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A really well-produced 27-minute video from Super Splash Wave about 8-bit and 16-bit pixel art: What I liked about the video is that it doesn’t just revel in nostalgia, but goes deeper into some techniques and trends and details in the...
A vote of confidence for my new songs from Gary Trueman at www.devolutionmagazine.co.uk 'Helen McCookerybook wins the room over with her beautiful voice and brave, deeply personal songwriting. Tackling serious themes with pure heart and...
I fear that in this profile of the Murashige avocado I was too critical, and it is because I’m not a fan of giant avocados in general. I’m know I’m supposed to be. What a huge avocado! So cool! But I’m not. Giant avocados have two...
“Jet Kiss” a sculpture by Mike Ross at the Capital Hill metro station I’ve just returned from a week or work in Seattle. As I get older I am noticing how exhausting it is to be socializing a lot, and this week was full on BE VERY PRESENT...
Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. AppleInsider had a story yesterday that's getting covered as a flex: Apple trained its own LLM for China instead of just using Google Gemini like it does everywhere else. Proprietary...
I ended the Netflix subscription. We have not been using it for a long time, and we were just paying; finally, this month I ended it. Sleep has won for me. If required, I can subscribe again. We still have Amazon Prime, mostly because of...
Ensemble OrQuesta’s production of Dido and Aeneas celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. The opera (seen as Henry Purcell’s “only true opera”) follows the titular Dido as she struggles with her love for Aeneas, eventually falling...
NomadWarMachine is taking part in Blaugust20026. Today they published Mandala Madness and extended the invitation to create and share a manadala. A lovely TDC today: Mandala designs — a sort of mirrored gathering of lines in circular...
Finally on the shelf. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize This is actually my first vinyl copy of Blue...
I tried this right when it came out – it used to have different packaging to a slight degree – the logo as well has changed, and since my son wants to try every Buldak out there, here we are. Let’s check it out! Samyang Buldak Quattro...
Samuel Hardiman, The Daily Memphian: Memphis, a city known nationwide for Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI’s data centers, may finally take legislative steps to pause data center development. At its Aug. 18 committee meeting, the Memphis City...
Hey folks, fireside this week as I get ready for the start of a new semester! For this week, I wanted to talk briefly about the wrinkles that financing navies poses with regards to our worldbuilding primer on pre-modern armies. “what...
Balls of lint and (dog?) hair that developed inside the plastic paddles in our dryer. A few days ago our dryer began making some new rattling noises when running, so I took it apart to clean and repair† it. In the process I removed the...
Large language models (LLMs) are great at answering questions, but they have an important limitation: they don’t inherently have access to what’s happening on the web right now. Ask an LLM about a programming concept and it can probably...
For a pay-what-you-want show this was decent. Three comedians doing sets on the theme of philosophy - followed by a Q&A where the audience poses philosophical conundrums to them. It more-or-less works as a gimmick. Although an early...