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What a terrible VAR red card. Boo. 👎👎👎
I said goodbye to Google yesterday. I’ve had Gmail accounts for as long as I can remember (at least since 2008ish, as I was heading off to college) and it feels weird to not have it. Two years ago I completely switched over to iCloud...
The Blue Hour: Sackbuts, Soundscapes, Bells, and Reformation Germany In this conversation, I speak with Professor Alex Fisher about bells, early music, soundscapes, weather, ritual, and the religious worlds of sixteenth- and...
Lately, I’ve found that meeting someone for coffee has come with a new ritual, and I’ll be the first to say, I cannot fucking stand it. We sit down, take our first sips, and then they introduce me to their new favorite tool. They’ve...
Episode details A reading of a short poem by W.S. Merwin: The Estuary. I share a few words about what might have influenced Merwin at the time of the poem’s composition. More podcast episodes online or in your favorite app.
Global alpine mass balance in 2024 as reported to the World Glacier Monitoring Service. Solid line is the cumulative balance, bars are the annual balance. Each of the last 15 years I have summarized the annual mass balance of alpine...
It's pretty obvious I didn't post anything in June. There's a couple reasons for that. The first is that the first half of June is hard for me. I lost my father very suddenly in 2021, so every year since then I experience a handful of...
Read the full post at - Soul Boom by Rainn Wilson I stumbled across Rainn Wilson’s podcast Soul Boom the way I stumble across most things I didn’t know I was interested in — serendipitously. One episode led to another, and after just a...
Link: Now we’re getting AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news, by Joshua Benton in Nieman LabA bunch of people — including, unfortunately, me — were taken in by this AI-generated newsroom earlier this...
The first recording today is Pokemon: Battle Frontier – From Cradle to Save. The friends visit a Ninja Pokemon School. Which is a real thing. Brock comes across a Bonsly, and starts looking after it, despite it regularly bashing him....
Music From Memory’s next missive is a set of mellow, muted electro-acoustic mediations. Groovy group improvisations featuring Ko Ishikawa, Luis Perez Ixoneztil, Laraaji, Carlos Nino, Miles Spilsbury, Mia Doi Todd and headed up by...
Ryan North continues this volume of THE FLASH by exploring Wally’s new “Flashes of Insight”. This time, Wally predicts…an invasion by Grodd! How will this new ability help? How does it work in the first place? And can anything stop Grodd...
Image source: IMDB NOTE: There are mild, nondescript spoilers here. For such a lightweight comedy, Desk Set seems oddly prescient today. The film depicts the desperation of a group of research librarians at a TV studio when...
Technically it’s now Thursday, but pfft, doesn’t count as a new day until I’ve slept, right?! What have you recently finished reading? Cassandra Khaw’s Find Me Where It Ends, which I’m going to find difficult to review and talk about...
The waiting part is the hardest. The post Half-Asleep from Ottawa to Nantes, Through Other People’s Stories first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.