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These screenshots come from a YouTube video titled "10 Antique Typewriters in Your Attic Worth a Fortune! (Most People Don't Know What They Have)." The whole thing is AI-generated. It doesn't pretend to be anything else, but I still...
The good folks at “Our World in Data” have been putting together a data series which shows monthly spending on the “on-site work to build data centers each month, including materials and construction labor. It excludes the cost of IT...
A few weeks ago I cancelled Tidal. This is everything I built instead, on a server that answers to nobody but me.
This is the first of two parts on media creation. I’ll update this post with a link when the second one is out. “The students already come with an understanding of the grammar of visual storytelling, but not of writing or audio.” This...
I recently gave my first Toastmasters speech, an icebreaker about sushi. Why sushi? What is so special about sushi? You’ll find out soon enough. If you’ve spoken to me lately, this won’t come as a surprise; my newfound obsession with...
With the increasing availability of assistive AI, many people have turned to AI frameworks and harnesses (Hermes Agent, Claude Cowork, etc.) to help them achieve day-to-day goals. In many cases the AI has been directed to carry out those...
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Let us tarry not... ...and leap straight into the action.I detect the tale in which the Fantastic Four find themselves up...
Why northern Chile is flooding in 2026, and what El Niño has to do with itNorthern Chile sits close to home for me. My family lives there now, even though I was born in the V region myself, so this is not a story I am watching from a...
Very fun, feel-good 80s-style fusion jazz. Energetic and very much on the pop side; it's a good start to the day. And don't you just love that cover art?
@lordmatt Right now I am mostly reading my way through Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive. Once you get into it, the series is really good. You will want enough time to get past six or seven chapters when you start on book one because...
Someone asked why I volunteer for the Mon Refugee School? I do not understand the political situation, and it is unlikely that it will resolve in the near future. I agree on both points. What I also see are both adults and children who...
What’s about the only thing more badass than a 17-year-old winning a gold medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)? That 17-year-old intentionally forfeiting his gold medal by wearing an Israeli flag while the medal was...
Shadows and Solid Things: A History of Religion and Archaeology in the Modern World by Kris Zimmitti will be published this November. Kris writes beautifully and has an important tale to tell about how the study of the past through...
The gameshow format exploded in popularity in the US in the late 1950s. The promises of instant wealth and exotic prizes combined with flamboyant hosts became a global phenomena, that has never really ended, merely changed. By the...
There is a particular humility in being invited somewhere as “the TPACK guy.” TPACK is the framework that Matt Koehler and I developed years ago, and it has since traveled farther and wider than either of us ever imagined… far enough, it...