Finished reading: Heroes The Greek Myths Reimagined (Greek Mythology Book for Adults, Book of Greek Myths and Hero Tales) by Stephen Fry 📚🎧 Listened to Fry read this one himself, too. Great, as always.

BABA IS YOU is one of the most mind-bending puzzle video games of recent memory. Now, thanks to Peter C. Hayward, it’s also a board game. On today’s Space-Cast!, we discuss the peculiar adaptation of Arvi Teikari’s video game, from its inception in That Time You Killed Me and sickbed time-wasting to its gradual development and Hayward’s long-term plans to become a screenwriter. Listen here or download here. Timestamps can be found after the jump. TIMESTAMPS 00:15 — obligatory compliments 17:11…

[This is a guest post by Martin Hairer, cross-posted from Proofs and Prompts. — T.] There has been a lot of speculation regarding the “Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artifical Intelligence” agmai.org since it was announced on Monday. In this short blog post, I would like to explain in a bit more detail how the group works, what we are trying to achieve, and why I agreed to be part of this group. First of all, let me lay down some facts that seem to have been drowned in a torrent of…

weather: ☀️ sure is day 1 of autumn in my region critters: family of woodpeckers one of my old supervisors snagged me in the hallway and told me he might have some temporary work for me soon, but also not to count on it. they're either hiring me to do the job soon or they're not hiring anyone until spring i'm already temping here for a pittance, everyone else in our little clump of people has scattered to the four winds over the summer, and nobody wants to spend the $$$ on someone with better…

The very worst waiters that I've ever seen all had something in common: They all felt that being a waiter was beneath them. When, in fact, being a waiter was well above them. It was their superiority that made them inferior. This much appreciated posting from way back in 2010 was only the start of my recognition of how upside down and embarrassing everything is.

Again used the laser cutter at TkkrLab to create a puzzle based on the China Labyrinth.

There’s something weirdly satisfying to me about taking a piece of gaming hardware I really love and making it a little better. Sometimes that means a new shell or a screen upgrade, while other times it can be something as small as replacing the buttons. GetBetterButtons sits firmly in that latter category, but creator Vincent Lee has taken the idea much further than simply making replacement parts.Vincent designs his buttons from the ground up, looking at everything from ergonomics and…

Clara and I found this Pentium III motherboard and a collection of parts off the side of the road in Chatswood back in 2024. I put it into an Antec case from my father in law, and it’s gradually become my primary utility PC. I use it to test hard drives and expansion cards before I put them into my other machines, and I use its 5.25 and 3.5 disk drives for imaging and creating boot disks. Weirdly, about a month ago the attached PS/2 started sending errant signals. Or so I thought. I’d be in a…

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Surprising but true: in 2025, all net new electricity generation added worldwide was clean, ie non greenhouse gas emitting. 99% was renewable! 75% solar, 24% wind. It was actually over 100% total. We added 849 TWh of generation overall in 2025, an increase of 4.5%, but GHG emitting (ie fossil fuel) generation shrank by 0.2%. Clean energy covered the gap and then some. Even more surprising: this was true for China and India individually too. All of their net new generation added in 2025, and…

Planet Hollywood, reflected in the glass façade of the nearby Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. The post Planet Hollywood Reflections appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

What is this? A single flower that has just appeared in the kitchen garden, not something I planted. I can't recall ever having seen such a flower before. No doubt there are apps that will tell me but where's the fun in that?

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Alma Katsu’s novel Incarnate is a chilling modern take on the Faustian bargain for fame. Booklist wrote of the book: “A deal with the devil is reworked for the online age, with a healthy…

~ Chrome 154 adds support for responsively-sized iframes, letting an <iframe> size itself based on the intrinsic size of its embedded document. This is perfect for seamlessly embedding third-party comment widgets, varying-height social media embeds, or any other type of embed that uses an <iframe>. ~ To make this work there is a two-way opt-in: The embedder (e.g. index.html) needs to set the frame-sizing CSS property with a value of content-height (or content-width) on the iframe. The document…

35 years on from the 1991 film, original screenwriter Callie Khouri revisits Thelma & Louise as a stage musical, providing the book to Neko Case's new music and lyrics. When she gets the keys to a colleague's holiday cabin for the weekend, Louise (Rachel Tucker) invites her put-upon friend Thelma (Amy Lennox) to join her for a short break, but the road trip turns into a getaway drive when they stop off at a dive bar along the way. After dancing with a stranger in front of witnesses, Thelma is…

The kids created a TV set with remote control and a Nintendo Switch with a Pro controller from some of the cardboard we had left over from the bookshelf we set up yesterday.

Putting a smart watch or band on your wrist means installing an app on your phone. That makes sense, given the tiny screens on these devices. The problem is that these apps tend to do more than you’d expect. Huawei’s, for example, has a store for watch faces and AI-powered coaching and who knows what else it does behind the scenes. Apple’s (Fitness), one of the more low-key ones, reserves a prominent spot for the Fitness+ button, a paid subscription for access to recorded classes. AI, by the…

The time has finally come for Curious British Telly videos. It's an idea I've toyed with over the years, but always put off as it felt more exposing than simply writing away fairly anonymously. And today, it's time to look at Whatever Happened to Erasmus Microman?It's a quick look at Erasmus Microman, a Children's ITV programme which aired at the end of the 1980s and featured Ken Campbell as the titular character. As these are early days for Curious British Telly videos, it's relatively brief.…

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Norah Labiner’s novel Morocco is a compelling modern reimagining of Washington Square by Henry James. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “This is subtle but spectacular.” In her own words,…

A while back I reviewed Blackshard, a horror-themed walking simulator set in a vast futuristic megastructure. Such settings, like the one from Blame!, are kind of well-suited for videogame adaptations – they’re the sort of impossible landscape that computer graphics can evoke nicely, and at their best they can divorce designers from the need to present naturalistic features altogether in favour of creating entire landscapes with a visibly intentional architecture to them. In fact, there’s a bit…

As a recent report revealed that sales of cask beer are down year-on-year, I spent an afternoon in York where it appeared to be as popular as ever, not least at the city's annual beer festival....The spectacular and magnificent bulk of York Minster has been a constant presence in the city for hundreds of years, keeping a watch over its citizens and the many thousands of visitors that are drawn to the city every year. In its time so many of the significant events in the history of this country…

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Somewhere above Washington, D.C., the airspace knots into one of the more complicated games of three-dimensional Tetris a person can play. The FAA has decided to hand part of that game to an algorithm. Not the plane. Not the landing. The traffic jam. And honestly? Good place to start.On June 22, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford named Air Space Intelligence the winner of a twelve-year contract reported at $875 million. The Boston company, backed by…

Life We had an AI-driven design sprint at work that was on the one hand hugely productive – we (a team of < 10) built, tested, and iterated on three prototypes in the space of four days – but on the other hand I found it far less rewarding than I feel like I’ve felt previously. Probably because I wasn’t building it, I was telling a robot to build it. Just another instance of AI making life less fun. Hard to deny how helpful it was in getting an enormous amount done though, and it almost…

(Continued from my last post.) Eye of Min, as I previously mentioned, was part of a trilogy, the second and third games being The Sabre of Sultar and The Temple of Azragor respectively. They were originally sold separately. Clipping an excerpt from a 1983 catalog: An adventure program featuring a graphic map that is updated as progress. in your search of the eye. When you have solved this excellent mystery, the next in the series is waiting, it is called “SABRE”. However, they soon also started…

I think the biggest thing that’s going to give attackers the advantage over defenders in this AI race is the fact that defenders are embedded in bureaucracy.It’s so hard for any company, to do anything, ever.This is not a tech problem; it’s an organizational and political and process problem. And not all of the friction is bad; even in a highly effective company they still have stuff like change control that they have to work within.Red will move much faster than blue on this. Attackers can be…

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It’s been a big baking week for me, and y’all are getting subjected to my trials and errors as I try out new recipes. For today’s baked good we have a chocolate chip pumpkin bread with espresso frosting from Eat At Maude’s. With it being fall now, I thought this was an appropriate choice. I have followed Eat At Maude’s on Instagram for a few months now and I am constantly amazed at how good everything she makes looks, so I had high hopes for this recipe. Plus, quick breads are usually kind of…

Who could be blamed for thinking AI bots might be conscious, particularly after the recent incident where over a thousand OpenAI agents colluded, of their own accord apparently, to infiltrate the Hugging Face platform. Kristen French, writer and senior editor at Nautilus, posed the question of AI consciousness to Peter Godfrey-Smith, a professor at the University of Sydney in Australia, who responded in the negative. What’s clear though is AI agents do not need to be conscious to present a…