Some savvy folks are donning mourning clothes as they proclaim the death of the Internet, while simultaneously getting all dolled up, hoping for something new to rise from its digital ashes. And some wish it would just go away. I’d argue that whatever phase of life the Internet is in it is certainly safe to say it is a sickly one. I’ve seen what I’m linking to here pass through my feeds this week and last, some via RSS, some via social media, some via an email subscription. All while I’m online…

I spent much of October 21 debugging an iPhone migration. The useful discovery was that an app's restore operation could survive the deletion of its visible placeholder. You could have no app to open or delete in Settings, yet still have an operation preventing its download. The more consequential discovery …

Last week saw the arrival of two CVEs for PHP, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, each rated a staggering CVSS 9.2. For comparison, Heartbleed was rated 5.0 under CVSS version 2 and 7.5 under version 3.1. Soon after the news landed, the cyber security team and others at work were setting up war room channels to patch immediately. It was a huge amount of work. We had to check each system to find its exact PHP version, then wait for patches to appear. Many vendors released at the time of the…

At $dayJob we reached the seat limit on a SaaS product. I reached out to their sales team for a quote on a few more seats. We already pay for this software. I'm not a new customer. What I expected was an email saying: "Great, glad you want to use this more. It will cost £X." I needed that price because I can't green light the spend on my own. I take the number away, get the approval and come back. Instead I got an email asking how many employees the organisation has. A pointless question when I…

NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/M. Weiss This artist’s illustration shows the smaller, hotter companion star Siwarha creating a wake-like disruption in Betelgeuse’s outer atmosphere. Betelgeuse is the red supergiant star known as the shoulder of Orion, famous for being the brightest red star in the night sky. It was long thought to be a single star, but recent observations have shown it has a companion star. A young yellow star not quite on the main sequence named Siwarha. We can’t observe this companion…

(It’s Halloween Week on Unsung, where we’re sharing scary, spooky, and creepy stories.) In 2014, Engadget tried to get to the bottom of a peculiar internet mystery: A series of 11-second videos have been driving the internet crazy. There are over 80,000 of them, and all they show are a series of blue and red rectangles moving around on screen in seemingly random directions. The soundtrack is equally obtuse, comprised of a series of varying sine wave tones. The mysterious videos, posted by…

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Just as the title says, stubbornness is not conviction, yet it is often mistaken as such. In a world (or at least a nation) that has been transparently overtaken by corruption, people crave conviction for celebrities and politicians that seem to be guided by something other than greed. I find myself in this emerging faction. I am hungry for authenticity. Truly random photo dumps. People giving unpopular and not "unpopular" hot takes. If someone is authentic, we should be able to find their…

This is a review for America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin. The book tells the story of the Western world from Spanish conquistadors onward. Repeatedly, we learn of revolutionary thinkers (de las Casas, Bolívar, Martí, Gaitán, Allende, etc.) who were crushed by capitalist governments. Throughout its history, the United States worked to destroy social democracy in Latin America through military coups, assassinations, sanctions, and the support of mass-murdering…

Absolute Wonder Woman #25A Hayden Sherman Regular Release: Oct 28, 2026Cover: Dec 2026 HERETIC TAKES A SHOCKING TURN AS THE ABSOLUTE CHEETAH ARRIVES! The world-shaking Heretic arc kicks into a new gear as Diana’s search for Barbara Minerva comes to a bloody end in a milestone oversized issue! Do not miss the debut of the devastating Absolute Cheetah–she’s not quite what anyone expected…which is the only way Barbara Minerva would have it! Creators WriterKelly ThompsonArtistHayden ShermanCover…

Even when he’s rocking out, as he does at the end of this clip, William Prince is as loose and easy and still as a winter Wednesday morning.

Call me a pedant*, but a quarter = one fourth of the whole, such that each part is the same size as the other three. As per on a clock where a quarter of the hour is 15 minutes. Yet in London we have many quarters, many more than four, none of them touching and all different sizes and shapes. This is likely an attempt to sound all cosmopolitan inspired by Paris where each of the arrondissements is sub-divided into four 'quartiers' (where you can likely buy a Cartier watch) the French Quarter in…

Gee, it sure is boring around here— DISCLAIMER The author wrote this article out of her interest in this hobby, and also to synthesize this with her other interests in literary, mathematical, or political theory. Any criticism in this article was written in pursuit of that interest, and it is not intended as ammunition in factional disputes nor as a personal denouncement of the individuals whose works are being criticized. The author also has no interest in petty arguments on any topics…

It’s easy to give up hope with all the negativity going on in the world. But there’s a lot of goodness out there too. People helping people, standing up for each other. Not for personal gain, but because it feels good to do good. Knowing that brings hope.

Current stage of pregnancy: week 23 GA; week 21 FA; 35 (!) cigarettes since the beginning of pregnancy. Last cigarette was 0 days ago. We're 23 weeks into this pregnancy! I feel my baby kick multiple times a day now. My husband did feel her once, but most of the time the kicks are too low intensity for him to feel. I hope it gets better soon, I can't stand the disappointment on his face when he tries to feel and nothing happens. I want them to meet so bad. can't believe I have two perfect…

A brief moment during storm Boelo. Taken from the top of the Yorkshire Dales as the storm passed through.

For the past few weeks I have been engaged in the production of Halloween costumes for my nephews. Their outfit choices: a hurricane, and a QT (Quick Trip) Robot Vacuum. This endeavor has been challenging for a few reasons. First, these are not the type of costumes you will find at a Spirit Halloween store. And second, my nephews are "detail oriented" and know their meteorology and machinery. A generic "weather event," or prototypical droid, will not cut the mustard. So, I sketched up a couple…

A letter arrived for me yesterday, one that had been lost and wandering the desert of the real for 40 years (just like the Israelites in the wildernesses out of Egypt and through Moab), a letter I had written to a young friend I had locked arms with at a Berkeley barricade, but one that, unbeknownst to me, I was writing to myself in the future after all. Well, that future arrived, and boy was it a gift. [ in progress... ]

A little nightmare fuel for the run-up to Halloween. Robert Morgan is a British animator whose filmography to date has comprised a handful of short films plus a single feature, Stopmotion, which is on my future viewing list. All of his work is firmly situated in the horror sphere, a commendable stance when so many animators must be tempted by the financial rewards of advertising work and the pressure to make family-friendly comedies about cute characters with big eyes. The Separation. Two of…

Fountains at the Aerated Pool in the Philip Johnson-designed Fort Worth Water Gardens in Fort Worth, Texas. The post Floof appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

This familiar bluebird logo on W Alexander coaches brings back fond memories of Sunday trips to visit lovely Scottish towns such as Callander and of course, the mystery tours.

Math is beautiful – check it out on Codepen At WeAreDevelopers, we love to code. We love the concept of creating something from nothing, finding a solution for a problem and create something people can get excited about. That’s why we thought we’d give you a challenge to show what you can do with an HTML document containing some wisdom by Lao-Tzu about what several concepts become when love is missing. We’ve used this to learn about some new(ish) things in CSS we hadn’t played with before and…

We are somehow almost four and a half years on from the last Warpaint record, 2022’s Radiate Like This, and while they’ve not been completely out of sight – they played one show this year, their first since 2024, at the behest of Harry Styles – they haven’t teased much activity either… until now. Or […] The post Warpaint – “Stars” appeared first on Space Echo.

I have no intention of getting an iPhone Duo, but the sheer amount of clever apps being released based on its foldable design has been fun to see. iA Writer’s cheeky takes on the typewriter and ‘presenter’ are great examples.

Eine Synagoge mitten in der Altstadt, ein jüdischer Friedhof hinter einer unscheinbaren Mauer oder ein Museum, das eine einzelne Lebensgeschichte erzählt: Jüdische Spuren in Deutschland begegnen Dir an ganz unterschiedlichen Orten. Manche gehören zu den bekannten Stationen eines Städtetrips. Andere liegen nur wenige Straßen entfernt und bleiben dennoch leicht unbemerkt. Auf meinen Reisen nehme ich mir zunehmend Zeit für diese Orte. Mich interessiert, wie Jüdinnen und Juden Städte und Dörfer…

In my recent article on the price and performance of some commercial OCR (optical character recognition) models, I predicted Google’s Gemini 3.8 would cost $35.30 ± $23.70 to convert 1,000 pages containing computer printouts to text. Now, after scanning 5,877 pages, I can adjust this prediction to $34.02 ± $30.82, demonstrating the sample was representative. Details below. Why Gemini 3.8 Flash? In my evaluation, I found Gemini 3.7 and 3.8 to have the highest quality output (i.e. lowest CERiws…

My higher education did cost 30k to my parents. They blamed it on me at the end of it all, because I was really ill and couldn't get a job whatsoever, even with a degree. actually I only got a text message that reads "I made the calculation. Your education cost us 30k. You'll no longer get money from us. Bye." At this point, I was stumped. I was a couple of weeks from my final exam, I was disabled, depressed, and broke, and they thought it was the right time to tell me that after I graduated…

Deep Space Lounge, paper collage, 2026 Here are some new experiments in collage art. Most of these collages come from a stack of 1930s-1950s National Geographic magazines I recently acquired. I’ll probably be working with those magazines for awhile, as they have some really terrific images in them, which I’m excited about. Not all of […]

by Gideon Marcus Before the Storm The 1930s: when we weren't trying to make ends meet during the brutal Depression, we anxiously read the papers, trying to divine which way the winds of war might blow on the other side of the Atlantic. Hitler seized power in Germany in 1933, and even before the invasion … Continue reading [October 28, 1971] “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil…" (Avalon Hill's Origins of World War II) → The post [October 28, 1971] “The only thing necessary for the…