Earnest question: Why can’t AI companies slow progress despite the lack of regulation? Is it as simple as “we refuse to risk falling behind if no one else acts responsibly, so we won’t do it until everyone is compelled by law?” 🔗 theverge.com

[1966]A Mexican garage classico. We all know because La Flama Blanca: Kenny Fucking Powers!Mesmerising bass, mucho twangery and a groovy beat baby.

In the previous blog about Operation Sea Lion, the planned German invasion of mainland Britain, I wrote how to achieve their stated aims, the Luftwaffe would need full control of the British skies. The German navy, the Kriegsmarine would also need dominant control of the sea in order to allow the invasion barges filled with troops to safely make it across the channel. Britain had spent the summer of 1940 expecting an invasion. After Dunkirk, the German forces were massed on the channel coast…

When I was a young boy, we used to get the official XBOX magazine, and the demo discs that came with it. That’s how I first played Brute Force, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, and even NCAA Football.¹ It’s also where I first played James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing’s co-op mode — where you play as two anonymous MI-6 agents — and two sample missions: the game’s starting mission where you rappel down the outside of a mountain base, and another where you chase down a tanker driven by Richard Kiel’s…

All 21 of these “new etiquette rules” from Joan Westenberg are great and I endorse the entire post. Two that especially stood out for me: Don’t make your convenience somebody else’s administration. A seven-minute voice note may save you time but only by taking seven minutes from its recipient. And: Don’t join in a punishment because it has attracted a crowd. An algorithm will regularly show you a stranger and invite you to help destroy them. It will offer one clip, sentence, or accusation, then…

It's been awhile since I've put someone in the spotlight for the It's About TV Interview, a process so terrifying that it's been known to send people fleeing in abject horror. But enough about the readers... (And, by the way, they love the subjects; it's the interviewer himself that they can do without.)However, David Hofstede, author of the Comfort TV website, has bravely stepped into the breech to talk about the upcoming second edition of his book,When Television Brought Us Together:…

The biggest offense of Wonka's The Golden Ticket is not the disembodied voice of Gene Wilder, resurrected 10 years after his death via AI. My review explores and explains.

With this in mind I wondered how far I could get in removing the parts of Liquid Glass I don’t like in NetNewsWire. Turns out I could get pretty far, though it comes at the expense of using NSToolbar (as predicted). Note: this stuff is just on a branch. One night of play, not real design or consideration. (But this is code, not mockups.) It’s not about to ship this way. But I’ll share anyway, because it does hint at some possible ideas for NetNewsWire’s future. Source: inessential: That About…

This time of year, I end up writing grant proposals to fun my summer field work. This year, there’s the added fun of writing a sabbatical proposal and a proposal for a one-year, named, research chair. All of these proposals will try to get support for my work at Isthmia. In particular, these proposals will ask for time to transform our current work into a book length manuscript (and catch up on bibliography to frame the project in recent studies of the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Greece, the…

Personal websites (maybe) worth checking….IMHO. Chris Glass: There’s a slew of topics that’ll perk up my ears: design, music, travel, computers, books, ideas, and how awful and wonderful cellphone cameras are. JT: Hello my name is Jasper. I have a wife, a daughter, a cat, and a beard. I like cameras, music, video games, bicycles, baseball, German compound nouns, the Oxford Comma, and going to bed too late. It’s Craney: I’m Davey and although originally from Oldham in the North of England I now…

Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours Roman London is still under construction From Spitalfields, you have only to walk down Bishopsgate to find yourself in Londinium, since the line of Bishopsgate St follows that of Ermine St which was the major Roman road north from London Bridge. Tombs once lined the path as it approached the City, just as they did along the Appian Way in Rome. The essential plan of the City of London was laid out by the Romans when they built their wall around…

Best new feature in macOS 27 (Golden Gate): A handy icon in the menu bar to show you how much milk is left in your baby bottle.

Morning comes with fog. 7:00 sail off anchor, light north wind and less fog. A half dozen tacks, gentle sailing, almost ghosting, out of the cove. Rounding the northern tip of Spruce Island, I find Mark out rowing a skiff with his dog. He lives on Spruce Island four months of the year. He points to his Contessa sloop moored nearby, and we talk about sailing the Maine coast. We talk about my slow drift across the water, going fast versus going slow, the trade off between traditional cruising…

Our fifth and final hike on our Hokkaido road trip was to Mt Tarumae (樽前山, tarumae-san). Near the port city of Tomakomai, it's only a 1041m elevation peak, yet the effort-to-views ratio is pretty darn good. After a short climb through the forest, you'll get to do a crater loop around the rim of the volcano with some great scenery. Your first chance of a view once you pop out above the trees is down to the nearby Lake Shikotsu (支笏湖). It's the second-deepest lake in Japan. We drove part past of…

I came across an interesting study out of Singapore that tracked children’s screen time from age one to eight, then measured their academic performance and working memory years later. Two things stood out: Even after adjusting for other factors, screen time at age one, at eighteen months, and at age six was still linked to weaker academic performance years later. Total screen time across childhood was consistently tied to lower academic performance, and the earliest exposure, in infancy, showed…

Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest places.- Christopher Eger If you enjoy my always ad-free Warship Wednesday content, you can support it by buying me a cup of joe at https://buymeacoffee.com/lsozi As Henk says: “Warship Coffee – no sugar, just a pinch of salt!” Warship Wednesday 23 September 2026:…

I've genuinely haven't had much to write about. There's been some post ideas, but most of 'em have ended up shelved for one reason or another. These past months have been a real creative drought for me. I think I need a shit-post side blog. One where I can kind of write about whatever without worrying about the content or if the posts starts to sound like a journal entry1. I think since this is my first blog, I overthink too much about what I put into it. Speaking of getting too into my head, I…

You’ve probably seen the news by now, but the Brasstown is back! Not only that, I have one here to give away, courtesy of Rickshaw. This one features a Grey exterior, with an Orange interior and zipper pulls, similar to the GGB in the Fog model made for this year’s San Francisco Pen Show. And the winner is: Congrats Greg! I’ve sent you an email to collect your shipping address.

I am slowly starting to feel better after a long bout of bronchitis and FluA (me and just about everyone else who went to the SF Pen Show. As I slowly come back to the world, get more energy and see my ever-growing to-do list, I agree with Rachel’s post that, right now, in our current world, its okay to not be okay all the time. The world is a crazy place and sometimes we need to protect ourselves. Use your paper and pens to document the good, the bad and the could be’s. Through our analog…

I’m raising money for St. Jude during the month of September, and as we keep hitting milestones, I keep adding items to give away to anyone and everyone who would like to enter.This giveaway is for a Fountain Telling Charleston Slim Fountain Pen in Metamorphoun with a Matte finish. This pen is fitted with a Medium Steel Bow #6 nib, etched with the Fountain Telling logo. Big thanks to Kristen at Fountain Telling for sending this pen to help with our fundraising this month! One note: this, and…

The horseshoe theory is probably one of the funniest pseudo-scientific political “theories” out there. In case you’re unfamiliar with this theory, I’m sorry to be the one to disturb your blissful ignorance of it (that I’m jealous of), but here’s what it is: It’s the understanding that the political spectrum is shaped like a horseshoe in which Far-Right and Far-Left beliefs, like illiberalism and anti-establishment positions, converge and both become functionally the same. I would like to…

Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The right place to ask why Oktoberfest starts in September, and how Lo-Fi music snuck into your cookingHi there! On September 19th, Oktoberfest began in Germany, which literally means "October festival." So, naturally, it starts in September.It reminds me of Russia's October Revolution, year 1917, which by our calendar actually happened in November, because the tsars were still running on a different one.Two perfectly mismatched facts to sum up the disorientation…

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow— dr. rich traditions, JD (@helldude.bsky.social) September 22, 2026 at 11:37 AMAt a time when everybody seems to be criticizing AI and particularly the large frontier LLM base models of companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, it is helpful to distinguish between the different schools of arguments.The group which initially dominated the coverage but which seems to be losing ground is the…

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Work hard, study well, and eat and sleep plenty! That is the Turtle Hermit way! An apt quote from our beloved Master Roshi. If Dragon Ball has taught me anything, besides that screaming your lungs out during strenuous work does in fact make you stronger, it’s that rest is as important to one’s success as the hard work you build around it. Rest of course, is earned. There’s an obvious difference between someone who is bone idle and someone who rests because they’ve worked hard or is feeling…

Mad Max: Fury Road is a great movie. I was thinking of it again today in relation to our current economy.

I returned home from an afternoon swim the other day and saw a juvenile cat literally eating the heart out of a bird’s chest cavity. She growled. Cats will stiff-arm each other over dry cat food, but they growl and viciously defend real meat. The ravenous cat ate her meal on some pine straw under an old holly bush near my front door. I could not identify what species of bird the cat was devouring–an unusual failure for me because I’m very knowledgeable about local wildlife. The bird was white…

MIT Technology Review recently presented coverage on how kids feel about AI. What surprised us most was how much young people might be able to teach adults about AI, and how clearly the kids who use it could name what they will and won’t hand over. They’re not as worried that it will take their jobs as they are that it might harm society. And with increasing access to tools that could in theory do their thinking, their talking, or even their friend-­making for them, it sounds as if most want to…

This morning while I was doing my morning routine of drinking my coffee. That routine is setting up the weather page for the current day. Sure, I could automate it, but it takes little time to do it by hand, and I’d have to edit the markdown file anyway to put in the summary. I actually do glance at it, and today I glanced at it out of curiosity to see what yesterday’s rain total was. Normally I would have looked at the Ambient app, but I had this page open, so I scrolled down to look. I…

Via Newspapers.comThis account of your basic friendly neighborhood monster appeared in the “Mexico Weekly Ledger,” December 13, 1883:MEXICO, Mo., December 8.--The neighborhood of Hopewell Church, near this city, is much excited over the appearance in the locality of a strange creature, which is thought by the credulous to be a ghost, and which is a puzzle at least to the most skeptical. The apparition is simply that of a lean monster man, between eight and ten feet in height, wearing a long…