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At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my...
Hoje fiz meu primeiro zine. Divertido, mas trabalheira.
This has been burning a hole in my inbox so apologies for the delay, Shitao. The French producer sent me his album in January, entitled Character 0, Weapon 1. It’s a Sega Mega Drive RPG-inspired project with a moody atmosphere throughout...
184 in the daily series.
There have been various blog posts and social media posts in the last couple of years about people rejecting streaming services and going back to buying music, listening on handheld devices that - gasp - aren't phones. Vinyl's bigger...
I liked The Quantum Thief, but I wanted to like it more. As such, it's a very entertaining cyberpunk story, with fancy tech and weapons, with everything quantum, with people living basically forever, but playing the same monkey...
Billy Boston, former Welsh rugby league player and one of the giants of the sport, has sadly passed away at the age of 92. For Wigan, he scored an astonishing club-record 478 tries in 488 appearances and spent 15 years at the club. As a...
Super lazy day today. Quite late one nattering with Tommy last night and just haven't been bothered to get going at all.484 words · 1 image
I found more stuff in the attic — this time around some comics catalogues from the 90s (and the year 2000). I really thought I had more of these, but I guess I must have had a previous spate of I”VE GOTTA CLEAN SOME STUFF UP and threw...
August has gone in a flash, and so we have our next digest from the Commodore 64 archive, where quite a bit happened this month with 1 new entry, 15 missing Grolier titles recovered and 15 other game updates (see “History” tab for...
Paul Price and Greg Williams There's fantastic coverage of the Made Bike Show out there. This isn't it. You should look at the excellent coverage from other places, like bikepacking.com. I went with my son Sam to visit with friends who...
It’s Race Day One at the Milwaukee Mile! We arrived at the track around 9:40 am, but with Qualifying at 10:00; that didn’t give me time to write – so this is your good morning post. The skies were dark when qualifying started. That kept...
“Sutter’s cringe-inducing tale perfectly illustrates how many users of AI tools are putting themselves at risk without knowing it, including in the most rarefied echelons of academia. The science world has been inundated with...
For the Balkinization Symposium on the Global Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence. Ignacio Cofone [This essay distills part of the argument in Ignacio Cofone, Institutional Accountability and Legitimate Inference in Algorithmic...