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My parents were young when I was born, only 17, but despite the relatively small time gap, we are from distinctly different generations. They've been divorced since the 70s, so their needs and circumstances, while similar, are still...
No image can replace the intuition [of being], but many diverse images, borrowed from very different orders of things, may, by the convergence of their action, direct consciousness to the precise point where there is a certain intuition...
As is tradition when I take my holidays, I spend quite sometime configuring the machines around the apartment. Usually this is followed up with some homelab experiments I give up on in a few days. I thought I'd write some things about...
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Apparently I write like a machine. I’m 71. That’s not an excuse. It’s the explanation. In the 1960s I attended a grammar school in Wales, where spelling and grammar were, quite literally, beaten into you. You learned to write correctly...
By Devin MacKayTHorium 90 PrductionsOSR/ShadowdarkLevel 1 People in the poorer, more crowded neighbourhoods of the City of Copven are getting sick. Disease is spreading and swarms of biting and stinging insects have been reported...
If you’ve used CakePHP for any length of time, you’ve probably shipped apps with friendsofcake/bootstrap-ui — the plugin that makes $this->Form->control() output Bootstrap markup without a single hand-written class. It’s been a workhorse...
What I've been up to on RAVS core and RAVS plus. Work I think I've mentioned before, but I'm supporting 2 teams in my new contract. RAVS (record a vaccination service) is made up of the core team and the plus team. It's stretching me,...
I have a problem. Or, rather, I have two problems: I have been spending far too much time messing about with AI instead of reading. I end up zoning out in front of YouTube and, even with serious attempts at curating my feed, I spend far...
In the foreground, the rear facade of the Seventh Regiment Armory, famous for its ornate rooms in front, some designed by a young Louis Tiffany, but also containing a huge arched-truss drill hall that stretched the long-span roof...
For those of us who’ve spent the last twenty years working around alternative technology, grassroots media and activism, the hardest thing to watch has been how deeply the #dotcons have become embedded in the culture. We know the...
Under the Net What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Morevna, Episode 3 Six-and-Change Years Hence Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club reads Under the Net. To give...
I’ve been feeling very down about (gestures) all this lately. Dr. Shaily Patel’s encouragement to dream and imagine better worlds is a powerful antidote. Thanks, Dr. Patel!
Yesterday was much easier than Thursday--but that's not a surprise. Yesterday we only had one meeting, so my committed time was only one hour. Thursday was very scheduled, from 8 a.m. until 3. Let me capture yesterday:--Here's the one...