I’ve been rediscovering the original Lion King movie these past days. Every now and then I come back to it, either because one of its songs pops up (like Hakuna Matata), someone makes a reference to a character or scene, or some random situation reminds me of a memorable part of the movie. Scar’s Song. Be Prepared This time, I started where I normally start, Scar’s song. The version I like the most is the Portuguese one (from Portugal), not only because it was the version I experienced as a…

From last year’s trip to Lausanne… When you build a city on a bunch of steep hills, you have to deal with getting people across the valleys. I passed by this old viaduct every day I was there, and it’s a beauty: The view from underneath is good, too: What’s that, off in the distance? “Les Arches”? If only my French were good enough to translate that…

🧠We do not use AI in our articles, but we may cover projects that use LLMs. Read our AI policy for more info. I also provided a source for some of these images taken from Steam directly, but that does not mean anyone at The Bryant Review endorses these games specifically. The Steam Next Fest is a celebration of games featuring hundreds of developers who showcase their upcoming games with a playable demo. It's always been a great time to see what's up-and-coming in the world of gaming,…

Something has changed over the past five months, and I’ve been trying to decide whether I should be concerned about it or just enjoy the fucking improvement. For about three years, I’ve struggled with erectile dysfunction. Being with a woman, staying hard enough for intercourse, and actually reaching orgasm have rarely lined up. The desire is there. I can be excited as hell and still have a body that refuses to cooperate. That has been difficult for a couple of women to understand. They thought…

I am now preparing for my fourth paper in Associateship of Asian Institute of Insurance (AAii) Level 2. Time flies that I am already halfway into my certification. The certification format is not easy as I need to complete two test, one assignment and one examination for each paper. This certification method ensures that the student study consistently. Each certification takes about 120 days to complete. Normally I dedicate about 25 minutes every day to study. After completing 3 papers, I find…

I keep going back and forth between wanting something new and being happy with what I already have.

Early voting begins today, so that's what we'll do. I'm down about 11 pounds since I began using Zepbound. The rate of weight loss has decreased, but I think that's normal as my body adapts to the medication. I still "feel" the effect though. Decreased appetite, feeling "full" sooner. No cravings, though I will eat cookies and cake when they're in front of me, and I still enjoy them. So I think part of the effort for the next couple of months will be to avoid cookies and cake. (We had a book…

It was only after months of combing through metres of correspondence and minutes of meetings that, in the autumn of 2021, I first noticed this modest piece of paper. I had moved to Zurich to write a dissertation on the buildings operated by Swiss banks in the Alps associated with the transportation, trade and storing of gold. Ludo Groen writes for the Drawing Matter Journal about searching for documentation of WWII-era Swiss gold vaults. Groen’s book, Mountains of Gold: Uncovering the…

The last 300 meters of the Galveston, Texas, Seawall in the evening sun near Diamond Beach. The post The Last Bit of the Seawall appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

A couple of weeks ago, I was in the City of London for an event, but I just had time to go and have a look at the St. Paul's gyratory project which has improved north-south cycling between London Wall and New Change via St. Martin's Le Grand. However, this post is not about the scheme or really about the design of the new floating bus stop on St. Martin's Le Grand. Sort of. I like this photograph from the site though. It pulls at the tension between traffic engineering and human behaviour, and…

Oof, busy week! Shoutout to all the tech and tech-adjacent folks who had long days due to the PHP2Shell and TLS certificate security issues this week (including the friend who hosts my blog, who had to spent quite some time on it — thanks, Adam). It’s been a rough week, let’s buy ourselves some new books about it! Uh, I mean… um. Books acquired this week Though I joked about buying myself books about it, I thought about doing so and ended up not really able to choose — and I know my reading…

Will there be fair elections on November 3rd? I can't promise that, but Karim Douieb can promise a fair election map.His 2026 House Forecast Map replaces the standard geographical congressional district map with one where every district is equal in size. Click the "One seat, one cell" button, and the map morphs from a 'geographic map into one where each state is resized by its seats and every district gets the same area.'Reading the BattlefieldThe interactive map synthesizes data from the Cook…

Who are you, and what do you do? Born Manuel Moreale, but I’m happy to simply be called Manu. The way I describe myself these days is that I’m a writer. It’s a somewhat misleading description since when you say writer people usually think at books but writing is what I do every day, both professionally and recreationally. I am a freelance web developer—been working solo from home for almost 15 years—and so my job consists primarily of writing code. I’m a trained graphic designer, that’s where…

I started iPhone Duo launch day running on too little sleep, too much excitement, and coffee. I ended it with no Duo, an order with no pickup date, and an email telling me Best Buy might cancel the whole thing on November 6.Somewhere in between, “your phone is here waiting for you” became “we don’t know when your item will be available.”So, yeah. This preorder and launch-day experience has been a shit show.If you followed me on X yesterday, October 23, you watched my mood change in real time. I…

We should all strive to be our brother’s keeper: to look after each other, inspire each other, and simply enjoy each other’s company. For men this usually requires a shared mission or interest. Mine has always been computers, so I happily consider myself a tech bro.I know the term has been used to denigrate anyone who has done well with computers or who dares to be excited about them in ways that rub some people the wrong way. But who cares? There is no reason to surrender a perfectly pleasant…

Allowing comments on a WordPress blog is only viable if you have a spam checker. Fortunately Automattic (the people behind WordPress) also provide (free) access to Akismet antispam. Because if you run a WordPress blog, you will be getting hundreds of spam comments per day: Nobody can wade through all of that, but Akismet correctly identifies all of this junk, so you never actually see it. Thanks, Automattic! But ever since LLMs became a thing, I’ve assumed that comment spammers would be using…

Two weeks ago, Ukraine struck a Russian data centre. Immediately afterwards, many of the subreddits I frequent went silent. Well, not silent. But there was a very different tone on posted content. Small talk is broken About a year ago, I gave up on /r/ukpolitics, as it had begun a deep free-fall into extreme right-wing, predominantly racist rhetoric. The moral panic and frothing around ‘small boats’ being the root of and cause of all the UK’s problems got too much for me. There are only so many…

Disclaimer: This is an opinion piece, written from the perspective of someone who has grown steadily more uneasy and frankly tired with the amount of surveillance and compliance that modern banking now takes for granted. This is, however, not a naive claim that the system I am about to describe is somehow free of abuse, because it very much is not. It is more of an attempt to ask why we have decided that financial privacy is inherently suspect, and to make the case that a tool used…

No one is safe. No one. – Michael Wriston Cops and Robbers (#1527) If you’re a fan of “sex offender” registration, meet one of your bedfellows: Jeff Bast, who goes by Millstone the Klown on social media, [fantasizes] he is protecting children [by destroying the lives of]…people [he claims are insufficiently sociopathic toward those condemned to] the sex offender registry…[one of his victims,] Lucy Reid…had grown weary of seeing her hometown [plastered with hundreds of handmade signs accusing…

Before your banking app sends your password, your phone checks a document vouched for by one of about a hundred companies you've probably never heard of which say, "yes, go ahead and enter your password, it truly is your bank that it's going to". On October 17th, someone found […]

Before your banking app sends your password, your phone checks a document vouched for by one of about a hundred companies you've probably never heard of which say, "yes, go ahead and enter your password, it truly is your bank that it's going to". On October 17th, someone found […]

Pubs of All Types8 years since my last visit to the the town where the planners finished what the Luftwaffe started. A ring-road to replace the medieval walled city.After this length of time - there have been changes. My favourite - The Town Wall Tavern - is no longer a going concern. Which is a crying shame. Several new entries and a bit of a smorgasbord of pub types.Starting with the obvious - The Flying Standard - a Wetherspoons. Mock TudorAbsolutely packed at 2:15pm on a Saturday afternoon,…

I recently wrote about Privacy and Webmentions to make the case — mostly to myself — for adding Fediverse integration to Pure Comments. A few people pushed back in the comments, but my position could generally be summarised with "if it's a public post, it's fair game." Then this morning I read this post by Manu and it's completely changed my opinion. Having now read the Webmention spec it never presents Webmentions as being "comments". At all times they're referred to as "notifications". More…

I have posted on the contribution I made to my dad's funeral in September 2026. Here is what my children, his grandchildren, said at the same service. Katie I feel very lucky to have had my grandfather in my life, and especially lucky to have known him not only as a grandparent, but as someone whose values, curiosity and kindness helped shape me. As an adult, I have often reflected on how my grandparents accepted me joyfully, fully and completely as their grandchild. They never treated me any…

It’s time for another Saturday update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further four papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 249 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 697. I continue to include the posts made on our Mastodon account (on Fediscience); these announcements also contain a clickable form of the DOI for each paper. Our Mastodon account has regular updates and other announcements from OJAp too, including posts…

What caught my eye this week. Weekend Reading – featuring the week’s best money and investing articles from around the web – can be read by any logged-in Monevator member. Alternatively please subscribe to our free email newsletter to get future editions direct to your inbox. The post Weekend reading: When I’m telling myself I’m not really 64 appeared first on Monevator.

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This post is part of the GenAI Series. In the earlier post, I built a small tool that generates marketing copy for an Amazon product in different formats. This time, I want to go a step further. Before you write the product listing for your next awesome product, it helps to see how other products are represented on Amazon. Sounds cool, right? Like, what features are they highlighting that are helping them make more sales so that you can benefit from those while writing your copy? I built a…

The decision on Rosebank hasn't been made yet. One email to the Energy Secretary could help make sure it's a no.