My recipe for not hating myself consists of three elements: 1. Keep changing -- and by changing, I mean improving, and by improving, I don't mean "be more productive." I mean be a better person today than I was yesterday. Better means more patient, more kind, more loving. Not richer. 2. Practice gratitude. If I'm constantly looking for things to be thankful for, I don't have time for self-pity, and self-pity destroys. 3. Punch Nazis. I want to go into Nazi punching in a little more detail.…
For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking about observability. If you're not familiar with the term, "observability" is what we call it now that "monitoring" doesn't sound expensive enough. The actual work is unglamorous in that you collect a lot of logs, some metrics, a few traces, and then you give them to people. I generally like my job. I like that we're always trying new ideas and approaches. I like the fact that when things go…
Researchers claim to have achieved perfect randomness. (Hopefully nothing like True Level). But I kind of liked the Lava Lamps. I did not know that (some of) Europe mandates family dynasties by forcing a minimum percentage of an estate be passed down to the children. Wild. Anton Petrov answers the questions we’ve all asked — We finally know why T-Rex had those tiny arms (and more new T-Rex facts) (Video) My wife might have nightmares if she found out — Bees can use tools to solve problems. If…
I think a lot of people now know what this game is, due to its rarity/price/etc, but for all the billion times you hear YouTubers reference that, none of them ever seem to think it’s important to mention that this is also a Psikyo game. And, major milestone here, the first ever Psikyo game I have completed legit on Normal mode (I am still trying to get my Gunbird clear) Small summary if you don’t know what Cannon Spike is: Today we would call it a “twin-stick shooter” but it was on Dreamcast,…
ADHD maybe?I started 18-20 hours fasting x4 a week since end of March. Like magic, seriously like magic, for the last 2 months, I have been able to keep my house spotless clean (where I would often go a month without even dusting corners). The clothes are no longer rolling on the floor. Whatever is left about on my cleaned areas I am able to put away without a second thought, almost automatic. My partner is impressed by the level of cleanness of the bathroom and the kitchen. Now in the last…
tag(s): #yell-at-cloud #infusions #link-post #yell-at-cloud Quite a while ago I read this post by Annie: Ritualize anything Rituals? I can't stop myself. They're so good. Absolutely breathtaking. Humanity's finest work, perhaps. They make no sense. It's all about beauty, about made-up meaning, about art. I was reminded of it this morning. Usually FRIGGING ALWAYS when I come to the office I prepare myself a mate 🧉❤️ and start catching up on emails and looking at where I left things the day…
I'm really digging their new album, and this performance on KEXP was great too: There's a couple live shows of theirs on my youtube concerts list that are fun. Recommended if you like heavy, fuzzed out guitars.
Have you ever written with two fountain pens of the same model and same nib size, only to notice subtle (or maybe not-so-subtle) differences in line width? As retailers, we get questions about this topic all the time, and have experienced this ourselves in our own personal use, so we wanted to talk about why this happens and what you can do to help ensure you get the nib closest to your desired line width. (Spoiler alert: if you're looking for consistent line-width specificity down to the…
Illustration of a “plotting room” on a Royal Navy World War II K-class destroyer Director Control TowerHello readers, Every couple of weeks, I get a nice note or restack about my Principles of Plotting series. So, I figure it is finally time to get off my ass—or I suppose sit back down on my ass—and finish the series. To quickly recap, I find myself annoyed at both the vague literary world aphoristic advice1 and the absurdly prescriptive rules found in many genre and Hollywood screenwriting…
The above sketch shows a decision tree. The circles are uncertainty nodes and the squares are decision nodes. Read the tree from left to right: to start, there is uncertainty of which of the strata i=1,…,I you will be in. In any given stratum, you will have to decide between options 1 and 2, and for each of these decision options there is uncertainty about the payoff. The goals are: (a) Conditional on the stratum, pick the best decision. This is the local decision problem. (b) Averaging over…
If you could put a short phrase/question on a bracelet (or somewhere else you’d regularly see it), in order to help you make better decisions, big or small, to improve your life, what would it say?
Keith LeBlanc was the only white boy in the Sugar Hill Gang Village, hence the name. So to win the respect of the majority Black members of America's premier Hip-Hop collective Keith had to show off his technologically enhanced and Electro-influenced Drum style.Just as Robin Hood and Little John fought each other in a sickening display of male machismo flailing staffs over what i can only imagine was the 12th century River Trent?Like two medieval rappers free-styling their way towards a state…
I have a soft spot for Sayid - it’s one of the most ingenious Clojure tools ever built, and also one of the most neglected. It’s an omniscient debugger: instead of stopping your program at a breakpoint, it quietly records every call to the functions you’ve traced and lets you rummage through the recording afterwards. It’s the kind of thing you demo to people and watch their jaw drop. And it had been sitting practically unmaintained for the better part of a decade. Here’s the awkward part: that…
2026-07-01Hello!I photographed the Patrouille de France in the skies above Baltimore, a city in the US. Eight military aircraft left colored trails of smoke of red, white, and blue as part of various celebrations around the US.I was uncertain whether the airshow would commence as normal, because the weather forecasts predicted rain and thunderstorms. A bit of rain wouldn't prevent the aircraft from taking off, but thunderstorms might be a no-go for the pilots' safety.After hours of waiting, the…
Julia (she/her) is a brand designer and a long time stationery lover who shares her adventures in fountain pens, inks, planning, and journaling over on YouTube (@Julia-here) and Instagram (@hi.juliahere). Background & PrepHey there! Julia here! I recently attended the 2026 Dutch Pen Show in Utrecht, Netherlands, and I'm excited to tell you all about it! But first…some background. Three years ago, my husband and I visited the Netherlands, even stopped in Appelboom, and didn't know that the then…
Summer has well and truly arrived. School is out for the kid, my FiL is here to help take care of him for the break, and temperatures are supposed to hit 100 this week. I can only hope the high temps and the potential thunderstorms keep the neighborhood artillery blasts to a minimum for the 4th of July weekend, but I doubt it. Trek Long Island was this month, and I brought the kid with me. He had a blast. I… mostly got to watch him have a blast. I suppose this is the only real way to introduce…
We are going back to Raccoon City! So pack your zombie survival kits and uncover the mysteries with Max Roberts and Logan Moore alongside special guests Michael Ruiz and Ricky Frech! Can action and horror be perfectly balanced or are those ambitions better off buried like RC was nearly 30 years ago? Download (53MB) — Episode Transcript Resident Evil Requiem Developer – Capcom Platform – PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, and PC Release Date – February 27, 2026 Game Director – Koshi Nakanishi…
Machines get the clean version. You get HTML, trackers, cookie banners, popups, and JavaScript. This needs a browser built by thousands of engineers just to show you a paragraph. Machines get the clean version. unstory (via Rhys)
This is a cake I posted back in 2009: "Because crime doesn't pay, kids." And this one I posted in 2011: "It's kind of a mix between 'shushing' and 'churning.'" Well recently, Deirdre M. sent me this cake: Three wrecks of the exact same design, misspelled three different ways. MY LIFE IS NOW COMPLETE. And to celebrate, I will now rehash a slightly dated meme for my own base amusements. You're welcome. (Psst. Hey. You know you want to read this out loud.Go on. I won't judge. Much.) Thanks to Jenn…
Link: Companies Are Making Claude and Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AI’s Soaring Costs, by Joseph Cox at 404 MediaI find this very funny:“Companies are deliberately making their AI tools speak like cavemen in an attempt to stop burning through AI tokens and curb their massive expenditure on AI, 404 Media has found. The tool turns the usually verbose outpost of LLMs like Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini into a much more to the point answer. Think less “you’re right to push back, I was wrong,” and…
Power Cat 2026-07-01 Is that a different mushroom, or does the mushroom he ate have some sort of accelerated and regenerative healing factor?
Art & Anita Art Thomas (1934 - 2026) was there for me, early on, during the Afrigeneas Era (IYDK, NYK), helping me develop as a family Historian and a better researcher. With much respect, I would affectionately call him; ‘Da Man!’ Now, Arthur L. Thomas is among the Ancestors - who already know what to call him. Asé Peace & Blessings,"Guided by the Ancestors"
In this short video, I walk through how futurists and strategists use the Three Horizons to: You’ll see how all three horizons exist at the same time, and why change is often slower than it looks—right up until it isn’t. If you work in strategy, innovation, policy, or foresight, this video will help you: For […] The post Inside the Futurist’s Mind: Using the Three Horizons Framework first appeared on Hinesight....for Foresight.
Heute ist der Einsendeschluss für den elften Zinetausch von zines.cool und ich habe—mit leicher Verspätung, sorry Jenni—auch was fabriziert. Mein Beitrag fällt unter die Kategorie PerZine, kurz für Personal Zine, und enthält einige Gedanken zu meiner Alkoholabstinenz im Kontext von Freundschaft, Kreativität und Gesundheit. Ich bin sehr froh, einige meiner Beobachtungen auf Papier gebracht zu haben. Zines sind genau für sowas ein fantastisches Format. Nicht so froh bin ich darüber, dass das Zine…
Link: The Quiet Erosion of Collective Action Under Digital Surveillance, by Gina Romero in Tech Policy PressThe most important outcome of increased surveillance is a chilling effect on free speech and expression. As Gina Romero, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, notes here, that extends to the organizations that have been established to protect those rights:“As organizations operate under the constant assumption that they are being monitored,…
June 2026 John Rocque’s 1746 London map For some time, Matt Brown, writing on Substack’s Londonist: Time Machine, has been colouring-in the most detailed survey of London of the 18th century. Across its 24 sheets, thousands of alleys, wharves, lanes and landmarks were accurately mapped in a clear, consistent style. Adding colour to the previously black-and-white map helps to see the patterns of land use, reveals the hidden watercourses, City ward boundaries, churchyards, houses and plantations…
A while back, Mary saw on the internet a guided butterfly holiday in the mountains of Southern Greece. While it was far more expensive than our usual package holiday deals, it would drive us to specific places to see a huge number of butterflies. I think Mary had hardly finished the sentence are you interested before I said I'm in. On paper it looked like my perfect holiday - being chauffeured about in a minibus to the best places in a sunny warm country to see exotic wildlife. With restaurant…
Need some tips on how to get past The Vortex? It's the story of BBC2's Douglas Adams and Dungeons And Dragons-inspired game show, The Adventure Game!
Both the ones I tried were… fine. Too sweet for my taste, but otherwise unremarkable. I don’t harbour strong feelings for the flavour, smell, mouth feel, or texture. They existed in a can, I drank them, then got on with my day. Another thing ticked off the list! Only took me how many years? By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-07-01.
