This is my (Josh Bycer’s) coverage of the Latin American Games Showcase from October 2026, all games shown are either demo builds or creator fest access.

Immersed as I've been in one capacity or another (student, teacher) in the academic division of the year, putting September 1st as the signpost of an annual rebirth, and rebaptizing myself into the holy waters of knowledge, so to speak, autumn is my favorite time of the year. Not only is the feeling of organizing new schedules, new modes of the everyday, new stimuli to engage my mental

I hate seeing the lake like this. 📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR 🎞️ 55 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 1250 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tsétsėhéstȧhese/Tsitsistas/Só'taeo'o (Cheyenne) land

There is no light without dark. Right now, though, it feels like everything is black and white; black or white. The way that many express themselves feels very polarised. One thing is evil: bringing certain doom to humanity, destruction and the end of the world. Another thing is good: a promised utopia, human progress—the one thing we have been waiting for throughout the history of mankind. Today, we don't have simple answers to the challenges facing the world we are creating for ourselves. It…

Constantine's arrangement and gift of money to Valentinus for the army, to support Constantine's son in the line of succession, was almost prescient. Constantine died three months after becoming emperor, leaving his step-brother Heraclonas in charge.Valentinus and troops from Asia Minor went on the march. When they reached the strait across from Constantinople, Heraclonas wisely confirmed his nephew Constans II as co-emperor. This was in September of 641, and Constans was ten years old to…

Nick Cammarata of Goodfire makes a bold claim: Neural Networks are Already Clean. This was his follow up after various resulting online discussions. This is clearly good work that tells us new and important things. The question is, how big an update is this, how much progress does it represent and what is the outlook going forward? The reactions here range from the super optimistic takes of ‘this means mechanistic interpretability is solvable,’ or even ‘all but solved,’ with comparisons to the…

What doesn’t get cheaper↗ chrbutler.com “the work of gathering consensus, sequencing decisions, and unifying expectations costs exactly what it has always cost. That part hasn’t moved at all.”

On October 17, 2026, I released my second album of movies for your ears, cleverly titled “Side Two.” It contains seventeen tracks of instrumental music pulling from genres as diverse as jazz-funk, 1970s Italian cinema soundtracks, electronica, experimental, hip-hop, and art rock. Listen and stream on BandCamp. Also coming soon to Apple Music and Spotify. The post Now Playing: “Side Two” appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

Marisabel is hosting this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, and the theme is Pages.1 I thought I’d add my version to this appealing topic. The first thing I realized while thinking about pages is that it’s a concept, a dynamic idea, not paper pages, as I initially thought. To me, the word pages automatically connects with paper because much of my life has been tied to paper pages. I’ve tried carrying around a pocket notebook to write down my thoughts and capture ideas several times, but it never…

The previous post began with a brief discussion of the 1997 one-shot Supergirl Plus #1, an over-sized book pairing the title character with Mary Marvel. Despite how unpleasant that particular book's subject matter was, reading it did remind me of DC's Plus line of books. These were a series of team-up books published in 1996 and 1997, each of which was a fairly substantial story (around the size of an annual) pairing the title character with another character, the logos on the cover making it…

I’ve been looking at British actor Timothy West (1934-2024) a lot lately as I do

I started replying to ActBlue messages mentioning political consultant James Carville by unsubscribing with a note a la "I don't want to give money to a campaign that's going to hand that money to James Carville. I think he's part of the problem." I kinda worried each time. Democrats have a "circular firing squad" reputation. Was I furthering that? Now I'm reminded: I'm just trying to take ammo away from the circular firing squad. linked article headline: James Carville Says He’d Rather GOP Win…

My wife and I lived with dogs for most of our 40 years of marriage.Our first dog came before our daughter was born. He was our gateway "child." One of the responsibilities of a dog owner in an urban or suburban place is to pick up after it. The concept disgusted me: turning a plastic bag inside out, grabbing it with my hand, and carrying it until I came across a trash can. Honestly, I often skipped it when I didn't think anyone was watching.That said, it irritated me when I came across unpicked…

The link. The paragraphs: “Will death metal still be played in the men’s room???” the very first commenter asked. “The answer is somewhere between Yes and Hell Yes!” (Greg) Koch answered, promising that “It WILL return. Louder.”

I had the great gift of being interviewed by and having a discussion with a fellow poet, and an engaged audience, about the art and craft of writing poetry, and about revising, that wild, woolly activity. Although I acted like I had answers to the questions I was asked, I walked away, as always, questioning myself. Thinking, “Is that what I think?” Wondering, “I wonder what I meant when I wrote that…” and not entirely remembering. “Do I really believe what I just said?” (My book is called,…

I completely agree with Andrew McCarthy, who writes at National Review, that Trump's likely interference with Ukraine's access to Starlink/Starshield technology and illegal lifting of economic sanctions against Russia merit immediate Congressional attention.Not only was this ["energy ceasefire"] agreement non-existent; it was patently rigged against Ukraine. For three days Zelensky heeded Trump's warning to cease attacks on Russian refineries, but Russia continued pounding Ukraine's electrical…

I'm doing things to my art gallery again. Added tags! I mean there's always been tags (on my end at least) but now they're actually functional. I've been doing some more back-end work so I've been slowly going back and adding tags to older pieces since it's now pretty easy for me to manage my gallery. (I used to do everything by hand but now I'm using a headless cms to manage the gallery portion of my website. I'm still using 11ty but I've been looking into astro since I'm not thrilled by…

Wowza - I'm like nearly a month late on this. This is where I'd try to come up with a good excuse, but I think if I just randomly point around at things and said... "life" most of you would completely understand where I'm coming from. It's been a difficult few months for myself, and for nearly every person I know. This week I'm going to try focus on the positive and the things that make me smile, and I hope all my lovely readers can do the same! Make Music, Not War First up is the appropriately…

Me in my office, 2005. This photo proves I've had terrible posture for at least 20 years. ✍️ Reply by email

The Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence. Photograph by the author. I’ve recently returned from a week’s holiday in Florence, a much-needed recharge for me, both artistically and to remedy my exhaustion from my day job. I have visited Florence before, but that was back when I was eighteen-years-old doing my A-Level Art. So last week’s visit felt like exploring a new place, particularly the Galleria dell'Accademia and the Uffizi Galleries, as well as the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, the Bargello,…

From the ongoing publishing sensation Dungeon Crawler Carl: “Let’s get the Hell out of here,” I said. I plotted out a quick escape, leading us into unknown territory. * Escape with the best of them by reading New Escapologist Issue 19.

Second post about yesterday's Dedicated Photography Time with Daniel. The photos above are from our visit to Halde Norddeutschland. 359 steps to get up there. (I need some cardio training in my life.) It was pretty windy at the top. Winter is coming. Still enjoyed myself tremendously. 👉 View 6 more images

I have updated my tracker of ai for hedge fund startups. Beyond increasing the companies tracked, I added metadata around founder background, funding rounds, and customers.AI for Hedge Funds TrackerCategorization requires some discretion. The line between an AI-native hedge fund and a hedge fund that uses AI is somewhat arbitrary. I have been inclusive with startups building for investment management broadly, and pickier with mature companies pursuing AI strategies.AI, itself, was instrumental…

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. Awarded the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize (judged by Alexandra Kleeman), Adam O’Fallon Price’s Objects of Desire offers stories of unforgettable characters at dark crossroads in their…

A friend pointed me to this site whose owner (Josh) has started a petition to close one of 356 subway stations in New York. The station being targeted is the 3rd Avenue stop on the L train that takes commuters from downtown Manhattan into Brooklyn. At least, that's Josh's motivation since he is one of those commuters.He throws out some scary numbers.Evidently, over 1,800 hours per day are "saved" if the L train just skips that one stop. The underlying economic driver is that the 3rd Avenue L…

Inspired by a faded picture of the statue of Boadicea and Her Daughters at Westminster in an old travel guide I sent off being guided by my feet. The supposedly random stroll (something was guiding me, but what?) passed through Royal London to the Banksy statue in Waterloo Place. This London drift then goes through the storied streets of Soho, Fitzrovia, Bloomsbury, Kings Cross then up to Islington ending on Upper Street in search of a reference in an old journal to a residence of Douglas…

A collection of 103 classic games adapted for E-Ink screens, like Kindle’s. Free and open source.

The Old DiariesI recently unearthed two of my mother’s diaries, one from 1976 and one from 1981. She is gone now, and the diaries are what remain of her daily attention: who came, who left, what was said, where I was.Between them, they recorded two events that stopped me in my tracks.She was precise by nature, a detailed person who wrote things down because she meant them to stay put. I have little reason to doubt her. But I’ll note that a diary is not a camera. It is my mother’s record, shaped…

Sailor has a Steel nib fountain pen problem, and that issue has come home to roost in the Sailor Pro Gear Regular Lucky Charm Fountain Pen. While there is nothing technically wrong with how this pen performs, which I will get into below, the combination of feel and price has me regretting spending $200 (minus a 10% discount,) on this pen. That is a feeling I rarely have, so let’s dig into why. With the price of Gold nibs ramping up quickly over the past few years, most fountain pen companies…

For some of us, our very first fossil found in the field was a belemnite. Smooth, elongated and rather pleasing to the eye and to hold, these little treasures have a way of turning a casual beach walk into a lifelong fascination.For Dallin Young, that first find started his fossil obsession—and I know exactly how he feels!Imagine picking one up without knowing what it was. A slender stone finger.