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To be happy on this earth you have to believe in certain things, fight for certain things, have the will for the fight.
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The speaker on this train: Please mind the gap between the BZZZ! your next stop is Wahroonga BZZT! on the seats. Thank you. Cal Newport, Reality Check: What you’re going to get out of the LLM is a reasonable-sounding plan (they’re story completers). Reasonable-sounding plans… get you in trouble. You need correct plans. Let’s just say, anonymous: Person A: Why didn’t you do the thing? I told you to do it. Person 1: I did. I linked to it directly above. Person A: Well… um,...
by Cláudio Alves Should Diane Keaton have been double-nominated, in 1977, for ANNIE HALL and LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR? With their new rules, the Academy has upturned quite a number of Oscar traditions and stats. For example, actors can now fill more than one slot in each category, receiving nominations for multiple performances in a race. Looking back, it’s fun to speculate about what performers might have achieved this. Indeed, I might write something on that matter later...
We are grossly underreacting.
There was a time when adults could feel something without screaming at you about it. We could disagree, hard, in a meeting and walk out with our faces still attached. Bad news arrived at the dinner table and the meal finished anyway. Call it discipline: the capacity to feel a
It's a fascinating display of leverage: the ShinyHunters folks, with very limited resources and experience (their demographic will be teenagers to their early 20s), consistently gaining access to the data of massive brands. Not through technical ingenuity alone (although I'm sure there's a portion
AI's efficiency is subtly eroding informal team interactions, impacting trust and innovation.
The first recording today starts with the end of Bronco Billy. Then it’s another helping of Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed. First, The Masked Magician makes a whole car disappear. Then he pulls a car’s documents through a windscreen. He straps a woman into a cabinet, pulls the curtain around it, and swaps places with the strapped […]
How can us mere mortals, living in a ruthless, dog-eat-dog capitalist system, ever hope to obtain the sagacity and wisdom of a Stoic sage? Is it even possible to become wealthy or to better one’s condition in a way that … Continue reading →
Josh Davis aka DJ Shadow is about to reissue his Mo Wax singles as a deluxe boxset . This gives me a good excuse to share a few thoughts on his landmark Mo Wax debut… “This is a song about life, death, love, hate, wealth, poverty… just a few things that have been running through […]
Two new pixel art, one is a commission for Aidia of a deer in the rain and another is a Pixel Joint challenge entry of pupae and a butterfly.
They rise quietly from the earth—tall, time-carved sentinels shaped by wind, water, and patience. They lean, they shift, they endure. Not in haste, never in spectacle, but in a slow and ancient rhythm. A dance measured not in years, but in centuries.Many who pass through call them Hoodoos. But that name only scratches the surface.For the Ktunaxa People, who have lived with and known
It's a bit of a rough week in new stuff with the lone exception being the exceptional Friday of new music we had. There are too many albums to even talk about and even more I want to listen to again.But I did my best to get through a few and share a few I thought stood out above the rest. I hope you check them out. They're a lot of fun.We also announced the winners of our inaugural annual awards for strange fiction from other small litmags. You should go check those out....
When the weather shut down our original plan, we shifted to a canyon we hadn’t seen and a float on the Gunnison. It worked out, but the lower flows and changing conditions echo a larger reality across the Colorado Plateau. Read More ... Continue reading Thinking of the last journey at PMags.com.
Iris surveillance These crept up on us in our front garden. We went to the Lake District for a week and when we arrived what should we find but these show-offs. Quote of the Day “The saddest aspect of life … Continue reading →
i deactivated my instagram account a few weeks ago. i don't know exactly how much time has passed, i'm not worried with keeping track. my first concern when thinking about deactivating was how i would keep track of my friends' lives. they're living all over the country, some of them living abroad, and we don't talk much despite being close. i'm no longer good at keeping conversation going over text, i hate being on my phone too much and, to my surprise, find myself...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop I get that I'm still sick and very busy with work but some days go by where I'm like "shit I have 4 pokemon on my camera's card and I need to get them out of therrrrrre" Anyway - these were all RNG over the last 5 days. Please enjoy! Fri 05/01/2026 - Pecharunt Ok seriously what even is this thing. Like. It's almost bug adjacent but also it's like a ghost? Poison ghost feels weird for something with...
Many moons ago, when I used to write software, I realized I was misinterpreting stakeholders, and they me. We were using the same words, but thinking of different things.