She floated weightless, in the vast nothingness, long full of power she had no need to use, no desire to use. She looked upon the world, and saw the people, their joy and sadness, their long depressions, and their eras of bliss. She – though their was no gender in this formless void – decided it was time to venture, to experience for herself. Her will drifted across the world, looking for an anchor, looking for a place to cast her magic. She began as any human does, a clump of cells, dividing…

Title: Street Photography Africa Author: Nadine Barth, Azu Nwagbogu, Tosin Adeosun Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pages: 256 A bold, dynamic, and definitive survey of contemporary street photography from across Africa, featuring leading image makers shaping a vibrant and exciting genre. Energetic, colorful, experimental — street photography across Africa has a well-established and complex history, and its own unique dynamic. From classic compositions of architecture, people, and movement, to…

Thankfully everything posted on Reddit is truthful, right? Right..? The post It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests appeared first on @Kevuhnn / 📸 / 📚 / 🇨🇦.

So great to get to see friends that you haven’t seen in a while. Was fun to (briefly) catchup with Patrick Rhone at our Things 4 Good candle fundraiser.

I was watching The Four Seasons yesterday, and there were a couple of actors I wondered who were. I mean, not Alan Alda, but a couple of the others… so I hit the “Emacs, tell me who what is” button on my remote, and nothing much happened. So things had bitrotted once again, which isn’t weird — the code is a bit of a Rube Goldberg thing which you can peruse here, but I wouldn’t really recommend it. But I’ve spent the entire day fixing it, so I deserve to complain aimlessly in a blog post, right?…

My plan for my vegetable garden is coming to fruition. Here´s some of the steaps I took to set it up for Autumn.

There is a folder on my computer called garment. Before that there was one called time, and before that, disk, display, cybernaut, machine. Each one began the same way: I came across an image somewhere it didn’t belong — in an article about something else, at the bottom of a search for something unrelated — and looking at it brought a theme to mind. So I made a folder, named it, and put the image inside. Then I added to it, for months. Hundreds of images later, that folder is a mood board. This…

Can you believe I basically knocked out a full series of G.I. Joe: Classified Series reviews in one week? I can't, either! Today I'm checking out the Hydro-Viper, the final figure in the summer 2026 single boxed series which also included Airtight, Sundown, Overkill, and Dawn Moreno/ Snake Eyes III. So... what exactly is a Hydro-Viper? I'm glad you asked. We've already had the Cobra Eel in the Classified Series along with the standard Cobra Diver (from the 2-pack with a Joe diver) but now we…

Postcard From The Past #4: A rare 1920s real photo postcard of an open top charabanc outing to Gough’s Caves in Cheddar, with running board destination sign.

Jesus Fucking Christ! Fucking Jesus Christ!

In my last post I was waiting on a second CD-RW drive from eBay, hoping it would let John’s TASCAM 788 export his songs to WAV. It arrived, and it half works. The 788 sometimes writes a disc and sometimes stops with the same PANIC message as before. At one point I deleted every song from the 788 except the one I was exporting, and that export worked, so I wondered if the 788 was running out of disk space. But then later exports failed anyway. After a lot of experimenting with two different…

Tramvia Blau No. 5 at Plaça Kennedy and Avinguda del Tibidabo. This weekend, 7 and 8 November, Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) and Barcelona’s Sarrià - Sant Gervasi district celebrate the 125th anniversary of Tramvia Blau. It has been closed for repairs and modernisation since 2018, with little sign of going into passenger service anytime soon. Since then, trams 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 129 have been declared cultural heritage items (Bé Cultural d’Interès Nacional) on 23 May 2023 and…

I spent a pleasant morning at Red Alert, making a couple of small (but hopefully useful) upgrades to my main Airsoft rifle (MTW). I changed the routing of the air line for the HPA engine, routing it out the back of the rifle, under the buffer tube, moving it from down the hand grip. I also replaced the stock grip with a grip containing batteries and switch, so that I can power the HPA engine with that, rather than needing to install a Li-Po battery each time. These were reasonably…

Wstęp to wpis z poprzedniego weekendu o zaskakującej jakości modelu Qwen 3.8 9B by Empero. https://megafon.tomash.eu/llmy-do-agentow-na-domowe-gpu Aktualizacja: ten model jest zaskakująco sprawny jak na model 9B, no i pozwala na 16GB VRAM odpalić ze sporym kontekstem rzędu 80k bez kwantyzacji K-V. Ale na tym samym sprzęcie można uruchomić Qwen 3.8 27B ridge (3.69 bita na wagę, kwantyzacja zresztą też od Empero) z kontekstem skromnym-ale-pracowalnym rzędu 32k (Q_8), i 27B to jest jednak o wiele…

Thursday 12th November at The Old Hairdresser's: Lorraine sends her apologies as she has had to pull out of the gig.I will be screening Stories from the She-Punks: music with a different agenda before my set.Timings as follows:7.30 doors open;8.00 'Stories from the She-Punks'8.45 break;9.00 Helen's set10.00 finishTicket link here: https://wegottickets.com/f/26674/(the ticket details are in the process of being changed) Photo by Ruth Tidmarsh

Just had a thought that Bitter Lesson applies to so much more than AI and compute and all that.📚 Richard Sutton's 2019 essay: general methods that scale with computation beat the human knowledge we try to build into AI.It's about discarding old thinking and cruft when something better comes along. It's a general progressive ethos thing, if you think about it.Think about old lawmakers, or principal engineers, or others who have lifetimes of experience and know what should and should not be…

Recap: Last month I invited you to spot the ringer in this group of four apples from Indiana farmer David Doud. ¶ The quartet consists of three new apples from the Midwest Apple Improvement Association and one apple that is more than 100 years old.

Following Robert’s and Kev’s leads, here’s my Knowember post. A photo I took this recently in Manzanita, one of my favorite spots in Oregon. It’s about two hours from home, and I spend a lot of time out there with my family. Standard iPhone shot with my usual disclaimer: I don’t know how to camera. Name or nickname Sal is a pseudonym. When embarking on this latest blogging effort, I was trying to decide on a name for the site. I landed on Sally Forth, as that felt like an apt description of…

Leah McSweeney's lawsuit against Bravo has been settled. I went into court filings and found her Real Housewives of New York City contracts—which include the incredible Bravo Talent Guidelines.

We were not expecting the documentary lens and I don’t think it played well because the cameras were often positioned theatrically while the camera operators were, like, messing with the scenes? The spookiness eventually got to a high level but it took soooo long so get there and along the way we had to hear every character say “Mink!” approximately 3 million times.

Imagine you have a friend who has seen basically every movie or TV show ever made. They’ve read every piece of analysis. They know the plot, the themes, the sub-themes, and the sub-sub-themes. They’d probably be pretty good at six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Sure. But they’d also probably be pretty good at seven degrees of your taste. Given thing you liked A, and thing you liked B, what else might you like? The hard part for them isn’t knowing the path from A to B, the hard part is knowing A and…

Readwise has long been my read-it-later and book/article/essay-highlighter of choice, so I’m excited to see them unveil their new ebook app Readwise Books. But they’re not just making a great ebook reader: there’s also an independent bookstore offering an alternative to Kindle and Apple Books, and it’s all tied together with a Goodreads-esque social layer. Building an independent bookstore in 2026 is courageous, impressive, and more necessary than ever. The nice reader app is a cherry on top,…

🍳Today was a warm chicken soup kind of day. Super nice including the ciabatta bread but Yasmine and Ryan complained about the ginger - next time I’ll grate it rather than chop.

What I'm...Current on "vacation", so I don't think I'm going to do a full Now update. "Vacation" just means staying at a hotel in Indianapolis away from home and my job. I've been singing "You'll Be Back" a lot with accompaniment to get on time with it, and I've discovered placing my tongue forward (closer to the right way, I believe). Still keeping up with my Melvor Idle character. You know, maybe I hate my Now template and should just freewrite about my week's updates. 7 Brew losing its…

Les Lupins (1858) by Maurice Sand. From Légendes Rustiques by Georges Sand. • “Was one of the great novels of the Enlightenment written by a man who thought he was a werewolf?” Tobias Grey on the complicated history of a complicated novel, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki. The restored print of the 1965 film adaptation by Wojciech Has was recently released on blu-ray/UHD by Radiance. • “He has managed to move beyond the greyish, crushing density of his drone-doom background…

The AM Relic 80 is a $600 keyboard that I’ve enjoyed considerably after replacing a lot of what came with it. There is something faintly ridiculous about spending that much and immediately making a pile of discarded switches and keycaps. But that’s part of the hobby. The leaf-spring suspension is excellent. It gives the keyboard a yielding, resilient feel that makes typing satisfying. That part of the design earned its keep immediately. The stock linear switches were another matter. I prefer a…

Autumn is my favourite season. I love the crisp chill in the air. I love my big scarves and woolly beanies. Hot soup and fresh crusty bread. We just spent the day at the Ayrshire coast today. The woodlands and the surrounding sea were magnificent. Here’s to a wonderful season as we barrel along to Christmas and the new year. Hope all is well on your side of the screen. For Debbie’s Six Word Saturday

I have a lot of intrusive thoughts, especially in relation to self-sexualisation. At times they get so bad that they influence my behaviour. For example dressing a certain way to get more attention, feeling immense anxiety or pressure to look good, seeking out validation, etc. In my first relationship I conflated these feelings for dissatisfaction in my relationship. Though I think in part this is still true, I think a lot of what went wrong and my desire for novelty was this addiction to…