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Be still, my socialist heart:→ Yale School of Public Health
Thanks to everyone who entered the Galen Leather Sinclair case giveaway. I wish I had more to give away but I only have one so let’s celebrate today’s lucky winner: I’m happy to treat you this beautiful case! More giveaways soon so stay...
A small amount of red string appears on a map in Madagascar (dirs. Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath, 2005). ▲ Madagascar (dirs. Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath, 2005)
It seems like I’ve been here before Note: This first ran on this day in 2024. It was well received, but let’s be real; I’ll take any excuse I can get to yap about New Order. If you’re looking for this week’s playlists, fear not! They’re...
For over a decade, I've been a proponent of writing detailed Git commit messages. I find it a valuable use of my time, and continue to double down on it, even in a world where you can get a Large Language Model (LLM) to write it for you....
[T]he web bubble took a bunch of humanities undergraduates and convinced them to become Perl programmers and HTML jocks. And so, when the web burst around 2000, all the dumb bosses who are shipping 90-pound bags of pet food saying it's...
Well, of course nobody really knows. Beyond, that is, the obvious and boring answer — by having lots of people buy it. Crusoe’s Books has a go at answering the question in a post entitled Sleepers. They use as a case in point John...
A sober analysis from the News Agents podcast of the press's role in the death of former Cambridge professor Jason Arday. Sopel is right here to repeat the adage stressed in every journalism school in the world: What's interesting to the...
My friend John Gruber is incensed by the idea that AI watermarking schemes adjust the output of a given LLM so that the output can later be assessed as likely coming from that particular LLM: They say “imperceptible” and “doesn’t change...
The thing you do best, you do substantially less well than you imagine. This isn't an accusation or a prognostication. It is an inevitability. It's because we rate ourselves on our intentions, not our results. "I am a good, competent...
Your romantic obsession is a message that could be interpreted in more ways than you think. When you are obsessed with a person, you think that person has connected deeply with you. They have managed to touch strings in your heart that...
Towards RebirthOut 24th July on Dark Descent Records With its roots in Merciless or Massacra, but growing branches out to death metal with a more developed melodic palette comes the latest album from Chile’s Ripper. A stylistically far...
I was reading Apple’s August 13 court filing in the Epic trial, helpfully hosted by 9to5Mac, and I was surprised by a statement Apple made about its developer program: Unlike cost-only based commissions, Apple’s revenue-based commissions...
Trump used the press as human shields but the White House Correspondents Association has barely raised a grumble. Margaret Sullivan on what should have been the last straw:→ margaretsullivan.substack.com