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GiveWell has directed $2.3 billion in grants since 2014, of which Latin America received 0.02 cents per dollar. Yet 220 million people in the region live in or near poverty.
OpenAI, on X: Introducing ChatGPT Work, a new agent in ChatGPT powered by Codex and GPT-5.6. It can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work. It’s a whole new way...
Had a lovely, and mostly offline, trip across the pond back to the old country. There's just something special about England in the summertime that I really miss. We picked quite the time to visit. The first week we were there had the...
Digging through some unearthed files, I came across a contemporary review of my book Willeford — lost, I’d forgotten about it. The review should have been lost in some other piles of paper, but there it was. I had done a print-out at the...
Bild: Radschnellweg RS1 in Bochum. Eigentlich gilt in NRW für Radschnellwege die 4+2-Regel: Vier Meter Radweg und daneben zwei Meter Gehweg. Alle Radschnellwege in NRW sind getrennte Geh- und Radwege, solange sie selbständig geführt...
I like Richard Dix in movies, especially his WHISTLER B pictures, and GHOST SHIP, where he fits in perfectly with Val Lewton’s fondness for understated villainy. Unfortunately some the RKO star vehicles I’ve seen from when Dix was...
Netflix… another company pursuing an audience they think they don’t have with content they erroneous think they need. Are they scared of YouTube? Probably. Are they focused on their core product that we the people originally signed up...
Disclaimer Previously… In the Hands of the Prophets Conclusions The Good The Bad Stay Tuned… Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional references to part of...
Starting and iterating on a Kaggle competition in Google Antigravity I spent a couple of days on a Kaggle Playground Series competition (S6E7, predicting a three-class health_condition from tabular health data), mostly as an excuse to...
I'm camping at the moment and something I've been noticing since I got back into camping last year after a few years break is the social sort of side. It's pretty established now that I don't consider myself an outgoing person. I'm on...
Game Changerby Rachel ReidGenres: Romance Pages: 366 Series: Game Changers #1 Rating: Synopsis: New York Admirals captain Scott Hunter takes his pregame rituals very seriously. When a particular smoothie precedes Scott's breaking his...
It's a habit of mine to look up words I don't know, and I came across several unknowns today in an art gallery. I'm noting them here so that I remember what they are. aquamanile: (noun) a vessel usually shaped like an animal or a human,...
Untitled, paper collage, 2026 I returned home from vacation on Monday and have not had much time to dedicate to creative work. I have, however, manage to do a little bit of many things, including collage, reading, birding, and cooking....
Today, July 9, 2026, I had the pleasure of pre-recording a conversation with Dr. Sonia Del Re, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Canada, for The Blue Hour. The interview will air on Tuesday, July 14, at 2...
It's hard to keep up with the flourishing zine, comics and book fairs happening at the moment, which I see as a very positive sign.This weekend (11th and 12th July 2026) sees the ARC festival of contemporary comics taking place in...