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Amethyst geode by Sheila Sund. • RIP Tony Rayns: A Supreme Cinephile Remembered – notes and observations by Geoff Andrew. The remembrance mentions Rayns’ Cinema Rising, a short-lived magazine he was editing in the 1970s. I posted an...
A few days ago I was chatting with Chuck Meyer (devrel for Algolia) and I casually mentioned, "It sure would be cool if Algolia had an easy way to turn my search index into an MCP server." He promptly responded, "Of course, you complete...
One of the successes of neoliberal capitalism has been convincing us that we’re paying less while actually paying more. They promise lower taxes, then they privatise the services, health insurance becomes a private tax, car finance...
I own a book entitled The Five Great Novels of James M Cain, anthologising The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Butterfly, Serenade, Mildred Pierce, and Double Indemnity. I’d only read Serenade, which I loved. After really enjoying Tay...
Earlier this summer I revamped the "Hierarchies of Fountain Pen Friendly Paper" site resource, and one major change I made was to add Graphilo paper as a top-tier option. Graphilo has assumed something of a cult-favorite status due to...
Beatrix is on the banner for this year’s summer show at Circus Juventas, Whimsy. There are still tickets available. So, if you’re local you should come see Beatrix in her final circus performances before she heads off to college.
Pool House is such a fascinating read about the lengths some people will go to to maintain an image. By its very nature, living in the pool house affects Moon and Stevie’s perceptions of themselves. When Adam joins them and they pretend...
There’s a new pygmy hippo at Zoo Berlin and her name is Brötchen. She was named after the German word for a bread roll by German TV personality Enie van de Meiklokjes, who is Brötchen’s “honorary sponsor” apparently. I wish I could get a...
Item #1. From Scott, “The AI Superforecasters Are Here” He writes: You, personally, should not play the prediction markets in the AI future. You’ll be competing against smarter-than-top-human superforecasters that can spend subjective...
Good evening, everyone. For those who don’t know me, I’m Joe, Trinity’s father, and it’s my job tonight to welcome you all properly.
M.A. Neff (b. Rome, Ohio, March 1858*; d. New York, New York, 6 October 1915) M.A. Neff, known familiarly as "Mell," was born Melvin Augustus Neff, the youngest of ten children of Abraham Neff (1806-1890) and his wife Tabitha Hall...
there was something you said a couple weeks ago, about always feeling calmer on the days after we hang out. i went looking for the messages, but i cant remember your exact wording. i've been thinking about it since then though. there's a...
FitnaPunk: high technology and low futuwwa, instantaneous high technology and liquid modernity fused with collapsing soulcraft. Technology itself is forever frozen and ossified as a leveraged form of extrastate craft, but remains...
From a standpoint of sheer intelligence, it emerges — from the eastern horizon, from behind a cloudbank, from the rim of a distant mountain — dazzling, indeed like the sun itself. Aptly named, yes. But let one be wary of hubris, of...
busted knee reinjured sprained ankle left-sided sciatica nothing’s cooperating todaywhy can’t we order newbody parts as quickly aswe can purchase everythingelse? at this point, I’m willingto barter for better.