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I have a theory. In 2018, or thereabout, Mark Zuckerberg watched “Ready Player One” — or maybe he actually read the book — and decided to pivot Facebook into the Metaverse12. That went tits up, but everyone kind of forgot once AI made...
About a month ago, we could no longer ignore the occasional drip, drip, drip that sounded like it was coming from beyond the bathroom wall. Up until then, we “fixed” the problem with the occasional shrug. At one point I almost made the...
I was quite taken with the Bass-O-Matic album, cringe though the band name isIn the review, I make that cardinal rockcrit error of looking for the dance artist who can sustain at album level. Writing still from outside the culture at...
I recently watched mythologist and storyteller Martin Shaw speak with Matt Fradd about myths, fairy tales, and faith. I loved the conversation, and hope to read Martin's latest book, Liturgies of the Wild.Myth is a wild way of telling...
Ever since I was a little kid, I hated the idea of being tough. I didn’t like the idea of being told to “toughen up”, “be brave”, “suck it up”, or “be a man.” Since I wouldn’t learn phrases like “toxic masculinity” for many years, I...
Time to hitch a ride with the Cosmic Hobo and take in some more Second Doctor audio releases. Last time we got four Companion Chronicles, one set in Season 4, two in Season 5, one in Season 6; this time, we’ve got three Season 6-era...
IG users antiart et al. (2026) inadvertently created a great example of a non-significant correlation and/or regression for you to use this fall when they created a scatter plot that illustrates a celebrity's nepo baby (or old money)...
... to the sole benefit of US Big Oil? I think so. This seems ... obvious.We have radicalized countless people in the Gaza and Iran. How could we not have? With the rise of drone-based munitions, it won't take much to harass most...
Finished reading: The Assassins of Thasalon: A Penric & Desdemona Novella in the World of the Five Gods by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚 I enjoyed this book in that it had various twists and turns and yet still felt cut and dry.
I haven’t seen Jane Schoenbrun’s other movies, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow, but I thought I had a fairly accurate high-level idea of what they were. Art film horror. Heavily influenced by online culture and...
One of the things I am actually pretty thankful for during my summer break is not needing to think about what to wear. Shorts. T-shirts. Ankle socks. White sneakers. Watch. Any combination will do. Rinse and repeat.
Ambush at Still Lakeby Caroline BirdGenres: Poetry Pages: 83 Rating: Synopsis: Caroline Bird's new poems show us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the happy ending. This is a collection about marriage, lesbian...
I’m thirty-four chapters into Zero Knowledge, a novel I’m writing with Phin Argofy. I came up with the concept for the book. I worked with Phin to create structure around it, using a “planner” approach with a full story bible, world...
I was reading a book on the history of the discovery of the structure of DNA [1] and was surprised by a few passing references to Bessel functions. According to Claude, When X-rays are diffracted by a helical structure, the resulting...