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It’s late summer 2026; as I start writing this post, it’s Lollapalooza weekend. My TikTok FYP is full of videos of Charli XCX and Slayyter’s performances at the megaconcert. My Bluesky feed is full of Gen X music critics and...
iPhone’s home button and then the swipe up home gesture are so important and well done that they probably need to be covered as Unsung Heroes, but I wanted to mention something else today as we’re revisiting the whole “app icons in...
All my Toronto walks an bike rides since 2020
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 13th June 1996 One of 1996’s most fascinating bands and debut albums, the four classical musicians that came together at a prestigious Finnish Performing Arts school to play Metallica songs on their...
This week’s newsletter from Culture.pl contains some articles about Polish connections with Romania. Here are some excerpts from an article by Mikołaj Gliński titled “Everyone Remembers Their Own Past Differently: Małgorzata Rejmer on...
Women Of Music Volume 12Sissy Spacek on cover Amanda Lynn - Singin' Jambalaya.mp3 Ann Breen - Jambalaya (On The Bayou).mp3 Carole King feat Slash - Locomotion (live).mp3 Carrie Becker Leave Me Out Of Your Plans.mp3 Cherry Blossom -...
Great EstateOur host has left a series of George (the dog we are sitting) favourite walks. King Alfred's Tower recommended for the shade provided by Penselwood, an ancient forest.Early and out for free National Trust Parking. How lovely!...
This started as a final paper for a course on technology and ethics. I've adapted it lightly for the blog. When an AI system denies someone a loan or generates medical advice that influences a doctor's decision, someone bears...
2026/08/08: v1.playback-should-work-better-on-mobile-now is out. It is a small (not quite) update to fix the problem of mobile browser background throttling, which, even with the next song already loaded, would stop playing at media end...
A book only available in Dutch, that will most likely not be translated any time soon. The title means 'For Flanders, the people and the Führer'. It's a study about the motives and worldview of people who collaborated during WWII in...
Roger Babson had a problem. His family thought he was crazy or felonious or both. He had started to carve mottoes in to the boulders which lay in the fields near the long abandoned settlement of Dogtown close to his home in Gloucester,...
On my gaming PC Windows complained that C:\ had only 10GB of free space left. Time to free up some space! In WindowsXP times I used a separate Program called GetFolderSize for this, but nowadays with PowerShell I was like: "Hey, I bet I...
Nice Boat Sick With a propulsive beat and grungy bass guitar, Nice Boat’s new single subverts typical genre categorisation. With a minimal sound that is constructed around a small number of components, Sick reminds me of Death From Above...
Hello, loves! Tout le monde déteste l’IA. I’m tired of this program, or at least the work we’ve been doing. What might be more interesting? Definitely contains bees. A huge fraction of any program, even just pretend ones like our...