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In the past few days, Debian has held a lengthy and rather bureaucratic vote on how the project will handle genAI and LLM contributions moving forward. There were eight possible options, ranging from an outright ban to full acceptance,...
CJRB Pyrite Lite Button Lock Pocketknife (Photo by Unattributed) NOTE: The tree used in this photo is dead, and the angle makes the blade look like it is in deeper than it actually was. Introduction So, I have to talk a little about the...
For the Balkinization Symposium on the Global Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence.Amy L. Stein It has been three and a half years since ChatGPT exploded on the scene, and many have yet to wrap their heads around the...
NOTE: This one is a little personal. Feel free to skip it.In the early morning hours of July 21 I woke up with a cough. I coughed three or four times. Then I felt a pop. Knowing that there was little I could do and that often waking up...
I have a love/hate relationship with late August in Chicago. Hints of Autumn, my favorite season, become stronger. The sun rises later, which I’m not a fan of. That’s where we are on this rainy Sunday morning in Chicago, so it’s time for...
Last month Bridge Base Online (BBO) announced that it was limiting players to 6 hands a day (unless they subscribed). End of an era … I remember logging onto BBO (and perhaps one or two other online bridge sites) back in ’93, and I still...
I’ve wanted to write about this subject before, but it kept sliding down my to-do list until this article showed up and sort of stated my point without realizing it. Photos aren’t valued. Let’s talk about the case described in that...
One of my older attempts at a monster drawing. Pen and ink drawing of a fantasy creature with wings and a brain for a belly.
Oh gee whillikers, it's been a while since I last posted a round-up of interesting things I've been reading in the internet! What I thought would be a regular thing didn't end up being one, but that doesn't mean I haven't been making...
Today we're going on our very own Galaxy Quest, cake fans, only this one won't include ANY forms of rudimentary lathes. (HA NERD JOKE)No, instead I found 10 of my favorite galaxy and night sky cakes, so if you have a problem with black...
This week’s review, before I stuff the next two months with as much autumnal femdom I can find, is about a rise in power of a character the author described as a “Shadow Mommy”. It’s also a complete blind pull, with no internet...
Some of my most frequent advice is to shoot through a scene. As a younger photographer, I would give up too easily and put the camera down too quickly when my efforts weren’t met with immediate success. “It’s not working,” I would say,...
Charles Bronson in Farewell, Friend (1968) Vitals Charles Bronson as Franz Propp, opportunistic thief, pimp, and former French Foreign Legion sergeant Paris, December 1963 Film: Farewell, Friend (French title: Adieu l’ami) Release Date:...
In Utopia for Realists, Rutger Bregman starts by arguing that we have most of the utopia we ever wanted. In 1820, 88% of the world lived in extreme poverty1; today it's below 10%. More people suffer from obesity than hunger2. We have...