U.S. corporate journalism is actively, enthusiastically invested in lying to you.That's the only conclusion you can draw after the U.S. press spent the last week helping white supremacist huckster Elon Musk sell the public on the idea of a flying car that simply doesn't exist. Musk Corp recently "demonstrated" what it claimed was a flight-capable Tesla Roadster at a SpaceX stage in McGregor, Texas. The demonstration featured a "car" accelerating vertically up a Hot Wheels-esque ramp before…

resembling a pair of acorns as theypushed against the fabric of her blouse⁠— Han Kang, The Vegetarian: A NovelYou wake up in the morningwith the sap run outof your veinsinto a bucket at your bedsidethe sunrise has already come and swept away.You whistle for the feet you’dcurled like rootsinto the steep of dreamsbut they can’t lift themselves out of the earthwithout breaking off their toes.You touch your elbows and kneesas if they were knotsthe nightmare had loosened but couldn’t untie:hangman’s…

WILDCAT SUPER POWERS (McFARLANE) “In 1941, boxer Ted Grant was framed for murder and on the run when a comic book inspired him to don a costume and track down the real killer. As Wildcat, Ted cleared his name and, loving the double life, kept going.” Ted Grant’s adoption of the Wildcat identity wasn’t all that removed from most costumed heroes of the Golden Age. Guy has run-in with crime, wants to solve crime, puts on mask and adopts vaguely-themed supranym. He didn’t really have any notable…

by Gideon Marcus Brezhnev's success No one can accuse the Soviets of sitting on their laurels. Less than a month after the ill-fated mission of Luna 18, which crashed into the Moon on September 7, Luna 19 is soared into a circular orbit some 87 miles above the lunar surface on October 3. The probe, … Continue reading [October 20, 1971] A Feast for the Gods (November 1971 Fantasy and Science Fiction) → The post [October 20, 1971] A Feast for the Gods (November 1971 <i>Fantasy and Science…

NBC's The Traitors: New Blood has been a baffling mess, and I think there's one thing to blame more than anything else: episodes that are much shorter than the ones on Peacock. Yep, I'm blaming the editing!

As a fair warning, this will contain spoilers on the Street Fighter movie as I will discuss elements of the film I enjoy. I am a massive Street Fighter 2 fan. The game came out when I was 7 but it dominated the arcade when I was a kid. I was enthralled by the characters and the action and just ate up every bit of the franchise. I have an Evercade Alpha now and the Championship Edition is my most played game on it (you can read my thoughts of the Evercade here). So when it was announced the…

Learn about the top 3 developer experience improvements from Python 3.15 This article covers the top 3 improvements made to the developer experience of Python 3.15 users: improved error messages more colours default UTF-8 encoding 15 days of Python 3.15 To celebrate the release of Python 3.15, over the next 15 business days I'll be writing about a new 3.15 feature every day. Explained clearly and with examples so you don't have to sift through the changelog. Subscribe to receive this free email…

Some Firecracker flowers amongst banana leaves at Akaka Falls State Park. Posted for Terri’s Flower Hour. See more responses here.

My observation of air travel is that if there is one significant impact on a flight, there are guaranteed two additional impacts. An example: if my gate changes at the last moment, it is quite likely that departure from the gate will be delayed, followed by a further delay on the tarmac. Unexpected changes in complex systems create further unexpected changes downstream because complex systems are, well, very complex. A simpler and more personal way to look at this is that when you are…

#import CerebralTransmission.h ... //PLEASE STOP PASSING STATICARRAYS INTO THIS FUNCTION //WE HAVE THE DUMBEST PEOPLE OF ALL TIME ON THIS FUCKING //PROJECT void BlitMind(Array* mindArray, SpyderBody* proboscis){ for(int i = 0; i <= mindArray->capacity; i++){ mindArray[i] = HarvestThoughts(proboscis); } //This is an obvious memory leak but no one has looked //at my pull requests in weeks void* extraData = malloc(sizeof(proboscis->dregs); } ... The job was clean and easy, or so she said. Sneak…

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Illustration of a binary neutron star merger just as the two stars make contact. All neutron stars have intense magnetic fields. The typical magnetic field of a neutron star is about 100,000 times stronger than the strongest magnetic fields we can create on Earth. But about 1% of neutron stars have even stronger magnetic fields. Known as magnetars, their magnetic fields can be 1,000 times stronger than a regular magnetic field. They are a likely cause for…

On minifying HTML as well as inline CSS and JS in VitePress projects.

Sidebars in Obsidian can be clunky to navigate, especially when you have lots of folders, files, and everything else, and you’re having trouble remembering where you put anything.So I thought: what could be better for organising your work documents and notes than the one thing we all have under our laptops or monitors? That’s right, it’s your desk.This skeuomorphic idea of mine brings the top of your desk to Obsidian, where you can keep notes, files, websites, and writing tools together on a…

Halloween looms. That means ghosts, goblins, monsters and other creepy things. I wanted to add some holiday flavor to our shop at the Fremont Sunday Market so I’ve printed out a few of my older Weird Heroes (Fantomah, Octobriana, Stardust, the Face and the Heap) illustrations as posters. Most of the images needed little or no adjustment to fit the 11×17 print size. I’ve included before and after versions of a couple that I did think needed changes. Below is, I think, the first illustration I…

As with many things, I have slowly learned that Bob Loveless is, when it comes to knives, generally right about everything. This is another piece of evidence to support that contention. Here it has to do with the correct material for knife handles. It is, in case you missed the reference, micarta. Myth #1: Carbon Fiber is New.Joseph Swan invented carbon fiber in 1860. The process to extract aluminum from alumina ore using electricity, the thing that converted aluminum from a precious metal to a…

Original airdate: October 18, 2026 The premise: After some rowdy Halloween night partying, Homer and some others accidentally hit someone with their car driving home and dispose of the body. The following year, he’s surprised to find that many other Springfield residents have stories of “killing” the same mysterious costumed stranger, who is out for bloody revenge for what the entire town did to them. The reaction: I’ll say right off the bat that if you haven’t seen this episode, you should…

I have a project with many Node scripts in package.json. One way to inspect them without ever opening that file (in a nice formatted) is npm run.

We invite your in-person participation in the 2027 Internet Law Works-in-Progress conference, Law of the Bronco edition, to be held at Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, California on March 6, 2027. The conference enables Internet law scholars from around the globe to receive feedback on their in-progress research from their academic peers. More background about the series. We broadly construe the scope of topics that fit within the Internet Law umbrella, and we welcome…

In the spirit of my recent “Math 2.0” talk on new ways to use AI assistance to enhance the human understanding of mathematics, rather than substitute for it, I am using this post to propose an experimental challenge, inspired by the recent activity around excluding Landau–Siegel zeroes, as discussed in this previous post. There is a well-known connection between Landau–Siegel zeroes and the tenth discriminant problem, which I will briefly recall here; an in-depth discussion on this problem can…

It's been a few days since my article on Claude Code being used to develop various IndieWeb tools, and in that time Aaron Parecki has written a response. I will be candid and admit that I had a bit of a crisis of faith when I was first researching this. I've spent a year and written hundreds of thousands of words on the indie web and the consequences and harms of generative artificial intelligence. I have been advocating for people to create with their own mind and hands, and to fall in love…

Examples: Wave at your neighbors. Learn your neighbor's name. Keep in touch. 🔗 https://things.pagecord.com/things-that-are-good-to-do

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[Add “recommendation engines” to the list of automated tech it should be possible to opt out of.] My pal Ethan Marcotte is tired of recommendation engines. You can be sure I share in his distaste.Link: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/all-watched-over-by-algorithms-of-loving-grace/

On Thursday night I attended a small gig in an upstairs room at the Old Nun’s Head in Nunhead. It was a Green Party fundraiser and also the kind of gig that appeals to me anyway. I took a while to warm up to Tam Lin, but the long, brooding, mostly instrumental piece that they ended their set with won me over completely. Volume One Tongue, a.k.a. Isla Greenwood, has a beautiful voice and amazing control over it. Me Lost Me The line-up was curated by Me Lost Me – Jayne Dent – whose electronic…

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How a Soviet Spy Helped Change the Course of the War F. W. Meredith was an Irish aeronautical genius working at the Royal Aeronautical Establishment in England. In the 1930s, the RAE was not the fusty organisation we might imagine but a hotbed of radical ideas. Meredith’s fears for Europe, which proved prophetic, led him […]

I have always been a board game fan. But unlike most, I prefer games that offer interesting, unusual, and clever features, qualities, designs, and what Board Game Geek calls ‘mechanics’. I avoid games that are highly competitive or encourage ganging up on other players, bluffing, or cutthroat strategies. Back in 1969 when I was a teenager, I discovered a new British game called Galt Connect. It was (and is) a gorgeously designed game built on the ‘mechanics’ of dominoes, where to win you have…

I run several Claude sessions at the same time in herdr, usually one per repository, and some of them run on another machine. herdr already knows the state of each one (idle, working, blocked or done) because it reads the terminal output. But to see which session wanted something from me, I had to go through the workspaces one at a time. So I made herdr-dash, a kanban board that shows every agent pane as a card in one of four columns: waiting for you, in progress, idle and done. Clicking a card…

Spent a good chunk of the afternoon exploring the Montana Heritage Center and didn’t get through half of it. Our focus was on the Homeland Gallery which presented the travesty of American colonialism plainly. A combination of artifacts, artwork, photography, and interactive exhibits wove Native American perspective into the story of westward expansion. It was powerful and heartbreaking on its own, more so in context of the current administration’s actions to suppress and eradicate this history.…

An effect is the sum consequence of your actions, the actions of those around you, your environment, your stories, and the systems you participate in. There are causes to an effect. When you change enough causes, you can change the effect. An excuse is a story about why you aren’t doing something important. Excuses are justifications. When one is no longer valid, a new one comes up to take its place. If you want to make a change, it’s more useful to look for effects than excuses. The post…