Jason Snell at Six Colors: With the release of the first developer beta of watchOS 27.3, Apple is unleashing the last of its Audio Intelligence features on the world: Siri Recap and Live Rewind join Sound Recognition and Music Recognition (a favorite watchOS 27 feature of mine). These other two new features have been met with a lot of skepticism, as they walk right up to the edge of making your Apple Watch a device for covert recording. I still think Siri Recap and Live Rewind shouldn't exist,…

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I went relatively early this morning. I didn’t catch much in the way of waves. But I got thrown around a good deal. Delightfully so. The water is cooling, but definitely not the right temperature for November in California. I saw a fellow, older, on a stand-up paddleboard. “SUP” some shorten the name to. He was shredding. That’s good. So incredible. Older fellow. Older than me I think. And shredding. I love the water. Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me

Red Barn – Ronks, PA – Fujifilm GFX100S II – Kodachrome 64 Some people love AI and think it’s the greatest thing ever, and some people hate AI and think it’s the single worst thing to ever happen to humanity. I’m more in the middle, but leaning slightly closer to “single worst thing” than “greatest thing ever”, as I have a somewhat pessimistic outlook on it because I see a lot of negative aspects. For that reason, I avoid AI as much as practical, but I have found it to be helpful occasionally,…

Today’s recording starts with the end of Deadly 60 Bites. There’s a trail for Trapped: Ever After. Then it’s The Sarah Jane Adventures – Death of the Doctor, Part 1. Sarah Jane gets a visit from UNIT and Colonel Karim, played by Laila Rouass off of Primeval. She breaks the news that the Doctor is dead. The news is brought by aliens called the Shansheeth, “known throughout the universe as the carers of the dead. It is said they trawl the battlefields of outer space, looking for heroes to bring…

Click here to book . . St. Martin, Ludgate with St. Paul’s Cathedral, c. 1900 At this time of year, when dusk gathers in the mid-afternoon, a certain fog drifts into my brain and the city itself grows mutable as the looming buildings outside my window merge into a dark labyrinth of shadows beyond. Yet this is as nothing compared with the smog of old London – in the days before anyone dreamed of the Ultra Low Emission Zone – when a million coal fires polluted the atmosphere with clouds of filthy…

Three fresh originals from Florecer that sorta serve as a diary, a travelogue. A document of the duo’s globe-trotting journeys while raising their infant daughters. “What I Knew”, recorded in Lisbon, consists of a series of promises made by the pair to their children, set to a pretty pop skank. With a little Spanish guitar, machined marimba melody, dubbed out timbales and keys like Latin horns adding up to a definite Mediterranean summer holiday lilt, it’s another piece of music that coulda…

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# Introduction I wanted to know if anyone was reading my static websites, without adding a JavaScript tracker to the pages (this does not cover le blog). The web server already writes an access log for each request, so the information is already there, it just needed to be usable for me. GoAccess is a web log analyzer that reads the access logs of common web servers and produces a report, in the terminal with a TUI or as a single HTML page. => https://goaccess.io/ GoAccess official website In…

I think what I find funny, is that I always used to be the type of person that only made art when I was feeling any type of negative emotion. It wasn't until I went to an abramovic exhibition that I realised I don't want to do that. So I started creating things out of my good feelings, mostly from the love I had in my relationship. I made my ex a little zine for his 21st birthday. I wrote about the good, and also the bad. But I was able to create out of positivity, out of the love I had for…

Barbara Barrie, who played the wife of the title character on the classic sitcom Barney Miller and appeared in such movies as Breaking Away (1979), died on October 28, 2026, at the age of 95. She had terminal cancer.Barbara Barrie was born Barbara Ann Berman on May 23, 1931, in Chicago. She was 9 years old when her family moved to Corpus Christi, Texas. She graduated from Corpus Christi High School and then studied at the University of Texas in Austin. In 1955, she moved to New York. She made…

I’ve never held humanity in high regard, but the recent online discourse surrounding the Learjet crash makes me want to quit the internet altogether. The last thing I want to do is start writing about current events, so I’ll pretty much just leave it at this: y’all fucking disgust me. Moving on. I hate feeling obligated to write every day. It obviously doesn’t matter, but I set these arbitrary rules for myself and then get annoyed when I break them. It’s why I’ve never been good about keeping…

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Detail of Longhua Xu‘s “Mother Nature”, a fountain sculpture in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The post The Jug Carrier appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

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We are well into 'the fall' but not much has fallen. Certain trees and shrubs have indeed shed their leaves, some are only just starting to wear their autumn colours, others are still shades of green. There was some leaf fall in September bought on by the drought, but then enough rain and sun to rejuvenate growth.

Two days ago, Eagle Andersen reported for CBC News that the Wonder Valley data centre complex — previously — would “release the equivalent of 23 atom bombs of heat waste” every day. This figure is quoted in the headline, and repeated in the first two paragraphs: An analysis of the mammoth data centre proposed by celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary suggests it would release the equivalent of 23 atom bombs of heat waste into the boreal forest of northwestern Alberta every day. If the Wonder Valley…

You know, I really wanted to dislike this. That might make me somewhat prejudiced and shallow but I don’t particularly like cosy crime with its carefully costumed characters, trivial plots and lack of anything approaching actual peril. And yet… this was OK. Sort of. Watchable anyway. We have a softly spoken ex-con Joe, trying to go straight by helping out at monastery. (Black leather jacket always in view just in case we can’t recognise characters from their faces). Through no fault of his own…

All the usual things that we have come to expect are here - the politics, sports events, cultural happenings and, perhaps most interestingly, diary excerpts from a wide range of people. I’m assuming that Mass Observation are less active in this period (1957 to 1962) as we don’t hear much from them at all. It might be nice to hear some new voices as David seems to rely on just a small number of diarists and we can almost predict what they might say about any given subject but perhaps sources are…

Sometimes I wonder if Bill ever regrets the whole "self-representation" thing. Not that a lawyer would have been much help today, I think, but at least he'd have someone else to blame. Another short but sweet post today. Bill was in Cobourg for a bail hearing - and things did not go as planned (for him; I believe they went precisely as planned for the Crown). He was denied bail, and will therefore almost certainly spend the rest of the time between now and sentencing at the Central East…

If you see the trailer for Wild Horse Nine, the new movie teaming John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell, you may think that you’re in for another comedy about a couple of wise-ass characters. But if you notice that the movie has been directed by Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin, In Bruges, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), you’ll put yourself in the right frame of mind for an unlikely but engaging mixture of dark comedy, political cynicism, and sentiment focused on a couple of…

We lose our understanding of our software when we don't review the AI output. This goes for code, tasks, emails, Slack messages and bug reports. AI replaces our mental model of the software systems we are paid to understand.

Diese Suppe löst in mir ein echtes Trauma aus! Als ich so 12/13 war, sahen meine Mutter und ich einen Fernsehkoch, wie er so eine Suppe zubereitete und wir notierten uns das Rezept. Da wir in den tiefsten 80ern keinen Elektrostandmixer besaßen, liehen wir uns den der Nachbarin, füllten die frisch geköchelte knatschheiße! Suppe bis obenhin ein, deckelten den Glasbehälter zu und gaben Gas...

The drama that we watch in the mornings is based on Uno Chiyo's lifeWe found out that our ward's folk museum was having an exhibit on her life, so we went to check it out.When we first moved here, we actually went to this museum, but I guess I never wrote up about it.Parts of our area was a popular place for writers to work and live and was called Magome Bunshimura All the exhibits are in

A recent invitation to visit Pamplona brought back memories of a meeting fourteen years earlier. In the summer of 2012, a three-person delegation travelled to ’s-Hertogenbosch to present me with an award on behalf of the AMTS from Pamplona (I …

AI Promised Less Work. I Have Never Worked More Orestis Ioannou points out that he doesn’t have less work in the age of AI. Neither do I. The work is different, but I’m not sitting around drinking coffee. I never took the promise of less work seriously anyway. If anything, what I can do by myself has expanded. Living in the Weimar era of Ruby The title is clickbait, and the article is not what you imagine. I’m linking to it because it points to this exchange, which I found insightful. Nate…

While the temperatures today are cooler than yesterday, the rain has stopped and the sun has come out, so I was very happy to finally get outside! While there is a lot to do all over, I am wanting to prioritize getting things winterized for the cats as much as possible. Today, that meant working … Continue reading Doing so much better today!