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As we’re approaching the end of Pride month, I’m thinking about a simple idea: progressive and inclusive ideas about gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality benefit everybody, not just the most marginalized. It’s similar to the...
Everyone is doing more with AI. More spend, more tokens, more usage, and that’s become the thing people point at to show they’re getting value. Look how much we’ve ramped. Look at the adoption curve. And yet the same people quietly...
I bought a dumb-watch. So far I love it. Why? The price was a mere $22. The feature-set is simple. And its battery life is measured in years, not days or hours. It’s a Casio digital. Yet it’s kind of analog. Looks kind of like e-Ink....
Stars of the Open, US Open – Flushing, New York I’m proud to announce that Issue 84 of my fabulous photography magazine is hot off the digital presses (via email). An article and a photo essay about a gem of a small town I absolutely...
Kyle Chayka, the New Yorker: As Claude Design catches on among Anthropic users, a generic-design aesthetic is emerging that’s as noticeable as text-based A.I. tics such as overenthusiastic em-dash usage or “not X … but Y” constructions....
Horror Hospital (1973) Michael Gough stars as the unscrupulous Dr. Christian Storm, who runs a sanitorium for young adults. The sanitorium is only a ruse, however, to provide a steady supply of unwilling test subjects for his...
Pele Utu is a newish traditional tiki bar located near downtown Reno just north of I-80, sandwiched between the Gateway Inn and Taste of India restaurant. The venue previously served as the bar for the restaurant and had two entrances...
Josh Marinacci, building on top of my metaverse rundown: Let’s get to one of the big points of the article I started this rant with, that if VR couldn’t be popular during a global lockdown when everyone had lots of free time and was...
I have to run further and further in Framingham to find new streets, unless Kira and I drive over to Saxonville. I have managed to do a run everyday for 99 days with a total distance of 316 miles with runs in five different states –...
Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. 2001: The Family Computer 3. 2004: Exploring the Web 4. 2007: Living There 5. 2012: When Everything Started Changing 6. 2026: Logging On Today 7. The Internet I Miss 8. Closing 1. Introduction The...
The Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum is a free museum in the Sumida area, built in 1931 to commemorate the Kanto Earthquake of 1923. With the additional devastation that Tokyo suffered in air raids during WW2, the museum now has exhibits...
One of the items on my to-buy list when I went to Seoul late last year was S.NATURE’s Aqua Squalane Moisturizing Cream. At the time, I was searching for a new moisturizer that will be suit my oily, dehydrated and sensitive skin. I...
A new PNAS Nexus paper has shed light on a major source of hidden energy waste on the bitcoin network. Here, miners compete to solve a complex mathematical puzzle. The miner that solves a puzzle first is rewarded by the network with a...
Poor Sweetie! A couple of the volunteers from the rescue dropped Sweetie off today. The isolation shelter was ready for her. She will be there for a few more days – she’s 10 days post spay, but mostly to get used to being back in a...
The theory of evolution explains the origin of biological diversity and levels of similarity between species. A characteristic of emergence is that many iterations of a simple law (natural selection of the fittest to reproduce) can...