The Traitors: New Blood episode 6 was, thankfully, a full episode, though what exactly the players were doing throughout it remains a mystery.

So I’ve made it through the week with one pick. If you’re not a musician, you don’t know how hard this is to do. It’s taken an extreme amount of concentration on my part, but I’ve done it. But gig is tomorrow, and it is literally the only pick I have like it. I’m bringing a backup just in case, but this is a challenge I’ve never done before, and so far it’s working. What’s the point, you ask? There is no point, just like life. I just wanna see if I can do it because every time I play bass or…

Well, shit. I just learned that the white and red cross in the Maryland flag was actually adopted by Confederate sympathizers in the state during the Civil War (I still, after 20 years, have to remind myself that I’m south of the Mason-Dixon Line) and legislation was passed banning its display on grounds of treason. 15 years after the war, during a 150-year celebration of the state’s founding, it was combined into a design with the heraldic banner of Lord Calvert, which had been adopted by the…

As I alluded to in my previous post, I've got a new job. I'm a research associate at Colorado State University, working at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA). For the first time in over 20 years, I'm working for a local organization, the biggest local institution, in fact. Riding my bike to the office, learning to pack a lunch, all the things. I'm helping several research projects use satellite imagery to derive global cloud properties in near real-time. Yesterday I…

...belies the dense day ...day thick with the fog of worry ...worry having compounded over a life ...blessed with gifts and cursed with loss ...just like everyone else on this vale of tears. a call goes unanswered... a wish bends to the wind... the wind blows my heart hither and yon... until it sinks to where it must... into a dream of falling, flying, rust. once upon a time a boy found his father when the man was at a loss what to do next and the universe quietly said: "pause, find, here."

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It has been a good day, too. Much of the day was spent getting as many little things done before heading out. Things I won’t be able to do for weeks, after the surgery. Of course, that meant the phone kept ringing. The pharmacy. Home care with their annual call to my husband. My mother. … Continue reading Last day

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Abracadabra, the defi project behind the Magic Internet Money (MIM) stablecoin, is shutting down. It blamed its string of hacks: $6.5 million theft in January 2024, $13 million in March 2025, and $1.8 million in October 2025, which altogether left about $21 million in bad debt. According to the shutdown proposal, 22 million MIM are in circulation, backed by just $900,000 in "actionable backing" which puts the supposedly dollar-pegged token at about $0.04. Two wallets voted on the proposal.In…

And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them. Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked. When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country. Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom…

I added a new Upcoming feature to Release Notes: Release Notes now has a new section for what’s coming next. In Upcoming you can save birthdays, anniversaries, trips, and one-time events. You can choose when you would like these events to show up in your Release Notes. Trips include a destination with a start and end date. All of these upcoming events are private to only you. I’m having a lot of fun journaling each days version.

In the 1990s, users of some Unix-based operating systems would sometimes see a peculiar error. It happened occasionally when sending an email to a person you might have already sent email to before, and in addition to the error being confusing, the message itself was particularly bewildering. Let’s say you wanted to send an email to “MWichary.” Instead of a confirmation, you would see this: 550 mwichary... User unknown: Not a typewriter As many strange errors tend to be, this one was at an…

When Porsche announced its Porsche 911 NFT project at Art Basel Miami in 2022, it promised holders "he opportunity to co-create Porsche's future in the Web3 universe". Turns out there wasn't much to that future.After bungling the mint, selling fewer than 2,000 of the planned 7,500 NFTs after buyers balked at the 0.911 ETH (then $1,490) pricetag, the price went nearly exclusively downhill. Now, with the NFTs floundering with floor prices down 96% from launch, Porsche has announced it is ending…

Years ago I discovered the work of nnxyz on nifty.ink. I acquired a few of his pieces and grew to like it more and more. I ended up collecting four complete collections of hundreds of pieces. I had always wished to create a gallery like experience for anyone to experience. With the help of AI I was able to make that vision a reality. Check out the nnxyz rooms. Some highlights of what the website has. Every drawing can be watched being made. The 574 Nifty Ink works are rebuilt from their…

Tonight I am heading back to school.Unfortunately, it is a Lucio Fulci school, so this will probably not end well. This one has been on my list for a while, but I never got around to watching it. It is *slightly* outside of my range, but 1987 is on my mind right now, and I thought a college-era movie with psychic shenanigans would fit well.Ænigma (1987)Kathy (Milijana Zirojevic) is a student at St. Mary’s, an exclusive girls’ boarding school outside Boston. She is lonely, awkward, and the…

Igloo, the company behind the Pudgy Penguins NFTs, announced it will shut down Abstract, its Ethereum layer-2 blockchain, on December 15. CEO Luca Netz said the company had lost "8 figures" in the less than two years they were running the chain.Users have until December 15 to move their assets, after which anything left on the chain will become inaccessible. DefiLllama estimates there were around $76 million in assets on the chain when the shutdown was announced, leading some users to complain…

by Cláudio Alves Latin American storytelling at TIFF wasn’t just about great feats of actress-ing, as I explored in part one of this miniseries within the broader festival coverage. Another common thread found between several projects was an exploration of queerness in its many forms. From an Irish studio's attempt to honor a Dominican child’s journey of self-discovery to a French-Haitian tale of sexual liberation from the chains of Christian fundamentalism, the Toronto program had much to…

As part of my plan to move from Digital Ocean to alternative hosting, I need to start picking away at some of the services hosted on my droplets. I may as well start with the oldest first: I've got a droplet with an uptime of 1300 days. I named it Fridge. It's acting as a static site host for a couple of sites, including this blog. Mostly, though, it exists to be an "apex domain bouncer". You see, lots of services let you host a Custom Domain on their platform. However, few of them properly…

Near Intents, a cross-chain swap service, halted operations after an attacker drained around $3.8 million by exploiting a bug in its Omni layer.The next day, Near Intents posted addresses for returning the funds and threatened the attacker: "We have identified you, sir." The attacker returned everything the next day, in a transaction that included an on-chain message saying "We've returned all the funds, we were in the wrong". Near Intents confirmed the funds were returned, and said they were…

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Individuals often have good reasons to indulge in delusions, such as re superstition, astrology, religion, or their own personal destiny. But society usually has less of a reason to indulge them in its policy analysis. For example, we shouldn’t be funding larger institutions of research to elaborate astrological theories. And even if people find value in their folk physics, folk econ, or folk psych, researchers shouldn’t be working to extend these frameworks, though we might want to understand…

iPhone Duo preorders open tomorrow. AppleCare seems like a very good idea for this product: Repair Price Cover layer damage $49 Back glass damage $199 Battery service $229 Rear camera damage $229 Outer display damage $379 Outer display damage $509 Back glass damage $509 Inner display damage $999 Other damage $1,499 I’ve been using AppleCare One for a while now, and recently moved to the AppleCare One Family. For my family, it was a good bit cheaper than all five of us having our own AppleCare…

I’m reading Ivan Illich’s “Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health” for the third time, and Illich’s writing reminds me of the writings of Nietzsche in that they are gnomic, aphoristic, metaphorical, and poetic. Readers are left to do a great deal of work as they are charmed by the rhythms, images, and wit. Illich’s book might have had a much longer shelf-life if had concentrated on the gnomic, aphoristic, metaphorical, and poetic and not included so many data and…

Find all previous and future episodes listed here or in your podcast app under “Barbican Station”. This episode I talk with returning guest author Frank Sennett about episode 5, We talk about that crazy ending, what’s the matter with River and misty morning airfields. Plus is Taverner on the ropes, is a Safe House really safe with a Slow Horse in it and how Oldman has made Jackson Lamb fit him like a very tight glove. Finally, we circle around to the question of whether we have we ever seen…

Justin Kroll / Deadline: As director Matt Reeves continues to attend to an ongoing family matter, Steven Soderbergh is coming on to help finish principal photography for the final weeks of DC Studios’ The Batman Part II. The news comes after production was paused on the film so that Reeves could focus on the personal matter. Really surprising news out of DC Studios this evening. The production of The Batman Part II — not unlike its predecessor, which had a number of COVID-related delays — has…

Last issue I asked ya'll for questions, and I got some really lovely ones, and then I got hellaciously sick — "just" a respiratory viral thing but had a fever, basically slept straight through for several days, etc. etc. So, no newsletter last week.This week I'm answering the following question, from an anonymous writer.How do you find energy to come home after work and invest time in hobbies that take skill and effort to learn and refine? Even when so-called "motivation" strikes, by the time I…

Andrew Deck and Hanaa’ Tameez, Nieman Lab: Meta can use web scrapers to crawl and collect content from websites “associated with” business accounts on its platforms, according to its new commercial terms of use. […] The new terms broadly cover business accounts that manage pages and groups, run advertisements, push marketing messages, and use the platform’s business account dashboard. As written, the new terms could be used to argue that Meta can scrape content from news sites and use that…