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I’ve been running 5.5e for a couple of months now for my “Szass Tam Stole My Life” campaign. For the first few weeks it was fine, and then it was infuriatingly terrible and filled me with existential dread and the white hot rage of a...
A roundup of interesting links I have enjoyed recently. A catalog of everything William Zujkowski has read and wants to read: williamzujkowski.github.io Self-hosted media tracking: github.com Sohla El-Waylly on where to start if you’re...
And looking up from the bottom always makes reaching for the top seem impossible..At the bottom, the top look so high and so far from my reach. I know . . . One of my last drunken memories was from an afternoon that went sideways. I was...
Sometimes I feel like a cake archeologist, minions. I inspect the clues, sift through the remains, and try to figure out what happened in the past.For example.... Something terrible has happened here. Some events are pretty...
[Flag-design-by-politics doesn’t seem to be working.] Previously, I wrote about hopes for a better Massachusetts state flag. Sadly, a year on from that post, we seem to be no closer to replacing it, as this Boston Magazine article...
I am not a country music fan, and I was not that familiar with Dolly Parton's work. But even I had heard enough about her intelligence and self-reliance to respect her. In that vein, I highly recommend George Will's column about Parton's...
Lately, I am raising funds for one year worth of English tuition fees for the Mon Refugee School. As I collect funds, I would randomly ask the donner whether they have bought their parents any meals or gave them any money lately. If the...
Ag fanacht… adactio.com/links/22735
We were psyched to talk to Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman about his decision to leave his math professorship and move to Silicon Valley to work at OpenAI on the Safety team: Apple Spotify YouTube
The Fairey Fulmar was the F-14 Tomcat of its day, and I will prove it. Comparing the Fairey Fulmar to the Grumman F-14 Tomcat is sacrilegious, but I don’t care. One was a stolid British 260-mph, piston-engined monoplane with a reputation...
As the bombs rained down on London from September 1940, artists carried on responding to their environment and recording what they saw through their works. They captured a city that is recognisable but also unfamiliar, with wartime...
Radegund (c.520 – 13 August 587) was another wife of Clothar I. She was a princess, daughter of Bertachar, a king of Thuringia who co-ruled with his two brothers, Hermanfrid and Baderic (Baderic was the father of two of Clothar's...
We have a few clients with larger e-commerce (WordPress + WooCommerce) stores hosted on UK servers via Cloudways. Generally speaking, the service is fine and the cost is decent for what we get. Support isn’t always quick or knowledgeable...
Bryan Caplan recently wrote about using ChatGPT to fact-check Modern Times by Paul Johnson. I commented there how I was able to use Claude Cowork to do a more thorough fact-check, which Bryan discussed here. Some people asked about my...
1400: Raining splats and sprogs. With a wind would get right up me kilt if I wore one. A little too heavy to pull out my camera without it getting soaked. And it isn’t that waterproof. So it’s umbrella dogems to steal a few shots…then...