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Today, we’ve had rain off and on throughout, with a brief period where the sun actually came out. As I write this, we are under a severe thunderstorm alert, which is a whole lot better than the tornado alerts other areas were getting....
Percussion, in the ECM imagination, rarely behaves as ornament or engine alone. On ECM Special V: New Music in Percussion, rhythm functions as a conduit for revelation, each struck surface opening into an interior geography where hands...
At first I thought the sunblasted video of Rick Owens’ 2027 collection, presented last week on the shadeless place of the Palais de Tokyo in the midst of the 40-degree Saharan omega heatdeath of Europe, felt like a prequel to Mad Max,...
My grandpa died today. I didn’t want that to be true. I wanted a few more years. I wanted a few more moments. I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t ready. I’m not ready. God help me be ready.
On reflection, I am now a bit more optimistic about solving cultural drift, *if* we can get broadly human-level AI, or ems, before our current civilization falls. My hope is that while most folks seem strongly against letting capitalism...
Andrew Wyke (Sir Laurence Olivier), a genteel upper-class mystery writer, has invited a younger man, Milo Tindle (Michael Caine) to his country mansion for a chat. Tindle’s a bit unsure why, though – they met after Wyke discovered Tindle...
As I am writing this, I am very distraught by the news that my good friend has passed away from fourth stage skin cancer. My last meeting with him was last year in Thailand. We had lunch and dinner; we always talked about the family and...
So with today’s writing prompt, I’m meant to answer “What’s a time you followed your gut and it turned out to be exactly right?” Which is hilarious. Because my gut isn’t some wise, mystical oracle. My gut is just a tight little ball of...
Here’s kind of a strange problem with an interesting solution: find a function f such that the derivative of f equals the inverse of f for all positive x. f ′(x) = f−1(x) This is a differential equation, but a very unusual one, one that...
The second last pair of models for May today – posted on the last day of June. Somehow I missed this pair, even though I’d taken the photos ages ago. We have Catwoman as a Survivor Hero as well as Catwoman as a Zombie. I’m not super...
The rare movie with a bird title that is not a metaphor, two guys (long-faced comedian Toto and the curly-haired young guy from every Pasolini movie, both of them very good) are sent by St. Francis to spread the good word to the hawks...
Below Deck Med season 11 episode 4 was like someone flipped a switch, because the awful guest became fine and Nathan and Joe are friends. What happened?!
I followed an independent tech journalist for a while because I don’t trust most big news firms to report on technology (or, really, most things) without falling in lockstep with the demands of the spectacular economy—that is, to...
If I presentation to the Sydney Testers Meetup in Australia, from my home in the Massachusetts, through Zoom, does that make me an international speaker? [ Vote in the New Poll, on LinkedIn ]There is still time to sign up for the event...
I never feel the same before a trip to France. The post Dear Mark, I Wish France Was Boring first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.