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In my last post I argued that high-assurance systems should stop asking to be trusted on the basis of institutional promises and start producing verifiable runtime evidence about what actually happened. This post is the worked example. A...
Get yourself a reins-taking Louisiana oil heiress aunt to take you globe-hopping and to leave you all the Fabergé hardstone plants she accumulated over the years from Armand Hammer’s shady Russian sources ig. And her 50-carat diamond...
I came across a recent article in the Washington Post about the benefits of talking to strangers (paywalled) that cited Nicholas Epley’s book, A Little More Social. When we make small talk at the bus stop or lament the lack of cambozola...
Brushfield St 1990 by Philip Marriage Next tickets available for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields on Saturday 6th June. Click here to book As a major new exhibition of the work of James McNeill Whistler opens at Tate Britain, we...
Friend Mayumi, sent us a box of veggies that she grew in her yard...potatoesshiso (perilla)komatsuna (Japanese mustard cabbage) huge radishes (the teeny perfectly round ones are the ones I had bought earlier in the week)garlicbags of...
The Linux apps I'm currently using are 'Fastmail' for email, 'RapidRaw' for photo editing, 'LibreOffice' for documents and slides, and 'Okular' for PDFs and E-Books. I only pay for one....
Trump’s video You’ve probably heard about the AI-generated video that Trump posted to Truth Social, where he interrupts Stephen Colbert’s farewell monologue on the last episode of The Tonight Show to throw Colbert into a dumpster. I’ve...
Curriculum in the decentralized U.S. school system of nearly 13, 000 school districts in 50 states has four layers.* The top layer of this structure is the intended (or official) curriculum. After extensive deliberation and committee...
Gaëlle Geniller’s A Boy Named Rose is really, really cute. I like the art and colours, and I like how protective and warm the found family at Le Jardin feels. Rose’s […]
Postcard from the drizzle.