Read the full post at - Soul Boom by Rainn Wilson I stumbled across Rainn Wilson’s podcast Soul Boom the way I stumble across most things I didn’t know I was interested in — serendipitously. One episode led to another, and after just a few episodes I had a decent sense of what he’s been up to since The Office wrapped. The short version: he’s been on a genuine, years-long mission to make big philosophical and spiritual questions feel normal to talk about. Soul Boom is the book version of that…
Link: Now we’re getting AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news, by Joshua Benton in Nieman LabA bunch of people — including, unfortunately, me — were taken in by this AI-generated newsroom earlier this week. The story was decently written and seemed to be well-cited, but it turned out to be nonsense. Ironically, it was about a would-be media empire that purchased struggling papers, fired their staff, and replaced them with AI, leading to the death of each…
I loved Lee Lai’s first graphic novel, Stone Fruit, so when I heard that her newest book had won a lot of awards I determined to keep my eye out for it at the library. I finally got it the other day, and it is really good. It’s about a cook in Montreal who is heading to a nervous breakdown (no spoilers; you see the results in the first pages). Lai does wonderful things with visual metaphor. In Cannon, she uses magpies surrounding Cannon to signify building anxiety. Cannon gets interrupted a…
The first recording today is Pokemon: Battle Frontier – From Cradle to Save. The friends visit a Ninja Pokemon School. Which is a real thing. Brock comes across a Bonsly, and starts looking after it, despite it regularly bashing him. Team Rocket turn up, Ninja themed. After the usual fighting, Brock ends up capturing the Bonsly. Media Centre Description: Popular animated series. Ash and Pikachu return to the Kanto region to complete the Battle Frontier – seven ultimate tests that will challenge…
Music From Memory’s next missive is a set of mellow, muted electro-acoustic mediations. Groovy group improvisations featuring Ko Ishikawa, Luis Perez Ixoneztil, Laraaji, Carlos Nino, Miles Spilsbury, Mia Doi Todd and headed up by Maui-based Jesse Peterson. The opening number is “Iseo” is a lullaby. A soothing session of loose chimes and rattles, with a warm, welcoming vibe, whose wordless harmonies, in tone, recall Robbie Basho. “Teamotanto” simulates nature stirring. Synthetic drones swirling…
Ryan North continues this volume of THE FLASH by exploring Wally’s new “Flashes of Insight”. This time, Wally predicts…an invasion by Grodd! How will this new ability help? How does it work in the first place? And can anything stop Grodd when he is ready to fight? Wanna know more? Follow us after the jump! SPOILERS AHEAD! First of all – my apologies once again for being gone for a while, and for this review being a bit late. It’s good to be back…now on to the review! During the New 52, Barry…
Image source: IMDB NOTE: There are mild, nondescript spoilers here. For such a lightweight comedy, Desk Set seems oddly prescient today. The film depicts the desperation of a group of research librarians at a TV studio when computerization is brought into the workplace. The head librarian Bunny (Katharine Hepburn) goes head to head with computer engineer Richard (Spencer Tracy), who wants to install a massive computer in the research center. Nicknamed EMERAC (short for Electromagnetic Memory…
Technically it’s now Thursday, but pfft, doesn’t count as a new day until I’ve slept, right?! What have you recently finished reading? Cassandra Khaw’s Find Me Where It Ends, which I’m going to find difficult to review and talk about because it’s profoundly a book I don’t think it was a good idea for me to read. It’s about suicide, and while there’s an amount of metaphor going on with the black dog that shows up to let the women of Antigone’s family know they’re going to die, and the fact that…
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curl killed its six-year bug bounty. Jazzband shut down. Ghostty, tldraw, NetBSD, and QEMU all closed the door on AI contributions in the same three weeks. This isn't paranoia. It's what happens when the cost of producing a plausible pull request hits zero and review capacity doesn't move.
Last month crime fiction author and leading critic Martin Edwards found space on his blog to give two sentences of about 100 words over to a consideration of my essay collection Nothing Darker Than the Night, which was published nearly a year ago in 2025. Here's the full notice:I'd also like to squeeze in a mention of another worthwhile Stark House Press title, Nothing Darker Than the Night, which focuses on hardboiled and noir fiction and collects essays by Curtis Evans that have appeared…
The July issue of Foofaraw Zine is here! Download below or read in our purpose built ebook reader. Of course, all stories will be published for free on the web throughout the month, but paid supporters receive a PDF/EPUB with all of the month's stories at the beginning of the month, along with a few other goodies, including the bonus Four-headed Foofaraw. And Patrons get stuff in print!Individual issues are also available for purchase on Weightless books, where you can also subscribe. This…
In Maddie's Secret, director John Early plays the lead character, a woman dealing with a long-standing eating disorder, in this case, bulimia. A comedian, actor, and singer, Early's sex isn't the secret to which the movie's title refers. Early plays a female character. That’s it. The movie’s secret involves Maddie's bulimia, a condition she has been hiding for years. Maddie works in the food industry, beginning the movie as a dishwasher on a cooking show. A vegan who also knows how to cook,…
ARB publishes reviews and essays on a wide range of speculative topics, including science fiction & fantasy, weird fiction, and their relation to utopian impulses. ARB is also always interested in reviews of nonfiction broadly related to those topics, written for an interested general audience. If you are interested in writing for ARB, please check out our Procedures & Style Guide, and pitch us using the form below! For reviews, here are some titles coming out in October that we’d be interested…
Yesterday the US Supreme Court made an expected yet devastating decision about the future of trans people and their right to exist in this country, and they did it through an argument based upon sports.Supreme indeed. Supremacist through and through. That's what hierarchy gets you.I'm not going to rehash the same old arguments defending the right of trans people to exist, my own right to exist, because that's what this is about, that's what this has always been about, and it's never had…
La piazza è ampia, un vasto quadrato acciottolato che si apre sotto un cielo nero carico di pioggia. Lungo il perimetro si susseguono diverse panchine, intervallate da piccoli alberi dai rami invernali che si piegano sotto il vento. Al centro, un piccolo rettangolo in marmo porta un’iscrizione che nessuno si è davvero mai fermato a leggere. Sulla superficie della lastra, ormai consumata dal tempo, l'acqua scivola veloce e riempie i solchi delle lettere. Tutto intorno, il grigio dei sassolini è…
Also Available on PatreonLode Runner was a big game in the 1980s, but it still feels like it gets left out of the larger conversation in retro gaming. People talk about Space Invaders, Pac Man, Donkey Kong, and plenty of other early classics, but Lode Runner belongs in that group too. It was simple to understand, hard to master, and built around rules that made sense the more y… Read more
Until quite recently, my main money-making gig was “content director” — an ambiguous job title that, by design, leaves itself open to all manner of obligations and responsibilities — at a pretty major fly-fishing media outlet. Vague title aside, it wasn’t a bad gig. I’ve had infinitely worse. A large portion of my work for this fly-fishing outlet involved curating fly-fishing photos and videos. For those unaware, fly-fishing culture anywhere more than 100 miles inland is, by and large, trout…
Standing guard.
# I think the standard.site integration is now done! Some tweaks were needed to the additional code to ensure that posts displayed how I wanted and that the publication icon was set correctly. 1 While it would be nice if Bluesky supported text formatting and a longer character count, this isn't going all in on a network. No, it's supporting a protocol. Bluesky itself is still centralised, although some are hosting their own PDS, but the AT protocol allows for so much more. This is just one…
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I’ve begun a project to significantly clean up my Instagram followers list. I have a love-hate relationship with the platform, and at this moment, I’ve sandboxed myself to experiencing Instagram only inside a sandboxed browser on my laptop. It does not deserve a spot on my iPhone; photo sharing is limited to Pixelfed for those occasions. I was following over 1500 people on Instagram and I had no idea who most of them were. I’ve added way too many people to this list. So I’ve been scrolling my…
As threatened in my last post, here is the continuation of the diary of our holiday in Brittany. See earlier Brittany posts : Holiday in Brittany: August 1999 Holiday in Brittany – August 1999. Part 2. Holiday in Brittany: August 1999. Part 3 ooo000ooo Friday 27th August Richard did not sleep well last night and was therefore quite tired today. He heard Elinor wake up and went to get her milk and our cups of tea. We went downstairs for breakfast and only when we had finished eating, Elinor and…
Yes! Purple Safari here I come! 🤖
Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours Mark Richards explores the controversial work of photographer Edith Tudor-Hart and her secret life as a Soviet agent in London during the Cold War Child staring into a bakery window, Whitechapel, 1935 (Courtesy of National Gallery of Scotland) On a wall in a flat in Maida Vale hangs this small photograph. It is a window into a world of social unrest, poverty, espionage and insurrection. The photograph and the story behind it add weight to the…
GLÅUGUST HAS PASSED AROUND THE SUN HELLO. LAST TIME I RAN GLÅUGUST, IT OUTPERFORMED MY EXPECTATIONS AND I WAS PLEASANTLY SURPRISED. THIS GAVE ME CAUSE TO SUPPOSE THAT MY SUPPOSITION ABOUT THE CAUSE OF THE -- I'LL CUT OFF THE RAMBLE.IN SHORT, YEAH, AUGUST SEEMS TO WORK. HERE WE ARE AGAIN. CHALLENGES WORK LIKE THIS: THEY’RE 1d6 LISTS OF SHORT PROMPTS. YOU CAN ROLL 6d6 AND GET A SET OF SIX CHALLENGES TO COMPLETE. OR YOU CAN JUST LOOK AT THIS AND PICK ONE YOU’RE INTERESTED IN I GUESS.CHALLENGE 1…
June 11th, Jack in the Donuts opened in our train stationThe line was krazy (and still is on weekends) so I finally got to try them the other day We actually tried them awhile back in Akihabara so I was also leery because at that time it wasn’t too tastyCoffee Fashion...cake style old fashion with coffee glazeGalaxy Doughnut...the texture was like mochi donutsExcept look how "thin" they
Guardianby PriestGenres: Fantasy, Light Novels, Mystery, Romance Pages: 341 Series: Guardian #2 Rating: Synopsis: THE SLEEPING GOD STIRS As snow quietly covers Dragon City in the final days of the lunar year, patients writhing in pain flock to the hospital. Baffled doctors call upon Zhao Yunlan and his team for help. As the case unfolds, Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan discover that one of the Four Hallowed Artifacts, the Merit Brush, has appeared in the Mortal Realm. In the wrong hands, its power can…
I really enjoyed Daniel Kremer’s IT’S A ZABRISKIE, ZABRISKIE, ZABRISKIE, ZABRISKIE POINT, a doc/video essay that productively compares two sorta films maudit, while also stirring into the mix a bunch of other films about the American desert, from GREED to THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK: Some of this is illuminating — it certainly made me […]
