussing how language changes or affects your personality. (Transcription courtesy of Overcast’s excellent...
A week ago it came to light that UC Berkeley math professor Zvezdelina Stankova, who went viral in an August 15th essay deploring the poor preparedness of some of her students, actually used AI for her essay. The article was flagged by...
I continue to be fascinated at the reduction in food noise associated with this new drug and that I'm under 100kg for the first time in recent memory
After completing the Montana Backcountry Discovery Route, we're up to ten BDRs since we started running them in 2017. Through the running of each one, @mrs.turbodb and I are - as you can imagine - regularly comparing the current BDR to...
Sometimes – all the time, if you’re me – you see something that you don’t need yet you must have. Thus… Starslayer vol. 1 #1-5 As a kid, I remember seeing ads for this comic in Comics Scene and wanting it because Mike Grell, but nothing...
This is a history of my homelab, since about 2008, arranged chronologically. Formerly, this was a post on imgur, but I’m porting it over here for posterity sake. Enjoy! 2008 Homelab version alpha This cabinet was all full of old Athlon...
Next month Contemporary Textiles London – of which I am a member – are exhibiting at Morden Hall Park from Saturday 3 September to Saturday 27 September. Morden Hall Park is a Thank you for reading my blog. Please join me next week on...
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Recently my family gave me a hologram-making kit that they found at an antique mall in Indiana. I was with them when they first spotted it among the alien masks and vintage comics, and when they pointed it out, my first thought was "yeah...
Writing on the theme of a lost spellbook, suggested by Semiurge for Glaugust 2026.Inspired by this post over on Oversights and Oubliettes, as well as the same book that inspired it, I present six manuscripts attributed to the same...
There are at least five different core questions around data centers and their politics. In what ways are specific concerns people raise about data centers legitimate? In what ways are specific concerns people raise about generative AI...
“The Greatest Benefit to Mankind – A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present” by Roy Porter was published in 1999. It’s a magnificent 848-page book that I am working my way through. Many people, I’ve discovered, own a...