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In Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), the historian Allen C. Guelzo quotes the nineteenth-century English Liberal statesman Richard Cobden, who asked, “If the United States go wrong what hope have we of the civilized...
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, at a Meta town hall reported by Katie Paul and Courtney Rozen at Reuters: In retrospect, he said, the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really...
Buy an EMF meter before buying electronic toys for kidsThe Electromagnetic Field (EMF) is a health concern. The EMF causes ionization in the body, creating free radicals. These free radicals cause oxidative stress, leading to DNA damage...
As a child, I once mistakenly pressed the "B" button in the elevator in my grandparent's Miami Beach apartment building, and found myself intruding on the custodial staff at lunch time. There was an absolutely revolting smell I couldn't...
Rick Beato recently interviewed Mike Elizondo, and they got to talking about sending mixes to other people for their opinion. My favorite point came when Rick asked him, in reference to Mike sending mixes to Dr. Dre, 'Once you decide to...
Yeah, so... this happened: LN Daily on lloydnebres.net As the initial engagement with Codex — the first project I do with it — I decided to put part of the corpus of my blog when I was at Finalis, the eponymous LN Daily, on my domain. [...
“I realised fun things wouldn’t come my way just by waiting for them. I thought when I got into junior high, it was time for me to make a change. I’d let the world know I wasn’t a girl who was happy sitting around waiting. And I’ve done...
In their day, Beatties didn't just sell British model trains, they were a supplier of the foreign stuff too. In those days, modelling anything beyond these shores was seen as weird; it still is in a small way today. Still, you could go...
This is David, your adjacent possible guide in the search for signal among noise. You're reading the Weekly Filet, the newsletter for curious minds who love when something makes them go «Huh, I never thought of it this way!». As every...
There’s an intersection along a neighborhood greenway near me that I thought might be a cool place to paint an intersection mural. (Not that I have any experience with large scale painting lol) I wrote up a loose proposal for our...
But all new images, a bit of a reprise for the Torgano Wild West demi-rondes I got at last year's Plastic Warrior show, from Adrian Little, to remind those with a bit of spare time this Saturday, that if they get their arses to Whittton...
It’s my last photo Friday from the Mediterranean and most of the photos are from a quick trip to the Argive Heraion, Nafplio, and the pyramid at Elleniko. It’s impossible not to take a cool landscape photo from the Argive Heraion. Most...
Playing the game with the WizTerm client. There are apparently even more advanced client applications. Multi-User Dungeon AKA "MUD1," "British Legends" United KingdomIndependently developedWritten in 1978 for a DEC PDP-10 at the...
After last week's announcement that the next book from Bear Alley will be THE SHRINKER I have very little news. The proof arrived, looked good, I made a couple of minor changes and I'll be ordering a second proof. After that I'll be...
Back at college, I remember walking up to my friend Mike’s house on Halloween and seeing him frantically painting bright, red briefs onto a pair of nice blue jeans. He was really going at it, too — slapping the wet brush all over the...