Charlotte Tobitt, writing for Press Gazette, about subscription plans Meta introduced last month, that effectively monetise the posting of links from some Facebook and Instagram pages: Under the Meta One trial, those restricted from posting links would have to pay $49.99 (£37.65) per month to post eight links, $149.99 (£112.98) to post 20, or $499.99 (££376.60) for an unlimited number (alongside the other perks included). These are monthly fees, not annual. Three-hundred-and seventy-pounds —…

Jonathon proclaimed that Jonathon Harbeck is Fake, but I have a bit of a hard time believing that while drafting this reply to his post. That aside, his homepage bio, "Let's discover and realize our potential", is a good segue to what piqued my interest in his post: Here's the bloody scab. I didn't build anything significant in the last ten years. No record of writing or ideas I can share with others or my grandkids or anyone. I didn't make anything worth saving. I didn't contribute anything of…

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Silas House’s The Tulip Poplars is an unforgettable, moving novel about forbidden love in Appalachia in the early 1900s. Bookpage wrote of the book: “Silas House’s The Tulip Poplars is a…

I din't know this phrase was a Japanese proverb. The first time I read it was on this card in high school. I played it in my Goku deck. It's mechanics have nothing to do with starting over, in fact it's just a counterspell that gets exiled after use. I was pulling an eBay order today when I flipped through the DBZ commons to get an energy attack card when I saw it. For whatever reason I thought "Well of course Goku can do this that's his whole bit." You beat a Saiyan to the ground and if they…

Learn how to use startup configuration files to run package entry points when the Python interpreter starts up. A startup configuration file is a file with the extension .start. Starting from Python 3.15, the Python interpreter uses startup configuration files to run package entry points when the interpreter starts up. Here is an example of a simple startup configuration file that installs error-links when the Python interpreter starts: error_links:install The entry point error_links:install…

Nikola automatically adds the date of publication and updates to blog posts, but most templates do not do the same for pages. I use static pages for things like policies and I wanted them to be able to show when a policy was last updated. This post describes adjusting a Nikola theme to show publication dates and to automatically append a list of dates that the page was changed. Installing the page template We need to copy the page template into our theme: nikola theme -c page.tmpl Having done…

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 Stars - 18 years late, but somehow I think I get more out of it as an adult. The post The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) by Suzanne Collins appeared first on The Wallflower Digest.

The 2026 edition of the Vancouver International Film Festival felt bigger than previous years. Over its eleven-day run, the venue list changed and expanded; the festival screened over 250 films; Vancouverites and VIFF-goers I spoke with seemed more aware of more of the programming—especially the VIFF Live programming; and I accidentally attended a lot of screenings where cast and crew were present. To me, that all indicates that VIFF as an organization is healthy. (Not that one of the largest…

Brunette River, pre-run: Feels like early morning light, but it’s 10 a.m. I was originally planning to run at the lake but headed out a bit later than normal, so changed to a river run to start the week. Now, let me show you on the doll where the run touched me: My left knee has been stiff for a while now, but it’s generally not be an issue and has been a non-factor on runs. Today I could actually feel it for the first few minutes. It didn’t hurt, it just felt stiff. Once I’d warmed up, it went…

Just three weeks after the October 4 bus upgrades, with benefits for Caroline Springs, more bus improvements are coming Sunday week, October 25. These will give some welcome coverage and connectivity gains. There's interesting things about some of the timetabling choices made, which I'll cover here. 140 Rockbank - TarneitThe biggest change is undoubtedly the extension of the 140A, which since June has run from Rockbank to Mt Atkinson. The 140A was only intended as a temporary route to provide…

This is not how most people use them, but there is a way for LLM agents to bring your mind and fingers closer to the code instead of further away, so that you feel more practiced, not out-of-touch. When you give them a tutor-specific system prompt, modern LLMs in a harness adapt well to a personalized, interactive tutoring role. I’ve done enough of this to report that it has increased my net motivation for the cognitive work of non-machine learning, despite its increasingly-questioned economic…

Have you heard the good news? I bemoaned the approach of putting an icon in every menu item by default which shipped with macOS Tahoe — but now it’s gone in Golden Gate! John Gruber wrote about this reversion back in June, including the fact that Apple’s new Human Interface Guidelines specifically call out Tahoe’s approach to menus as an example of what not to do on macOS. As the old saying goes, it takes a big man corporation to admit when they’re wrong. As I mentioned in my original post, one…

TL;DR: Dropping razor blades down a wall cavity and letting autonomous agents merge uninspected code share the same fantasy: that unobserved spaces have no consequences. Adulthood is realizing caretaking is still on you. Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash Hammer in the ceiling, razors in the wall For most of my adult life, I've had this quiet, recurring thought: sometimes, I am the only conscious observer of a thing. There are spaces where no one goes. When I happen to be the one standing…

I continue low-intensity work on Quamina; among other things, it benefits my my mental health. At the moment there’s this little voice at the back of my brain that keeps saying “This would be a great job for Claude.” So far I’m ignoring it, but the internal conversation is worth sharing. Disclosure I’m not a GenAI expert, have never relied on it for any substantial piece of work. However, I’ve seen plenty of PRs with LLM fingerprints, and I follow a whole lot of indie devs who are in it up to…

Hey all, We wanna stay focused on actually progressing on our projects, so… we’re starting a new post series here on the blog. We don’t know how long this series will last, but… if it helps us keep ourselves accountable even once, that’ll be worth it. We’re gonna check in here once a week to share what we’ve been up to. The main thing We’ve picked up Heartbit again. [Read more...]

a long while ago somebody did "silly things I hate" and i posted one and anyway i thought this sounded nice. Numbered to keep count, ordered by when i thought of each one. I started this post in May 2026 & am publishing Oct 19th. "Think of your arms like noodle arms" - (yoga with) Adrienne says this in a video and it makes me so happy every time lol. "Think of your arms like noodles" is my expectation When i'm mowing my back yard & i stop to pickup a big stick and i CHUCK it to my back porch.…

I've spent a great deal of mental energy ruminating about things I've said and done. Those thoughts that come when I lay down in bed or have any real moment of silence. Replaying my words, practicing other things I could have said, trying to decide how bad the thing I said was. Very little of these thoughts are really directed toward those I may have hurt. They're focused on me, my social performance, my reputation, my embarrassment, me me me. The anxiety says I need to focus on myself and…

Without further ado, here’s my final banzuke guess.

I’ve been marinated eggs as well as meats with Kikkoman Soy Sauce for a very long time. Recently, they reached out to be and asked if I’d like to check out other products they produce – and of course I said yes. Let’s take a look at some things you might not have known they produce and might want to check out! Thank you to the folks at Kikkoman USA for contacting me! Kikkoman USA Sends Soy Sauce & More The post Kikkoman USA Sends Soy Sauce & More appeared first on THE RAMEN RATER.

...You should read the Wired interview with Nathan Fielder. It's very good. It's also behind a paywall, so do your best to see it, I guess. I have spent a lot of today thinking about the movie and also about this interview. I have seen a really remarkable amount of life-changingly good cinema this year. It's a very good time to be alive and to be Going To The Movies. I saw Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie this year, AND You Can See Everything. Thank you, Canada, for your cultural gifts! I…

Two sections meetSeen in the street beneath our feet, the proud sections of this bridge joint are shined by wear from vehicular traffic.

You can't beat the smell of a horribly charred Cambodian in the morning, especially if he's been playing a plethora of Psyched up garage tunes in what sounds like an empty School hall on the outskirts of Phnom Penh during Year Zero.The original Nuggets involved suburban american teenagers trying to sound like British Invasion groups and failing, all in mom and Dad's Garage.Not sure they have Garages in Cambodia? However This jolly fine compilation of acne scarred Cambodians doing their fuzzy…

A quieter week than most, but a good one regardless. The highlight was the theatre on Saturday to see Matthew Bourne's The Car Man. It was a busy week for reading too as I finished two books and started a third. The weirdest thing that happened this week was watching a car pull out from a side road and completely miss the fact there was a small traffic island in the middle of the road. I watched them cut the corner (to beat the traffic, obviously), drive straight into the traffic island, and…

As anyone who knows me is aware, I have more than a couple of projects going at any one time, but over these 16 years, Birchtree is the one constant that has never gone away. I pushed hard for several years, trying to gain traction. This was back when Twitter was the old Twitter we all miss, and I would try to get into the fray and (probably annoyingly) tag people I looked up to, hoping they’d read what I wrote. But I was constantly writing – I was trying to write sensationalist headlines and…

For a given prime , the Legendre symbol is defined as follows: if is a quadratic residue modulo , then ; if is a quadratic non-residue modulo , then ; and if divides , then . Let be an integer that is not a perfect square. (One could require to be a fundamental discriminant if desired, although it turns out to be immaterial for the arguments here.) By combining quadratic reciprocity with the prime number theorem in arithmetic progressions, one can show that the Legendre symbol is asymptotically…

Nvidia’s Vera server chip aims for high per-core performance. Its Olympus cores have massive out-of-order structures and use high per-clock throughput to meet that goal within a high core count server chip. Core design however is only one part of the equation. Off-core memory access can heavily impact core performance, and higher core counts complicate interconnect design. The task of feeding Vera’s Olympus cores falls to Nvidia’s second generation Scalable Coherency Fabric, or SCF. SCF plays a…

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If you’re in a band and having arguments, which means you’re in a band, because they all have arguments all the time, ask yourself: What do these people want from me? What is my role in the band? And then ask yourself, am I supposed to be doing anything extra? First, check and make sure that you’re doing all these things. And then see if you’re butting in on other things and giving opinions. As you’re well aware, nobody cares what you think about things unless they ask. And they’re not going to…

It's an acronym I was not familiar with until recently: NIMBY -- Not In My Back Yard. Last year I was visiting a vineyard in southern England. Yes, the South of England temperature spectrum is warming to support serious grape growing. During the tour of the estate we were shown extensive vineyards, beautifully manicured, creating an impressive spectacle. The cellars were excavated below ground, and some small buildings offered tasting sessions and appropriate nibbles of food to enhance the…

If you are lighter than me, you are colorist. You are my oppressor and you owe me reparations. If you are thinner than me, you are fatphobic. You are my oppressor and you owe me reparations. If you have more money or material resources than me, then you are classist and you owe me reparations. If you are American, then you are my imperialist. You are my oppressor and you owe me reparations. If you are from the West or of European descent, then you are racist. You are my oppressor and you owe me…