Bubbles
Latest Posts
Angkor Thom announces itself before you even get inside. You pass through one of its massive gates, a stone face gazing down from the tower above while two rows of figures line the causeway, devas on one side and asuras on the other,...
In this episode I talk to Spencer Greenberg about his life philosophy, valuism, and his surprising finding that almost nobody has genuinely harmful intrinsic values. We also get into a worry technique most people have never heard of, why...
Kaniṣṭha, Madhyam, and Uttama Eating[1] The first and lowest stage of consciousness, which represents the karmic or selfish mind, is called anna-moya. It’s the consciousness of an animal who sees things mostly in terms of eating....
Every new generation of Londoner has to go through the phase of being bewildered and bedazzled by the various lavish stalls and speciality producers at Borough Market, shell out a small fortune for a selection of wildly unrelated items...
After many years of intending to visit The Auld Shillelagh pub in Stoke Newington, I finally made it along for a pint of its revered Guinness. During my visit an Irishman walked in and ordered a double whiskey and then proceeded to knock...
This week my guest is James Sweeting. He’s a lecturer/researcher in Game Studies with a focus on nostalgia, hauntology, and media form. He manages a blog and also Relative Nostalgia. You can follow him on Mastodon, Bluesky or subscribe...
Computers can be useful tools or servants, but they are not human; they have no feelings and no dignity, and humans have no more obligation to treat them as equals than we have toward any other machine. If you don’t think humans need to...
Don Weber (middle, in the hat) teaching a low-back Welsh chair green chairmaking class at Country Workshops with Drew Langsner (to the left of Don, with the camera) in attendance. This is the final post in a three-post series featuring...
AI-Assisted programming has added certain words and phrases to my technical vocabulary. Some of these are fine, most of them make me wince. They are, however, useful when talking to a clanker. All the clankers seem to understand the...
Had a day off work today and in the midst of running some errands and cleaning, the sun popped out for a brief moment so I took the opportunity to do some more cyanotypes.It got cloudy shortly after laying out the 2nd print, which had...
Brave New World 2000, Iron Maiden My rating: Loved it! One of my favorite albums ever. Not only it is very good, it also holds a special place in my heart due to it being the most recent album when I discovered Iron Maiden, and my...
Last year I made a version of ECR (the Crystal templating language) that allows for automatic escaping of values injected into an HTML template. This avoids having to litter your code with HTML.escape around everything that you put into...
Every self-help book in the airport bookstore will tell you to change your mindset. Fewer of them will tell you the truth: it's often easier to just change your zip code. You've heard the sayings ... You're the average of the five people...
I think clamouring for “sovereign frontier AI” is what “middle powers” shouldn’t do. Instead, they should be looking for (and funding) Pareto-optimal models to serve their critical sectors of the economy. You don’t need Fable running...
Arfur, next door's barky dog (Arf! Arf!) has just given up his morning barkfest; now the builders have started up over the road with their whining drills and clanging hammers.What's a girl to do, trying to home-record vocals this...