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Thanks to the readers of the e-mail newsletter who let me know something strange was going on with the links embedded in it. Specifically, some or maybe all of those links were generating a message alerting readers that some nefarious...
A fast car isn’t built by continuously bolting on new parts. Every so often, it dives into the pit lane, where an entire team tears through a carefully orchestrated routine: worn tires come off, fresh ones go on, adjustments are made,...
I've embarked on another pointless, slow and unmonetisable project. I call it Walking Slow although that is a bad name.I always find that the most poignant things on YouTube are those street scenes from 50 years ago, 30 years ago, 20...
We're still doing this, looking at the list of Honorable Mentions at the back of Judith Merril's 1960 Year's Best SF anthology and reading selected stories from it. Last time was "D"s, today is "E"s. Only two stories today, because...
I've been observing a new email spam wave hitting my servers in the last couple of weeks...Munin graph for monthly rejected emailsWay above the normal "background radiation levels" for my server... 99% of them are poorly configured, and...
Sometimes I worry I just look too much at auctions, and that my blog is just filling up with free spon for luxury goods from big artists showing at megagalleries. And then there’s now, when I checked the tabs I had opened for the things...
I'm old enough to remember when email seemed like the future. Likewise with texting. Many days find me looking forward to the apocalypse, and the disappearance of the apparatus of modernity. I subscribe to Doc Searls' blog, though I...
Via the information Indeed, two recent xAI employees estimated that well over half of Grok’s overall traffic was driven by pornographic images and videos, adult role-play chats or other NSFW activity. On forums for Grok users, many of...
11:54 Some days, I wake up with not just fuzzy hair, but a fuzzy mind as well. The latter is worse. Reply to this post
Some things I liked this week: buttondown.com/things/ar…
It’s still hot, but at least it’s a whole 10C cooler than yesterday. Drinks and dinner al fresco at a nearby bar 😎
TL;DR: I spent a good chunk of this week trying to drag a 14-year-old MacBook Pro into the present by way of every Linux distro that would boot, got a screen full of static for my trouble, and eventually clawed my way to a working Fedora...
Here I want to suggest you an exercise. You can (and I think you should) organise yourself a month-long course in political theory. How? By reading Ronald Syme The Roman Revolution.It is a very, very intense and unsentimental book...
Here are a couple of short folktales from Max Leopold Wagner’s 1927 paper “Algunas Apuntaciones Sobre el Folklore Mexicano.” As usual, I’ve posted my translations to Ephemera. The Innocent Little Old Lady (La viejecita inocente): Shades...
I am still sick, still watching soccer, reading some more mysteries, and playing Zelda. I am STILL SICK and I am NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT. I felt like I had to take Mon and Tues off work, but really didn't want to take too many days and...