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Ghost Pipe flower (not a fungus!) spotted while hiking near Asheville, NC. Thanks Beth and Jonathan for teaching me about this plant!
AI is great when it extends your brain. It gets dangerous when it quietly replaces the part that was supposed to think.
Walking in the Malvern Hills. Party, Pendle and Puddleducks in Lancashire. From log stove to sweltering heatwave. Up very early on Tuesday for the drive to Malvern to do the Malvern Hills End to End and Back Again with Malvern Walking...
From In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2014), Kindle pp. 245-247: In high spirits, De Long and his men began their long march across the frozen … Continue...
What a Chicago restorer's YouTube channel reveals about how a hurried culture remembers, and the slow hands that pull faces back into the light
A thoughtful review of AI-generated frontend code in a real product: strong in isolated spots, but increasingly inconsistent at the system level. It also makes the case for using AI as a candidate generator and validator, not as the...
Shot on the Canon 5D mark II and EF 50mm f/1.4.
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I've been a Stratechery subscriber since it started and one thing I have noticed about Ben is that he occasionally gets a little overexcited about stuff that is probably not totally close to his wheelhouse. This is one of those times.In...
Is it possible to say that I am not me and you are not you?Of course.We are not us at the moment. Then again, I am not sure about me, or you, us. Or wait . . .I am not sure about anyone anymore and to be clear, there are times when I am...
It was really hot over the weekend, so we decided to cool down at the seaside. Many people might have had the same idea, but luckily, there are options for us where to go to. And while we have a lot of beaches in Belgium, I always prefer...
121/365 - Front row vip seats at yesterday's basketball game. The first one for my son.
Light rain. A large bumblebee buzzes past. The phoebe keeps making his sorties from the ring of old fencing around a volunteer red oak seedling, which no doubt appreciates the extra fertilizer.