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Two years ago, for a short period in the summer, we had two juvenile Cooper’s hawks call a couple of trees in our backyard home. Juvenile hawks are still learning to be adults. So they usually make a lot of noise as part of this process....
In 1924 Weird Tales published seven issues. The first five were edited by Edwin Baird; Farnsworth Wright began his editorship, which would endure into the year 1940, in November. I can now announce that I have read at least one story...
I enjoying walking. I enjoy just moving my legs, one at a time. A while back, I realized (don’t we all at some point in our lives) that I may not be able to walk well in the future. So, while I still can, maybe I should do more walking....
Winfrid, son of Warnefrid, was born about 720 in the Duchy of Friuli, the northern part of the Italian Peninsula that was the kingdom of the Lombards. His parents, Warnefrid and Theodolinda, were well-to-do, and Winfrid grew up...
If, however, prose is LLM-generated, this social contract becomes ripped up: a reader cannot assume that the writer understands their ideas because they might not so much have read the product of the LLM that they tasked to write it. If...
I take a lot of pleasure in running my own services. Self-hosting is a lot of fun and I keep accumulating more and more things on my server, from a feed reader to uptime monitoring (as backup to larm.dev), not to mention all of my toy...
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Emily Wilson on the Odyssey Nolan’s Odyssey lacks many of the elements that make the poem great. It has nothing convincing to say about time, memory, history, war, or about the relationship between one warrior’s glorious return and the...
It wasn’t so long ago that the most intense arguments in wine were about aesthetics. They were philosophical, occasionally personal, and often quite nasty. But at least everyone was arguing about what wine ought to be. Today, those...
Like we said before, LLMs are tools. They have some impressive functionality and can be highly useful if you understand them and know the job that needs to be done. Cory Doctorow has done a fine job over the years explaining this...
This week’s prompt for Top Ten Tuesday is about series you want to catch up on and… uhoh. So many! Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch books. I haven’t read Radiant Star yet, despite having a review copy. Ugh. I’m sorry. I also haven’t read...
Hey, Bear. Getting deployed soon. For the first time I'm feeling really anxious. I really don't want to go. Not sure why, after the trip back home this military service kinda washed off me. We don't have water for a while, no electricity...
From ‘Melbourne Journal of Politics’ 1986 originally, reprinted in The Postcolonial Critic, ed Sarah Harasym 1990 The Post-Colonial Critic Interview MJP with by Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakDownload
If you plan to reinstall Windows or maybe switch over to Linux, here's a few things to check and confirm before wiping your drive.
The current temperature of the universe is 2.72548 Kelvin. By Landauer's principle, the minimum amount of energy required to erase or alter one bit of information is kT ln(2), where k is Boltzmann's constant and T is the temperature in...