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From 2019 to 2026 you might recall that U.S. policymakers were utterly obsessed with "Chinese influence" over TikTok. For those seven years you couldn't spend a day without seeing a lawmaker or pundit hyperventilating over the claim that...
For all these times we talked about Super Mario, we never covered another important game, Doom. Here’s a 17-minute video from decino explaining how the Doom monsters move and attack the player (the “AI” in the old sense of the word):...
Reader Tyler Mercer writes in with a link to a nice essay from Terry Godier about the underlying systems of the internet. The reason your mee-maw and your bank and your boss can all reach you at the same email address is that the...
I took some colour film with me over to PEI a couple of weeks ago to get some colourful summertime photos. It was mostly cloudy so the colours were a bit muted but still I like the results. I don’t shoot much colour so it’s a nice treat...
@onemillionyears is the On Kawara @dailyrothko, which is complicated, because On Kawara was already the @dailykawara in so many ways. Anyway, today I wondered where Kawara was on 17 August 1989, so I went to Duncan McLaren’s site to see...
Gespot in Maastricht afgelopen weekend. Is zoervleisj een soort rendang? Enquiring minds want to know. Wel zoervleisj gegeten vrijdagavond, maar geheel niet aan rendang gedacht tijdens de maaltijd. Misschien vandaag dan maar rendang?...
The Sims has been a franchise that’s been with me since the mid to late 90s. A thing that started, for me, with one of the very first SimCity games, on a school PC in a computer lab. This was before The Sims was even a glimmer in...
The Internet was never perfect. It was always a work in progress. That’s usually considered a phrase with a good connotation. But that depends on the side of the coin you’re looking at. It always begs the question, progress for whom?...
Mitten in den Colli Euganei haben wir das Paradies entdeckt. Es liegt eingebettet zwischen spitzkegligen Hügeln vulkanischen Ursprungs, die mit Weinfeldern bedeckt sind. Öffnet sich das unscheinbare Tor an der Straße, tut sich eine lange...
WordPress.com maker Automattic is expanding into education with a new, free product designed for teachers and their classes called WordPress.com Education. The suite for classrooms includes a full WordPress.com domain for each student,...
I’m halfway through reading “Lonesome Dove”, and it struck me how much “Cyberpunk 2077” is basically the same kind of story. The people leading rough, savage lives on the edge of society carry pistols instead of cyberdecks, but the...
I was keen to introduce my book group to Magnus Mills, and also to choose one of his books that I hadn’t read yet – so earlier this year I got them reading The Scheme for Full Employment (2003). Read on for why I regretted that decision…...
Image from pixabay by Dean Moriarty, CC0 I‘ve written before about the value and importance of asking good questions. I described the qualities of a ‘good question’, including Warren Berger’s emphasis on: Why… (eg Why Isn’t Someone...
Still no rain. I had thought we had a hosepipe ban in Brighton but then I looked it up and it turns out I’ve been judiciously schlepping water about in the watering can for no reason. Using the hosepipe still felt like it ought to be...
Who are you?Hi there - I’m Dinesh Thiru, a writer and dad, living in Barcelona. I grew up in North Carolina, married my college sweetheart from the University of Pennsylvania, and now we have two kids and a goofy chocolate lab.What do...