The good folks at Mokin have sent me their new USB-C hub and it is a beast. This is the MODK2403 - the latest in their line of high-tech USB-C docks. It does close to everything you could want and has an LCD monitor for showing the weather. Errr… What? OK, a quick product shots, then on to the specs. On to the ports: Triple display Either 3x HDMI or 1x HDMI and 2x DisplayPort 4x USB-A 2x 2.0 480Mbps, 1x 3.0 5Gbps, 1x 3.1 10Gbps 2x USB-C 1x 3.0 5Gbps, 1x 3.1 10Gbps USB-C PD input 100W USB-C to…

It’s amazing how many things feel better with a bit more calm, tact, and humor. The problem is rarely the what. It’s almost always the how.

Via @newyorker.com $META[image or embed]— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) October 19, 2026 at 2:57 PM What could possibly go wrong? Joe Wilkins writing for Futurism:Meta’s new AI agent Muse might come with a cutesy new mascot, but under its fuzzy exterior lies a vast surveillance network under the control of one of the world’s most powerful — and least accountable — tech companies. The flashy new service has gained plenty of traction over the past few weeks, with many reviewers…

Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli by Alan Dugan Hat tip SOM

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. Wall of New Yorker covers by Saul Steinberg The Museu Fundación Juan March in central Palma is running a retrospective featuring Saul Steinberg’s work for the New Yorker, the US Punch-like weekly, over six decades. Steinberg illustrations for Flair magazine and advertisers Alongside his covers are drawings, paintings, collages, prints and photographs, some commissioned for advertising and books as well as magazines. Surreal advertising for Emerson, a US maker of electrical goods The March…

A book more or less responsible for the revival of Flat Earth theories in the modern period.

An elliptic curve E over a finite field F consists of the set of points (x, y) satisfying the equation y² = x³ + ax + b with x and y in F. Typically in cryptography the field F is the integers mod p where p is a very large prime number. The number of points on E is roughly the number of elements in F. So for a curve over the integers mod p, the curve has roughly p points. More precisely, #E = p + 1 − t where |t| ≤ 2√p. So if p is on the order of 2n, the number of points on E is also on the…

I have been making edits on several posts as I find new documents or add in details or citations I neglected to include initially. These are annotated in italics at the top of the post. As there are now a significant number of ancestors included, going forward, I will be inserting links to the posts of their respective child or parents if I have already written about them. This will not be annotated in the edit notes for existing posts.

The Midtown Learning Annex’s newest professional development seminar, “Getting on the Payroll,” entered its fourth week on Tuesday despite instructor Noah Shough having yet to appear on screen.The $450 course promised ten live modules covering bureaucratic placement, agency payroll loopholes, and how to obtain public-sector advisory roles that require no physical or digital presence. However, when eighteen enrolled professionals logged in for the opening lecture, they were greeted by a black…

From 1904, a postcard[1] sent from New York to St. Louis. Starting with the back side: I can’t make out that name at all, although whoever he[2] was, he appears to have been an “esquire”. Secretary of the Swedish…something…at the World’s Fair[3] in St. Louis. The Swedish Pavilion from the fair has survived, for some reason in Kansas. The front of the card is both more familiar, for the picture, and far more difficult to understand, as it’s in Swedish. The picture is a glamor shot of lower…

"The most famous grizzly bear in the world!" as bear #399 has been called. I had the pleasure ofphotographing and watching her on two occasions in Grand Teton National Park. (click to enlarge)Some people brag that they have had the opportunity to photograph a president, governor, mayor or even a famous actor or musician (I’ve done all that but don’t brag about it). I do brag I had the wonderful opportunity to photograph, as she has been called, the “Queen of the Tetons.” Officially called…

You know what they say about rock stars, right? Every rock star secretly wants to be a comedian, and every comedian wants to be a rock star. Well, Ben Folds Five is what happens if Billy Joel went punk and started emulating Weird Al. The confluence of rock and comedy. And after 14 years, they're going on a reunion tour! To celebrate, I wanted to talk about my favorite Ben Folds Five songs (and some of Ben Folds' solo stuff, too).If you've never heard of Ben Folds Five before... let me explain.…

Thesis writing flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC asks What ways does writing outside inspire the writer inside of you and/or inside of other writers in your place? I do a lot of writing in my garden – away from the distractions of the internet. Here’s a couple from when I was writing up my thesis a few years ago. I got really good at doodling as a different type of procrastination. Cat was NOT a help! Doodling flickr photo by…

The morning sun silhouettes trees at White Ranch Park near Golden, Colorado. The post White Ranch Morning appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

On October 20th, DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, the engine behind its AI services, and said one cluster can serve 155 trillion tokens a day while earning $38 per GPU per hour. The consensus reaction was that cheap AI is here to stay and that Anthropic's lead has shrunk. I pay […]

On October 20th, DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, the engine behind its AI services, and said one cluster can serve 155 trillion tokens a day while earning $38 per GPU per hour. The consensus reaction was that cheap AI is here to stay and that Anthropic's lead has shrunk. I pay […]

Love (he/him) and Dove (he/him) are two buff best friends with the same interest in feminine fashion. They like to spend a lot of time at the Apple Blossom Leisure Centre, where they can work out, socialise, try new things and meet new people (such as you!). Most of the conversations will be them talking to each other about everyday things in their lives.

these are my zines that i've made so far. they cover a variety of topics. currently all the ones i've linked online are free, but i'll have some physical copies in future that are only for in-person sales (i haven't tabled at any events yet but hopefully in the next year or two when i've made more of a catalogue).

Youtube randomly served me up this video; I haven't seen most of the thrillers detailed on this list, but now I want to. Perhaps you will as well?

Sitting idly by as the street outside rages –in a peopled world is what people do.My body is an armchair growing comfy as it ages:shut off, turn on – there’s room here for you, too

Lots of food for thought in this interview with sff authors Ada Palmer and Ken Liu at Asterisk. Palmer’s answers in particular are of interest for me, which I suspect has a lot to do with them being informed by a historical (and historiographic) perspective that is utterly lacking in contemporary discussions of “technology”. (If you don’t already follow my “research journal” at Worldbuilding Agency, this recent essay on David Edgerton’s The Shock of the Old unpacks that problem somewhat.…

The first kind of application you could try after setting up Reticulum, or with it, is messaging. I think Reticulum protocol designer Mark Qvist knew that without a practical example of the protocol’s use, people might not use it. Messaging seems obvious. LXMF (Lightweight Extensible Message Format) is a universal messaging protocol built on top of Reticulum. It’s a distributed (doesn’t need an account with a service provider), secure, versatile messaging system. It also supports store and…

capslockday.org: JUNE 28 AND OCTOBER 22 ARE SEMIANNUALLY OBSERVED AS INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY AS A PARODY HOLIDAY CREATED IN OCTOBER 2000 BY DEREK ARNOLD, A USER ON METAFILTER. Came across this one today on IRC! One of my most used keys, as I have the Caps Lock mapped to Control :-)

computing The Death of Honour: Silos Must Not Be Used https://khleedril.org/blog/2026-10-21--silo-vs-indieweb.html khleedril.org/2026-10-21--silo-vs-indieweb Dale Mellor https://khleedril.org/dale-mellor 22nd October, 2026 “A silo is not inherently good nor bad. A silo behaves.” Joe Crawford at https://artlung.com/blog/2026/10/19/be-indieweb-enough/. In arguing that big tech has any virtue, that article fails to make a distinction between those big-corporate silos (all of them today) which…

In 2015, Aurynn Shaw wrote about Contempt Culture. And it is still happening. Sadly. I find it painful to watch/read at times.

Learning, understood as a relatively permanent change that comes from experience, runs through three stages: acquiring, retaining and retrieving. Each one can fail on its own, and that is why each one asks for something different. Acquisition is the first contact: you take in the new information, encode it and start practising the basics. What counts here is attention. Retention is the move into long-term memory, what keeps something there even when you rarely use it. Retrieval is using what…

The author of MacMD recently reached out to me, offering a free license key in case I'd like to review the app. On paper, it looked like a useful tool, and I rarely say no to free stuff, so why not?