Bubbles
Latest Posts
2018 Regency romance. Phyllida Satterthwaite has always been thought more odd than beautiful, but in her London season that oddity makes her a sensation—and one that attracts unwelcome attention. Captain Arthur Heywood came back crippled...
One of the best parts of reading is sharing your thoughts and ideas with likeminded folk, which is why I’ve been doing what I do for over eighteen years now. However, where my literary social club is wholly online, others meet up in...
A couple of years after my first exposure to Picasso at the Hakone Open-air Museum in Japan, I decided to learn more about Picasso and the history of painting in general. Thus, I signed up for an art appreciation class at university....
It’s almost summer, and I’ve been thinking of what poet Billy Collins called those, “forlorn chairs/though at one time it must have seemed/a good place to stop and do nothing for a while.” Even situated, as they usually are, to take in...
As a number of disappointed potential customers will attest, I do not do N scale commissions. That said, there are a small number of exceptions - because specifically what I mean is, British ‘modern image’ N. This then, is an adventure...
I’ve been enjoying Alicia’s continued curiosity and willingness to explore questions that many of us miss. Her recent post got me thinking. What does it mean to have a healthy mind? “But I don’t think a healthy mind is one that feels...
Some brief meta: On AI, dispositionally, I’m somewhere in between “all of this is crap” and “the singularity is upon us”. In 2026, to borrow a friend’s metaphor, we get to work with fun aliens. They have structurally poor epistemics,...
The university provides a structure for learning. Within it, learning situations arise, all of which are ambiguously related to structure. Indeed, the names we have for situations, like “class” or “task” or “exam,” are also names for the...
This week note covers the week of 29th June–5th July. Life# Last week I got back to work after a week’s break. And work I did! I switched my office cab time from 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM so that I could sleep a little longer. Now I have...
A lighter set of links as I was travelling - but for more, check out the huge set from the previous list found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch,...
Recently, I had AI create this illustration for a PowerPoint presentation celebrating the end of a project. I have since uploaded it to my stock art portfolio. Perhaps I'll make an undeserved nickel from this, someday. I realized...
In this short essay, Robert Kingett describes what the weather is like for him using his other senses.Audio essay, narrated by Sean CrisdenThe weather has been the same here for a few weeks. It’s quite nice to remember other weather. Via
In this short essay, Robert Kingett describes what the weather is like for him using his other senses.Audio essay, narrated by Sean CrisdenThe weather has been the same here for a few weeks. It’s quite nice to remember other weather. Via
Adrobski IDWTC Pulling together elements of electronic production, with heavy synths and fractured distortion, with traces of alternative rock, Adrobski creates a kind of beautiful noise on IDWTC. The individual pieces glisten, like an...
Some years ago a friend sent me a paper that has stayed with me, though not for the reasons its authors might have hoped. In The Return on Investment in AI Ethics, Bevilacqua, Berente, Domin, Goehring, and Rossi propose a holistic return...