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I tried to define what a Cassandra should be, but could only come up with what it shouldn’t be, and that’s pessimism-as-a-service, or seniority-driven friction. Every time you deploy a heterodox opinion in your company’s channels, you’re...
1 ''Jack Rabbit Slims TwistContest'' - You Never Can Tell - Jerome Patrick Hoban - Chuck Berry (Pulp Fiction) 2 Little Green Bag - George Baker (Reservoir Dogs: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 3 Fool For Love - Sandy Rogers...
Today I picked up The Dark of Hot Springs Island again($15 digital, $60 physical, published by Swordfish Islands, written by Jacob Hurst, Gabriel Hernandez, Evan Peterson and Donnie Garcia). I’ve had it for a while. It’s a system-neutral...
NoteThis was supposed to be one post, but it grew so long that I had to split it up. Here are/will be the others. For my trip to Berlin, my plan was to check out some museums there about German history and Jewish culture, and of course...
I left a promise unpaid at the end of the first essay in this series: the combined harvester never claimed to think, and the AI model does, which is the one genuinely novel element in the present anxiety. This essay pays this debt, and...
"In Spite of Ourselves (feat. Iris DeMent)" by John Prine Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that captures the feeling of being understood.- In Spite of Ourselves by John Prine and Iris...
August 17, 2026 Last weekend, Belovedest and I walked down to the Art Institute of Chicago to see a current exhibit: Beyond Form: Abstraction at Midcentury. As you almost certainly have figured out by now, I’m a big fan of abstract art…...
This builds on the ideas in my digital aura series, but I don’t think it’s necessary to have read it to follow along. I start by justifying why audiences want authentication of art and other cultural works, but AI detectors aren’t the...
Here are five free Mac applications you've most likely never come across. A project template/scaffolding automator, a local music player, resize batch images, a posture app that takes Advantage of the AirPods motion sensors, plus a...
Here are five free Mac applications you've most likely never come across. A project template/scaffolding automator, a local music player, resize batch images, a posture app that takes Advantage of the AirPods motion sensors, plus a...
It’s a world where nobody sleeps, except for your character, Mela, and Beri, the owner of the Hips N Noses cafe. Beri promised you a solution to get rid of sleep, but due to something called hollow disease, she forgot what it was. So,...
This FromSoftware UMD is an unusual thing. More of a facilitator than a game, Adventure Player‘s designed to be an open platform for genre fans and dedicated creators to revel in their shared love of adventure games. Three pre-made...
So at long last, here we are…at the end of the single vote-getters in the Final ’90s Countdown poll! To repeat myself yet again, a single vote is nothing to be ashamed of, given the relative number of votes I received and the number of...
Here's an oddball pair from Spring of 1973. A fine time to visit the park! My family had moved to Pennsylvania by then, so I was looking at my copies of "Disney News" and counting the days before Summer, when we'd probably return to...