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“Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire provides commentary on the politics of the February Revolution in France (1848), leading onto an analysis of the to-ing and fro-ing of Louis Bonaparte (the nephew of Napoleon) in the aftermath of this revolution, noting as he takes the presidency that his actions prove that you can’t please all the people all the time, but with cynical, even comic, brilliance he tries exceedingly hard to at least please some of the people most of the time,...
🎯 Using OmniFocus and GTD has really helped me get more organized at work and at home. Things I would continually forget, remember, tell myself I'll do in 10 minutes, then subsequently forget about are actually getting done. It's been really good.One area that I think it's a game changer for me at work is being able to explicitly track waiting for/delegated tasks with dates. Not that I couldn't do this before by writing notes or adding things to calendars, but I can create...
Hello, loves! Let’s see about removing those skulls from the path. Currently we just remove the sprites. This is more tricky than it might be. My concern is that when a content object gives itself to Dot, it si removed from the cell it was in and a publication even tells the view to remove the sprite. When one of our new temp objects removes itself, it publishes that event, but the Dungeon does not currently subscribe to it. And when it does, we need to be sure to remove...
A Below Deck Med cast member came on a fellow cast member's sheets—and then didn't wash them or tell the person. I talked to specialist in infectious disease and sexually transmitted infections to find out if that's dangerous or not.
There is nothing more upsetting than falling for the hype on a book jacket. The Swan Island Murders (1930) with its striking Art Deco influenced illustration of a silhouetted damsel being threatened by claw-like hands and the promise of "mystery, horror and detection" was enough to lure me in. While there is plenty of mystery and a smattering of rudimentary detection on display there is little horror to thrill a 21st century reader. This is a book of its age when its...
As I’m sure I’ve mentioned, my wife and I have watched a lot of British police procedurals, so we’re familiar with the slang phrase stitch up, defined by Green (sense 3) as “(UK Und./police) of the police, to incriminate a person in order to ensure a conviction by planting evidence, faking confessions etc.; also in non-police use” (first citation 1970 [UK] G.F. Newman Sir, You Bastard 127: Your confederate has just about stitched you up). My wife asked me what the...
Testing for object equality can be painful, but it doesn't have to be.
Babrius 126 (tr. Ben Edwin Perry): A man journeying into the desert found Truth in person standing all alone. He said to her: "Why, venerable dame, have you left the city and now are dwelling in the wilderness?" To which she, deeply wise, replied forthwith: "Among the men of old It was only with a few that falsehood found a place, but now it has spread beyond to all mankind." [If I may say so, and you care to hear it, the life of men in the present age is wicked.]...
Rabbi Seth Winberg, executive director of Hillel at Brandeis, has an interesting/infuriating essay up on JTA about the growing number of young Jews who express preference for a single, binational democratic state in Israel/Palestine. Winberg specifically is focusing on a subset of these Jews, those who are not true anti-Zionist believers but who remain supportive -- at least in concept -- of Israel as a Jewish, democratic state. What explains their support of this plan?To...
I sink my toes in sand and think of you collect a pebble think of you again gather my skirt and walk in the water still thinking of you I can't shake you like the dried sand between my toes nor would I want to
Collaborative writing is rewarding. In the past few months, I’ve been writing a lot. Not as much here, but for Aphera. Between our newsletter, blog, direct email feedback, and social media networks, I might spin up a draft and then bounce it off Ryan and Juan, or we volley it back and forth. It’s a remarkable thing: we’re absolutely slower by writing collaboratively, but the end product is so much better than if just one of us wrote it alone. At times, we take point on...
Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro is finally a DWTS spin-off that works. Marshal Knight reviews—and gives it 10s across the board!
macOS Golden Gate and iOS/iPadOS/watchOS 27 are out in Public Beta. Jason Snell and Dan Moren have more over on Six Colors.
Didn't get out again in June due to some unforeseen demands at work and by the time those were out the way it had got too hot and oppressive to think about staying outdoors for too long. Did have a pleasant long weekend in the Netherlands visiting the wife's cousin in The Hague, although again a high of 38 degrees Centigrade on the Friday effectively curtailed our initial sight-seeing to the morning. A quick nap after lunch was then followed by a trip to the beach in the...
Most people would probably respond to these “Menthole XXtreme” Dude Wipes with these responses: Ewww! What is wrong with people?! Cool! Mint, brah! But my first thoughts were: Networking/cybersecurity: Now that there are menthol wipes to do “for the other end” what breath mints do for the mouth, there’s now end-to-end mintiness. Developer relations/marketing: That’s clever; why compete in someone else’s category when you can create your own? The post I might have been in...
Jenny Holtzer’s Truisms (1978-87) I was in the first day of a two day away day at work and I was thinking of Jenny Holtzer’s truisms. They feel true (even if they might not be), which is what’s so cool about them. I think it’s the same for some myths about the NHS and what it is and isn’t good at. It’s sometimes in the eye of the beholder. So I thought I’d imagine what Digital Screening truisms might be (inspired by the 2018 NHS Design Principles of course): Decide what...
...and no, it's not what you think. ::chuckle:: [ day in progress ]
In 2019, I reviewed and adored David Ely’s science fiction thriller Seconds (1963), the source material for John Frankenheimer’s similarly brilliant 1969 film. I did not know that Ely got his start in genre magazines under the editorship of Cele Goldsmith Lalli (1933-2002), known for “discovering” SF luminaries like Ursula K. Le Guin, Thomas M. Disch, Keith Laumer, Sonya Dorman, and Roger Zelazny (among others).1 Before his writing career, Ely served in the Navy...
A return to form and function Image: Apple. In 2009, at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Bertrand Serlet walked onstage and presented an audacious claim: “Zero New Features,” the slide read. Serlet, Apple’s then-senior vice president of software engineering, was introducing OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, a release Apple claimed would emphasize small “refinements” and major updates to internal technologies. But to the public, it really was “Zero New Features” — a quote...
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol is finally here, along with the cheaper Terra and Luna. We’ve seen the early hype as reported on Thursday, but as always that is biased. As usual, the bulk of this is collecting a gestalt based on reactions. I included everything up to a point, but I got a lot of feedback, so after a while I only took the interesting ones. Sol and Fable are both excellent models, sir. They both represent big moves forward. There is room in your workflow for both of...
Like many other projects, CPython is experiencing a huge increase in security reports. CVEs per year #Last month, PSF Security Developer-in-Residence Seth Larson posted a chart of CVEs per year, showing a large increase in 2026: But this only represents the output of security work, and doesn’t show all the work dealing with incoming reports. Many are closed and dealt with as non-security bug reports instead; many are closed as neither security nor bug reports. Let’s reveal...
At work, we use a standard Git workflow: develop on a feature branch, push to GitHub, and open a pull request to main. Once somebody else approves the PR, the changes get merged. At least once a week, I forget to branch and commit changes directly to my local main. I only realise my mistake when I try to push and GitHub blocks me. To untangle myself, I have to create a new branch with my current state, push that instead, and then reset my local main back to origin so I can...
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