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From sixteen years ago, July 2, 2010.
I spoke to Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism, co-author of Inventing the Future, and most recently Silicon Empires, about why AI is consolidating Big Tech’s power rather than disrupting it. We dig into why the AI upstarts...
Here is Mac Barnett's Make Believe, a small wonderful book about how important children's literature is, and how often we fail at it. Here as elsewhere, the fact that children often have different needs from adults shouldn't keep us from...
One of the absolutely coolest features of Kidz Fun Art is the ability to create Animations. This was initially inspired by watching my nieces creating an animation on another Android app, so I focused purely on the creation case. This...
Yesterday, I went to the dermatologist. I came home and made this Facebook post: "The intense heat and sun of today takes me back to a high school time, similar weather, when high school Kristin said, "Hey, if I start now, maybe I'll...
A ladder casts a shadow on the exterior of an old silo in Prosper, Texas. The post Shadow Ladder appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
Some renders of my recent doodle model I made. Did this one over a couple of days due to the distractions of live and the World Cup. Modelled and rendered in Blender. No commenting here, should you wish to, you can do so here Mastodon
What’s that? Actual official Games Workshop Warhammer models that were released in the last decade? Why yes, dear reader – indeed it is! I don’t really have a lot to say about these. They’re some very nice, characterful skeletons. I...
I’ve been going through OpenZFS Mastery but don’t feel like reading a chunk of it, so here’s a tidbit of a story I’m putting out this month. The scarred, cratered rear end of the twenty-thousand-year-old wreck hung two meters below my...
Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality: To make room for the daimons is to set a distance between us and them. This enables us to reflect, and reflect on, them; or, perhaps more accurately, allows them to reflect themselves through us....
Wigan Wallgate This and more in today's update to Northern Folk Archive here - https://northernfolkarchive.pagecord.com/wigan-town-centre-13-august-2016
I wrote a few days ago about House of the Dragon Episode 1. being a bit lukewarm and in my opinion muddled and disjointed. I don't regret saying that, but if I thought it was slipping away in quality, action and script content I was...
Engrossing sort of sci fi in which a black 25yo woman in LA gets mysteriously called back in time to a plantation in the antebellum south whenever the slave owner’s life is threatened. Really powerful and horrible exposition of the...
From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 2-3: While the disintegration of the Soviet Union had been underway for some time, it became irreversible on December 1, 1991, when the...
I liked Pride so much better when it was one day celebrated by grass-roots organizations than a whole month ballyhooed by major corporations with rainbow-hued consumer goods, and with hypocritical expressions of solidarity from...