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I take a lot of pleasure in running my own services. Self-hosting is a lot of fun and I keep accumulating more and more things on my server, from a feed reader to uptime monitoring (as backup to larm.dev), not to mention all of my toy...
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It wasn’t so long ago that the most intense arguments in wine were about aesthetics. They were philosophical, occasionally personal, and often quite nasty. But at least everyone was arguing about what wine ought to be. Today, those...
Emily Wilson on the Odyssey Nolan’s Odyssey lacks many of the elements that make the poem great. It has nothing convincing to say about time, memory, history, war, or about the relationship between one warrior’s glorious return and the...
Like we said before, LLMs are tools. They have some impressive functionality and can be highly useful if you understand them and know the job that needs to be done. Cory Doctorow has done a fine job over the years explaining this...
This week’s prompt for Top Ten Tuesday is about series you want to catch up on and… uhoh. So many! Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch books. I haven’t read Radiant Star yet, despite having a review copy. Ugh. I’m sorry. I also haven’t read...
Hey, Bear. Getting deployed soon. For the first time I'm feeling really anxious. I really don't want to go. Not sure why, after the trip back home this military service kinda washed off me. We don't have water for a while, no electricity...
From ‘Melbourne Journal of Politics’ 1986 originally, reprinted in The Postcolonial Critic, ed Sarah Harasym 1990 The Post-Colonial Critic Interview MJP with by Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakDownload
If you plan to reinstall Windows or maybe switch over to Linux, here's a few things to check and confirm before wiping your drive.
The current temperature of the universe is 2.72548 Kelvin. By Landauer's principle, the minimum amount of energy required to erase or alter one bit of information is kT ln(2), where k is Boltzmann's constant and T is the temperature in...
It is self-serving to claim one “discovered” an artist, but I guess I did. Early works here circa 1992 by 1930 Haitian born artist Max Romain of the Bronx, New York. I found his work In an amateur exhibition at a branch of the New York...
In this short series, I finally pick up some games that I’ve heard about, and are highly rated, but I just have never given a shot. The first of these is Vampire Survivors.
🔖Read I Let My Students Watch Me Struggle With a Masterpiece. It Changed Everything.. In the algorithmic age, effective teaching is affective teaching. Yes! Being a good teacher requires being sort of odd, even a bit immature. This is my...
Why not both at once
From the 1930s, postcard nostalgia about the “days of the Square Rigger”: “Stokes” in this case is Isaac Newtown Phelps Stokes, who wrote the definitive book, in six volumes, on the physical and visual history of New York City up to the...