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The 400-mile run from the Hudson through the Cape Cod Precautionary Area to Boston by four of the Gorch Fock-class training barques over the weekend was won by Gorch Fock II, which also won the original OpSail76 Five Sisters Race and is...
Resavoir - Themes for DreamsThis one slipped out with little fanfare (at least as far as I could tell!) earlier this spring, but don’t let it slip on by. I’ve loved all of Will Miller’s Resavoir LPs; Themes for Dreams might be my...
The U.S. Navy christened the future Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS George M. Neal (DDG 131) during a ceremony at Ingalls in Pascagoula on Saturday, after launching back in April. She is the first warship named for Ohio-born...
In Saturday's article about Sesame Street, I mentioned how about 20% of the stations showing the program were commercial, not educational. We can see that in today's listings, where three commercial stations have it on; all three are CBS...
Good morning! Saturday, I talked a little bit about two music “hot takes” I have. At the risk of sounding like a broken record (sorrynotsorry), there’s a third: I’m not especially fond of Nirvana’s In Utero. Writing about the record in...
The Battle of the Sea of Azov 2026 by Ivan Aivazovsky According to the ISW, Ukrainian forces have struck no less than 90 Russian commercial shipping vessels (mostly coastal tankers but also a smattering of tugs, cargo ships, ferries, and...
When I think of a sleeping Ali, I also think of other images of iconic Black men in domestic spaces, and the way that that domesticity, in my eyes, acts as a protestation of capitalistic time, a slipping of the yoke of extractive labor....
Some records quietly end up listening to you. This EP has become the soundtrack to a period of my life where every sound seems to resonate a little deeper than usual. Its electronic textures never chase impact for its own sake. Instead,...
“If you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life but still the same amount of snow.” I saw this in James Clear’s newsletter and chuckled. For what it’s worth, there’s a lot to love about the snow.
I thought of a new idea for finding new material for my blog. I asked Google AI if there had been any new discoveries of Pleistocene fossil remains in Georgia since 2018. Google AI said “yes” and it cited a paper published in 2012. I...
This year's edition of the traditional post, odometer honest: Sixty-six today, this guy. When we met in 5th grade fifty-six years ago neither of us predicted the weirdest year of our lives would be 2026. Always this: thirty-three years...
I had about 10 minutes to sketch yesterday, so I took my new Stillman & Birn Nova sketchbook (5 1/2 in. x 8 1/2 in.) a fineliner in sepia and black and a sepia brush pen and sketched this: Sketch of people waiting to see the sunset over...
Look at the past history of this blog. There are many blog posts about programming with AI, a few of them date back to January 2024 (like this: https://antirez.com/news/140). I’m a relatively well regarded programmer, after all. I don’t...
One of my favourite coffee places in Malmö is Café № 6, on Mäster Henriksgatan. I first visited when I was staying around the corner some years ago, and I like stopping in for a coffee every time I’m in the city.When we were in Malmö in...
Back in February 2026, I documented my work setup based around my trusty M1 Pro Max. In that blogpost, I mentioned that things have changed significantly. For a recap:My work stack from 2020 to 2025This blog post is to document my work...