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Last night after dinner I experienced a new pain that turned me into stone. There was an intense pain on my lower left side. It was a constant, heavy pain that didn't go away. It said hello with every movement I made, especially so with...
I first came across the delightful Bity Booker supporting Green Diesel in Brighton last summer. Describing her as “a London-based alt-folk singer-songwriter with beautiful songs, a sweet voice and some hilariously deadpan introductions”...
Last night’s gig at the O2’s Indigo was prominently billed, John Hiatt pointed out, as being part of his Farewell Tour. “If I come back next year,” he said, “what are we going to call it?” Or words to that effect. I’m inclined to think...
In its continuing effort to extract value from every remaining human interaction, Meta announced a new Spectator Mode for group chats across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram.“For too long, private messaging has been trapped inside an...
A tiny Codex skill that prints readable expiry dates for banked reset credits.
A long time ago, Brendan Behan said that New York was “a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.” I’m starting to wonder…in the ten years we’ve been on Broad Street, first we had attack of the non-killer bees, and...
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...