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I found a fun little quip from John Wright, the drummer of Nomeansno, about the history of music post Nirvana. Every major label tried to sign every band, and then it became no longer an alternative, it sort of became co-opted by the...
Unified Fractured One of the most interesting papers I’ve read in the last couple of years is Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (2025).I don't know what to do with...
Who are you?I’m Ryan Douglass. I’m a speculative fiction author based in Atlanta, Georgia.What do you write?I’m mostly a horror author, but I like to experiment with genre, form, and age category. I started writing when I was very young...
At Crusoe’s Books, the anonymized Readersinhistory tells us of the trauma of having to get rid of their library because the university he/she works for needs the space for something else. Why they can’t take just them all home and thus...
Lasers stand in for red string in Fernando Blanco’s cover riffing on the stringboard trope for Next Level: One Shot #1 (DC, October 2026). ▲ Next Level: One Shot #1 (DC, October 2026), cover by Fernando Blanco
Looking at the benchmark interest rate for 30-year US Treasury debt, long-term interest rates have been rising. Any price change might happen for a number of different reasons: 1) expectations of future inflation are causing investors in...
I’m in the last-dash packing stage getting ready to fly out for the SF Pen Show. I’m excited to spend time with my West Coast Pen Friends and see how crazy the SF show will be this year. If you’re coming to the show, be prepared for the...
So…I am still working on the online multiplayer(asynch) code and UI and UX for Ridiculous Space Battles, but progress has been pretty good, and certainly way quicker than the first time I attempted to do all this sixteen(!) years ago… So...
On the morning of 26 August 2015, WDBJ7 reporter Alison Parker was doing exactly what she did most mornings, standing outside a lakeside tourist spot in Virginia, interviewing a local chamber of commerce official for a routine early...
Today (26th August 2026) was the day that students across Ireland received offers of places at Third-Level Institutions to start next month. The offers for all courses and all institutions are available on the official CAO website here;...
I took this from Roy Porter’s The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity, a marvellous book. In 1821 the City of Paris published a massive demographic study of the city Recherches statistiques sur la ville de Paris...
Hello, loves! I did a little refactoring on the zoom-scrolling1 code. I think it was the right thing to do. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. While I do not question that I spent more time on the zoom-scrolling code than was appropriate, I do...
Earlier this year, the head of the Berlin Film Festival, Tricia Tuttle, was criticised by Germany’s culture commissioner, Wolfram Weimer, for standing next to filmmakers wearing keffiyehs and brandishing Palestinian flags.“So what?” you...
Some time ago I installed minidlna to serve my contents in my home lan. Even though VLC installed on my phone always discoved the minidlna server, VLC on my Linux machine didn’t do it: it often couldn’t discover it. The problem was the...
Dolly Parton - Musikladen 1977Goodbye to real American dreamer Dolly Parton! Yesterday after the sad news broke, the various online timelines overflowed with love and appreciation for the...