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Murderous Milk is the third and latest instalment in the world’s first feline guide to classic crime fiction. If you are a cat owner, then this series is one you won’t want to miss, so here are the links to the previous posts: Lesson No....
When arXiv announced it would ban people for hallucinated citations, that is citations of papers that don’t exist, the discussion online got sidetracked by the question of whether academics actually read the papers they cite. Some people...
Hey, could the next huge hit from some 20-something YouTuber be a romantic comedy or a heist movie or something featuring a great young martial artist? I like horror well enough, but let's switch it up! I guess it's time to see if anyone...
Self-propagating code in a cluster allows to draw a map of this cluster from any node.
Dripping ink on 3d printed graph traversals
When we end up voluntary ceding control of our own body parts to AI (for example so we can automatically walk around the grocery story while simultaneously catching up on boxsets on a VR headset) I wonder what that will feel like. The...
David Fear / Rolling Stone: Following the rise, fall, and rebound of a character that’s a little bit Bieber, a little bit Timberlake, a little bit Macklemore, and a whole lotta idiocy, the mockumentary Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping,...
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Is it hot...
Just published a new essay at Cinema Sugar as part of America Month called Lincoln is the Better Angel of Biopics. It’s a celebration of Spielberg’s masterpiece as both a biopic—a genre I’m generally suspicious of—and a portrait of the...
I’ve launched the professional face of my website! With the invaluable use of Codex and ChatGPT 5.5, I built it from scratch in three hours. I’ve refined the writing with ChatGPT, but the ideas originate from this site.
From: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-cure/1889992111?i=1889992123Confusingly not about The Cure, even though Olivia Rodrigo has history with the lovable lipstick goths. I once traded emails with Robert Smith when working on a...
Back in 2006 there was a movie starring Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale and Christopher Walken called Click. It may have been dismissed as a typically shallow Adam Sandler movie, but there was a kernel of depth to it. On fast forward Have...
The masterwork of Terry A. Davis is his eclectic operating system, TempleOS, which he worked on until his tragic death in 2018. In terms of technical excellence, TempleOS rates well in some respects and poorly in others. For example, it...