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In my opinion, SCOTUS' decision in Louisiana v Callais is based on two flawed beliefs. First is that it is ok to make voting districts for partisan reasons, in other words, allow a majority party to create districts that favor their...
Tiffany Aching is one of the great characters of Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasies. While the novels she is in are aimed at young adults - Tiffany is only 11 in this one - they are profoundly clever works exploring our moral universe...
This is the sort of bread Rachel turns out on a random Thursday. She’s gotten so good over the last couple of years.
Blue Heron, an absorbing debut film from Canadian director Sophy Romvari, begins as if it's going to be an idyl about the joys of childhood. Romvari introduces us to the kids of a Hungarian immigrant family that's settling into a new...
It’s time to be right. Outcomes continue to matter. Earlier this week, I spoke at AI Dev 26. This is what I spoke about there. I’ve been making money, in some form, building software for nearly 30 years. The last five months have been...
Over the past several weeks, Dave Snowden has been writing a very extensive series of long blog posts that serve as a watershed declaration of the state of his work thus far in the field of anthro-complexity. The posts both define what...
Imagine a world where political servants actually served us, and whose decisions were backed by the will of the people, rather than their greed. If it sounds like fantasy, you may want to check out author Brenda W. Clough’s newest novel,...
Does it matter if AIs can feel pain? Short answer: NO. Full answer: no, here’s why.
The bed, the holy bed, Lit like an icon Like a crucifixion. “If you’ve never had an abortion you don’t know what you’re talking about.” Abortion And another abortion A smear of watercolour pink. “You made me love you, I … Continue reading →
We had another lovely, sunny weekend last week, and that means I walked the second of the ten segments of the 44 votive churches loop. This time around, I didn’t have to mess with the route in order to hit all the churches in one go...
Is this week’s theme markers and highlighters? Maybe so. I teased that a bit with my Mildliner reference in Episode 8 of On The Paper Trail (released yesterday!). We...
While I’ve added palettisation support for NihAV about six years ago, it was limited to per-frame palette generation back then. Since I had only two encoders supporting paletted input and both were accepting palette changes, it worked...