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Jacob Kassay, Untitled, 2007, vinyl on paper, 13 3/4 x 11 in., on view at Von Ammon in DC Focus Group 5, a new group show at Von Ammon in Washington includes works of the moment, some of which are also throwbacks. There are works by six...
In this edition:Call for updated Disconnection CodeRecord high for .nz domain names Cable surveillance and warning system made in New ZealandReturn of significant cyber attacks ComCom orders immediate debt code actionThe Commerce...
I look forward to every new issue of Chris Mikul's Biblio-Curiosa. The most recent, no. 12, came out two years ago, and now no. 13 is newly published. It has especially interesting contents, but one particularly sad piece is a memoir of...
A Quick Thought About Brain Augmentation Tools 26 June, 2026 Some time ago, a friend pointed me to a video detailing the so-called second brain system of someone or another. Thinking, perhaps, that I would be impressed by it. I wasn’t....
Brain Leno has a story about when he was a kid in Bismarck, beginning to buy paperbacks. He’d sit in front of the small bookcase he shelved them on and savor his library. His father made the bookstand “out of an old gutted TV.” Maybe he...
This post is from Bob. Mitzi and I were swotting up on structural equation models (SEM) for our class this past Monday at the Modern Modeling and Methods (M3) conference at Fordham University. It was a lot of fun and now I think I...
I'm getting more worried, and more frustrated, about this new phase of AI disillusionment.Some of it is fair. Hundreds of billions are sloshing around in financing shell games. The real cost of inference is still a wildcard. Noticing...
Buns are indoors in their emergency indoor cage. They’re not happy about it but it’s just for a few hours. Status: Heatwave day three. There’s actually been a bit of a breeze but it’s not making anything cooler. If anything it’s more...
I’ve talked about how This Means War strives to simulate a believable (but surprising) war. But now I want to talk about the other half of the game: the character-side. The idea all along was that this was a war-game that wasn’t really...
Presently in a discussion with the... native speakers of it. ::chuckle::
Presently in a discussion with the... native speakers of it. ::chuckle::
Curious what Texans were eating fifty years ago to mark the 200th birthday celebration of the United States, I turned to the Dallas Morning News. The week before the big... Source
I walked a couple of my favourite butterfly walks this week. A decent enough showing of common butterflies but not abundant. Hard to say whether we're having a good or bad year. The dry, sunny spring into summer should have helped. Then...
Looking over a shareholder presentation explaining an AI valuation using the parable of the golden goose (via Mefi), I kept it together even through its “Solve labor shortages” slide, which only makes sense if you assume an...
Ben Ockrent’s play Relics reminded me of Nachtland at the Young Vic from a couple of years ago. • Siblings reunite to divvy up their dead parents’ belongings. Tick. • A painting is found with a suspected dodgy history. Tick. • Said...