There is an old trick in the news/public relations business, where if you think something may not be received kindly – you release it on a Friday, near or after lunchtime. The thinking is that people are getting prepared for the weekend and they (hopefully) will not see it. By the time Monday rolls around, […]

Hello, readers! This Monday Pressing Concerns features new albums from Pet Fox, Female Gaze, and Porcelain, plus a reissue of Paper Jam‘s debut LP. Check them out below! If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to support Rosy Overdrive, you can share this (or another) post, or donate here. Pet Fox – Balance Release date: October 23rdRecord label: Exploding in SoundGenre: Math rock, 90s indie rockFormats:…

The 40mm f/2 Zuiko Auto-S is one of my top favorite manual-focus SLR lenses. I’m hardly a lens expert but I am a decades-long hobbyist who’s experienced a lot of gear. I know very well what I like, and this lens ticks an awful lot of boxes. When I’m shooting Olympus OM bodies, there’s an extremely strong chance that this lens is mounted. This is almost a pancake lens, and it’s quite light. Paired with a small and light OM body, it’s a kit that you can carry all day with no fatigue. Olympus…

New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more… . (If we missed something, let us know.) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy New: ∅ Revised: Kant’s Transcendental Arguments by Derk Pereboom. Locke’s Moral Philosophy by Patricia Sheridan. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Andrew Baxter by David Bartha. Socratic Method by Dylan Futter. 1000-Word Philosophy ∅ BJPS Short Reads…

The other day I couldn’t come up with the name Jane Goodall. Of all the names, that’s not one I thought I’d ever struggle to recall. Jane Goodall!! I sat for a while, picturing Jane. Thinking about the amazing work she did with chimps. Remembering the criticism lobbed at her by scientists for giving her study animals names. Envisioning the famous photos of her as a young woman crouched alongside a chimp family, or with her hand reaching out graceful as a dancer’s to a curious baby. Recalling…

I want to get better at Greek. I know the end goal is a while off but if I continue practicing b continue learning I will improve. But my brain resists. I know “just do 5 minutes”, that initial start is the key. Just write one sentence, and yet starting is the hardest part. Remember that post about jumping into the water? As I write this, it feels like th same thing.

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Despite all the recent construction keeping the avenues of Lenox Hill clanking and clattering, this slice of the Upper East Side still has plenty of quiet side streets with unusual low-rise gems. The squat little charmer at 434A East 75th Street, dwarfed by its tidy tenement neighbors on an ordinary stretch between York and First Avenue, is one of them. It’s an architectural mishmash, with a cast-iron facade topped with brick and few ornamental motifs except the rosettes on the columns. An…

I have never read anything like Miss Bennet’s Dragon before. It’s a Pride and Prejudice mashup, and I’ve never read one of those before either, mainly because I have taught and reread Jane Austen’s novels for over forty years and I am usually on Side Canon when it comes to literary texts. Is there anything … Continue reading Miss Bennet’s Dragon, by M Verant →

My family is a perfect social experiment for this. None of them has ever felt wrong, while I’ve rarely felt confidently right. And our respective outcomes have diverged drastically. Not at first, though. I started off more confident and more wrong, dutifully following genetics. But then, goddam it, I stumbled into doing something one must never do: I began to clock my wrongness. And I noticed it everywhere. I was soaking in it. Self-delusion requires fortitude I lack—so my way forward was…

I really, really like North Up Daily. In fact, you could say it has got me in quite a spin!North Up Daily is a new free daily map game with a simple premise. Each day, you are presented with a map of a city in which all the individual map tiles have been randomly rotated. Your task is to rotate each tile until the map is back to normal, with north pointing up.Your score is based on how quickly you complete the map, with penalties for the number of moves and hints you use. Solve the puzzle…

I really liked ‘Dit is ook China’ by Cindy Zhu Huijgen. It isn’t a perfect book, but it’s a very nice read. And when you finish it — rather than feeling relieved you’re done — you’re glad you read it, and glad you’re a person who reads books. Before starting, I was a bit discouraged […] The post Dit is ook China review appeared first on Jaap Grolleman.

The first of a batch of Manning Wardle’s you’ll see across the bench in the coming weeks - and this first example a popular light railway example, the ‘Ringing Rock’…More, a complete train! A pair of Hornby 2 axles examples to weather to match - what a beautifully conceived thing, something we could only achieve with etched kits just a few years ago!The Rapido Manning Wardle is a beautifully designed model and this one runs beautifully. The open cab front sheet has been replaced with one of my…

The annual autumn beer festival took place across the JD Wetherspoon chain earlier this month. The three central Dublin branches kept the special edition beers fairly turning over, serving between two and four of the 30 at a time, changing every couple of days. Given how little interest there is in the cask beers of Dublin Wetherspoons, and especially unfamiliar ones, I dread to think how much of the beer is disposed of before the cask is even a quarter empty.My shift began, as it often does,…

The Ware for October 2026 is shown below: Another contribution from FETguy and Renew Computers! I found this board to be interesting mainly because I always wondered how these things worked. The construction reveals a trick which ended up as a surprise, at least to me! A couple of administrative notes – I am counting my blessings that this site is still up despite the heightened level of CVE’s. This is an aging WordPress blog (its origins pre-date “the cloud” and HTML5!), which uses PHP at its…

The Ware for September 2026 is a tire pressure monitor from a late 80’s to early 90’s model Porsche, made by Bosch. According to the submitter: Apparently they were deeply unpopular since the sensor mechanism used transponders fitted into pockets in special wheels, which meant lots of alarms when owners changed to wheels without the transponders. Each wheel’s suspension mounted an antenna operating at a “high frequency” of probably a few MHz. When a tire’s pressure dropped below a threshold, a…

During the DMT trance, there can be an extremely powerful feeling of déjà vu. The realm is strangely familiar, strangely so because this familiar realm is, at the same time, utterly alien. This world is alien in two senses: it is unlike anything in waking consensus reality, and it appears to be a futuristic, high-tech… The post DMT and Déjà Vu: Insights From Bergson and Cognitive Science appeared first on Sam Woolfe.

Jeva: Rethinking System One Models from First Principles Paper Code Project Many LLM requests need a compact decision rather than a text answer: choose a tool, route a support ticket, test a condition, or assign a rubric score. System one models return such typed decisions directly instead of generating a rationale. TypeSafe introduced the term with its commercial Jev model, echoing Kahneman’s fast, intuitive System 1. Open models of this kind often put the request and every candidate into one…

Online recommendations continue to influence my reading (as I mentioned in my review of “Madonna in a Fur Coat” recently), and today’s book is another fine example of that! Many of the reels I’ve come across recommending Autumn reading featured “The Possessed” by Witold Gombrowicz, and I confess I was intrigued. A blue cover Fitzcarraldo, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and issued in 2023, it had somehow passed me by until now; but I quite liked the sound of it, and as Fitzcarraldo were…

In August of 2014 I submitted this story for Round 34 of our writing group. Even though there would be three more writing rounds, this was the last one I ever submitted. It had been extremely fun and productive being part of that group and submitting stories on a semi-regular basis. This one was an alternate version of a story I had previously written for Round 3, and as I mention in the story introduction below, I just couldn't stop thinking about it for many years. When that happens I take it…

In the previous article we saw how namespaces make one machine look like several: each group of processes gets its own hostname, its own pid 1, its own network. But we ended on a problem. A process with all of that can still eat every CPU core and every byte of RAM on the box. Namespaces decide what a process can see. They say nothing about how much it can use.

I’m so happy I’m writing these posts consistently. It makes me look back on the past week with a big smile. 📷 Bought a new camera (instax 41) and immediately doodled it too. ✏️ I just LOVE how much I’m doodling thanks to inktober! I don’t just make my daily doodles for the challenge, but also doodle a lot besides it! I’ve just filled up a sketchbook I started somewhere last year. Bonus! ⌨️ I’m really happy that wordwrap exists! I’ve taken to writing my almost daily #3GoodThings lists there, so…

⌾ : Ricoh GR IV Monochrome.⚲ : Home. Part of a series of snapshots taken from an ordinary life. Pumpkin and cauliflower curry for dinner. A favourite to be certain. My partner preps it up, and into the pressure cooker with it all. I listen to the chop, chop, chop as I type these words. Taking turns to cook dinner is the thing. Occasionally we will cook together. A scenario that usually (ie always) ends up being too many cooks in the kitchen as the saying goes. Therefore: One cooks, one washes…

The rest of summer slipped through my fingers, a whirlwind of travel, friends coming to town, and more late nights on the dance floor. In late August, I spontaneously booked a solo trip to Copenhagen and spent a whole week wandering museums and shops, biking, and journaling while eating buttered bread and sipping on glasses of wine. The singular black muji pen I packed ran dry from recording every observation and reflection, especially with nobody else to talk to but my notebook. Every night I…

Since early 2024, there has been a quiet little government webpage: prepare.campaign.gov.uk. The goal: to encourage Brits to prepare for the worst. But this page never got much publicity. I didn’t really hear people talking about it, at least. But this month, the page relaunched as beready.campaign.gov.uk, and politicians and the media have started banging on about the need to be prepared. We are to be a nation of preppers. What are we supposed to prepare for? Essentially, the effects of…

What's been happeningIt’s been a pleasant week. Since the hot spell last week, it's been raining on and off, which has made the temperatures pretty pleasant. The gym workouts went well. We didn't manage to get our third workout in, so that's a bummer. My step count has reduced drastically as well - so I need to get them up. I'm trying to improve my conditioning - right now I mostly end up doing the scaled versions - but will switch to doing the RX ("as prescribed") versions - the goal being to…

Storm season starts 1st September [you have to start somewhere] but the first named storm "Austen" slugged in from the Atlantic last Th/Fr night NullSchoolWind windspeed snapshot 20:00 22Oct26 [L]. At Caislean Blob, it has been standard policy at least this year, maybe a bit longer, to heed MetÉireann's weather warnings and park the car in the next county, if the deluge is scheduled for overnight. I've been banned [you're too decrepit for that nonsense you blitherin' old ninny] from nipping out…

Awake befor my alarm.I reach over to the shelf next to my bed and touch it. The faint green-blue backlight activates and reveals a familar loaf shape at the foot of my bed.It is Sula, my cat.I sit up and lean forward, quietly humming the first few bars of Happy Birthday.Today is her birthday. She is 18.I begin to wrap my arms around her...Fuck!She is not there.It is a piece of laundry.Fooled by lack of sleep, and glasses.She is not even in my home. Because she died. Months ago.Today would have…

October 26, 2026 I’m going to do two Domesticated Valise posts with grey – this one, with soft accents, and another with brights… Does anybody remember this painting from here on The Vivienne Files? I used it SO LONG AGO that the images were all “landscape” rather than the “portrait” that the internet forces us to use… The original use of this painting started with a heroine who took a long train trip, returned to her office to find chaos, and took over some management responsibilities… And in…