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THANK YOU NEW YORK VOTERS FOR SEEING THROUGH THE GASLIGHTING “VOTING YOUR CONSCIENCE IS UNREALISTIC” SAYS THE DEMOCRAT WHO JUST LOST “THE WORD SOCIALISM SCARES THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS” SAYS THE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN WHO'S...
Prime Video / YouTube: New villains on the streets of Gotham City and there’s only one man for the job. Batman: Caped Crusader returns July 31 to Prime. I absolutely adored the first season of this, so suffice to say, I am all in on its...
Homer, Odyssey 1.96 (tr. Daniel Mendelsohn): Her words. ὣς εἰποῦσ᾽... Homer, Odyssey 1.381 (tr. Daniel Mendelsohn): His words. ὣς ἔφαθ᾽... My words: grotesque, jolting, irritating, obtrusive. The translation here draws attention to...
Keeping on my run of Yorkshire-based blogs, I've just been back to the historic Yorkshire Dales market town of Settle recently where I had a walk around the compact town centre and checked out several of the local hostelries, finding...
This long article about David Foster Wallace’s sister has been on open for weeks, and I only just got to reading it. It’s pretty remarkable. Make time.
In the AI age, could curators become king again? Columbia Journalism Review on a fresh crop of print (!!) magazines geared at overwhelmed young people. → Columbia Journalism Review
Here is the incomparable Julia Evans advocating for directing one's writing at exactly one specific person. Notes: Julia's warning is about the failure mode of trying to write for everyone. There's another failure mode here, though: it's...
“The pavement and the road are crowded with purchasers and street sellers. The housewife in her thick shawl, with the market-basket on her arm, walks slowly on, stopping now to look at the stall of caps, and now a cheapen a bunch of...
Record-breaking temperatures are expected in England and Wales today, and in France and Spain they’ve been even worse. Social media has noticed the uncanny similarity between a fictional weather forecast for August 2050 from French TV in...
Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company is somehow grounded and blast off bonkers from the jump. I’ve seen three episodes and I know less about the plot then we u started.
I set up a daily task in ChatGPT and while it has only performed it once, I'm a bit surprised by its usefulness. It finds articles and insights across the web tailored to my professional interests, summarizes them, and gives me...
My kids are learning about colours just now and love asking us what happens if they mix two colours together. There's only so many times you can mix paint together before it all becomes brown though. So I made a little web tool to play...
One day around 2010, we experimented at work with ARP poisoning and intercepting traffic for other hosts on the network at work. We immediately saw all traffic flowing through the network. Between all that data, we caught a glace of bits...
Johnny Cash didn't just sing about the downtrodden. He showed up for them. From Native American rights to prison reform and disability advocacy, here's the full story of his activism.
RegexPilot by developer Kristof Polleunis, is an app designed to protect you and your work from the hallucinations and miscalculations AI can inject into the regular expressions you ask it to build. Not Voodoo It took a while, but I...