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Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***We're all wallowing in the highs and lows of the World Cup, right now, as our favourite countries battle it out to become...
In the afternoon, I bought the artwork 'Stoeptegel 1' from Jobke Eijsink, which consists of two life-size prints, one of a paving tile and one with dots related to it.
"Food neophobia" is a survival mechanism that psycho parents break by shoving
Gothamist is reporting this morning that "a pro-landlord member of the Rent Guidelines Board resigned in protest on Thursday," apparently because the other board members were, as she accuses them, "ignoring rising operating costs of...
I heard an interview with Ivan Novak from the Slovenian band Laibach. When they talked about creation, Ivan explained that they didn’t really believe in the concept of originality. He said that it’s not like we’re taking something from...
Available here. Abstract: Future AI persons might both (1.) deserve moral consideration and rights fully equal with natural human persons, and (2.) have lifeways so radically different from ours as to break familiar patterns of moral...
I'm a desktop Linux user — specifically Debian GNU/Linux with GNOME and Wayland. I also do a fair number of video calls involving screen sharing. And I have an ultra-wide screen monitor (32:9). This can sometimes be a challenging...
And now for something completely different! I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes about two years ago, just before SIGCSE 2024 in Portland. It seems like it’s been much longer. After my PCP told me I didn’t need to track my blood sugar –...
Ready for the random, unexpected, seemingly insignificant… EVERYTHING. The Story is everywhere, and in all scenes.
Summer restocks and new releases have started to arrive, including a much-anticipated restock of the TWSBI ECO Rootbeer + Bronze, and the Kaweco Perkeo in Pearlescent Green. We’ve also received a handful of TRAVELER’S Notebooks in...
Bij de Open State Foundation (waar ik voorzitter ben) zoeken we een nieuwe directeur! Herken jij je in het profiel (PDF), en ben je net zo bevlogen als ons team om digitale transparantie bij de overheid te bevorderen en onze democratie...
I saw that there was some argument over how much slower slot access is than struct access, so I just decided to measure it naively. I made a two slot sruct and a CLOS version of a CONS cell with car and cdr slots and I ran LTAK using...
I am blown away by this Apple M-series. And by blown away, I mean the complete opposite, because there are no fans. Nothing blows! And it seems like I bought it just at the right time. The new prices Apple announced today has made my...
LAUGHING AT LIES It’s ten years since Florian Zeller’s elegantly embroidered trompe l’oeil sex-comedy about two couples opened at the Menier under LIndsay Posner’s direction (it’s him again for this revival). In summer 2016, we swooned...