2026 UPDATE: Three years ago I finally grew a rutabaga after years of trying. I was so proud of it I had a photo shoot. I mean, it was a thing. I grew it again this year. It was one of only 5 or 6 things I grew at my big garden this year. I...Read More

Whenever philosophers sit around trying to figure out what it actually means to be a “good person,” they always muddy the waters with impossible standards. They talk about altruism, radical empathy, and walking fifty miles in someone else’s orthopedic shoes to understand their pain. Who has time for that? I have trouble walking fifty feet in my own shoes without tripping over something. It’s exhausting. And frankly, it sets the bar way too high for everyday humans who are just trying to get…

🛌 One of the few pleasures in life, that feeling you get when you land on fresh sheets and pillow.

Tonight’s movie is one I have not seen in a very long time.I saw Witchboard when it first came out, but I have not watched it since. I remembered the Ouija board, obviously. I remembered Tawny Kitaen. I remembered that it was one of those movies that seemed to be everywhere on video shelves for a while.Witchboard (1986)Jim (Todd Allen) and Linda (Kitaen) are throwing a party at their new place when Brandon (Stephen Nichols), Jim's friend and Linda's ex-boyfriend, produces a Ouija board. He…

Kid Bucle – “Bahia” Kid Bucle – “Memorabilia” Dubbel Dutch – “Full Break” (Dave Quam Remix) HVL – “Survivor Acid” HVL – “Test Subject” The post New Hots Hots 31 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Tags: #sketches #places #portraits Korean shaved ice milk.The woman came out of nowhere and said “I was waiting for that spot” with a raised voice, slight accent and an angry look. “What. But.” We were already exiting the car. She pointed to her white Tesla Model X, the same one that had been backing out of another “add-a-spot” location at the head of the alley between the strip mall buildings when we arrived. “I was waiting for that spot” she said again, forceful, frustrated, even domineering.…

Is it still worth to code or should I learn to use ai instead? What do you actually need to be able to do without AI? Today I went to Reddit for inspiration and found almost the same question all over the place: Should I still learn to code? Yes! Here’s why: #1. Coding teaches you transferable skills. Like problem solving and troubleshooting. #2. Coding teaches you how to learn any skill. You can’t simply learn all “coding” at once. You have to divide a skill into subskills and other learning…

It is sad to observe when a basic human need is put on a pedestal only because it is socially programmed to seem scarce with so many hurdles in the way to have that basic desire being fulfilled. I see, young man in my surroundings thinking and joking about marriage almost all the time. As marriage is still the only path to fulfilling one's sexual desires for a number of people. Marriage is synonymous to having sex and sex alone. Nobody even fakes to have warmth or a long lasting relation that…

The first issue of Dark Horse's new Ravenloft comic is out. Is it any good?Well.It's fine, but it has some problems.The premise is semi-interesting: Rudolph Van Richten is off on some sort of expedition--and is needlessly tight-lipped about what he's up to or why--and his goodbye note to Ezmerelda D'Avenir, the Weathermay-Foxgrove twins, and Alanik & Arthur sounds so much like a suicide note that they all set off to find him. This first issue focuses on Ezmerelda's search. (I know we're…

Lady A’s “Need You Now” is sheer pop music perfection. What do they say? “Change my mind” You can’t. It’s perfect. Lady A all the way.

Every few months someone declares that management is dead. Big Tech is in the middle of a Great Flattening, and there are companies that have a single Director managing 80 engineers and a fleet of agents with nobody in between. I think it’s the opposite. Management is becoming more important as AI changes how businesses work, and the job itself is shifting faster than most managers have noticed. Let’s talk about what’s changing and how to deal with it. Changes Here are the biggest themes of…

I’ve never been to Machu Picchu, but it was the site that demonstrated to me at an uncomfortably young age that history wasn’t just one thing but many, and that those many things were subject to a wide range of interpretations. Even, possibly, that they might end friendships. Which is appropriate, because that’s exactly what Wiñay Kawsay, designed by Alison Collins, is all about. Machu Picchu, from above. At a sky-high level, Wiñay Kawsay is set at Machu Picchu. You can see it right there. The…

I am a Plex lifetime subscriber. Within the last week, I’ve started seeing unskippable ads before and during movies I’m playing off my home server. Oh hell no. Jellyfin, here I come. I’ll be damned if I’m watching ads injected between my home server and my own TV via a service I already paid a lot of money for. See ya, Plex. You were good before the enshittification.

This morning I did not want to get out of bed. Let alone to go to the gym and get beat up. But I did. I learned some fun techniques that I enjoyed drilling, and then had a fun five rolls. All in all a good morning’s workout. That said, it would be nice if bjj were the hardest thing in my day. Instead, I feel like I’m getting beat up building my business as well as on the mats. Just a lot of days showing up and the progress feels indiscernible. I’m tired. _ Reply via email

WARREN MURPHY “Another Day, Another Dollar.” First published in Murder on the Run: Stories from the Adams Round Table (Berkeley, hardcover, February 1998). Reprinted in The Shamus Winners: America’s Best Private Eye Stories, Volume II: 1992-2009, edited by Robert J. Randisi (Perfect Crime Books, 2010). To start with, if the guys who run the Private Eye Writers of America want to call this a PI story, I’m not going to argue with them. It’s close enough, even though the leading protagonist is a…

Years ago I purchased three collections of art by nnxyz on nifty.ink. I’ve now archived them in better detail than they were ever before available on my nnxyz collection site. Nifty.ink captured all art in dots and strokes so I used that to render SVG versions of all the art. Lovely. 🎨

Als Sun MySQL kaufte, hatte Sun ungefähr 33.000 Mitarbeiter, MySQL ungefähr 500. Beide hatten Mitarbeiter in etwa 30 Ländern. Ich lebte in Berlin und bekam eine Mail: Ich könne meinen Mitarbeiterausweis in Raum soundso abholen. Stellte sich heraus: Der Raum war in München. Ich fragte, ob ich dafür jetzt eine Dienstreise buchen solle. Die Antwort war ja. Eine weltweit verteilte Firma setzte voraus, daß ich in einem bestimmten Gebäude saß. Das war schon damals Quatsch. Heute würde derselbe Laden…

A message to Apple from the W3C Technical Architecture Group: We expect user agents to make installation an obvious affordance to users. Specifically, we expect the install option to clearly name the action, and to be easily reachable from the browser’s UI. An entry inside a menu with an unrelated label (such as Share), or several menu layers deep, does not meet this expectation. adactio.com/links/22799

by Cláudio Alves Fair warning, the fall festival coverage isn’t over yet – it will never be over! I kid, I kid. We’ll conclude the TIFF odyssey next Tuesday, exactly one month after the 51st Toronto International Film Festival screened its last picture with a very silly convo between myself and Brian Rector (aka Eurocheese). Until then, I still have more reviews to drop, mostly capsules that will hopefully spark your interest in smaller films likely to be released in limited form this year or…

I've been reading a lot of commentary regarding literary adaptations. Sometimes, its readers who feel like the new medium did not give a favorite book or franchise justice. Others, its critics doing the same or faulting the adaptation for being too much on-book and therefore uninteresting. A couple days ago, we finished the last few episodes of the new CARRIE series in one fell swoop and it was all that we imagined it should be, natural given Mike Flanagan's record of adapting things that…

First reaction: Whoa, I didn’t realize I’d clicked an AOL link. Second: LOL, so that’s what they’re up to these days. Third: clicks Back button

Pluggable Authentication Modules can be pronounced: As an initialism: “P-A-M” As an acronym: “Pam” I’ve always pronounced it as the acronym “Pam”, but I’ve been on enough calls with people from different age groups and regions to know this isn’t universal. I was curious to know how widespread this difference is. I have a Mastodon poll open for the next couple of days, or feel free to email. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-10-14.

Among newly announced reality competitions: Peacock's version of the campus game Assassin, plus Big Brother's producers giving away $1 million after 24 hours instead of $750,000 after three insufferable months.

One thing that might be fun to add to the ⌘1/2/3 tab post is this: while ⌘1–8 select tabs from the left, ⌘9 doesn’t jump to the ninth tab, but to the last tab: I think it’s thoughtful – a recognition that both edges are important. (Previously we’ve seen Bear understanding that, too.) Why not ⌘0, though? Sure, you can say it’s not as elegant (0 is smaller than 9), or that it wouldn’t work in Hungary… …but I think the Occam’s Razor is simply that ⌘0 has already been taken by a popular “zoom to…

Was talking with some friends the other day about my concerns with the increasing number of surveillance cameras (and other devices) that seem to be springing up all over my city. See here: What are these cameras up to? Anyways, I mentioned the company Palantir, which nobody had heard of. When I explained what they were about, there was much doubt that they would be up to anything that malevolent in Australia…. The company specialises in creating detailed profiles of people by combining large…

“Nope, Ur 2 Late; I Alrdy Died” (Lil’ Rolex) by Brynn (</3) Miche “Nope Your [sic] Too Late; I Already Died” by wifiskeleton Lola Jusidman

“Nope, Ur 2 Late; I Alrdy Died” (Lil’ Rolex) by Brynn (</3) Miche “Nope, Your [sic] Too Late; I Already Died” by wifiskeleton Lola Jusidman

When a group of former childhood friends reconnect, their reunion takes a wild turn as they stumble upon a dangerous international plot—and must save the world. Remember how we used to play with Matchboxes as kids? Well now let’s steal that nuclear bomb and save the world. I was expecting something completely different from this movie and it’s just a Fast and Furious look-alike with some chase scenes, some jokes that mostly miss the landing, John Cena with a pretty solid performance, a HJessica…

This will be a talk for the NYC Math Education and Communication Seminar, 20 October 2026, 12:15 – 1:15pm, at the CUNY Graduate Center in midtown Manhattan. Epistemic Logic Puzzles for Mathematicians Joel David Hamkins, O’Hara Professor of Logic, Notre … Continue reading →

Do you remember “Everything is a Remix,” the series of work by Kirby Ferguson? His main premise is that almost all the creative work we see in the world derives inspiration from what came before it. I think Apple’s just-announced HomeView may be the latest entry in the list of things that prove Ferguson’s point. To put it in another set of terms: the HomeView is “new but somehow familiar,” to borrow a Jony Ive phrase. I think it applies to just about every aspect of this product. The product…