I had thoughts today, and a lot of sadness. I have been feeling extremely sad. I miss you a lot. I miss spending time with you, and feeling that comfort. I think I am in part missing a fantasy, because my safety was not real. Looking back I do not think the things I asked of you were too much. To some degree I hope you are confronted with the man you wish to be in the time you spend away from me. I hope you work on battling with your addiction on your own, until you are at a point where you do…

There’s been a lot of change up at Stinchcombe this year, with fencing and grazing introduced on the SSSI. But oddly enough, I hadn’t actually walked that part of the common all year. Today was a good opportunity to drive over to Leaf & Ground and walk a nice circular to look at progress. I must admit, I was bowled over to the improvement in the grassland already. The steep slopes had been cut and raked (I guess for the final time) and although I didn’t see them, the cattle have been doing…

"Tech companies are spying on us" is a truism at this point. Endless articles and investigations have ensured that everybody is aware: they are spying on us, they listen to our conversations, they know more about us than we know ourselves, they know you're going to be fired or become pregnant or become depressed before it happens... I have never felt anything close to that. I get shown ads for products I just purchased. All this spying, machine learning, big data result in "he bought a…

After my last post Domen graciously reached out to talk about my use case and to gather my feedback and he very quickly spun out a branch that became out-of-tree devenvs. I have been using devenv --from daily for months, and it works famously. I can store a configuration for running outside a client's repo their repo and track it in git. This allows me to be reliable and reproducible across client commitments, without polluting their source control with Evan-specific config files. (Not everyone…

Following up on my revival of a MacBook Air with Fedora, I decided to install Silverblue onto my old MacBookPro13,2 (the 2016, T1 Touch Bar model), which I once (somewhat naively) termed my mid-life-crisis laptop. With the benefit of hindsight, I can now finally come to terms with why this particular hardware revision is much maligned in general, and revisiting it was an interesting experience because: I had forgotten how bad the keyboard is The Touch Bar is worse than useless in general, and…

I thought you might like to hear a recording of piece I heard a couple of weeks ago at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. This is Laniakea by French composer Camille Pepin which is inspired by our Local Supercluster of galaxies which astronomers have named Laniakea, an Hawaiian word meaning “immeasurable heaven”. Stylistically the music reminds me a lot of John Adams, and I don’t mean that in a negative way!

There are a bunch of extremely tight races in LA!! You should vote in them. I am unable to vote for any of the LA City specific races, like Mayor, because I live in Culver City, a separate municipality which is nearly completely surrounded by the city. I spend the vast majority of my waking hours every single day in LA-the-City, however, so the outcome of those races are particularly important to me. If you're voting for mayor, I think you should vote for Nithya Raman. She is not actually a…

My charging apparatus is taking over my desk, my office, and my life. It seems like there are more and more things that need charging: iPhones, watches, tablets, computers, camera battery packs, strobe battery packs, LED photo lighting battery packs, emergency battery packs, remotes, photo stacking devices, mice, keyboards, flashlights… There’s not a lot of compatibility. You can’t charge Nikon or Hasselblad batteries with a Fuji battery charger. You can’t even charge all the Nikon and Fuji…

Intellectuals get great motivation from big grand questions, and often do work adjacent to them, intending to be relevant to them. Such intellectuals mostly get prestige for the observable impressive detail of their work. Detail such as data collection, stat analysis, game theory models, agent-based models, case studies, phil analysis, engaging public essays, compelling keynote talks, and managing related orgs.When the world changes its mind on such questions, intellectuals often gain prestige…

Original airdate: November 1, 2026 The premise: In an attempt to get herself more time to take tests at school, Lisa gets herself evaluated for three different kinds of neurodivergency, as we see exemplified in side stories featuring Principal Skinner, Homer, and Comic Book Guy. The reaction: As we learn more and more about the specificities of the neurological differences of our fellow men, this has led to people of older generations to wonder if they might have been diagnosed if we’d known…

We were invited to show the documentary as part of the Up Yours! Collective's celebration of Poly Styrene's life on Sunday evening. At first I wondered if it might be better for Gina to do the presentation herself, but she asked me to join her. The moderator Marie Aleth Skov was perfect for the panel, because she is an academic based at the University of Aarhus in Denmark and as such was able to have a neutral overview of what the film is about, and the ways in which it relates to the punk…

My old English high school teacher once told us authors take great care choosing the names of their characters. He said many writers opted to go with more common names such as, for example, John Smith or Mary Brown. They refrained, we were told, from using unique, made up names. This lest it turned out there was someone named thusly, who might threaten legal action for whatever reason. But now well-known writers including Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, and Zadie Smith, are giving people — however…

Checking in on X’s TOS formation after its embarrassing TOS formation loss in the Skaggs case. If you don’t recall that opinion, maybe start with that post? Rose v. SpaceXAI LLC, 2026 WL 3169664 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 22, 2026) Some consumers claim X employs ““deceptive and illegal ‘automatic renewal’ tactics to trick consumers” into signing up for “unwanted, pricey subscriptions” to xAI’s SuperGrok chatbot.” (As I observed, anyone paying to use Grok may be opting-into caveat emptor territory). X…

Pre-installation Encrypt the drive Post-installation setup Enable Third-Party Repositories Terminal sudo dnf update Open Firefox, search for Fedora keeps you safe Or go directly to https://fedoraproject.org/security When prompted to trust the Fedora repo during the update, validate the key on the Fedora Keeps You Safe page before agreeing to trust it Remove flathub default & replace with flathub verified flatpak remote-delete flathub flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists --subset=verified…

Your browser does not support the video tag. I never again want to hear a single word about the Windows settings mixing different generations’ UI styles. (This is in the as-of-writing latest macOS version 27.0.1, which is still an inexcusable crime against taste. [The weird artifacts in the video are courtesy of macOS’ screen recording functionality – it’s not in the actual UI.])

In lieu of a more substantial and thought-provoking post, I hope you enjoy these cute photos of Saja I took while at my parents’ house for a bit on this beautiful autumn day! Waltzing right up to me the moment I stepped outside. His little feetsies were crunching the leaves as he walked around. He is so precious. Okay, cat break over, now I need to do dishes, laundry, scrub the bathroom, sweep, mop… ugh, maybe I need another cat break already. -AMS

A few months ago, I wrote a post asking for advice on what show to watch. We were halfway through Big Bang Theory and feeling a bit irritated with the rampant misogyny etc. I had a variety of recommendations, which are still sitting in my watch pile. However, we ended up pushing through with BBT because we really wanted to see how it ended and thankfully the personality traits that were driving me mad eased off and I was sad to say goodbye to the characters. Once BBT finished, husband suggested…

Nice day for a walk and a vote 📷🇺🇸

ntfy.sh is a good service. It’s a tool for sending small notifications. I use it for phone alerts of server outages. The key thing is sending notifications is very easy. It’s as simple as curl -d message ntfy.sh/topicname. On the other end you have a mobile app subscribed to topicname and the message shows up immediately on your phone. Easy-peasy. There’s extra features too. Notifications are Markdown and can contain attachments and images and links. There’s a good web client and PWA for…

That Trump is something like the apotheosis of the dysfunction of the American system does not mean that he is the end of the story. He may well be the beginning of something much worse. Our job is to make him a blip in the history of American democracy and not the opening act of its demise.- Jamelle Bouie^^^^^^^^^^^^^^"At the end of the classic 1950 film “Sunset Boulevard,” the aging and mentally ill silent film star Norma Desmond imagines that she is acting in a movie directed by Cecil B.…

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste true Thank you, Marcel.

CEO of social news aggregator Reddit, Steve Huffman: This is a big change for Reddit, where we’ve allowed logged-out access to basically all of Reddit for the last two decades. And I don’t know about you, but as someone whose life has been defined by the open internet, it’s a big change for me. But I’ve come to the conclusion that this is the right decision for our platform and the right decision for our business. The results of one search engine in particular seem to, or did, rely heavily on…

What is a man? A miserable little pile of Castlevania addicts. But enough talk! Have at another remake, I’ll take your money now, cheers from Konami! Perhaps that’s not entirely how it went in 2007 when I bought a silver PSP Slim just for this game (and of course Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, and I believe also Ultimate Ghouls ’n’ GHosts). I couldn’t remember much from this game so decided to give it another go, this time using OpenEmu since I misplaced my original miniCD. Thank god…

An Edinburgh Halloween 🎃

Two things lately: For virtually every single round, from early pre-seed to Series B and beyond, I’m constantly asked “do you know any good angel investors?” I don’t know that many angel investors. I’ve informally talked a lot about this in person over the last few months, and I’ve kind of been surprised at how much it’s resonated among VCs, founders, and the angels I do know. I think there’s a lot of reasons for this. The juice and the squeeze For one, the economics have shifted a bit. A lot…

Starting to think about solo shows again. Covers, events, acoustic guitar, with some electronic elements. And the easiest way to do this is going to be with a Push or some kind of MPC. I’m thinking my original MPC Key 37, the red one. It’s light, super easy to operate, and sounds great. So, awesome. But this made me think of something. I’ve always wanted to do; a design on the audience-facing rear panel. The obvious thing (to me) is some kind of Eddie Van Halen thing because the red is correct.…

Let me just say that I'm not a fan of being recorded all the time. Especially without my knowledge or permission. I think this feature should go away. The post Siri Recap and Live Rewind debut in watchOS beta appeared first on @Kevuhnn / 📸 / 📚 / 🇨🇦.

Full list here Congratulations to the #1, Melissa Auf der Maur and all the other authors given the nod, including several of my list-mates at White Rabbit Books: Bob Stanley, Owen Cutts, and Daniel Dylan Wray. !RECENT NEWS AND REVIEWS!Still In A Dream limited edition T-shirt now available from We Are 1 of 100Publishers Weekly starred review out in advance of the US edition, due