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I was pleasantly surprised that the Museum of Modern Art was open on July 4th, when it was a million degrees in my apartment and most other activities were closed for the holiday. I figured the museum would at least have good air...
The problem of high level playWhy do players struggle when they leave the dungeon and enter the wider world? RPG provocateur Sam Sorensen’s bsky thread on domain play prompted my thinking here. It's enough of a complete thought-arc that...
Captured this pic of a chair in a local take away. I get the message.What event(s) led up to this being painted onto the chair?
Ben Folds spends a non-stop hour swinging wildly between virtuosic on, and literally violent, with a capital V, to, the piano, while he and his bandmates tear through 15 absolutely unskippable 90s bangers as if they share one brain,...
20th explorers on their way to Antarctica, including Ernest Shackleton, often visited NZ. They used local ports and quarantine islands, and gratefully accepted other offers of assistance. They also took on New Zealander crew with...
Prediction markets are “truth machines,” in the sense that they give people incentives to figure out what is true and bet on it. But they are also, obviously and increasingly, falsehood machines, in the sense that they give people...
type like this? Every sentence a new line! This isn't LinkedIn guys. Please use paragraphs and have a voice instead of sounding like Claude, I already see him enough at work.
There’s a fish shop in Skibbereen with, seemingly, its own heron that perches on pavement instead of water. When I first saw it, I thought it was lucky timing. Surely such a majestic bird cannot regularly take up residence in a parking...
Got up at the same time. Still a cold wind. Nell off on the fellowship trip at 9a.m. I went and spend the day at Dot’s. Had a nice day entertaining Jane.
Fable 5 costs 2x Opus and burns like 6x. I spent a month learning to ration my wishes.
Cayley graph search with Claude Code: what puzzle competitions look like in 2026 Over the last couple of months I worked on two Kaggle competitions in the CayleyPy series: IHES Picture Cube and Megaminx. Both are combinatorial puzzle...
My wee webshop is live, at cicada-ink.nz. Currently selling fountain pen inks with a few small accessories, and hopefully soon some nice fountain pen ink-friendly paper. At the moment shipping only to NZ and Australia, as I figure people...
Published in Ecology and Evolution, the study is the first of its kind, and challenges current approaches among vets and animal practitioners. Masturbation has previously been thought to be caused by unnatural captive living conditions...
It’s easy to underestimate the great institutions. Look no further than the FXT, which some mistake for a corporation. They control money, but they aren’t a bank. They control trade, but they aren’t merchants. They’re a monopoly, but...
I don't have much to say about the latest Graham Platner allegations. Of course he should drop out. Of course he's being extra-selfish in trying to extort concessions from the state party in exchange for dropping out (Rep .Sean Casten...