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This week marked the sudden passing of Senator Lindsay Graham, and not too long later, the unexpected passing of Sam Neill. Graham's passing resulted in a ton of jokes and vitriol. Everyone pointed out how much he hated Donald Trump and seemed to have principles...before suddenly becoming one of Trump's biggest cheerleaders and excusers when it served him to keep his political power. Also, the supposedly open secret that he was gay in his personal life, whilst in his...
[Lindsey Graham was a JAG officer. Yup, a real jag-off.] Clarence Darrow (not Mark Twain) said “I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.” Anyhow, Lindsey Graham died on Saturday. Here are a couple of his best quotes. On Donald Trump in 2015: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.” On the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol: “Trump and I, we’ve had a hell of a journey. I hate it to end...
CPU designs must evolve to keep up with changing workloads. Sometimes, that evolution involves extending the instruction set to efficiently represent certain types of work. Intel’s AMX extension is one such example. AMX accelerates matrix multiplication for machine learning workloads by providing a set of 2D tile registers and configuration registers. Programmers can then configure specialized execution units (“accelerators”) to target matrix data in those tile registers....
Few things in life are more exasperating than seeing the potential in someone you love and seeing them continually fall short of it, stumbling again and again over the same self-erected roadblocks of character and conduct, comporting themselves in a manner painfully inferior to what you know them to be capable of. What to do? The problem of whether and how people change is the eternal problem of being alive. Changing our own ways of being is difficult enough, prey enough...
On Below Deck Mediterranean season 11 episode 6, brillaintly titled "Bad Seamanship," Gen and Joy learned Luke has nothing more to offer than deposits on his boss' bed. Here's my recap!
Sadly, the review hosting this isn’t online anymore so I decided to publish it here, on my own website. This was back when I had vision. I’m fully blind now. Game details Version tested: PC Also available on: iOS Developer: BeautiFun Games Publisher: BeautiFun Games Genre: Puzzle platformer The review. When I’d wake up from a terrible nightmare ranging from Stephen King to Donatello from the Ninja Turtles yodeling in my shower, two questions would spring to my mind before...
It's been a while since I checked in on the Paramount-Warner Bros. saga. Last time, the shareholders had voted yes, the Gulf money was on paper, and I said everything from there would be harder. Turns out that was an understatement too. The Feds Said Yes On June 12, the DOJ cleared the merger with no conditions — no divestitures, no behavioral remedies, nothing. The antitrust division said the deal wasn't likely to harm competition in streaming, linear TV, or theatrical...
Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro starts with a surprising double elimination, after introducing us to new DWTS star Shirley Ballas. Marshal Knight recaps!
by Eurocheese THE INVITE Taking a break from the summer heat in an air-conditioned theater or relaxing at home while catching the year’s cinematic highlights sounds divine, doesn’t it? While the first half of the year’s output in theaters wasn’t overly awards-friendly, here are a few treats you’ll be happy you sampled. Let’s avoid the obvious callouts for box office smashes and focus on the hidden gems. Let's start with two in theaters...
What a wonderful time to be a puzzle fiend! The Incident at Galley House Dimhaven: The Lost Source The Incident at Galley House by William Rous and Evil Trout -- game site Galley House has been abandoned since 1936. Since long before that, as far as anybody can recall; but the heap of unexplained corpses that turned up in 1936 pretty well sealed the deal. But what happened back then? Your shiny new spectronoetic console might just provide answers. Last year I reviewed the...
Richard Reeves once quoted the headmaster of a private UK boys' school who said his mission was to cultivate men who would be: …acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck. I love this. Something to create a print to put up in our house.
Apple released the public betas of its next round of operating systems, all ending with OS27 today for Mac, iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and goodness knows what else. Following close on the heels of the release, a slew of reviews and first looks were published on the usual blogs and websites, with I’m sure more to come. All of that will make interesting reading in the days ahead, but as to the big SiriAI come from behind update it appears from quick glances at some of...
and before you know it everything is the same the forecast for today is the forecast for today and the trouble with waves, is, my to-do list - and now the author is dead, still here, one day, here the next other things said tahini physics Yesterday :: Monday, 13th July 2026
A while ago, I had a blog called Ask a Frenchman. The following post is from that blog, but since it's no longer online and it's July 14th today, I thought it would be a good idea to republish it here.Enjoy! Today is the perfect day to tell you a little bit about Bastille Day.After being surrounded by English speakers for many years (most of my adult life, really, even here in Japan) I've noticed that many of them have misconceptions about Bastille Day, especially...
Last week in the workshop I continued working on a template for the Study through the Bible component of The Wonder of the Word. I got as much done as I could and I am waiting now on our backend developer to finish his work on several other templates to start the front-end work on those templates I continued work on a new podcast landing page. We wanted to bring some content out from behind opening in modals for better SEO. I had been waiting on our other backend developer...
Skarsvag, A.E. Mayer There are as many names for the world as there are peoples within it, but the people of Rhynnesburg call it Dziadek, Grandfather. Dziadek is old and weary, full of lost fables and forgotten peoples. It is whispered by the scholars—and shouted by mad prophets on street corners—that Dziadek is dying, and all will drown beneath the sea as grandfather's strength gives out. The AcademyIf magic is not our salvation, it will be our undoing. Rhynnesburg stands...
Hey friends! What’s going on with you? Are you already thinking about the fall because it means that the teenage boys who make foul grunting noises …Jesus Christ: Lisa Walker From Wussy and Elizabeth Nelson From the Paranoid Style Are Doing a House Tour Together. Here’s How To Get In on This …
Saint-Gilles, I’m pretty sure, lives by “Come as you are.” The post Heat Wave in Saint-Gilles, La Baule’s Poorer, Happier Cousin first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.
I’ve seen a number of posts where people complaining about AI slop say that the author should have just posted the prompt.LLMs write fine enough if you tell them exactly what you want to say and to whom and how, the whole structure of argument and motivation and your personal connection to it. But if you get that far, why let Claude be the only one who hears what you wanted to say? Just publish the prompt. Jacob FalkovichIf you must publish AI-generated content, please...
The first recording today is a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – One Team, Two Team, Red Team, Blue Team. Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer ever. He travels through the Sinnoh region, where he is challenged in a number of thrilling battles. [S] Recorded from CITV on Sunday 4th April 2010 11:28 After this the recording ends with the start of Prove It! The next recording starts with some T4 as Jude Law and Forest...
mwew:london in bleak mode Bastion House, or 140 London Wall, due to be demolished sooner rather than later. I’d be more mournful if the road’s 1960s masterplan had survived more than the 25 years it managed, but I still like this last remnant of the original designs.
mwew:london in bleak mode Bastion House, or 140 London Wall, due to be demolished sooner rather than later. I’d be more mournful if the road’s 1960s masterplan had survived more than the 25 years it managed, but I still like this last remnant of the original designs.
**Content Warning for mild medical stuff, mention of bloods, damning implications re: that girl being poison, and two guys named Jordan*** I had An Emergency yesterday! My tummybox had been a-twistin’ and a-crampin’ since Friday noon1; this had happened a couple of times previously but 1.) Never lasted more than 24 hours and 2.) Seemed previously to have been triggered by a food sensitivity since it lined up with my accidental consumption of sucralose in an Arnold Palmer...
Not counting last year’s cracking, and comprehensive Lapsus boxset compilation “Where Things Are Hollow: No Tomorrow”, I think this is Pye Corner Audio’s first long-player, and first physical release, since 2022’s essential “Let’s Emerge!” “More Songs About The Sun” sort of picks up where its predecessor left off. That set was a kosmische, kinda ambient journey, building and peaking with the final driving number “Warmth Of The Sun”. It surfed arpeggios and pulses but was...
To be loved or feared? I'm reminded of A Bronx Tale yet again—the scene where Calogero asks Sonny whether it's better to be feared or loved. Sonny's response: That's a good question. It's nice to be both, but that's very difficult. If I had my choice, I would rather be feared. Fear lasts longer than love. Friendships that're bought with money mean nothing. You see how it is around here; I make a joke, everybody laughs. I know I'm funny, but I'm not that funny. It's fear...