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I have a love/hate relationship with the gym. I love working out with weights. I absolutely hate doing cardio. I have plenty of options for the cardio part of my workout. Upright bike, recumbent bike, treadmill, stair climber,...
We here at MPorcius Fiction Log are exploring 1959 speculative fiction, and we've got a map to guide us, a map drawn by that Trotskyist cheerleader of the New Wave, Judith Merril. The map comes from the back of Merril's fifth Year's Best...
Players: Grappadora Hamaques, Swashbuckler (Jay_zer0), Osric II of Shophalbelath, Hero (EvilTables), Buster Diamantis, Blue Conjurer (Mistuh) SummarySince their last very successful delve into Murdicog's Manse, Osric and Buster had been...
Link: AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn, by Max Spero at PangramThis is one of the core effects of AI: even when people are not engaging with AI-generated content directly, it’s hard to avoid. Our feeds are...
For more than 20 years, I have been writing about civilizational collapse. I’m not an expert in the subject, just someone who’s read a lot about anthropology, the history of civilizations, human nature, and how complex systems work. My...
Reposted: Better Models: Worse ToolsI've also noticed newer models being worse in other harnesses and using other tools. Also mentioned by Simon here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/4/better-models-worse-tools/
During our recent visit to California, I was invited to my nephew's away tennis game at an extremely posh private high school near Santa Barbara. It was so lush and manicured that we honestly thought we had taken a wrong turn and were in...
From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle p. 65: Territorial disputes are a hallmark of imperial disintegration, and the fall of the USSR was no exception. The Russian government had...
Cannibalistic Comb JelliesThis festive lantern looking lovely belongs to a group of invertebrates known as comb jellies.Comb jellies are named for their unique plates of giant fused cilia, or combs, which run in eight rows up and down...
It was calming to play this while working today, but it’ll melt off my brain like rain on my window pane.
I’m reminded that dropping a tool or technology into an organisation without considering the implications on people is one of the reasons technology implementations fail to deliver their promised value. This is true of a software...
There’s quite a bit of tall grass in some of the pastures around here. Goodness knows how the calves know where they are!
I love the idea of a status bar, like what I have at the top of my site. I think most personal sites should use something similar. It provides the feeling of a live look-in to whether the webmaster is currently working on the site or...
Cloudflare released Drop today. It’s a simple way of creating a static website by “dropping” your HTML and CSS files into a folder and seeing it go live instantly. Interesting and fun idea, but it’s the modern equivalent of build a blog...
You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold ‘em Know when to walk away And know when to run – The Gambler One of the earliest country songs that I ever recall liking was “The Gambler” by Kenny Rogers; in some ways, the lyrics...