For as long as I am writing my novel, I am someone else: who is the opposite of me and very much me, who is totally lost and hoping to be found, who is wrestling with their demons and seeking transcendence. In reality, he’s my doppelgänger, but in the world of fantasy, he’s all mine.Been reading Susannah Breslin for...
“I know there are cranky Yankees, I know there are some haters, but I’m not gonna let people steal my joy and steal the joy of what we did or what we accomplished that day,” King said. Amen. Let the haters hate, I would love to go someday.Gayle King Defends ‘Expensive’ 11-Minute Space Flight After ‘Disrespectful’...
Absolutely wild attack vector I never would have thought of. It's almost as if it is targeted at "vibe-coding".AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain riskA new class of supply chain attacks named ‘slopsquatting’ has emerged from the increased use of generative AI tools for coding and the model’s...
Saw this orange display tonight at the grocery store and this piece I read this morning was all I could think of, solid read:How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?Look at this orange: Now look at this orange: It’s the same orange. But, look how much more orange it looks with the red mesh on top of...
A federal judge yesterday began a final hearing in the settlement talks of three anti-trust lawsuits against the NCAA that have been combined. The outcome of the case appears to be a $2.8 Billion settlement with former players who graduated before Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) payments began in 2021, and revenue...
Ernest Hemingway was given a white six-toed cat by a ship’s captain and some of the cats who live on the museum grounds are descendants of that original cat, named Snow White. Key West is a small island and it is possible that many of the cats on the island are related.We were there about a year ago, I wish I would...
The US spun up a shock-and-awe campaign to sell the world on the splendor of its affordable, abundant consumer conveniences. It started in Marshall Plan-era West Berlin, where in 1950 the US Department of State built a gleaming trade pavilion packed with thousands of everyday products available to the growing...
A picture of a pair of Asics PureGel Running Shoes"In 2016, Sole Review took a look at Nike's income statement and came up with this breakdown. On an imaginary $100 shoe, they estimate manufacturing cost is $22. Add freight, insurance, and import taxes, they estimate it costs Nike $27 to bring that shoe from Asia to...
“Our problem in part is a failure of imagination,” Lee Bollinger, a former Columbia president, told The Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this month. “We cannot get ourselves to see how this is going to unfold in its most frightening versions.” Now the most frightening versions are taking shape, as specters in...
