This week, The Writer Within encourages us to seek delight. By doing so we can train our brain out of the negativity bias we are all predisposed to. Prompt 11: Journal about some sensory pleasures that have delighted you over the past month. Marshmallows. I love them. The chewy soft pillows of sweetness are my secret delight. There is something beautiful and innocent about them. Takes me straight back to my childhood, of open camp fires and cold autumn days. Happy moments as we delighted in…

Self-belief is one of those interesting components of how one thinks about oneself. I guess that people who have strong self-belief never really think about it. But for those of us who were raised to be humble, not too loud, and not to stand out, low self-belief is rooted very deep. In recent years I started to think about this when I saw that what you know doesn’t actually mean that much, and that just doing the work is not enough. When you see people who are less capable and less smart pass…

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Thursday morning. And again, a week later—exiting the elevator onto the fourth floor of the New Museum, where immense, inexorably weighty bass notes are creeping out of Arthur Jafa’s exhibition. The anticipation I feel whenever I’m confronted with sound, darkness, a doorway. The enveloping music once I step inside.Two strangers and a security guard standing before Arthur Jafa’s AGHDRA, 2021, at the New Museum’s Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony exhibition from Sep 24 until January 3, 2027. AGHDRA isn’t…

Cache yields specimens,lexicons excavated.Old dreams drift.Bit-rot might claim memory. Archaeology of TomorrowPhoto 365Terminal AccessDipping the StacksReadingMusicRemember Kids: The AFK life admin stuff continues to grind on, day by day, week by week. But there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel now, so fingers crossed! Archaeology of Tomorrow Over the past week, I’ve found myself getting an incredible amount of mileage out of two websites that have been lurking in my bookmarks…

My Year Without Chocolate6FPS V8#1: January 12, 2026E-mail: chuqvr@gmail.com • Site: https://chuq.meBlueSky: (https://bsky.app/profile/chuq.bsky.social)Know someone who might want to subscribe?Want to see previous issues? Visit here: chuq.me/6fps Welcome to the new issue of 6FPS.The weather has gone from cool and damp to cold and damp, with lows right around freezing and the occasional sleet or snow warning coming out of the weather app. Last week we had our first snow, enough to stick on the…

6FPS V8#2: February 9, 2026E-mail: chuqvr@gmail.com • Site: https://chuq.meBlueSky: (https://bsky.app/profile/chuq.bsky.social)Know someone who might want to subscribe?Want to see previous issues? Visit here: chuq.me/6fps Welcome to the new issue of 6FPS.The days are getting longer, and spring is not too far away. We’ve survived another big dark. It’s been cold and wet around here — we finally had our first string of 20F lows, but it didn’t snow, so that’s something. Only one snow day so far,…

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One month ago Nina Schick, “sovereign AI strategist”, published on Twitter a long list of “things AI has done so far”, all allegedly good, to advance or strenghten seven vital sectors of society, namely: Medicine, Scientific Discoveries, Environment, Clean Energy, Transport and, last but not least, Learning and “Jobs and Growth”.As far as I can tell, all the accomplishments Schick lists for the first five sectors are big, actually useful stuff, and all share a really important characteristic:…

6FPS V8#3: March 9, 2026E-mail: chuqvr@gmail.com • Site: https://chuq.meBlueSky: (https://bsky.app/profile/chuq.bsky.social)Know someone who might want to subscribe?Want to see previous issues? Visit here: chuq.me/6fps Welcome to the new issue of 6FPS.It now feels like spring around here. We had another snap of cold weather, but now we’re seeing temperatures into the 50’s and the days of frost seem behind us. The Daffodils agree, and are getting ready to bloom. Also, mowing season is about to…

Shop Tour6FPS V8#4: April 13, 2026E-mail: chuqvr@gmail.com • Site: https://chuq.meBlueSky: (https://bsky.app/profile/chuq.bsky.social)Know someone who might want to subscribe?Want to see previous issues? Visit here: chuq.me/6fpsWelcome to the new issue of 6FPS.Spring is definitely here. The Purple Finches have returned and the Varied Thrushes have left. We had at least three pairs of Purple Finches within my earshot here at the house, which is nice. I did a survey of the property and found 17…

6FPS V8#5: May 11, 2026E-mail: chuqvr@gmail.com • Site: https://chuq.meBlueSky: (https://bsky.app/profile/chuq.bsky.social)Know someone who might want to subscribe?Want to see previous issues? Visit here: chuq.me/6fpsWelcome to the new issue of 6FPS.It is definitely Spring: It looks like the rains have ended, and we had our first 80 degree days here in the Pacific Northwest. Of course, three days later it’s cloudy and in the 60’s again, which is nice. Earlier today, I was out on the deck…

Welcome to Middle Age6FPS V8#6: June 8, 2026E-mail: chuqvr@gmail.com • Site: https://chuq.meBlueSky: (https://bsky.app/profile/chuq.bsky.social)Know someone who might want to subscribe?Want to see previous issues? Visit here: chuq.me/6fpsWelcome to the new issue of 6FPS.It’s June. The place is incredibly bird this year — I’ve gone and one some extended birding around the place and one day I rang up 31 species, and a week later, 25. Those are incredible numbers. We’ve had the first baby birds…

Welcome to the new issue of 6FPS.Welcome to July, where every year we celebrate our independence on the 4th, and I celebrate another year of being vertical (#68) which I consider a win. And out in the garden, the berries are ripening. For my birthday Laurie bought me a really nice Lego kit that I am looking forward to putting together. I’m a couple of kits behind because I’ve been doing other things instead, but this will be a nice one to display. I’m a relative newcomer to Soccer/Football, and…

On Island Time6FPS V8#8: August 10, 2026E-mail: chuqvr@gmail.com • Site: https://chuq.meBlueSky: (https://bsky.app/profile/chuq.bsky.social)Know someone who might want to subscribe?Want to see previous issues? Visit here: chuq.me/6fpsWelcome to the new issue of 6FPS.Somehow, it’s August. Time is flying. Already the sun is setting before 9PM. We’ve so far avoided most of heat and bad air, but that’s changing this week as the winds have shifted, the smoke is coming over the Cascades from the…

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The first terminal I worked on was compabtle with the VT100. I wrote some PASCAL modules for the VT100.

Every found yourself stuck in proverbial mud? For instance you have some drive to move forward with something, get something done, do something different, yet you stay where you are?That's "the funk."And it's where I am and where I've been for a good spell now.Deep in "the funk." Photo by Caner Cankisi Just a few weeks ago, I shared how I was dealing with some Down Days. I am happy to report the smile has returned, with days more up than down, and there does seem to be a little pep in my…

In The Making of Home, quite early on in the book, Judith Flanders discusses spitting. And spittoons. Spitting was, until barely a hundred years ago, very common. Everyone spat, all the time. Outdoors, indoors, no matter. Samuel Pepys describes being spat on in the theatre but the woman was pretty so he didn't mind. Fair. and here I sitting behind in a dark place, a lady spit backward upon me by a mistake, not seeing me, but after seeing her to be a very pretty lady, I was not troubled at it at…

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I'm finding that I sometimes don't have time to take notes when I need to, but I often times can record audio. Maybe it's just a random thought I need to capture, or a full conversation crafting a complex system, it doesn't really matter what but if I'm not actively taking notes I'm forgetting things. Fortunately there are always solutions, and automatic speech recognition has gotten stupidly good recently. While I might not love OpenAI their whisper ASR is absurdly good and lightweight. So…

The problem of jagged intelligence continues a challenge for transformer-based AI. Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) models hallucinate, struggle with memory-intensive tasks, consume enormous compute and energy resources, and at times behave unpredictably. Researchers have a name for the resulting unevenness: jagged intelligence. Systems solve graduate-level problems and then stumble over something a child would get right. Beyond LLMs: A Post-Transformer World Emerges, by Samuel…

Tags: #dispatches #gym #attention Samson Dauda, 2026Just to start off with a concrete example, there was a disembodied stagehand’s hand backstage that reached up and helped the center stage doors close almost every time a competitor entered the stage via them, and it was right in the top center of the screen. All eyes on some hugely muscled bodybuilder, except mine which are watching out for the sneaky hand to appear and do its little job: ensure that the door closes all the way. Booop. It’s…

Link: Team Dynamics Weaken When Employees Turn to AI Instead of Colleagues, by Kate Niederhoffer, Kristina Rapuano, Alex Liebscher, Alexi Robichaux and Jeffrey T. Hancock in Harvard Business ReviewRelationships take time, effort, and practice to keep alive. So in a sense, it shouldn’t be a surprise to see this finding from a survey of more than a thousand desk workers across 20 industries:“The more they turned to AI instead of a teammate, the more their trust in each other and their ability to…

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It’s time to install an app! But here in 1986, we still call them “programs,” not apps. So, you’ll want to set aside some time to get started installing a program. Since you have a Commodore 64, there are really only two options for getting new programs this month: COMPUTE!’s Gazette and RUN, and you have to hope that one of those magazines isn’t sold out at the book store. So let’s get going. Go To The App Book Store You will need to ask your mom if you can ride your bike to the mall. The dirt…

A recent piece on “forever domains” sparked bigger questions about permanence online: when domain owners die out, do we need new systems that don't rely on domains at all?Should domains last forever? That’s not a new question for me, but it’s one that I’ve been thinking more about lately, especially since I ended up writing a story recently that posed this exact question.Over at the new publication GraveSite, which covers the concept of death and grief with a reporter’s eye, I posed a question…

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