From Japan, 1941: Countdown to Infamy, by Eri Hotta (Vintage, 2013), pp. 75-78: By February 1932, the three Manchurian provinces of Liaoning, Heilongjiang, and Jilin were all under the control of the Japanese army. That garrison forces could occupy portions of China without formal approval sent a dangerous signal. Young and frustrated soldiers, willing to blame those in power for various social and economic difficulties facing Japan, had been wanting to force radical change for some time. Now…

It appears that a new US record company called Delectables has decided to re-issue old European CD compilations. At least that's what you can see by carefully examining the tracklist of their first production, a compilation titled « Fantabulous Legendary Rockin' Fifties » (no joking) : 1 - Eddie Weldon - Cooler Weather (Marly 105, 1960).mp32 - The Belvederes feat. Jim Kelly - Walkin' in the Garden (Jopz 1771, 1959).mp33 - The Sultans - She's Got It (Backstage 1101 , 1964).mp34 - Patty Ross -…

It’s funny to hear developers whine about AI-related job loss. Software typically exists to do things humans would have done manually (and been paid to do).Anyone who’s been a professional engineer long enough has effectively eliminated thousands of jobs.I don’t see a future with fewer engineers than today, but the barriers to entry and the optimal skill sets are changing. That will push some folks out, but it’ll open the door to many who just never groked code.

It’s the time of the leaves to turn ombre, the time when it’s acceptable to start drinking bicerins, and the season when the veil between this world and the next thins and you can see the ghouls on the other side. Oh, and it’s time for links: Rock Social, where you paint with rocks. Check out Geokash’s entire site, she creates refreshingly unique thinks and the photo-essay of how she made her “geodeck” computer is interesting. I also recommend https://hallucinate.site, a massively multiplayer…

Is AI-produced work inherently (and importantly) different from one that is entirely made by a human, even if we cannot tell the difference? If you fool me by telling me only halfway through a piece that it was made by AI, I’m impressed. But now I hear it in a new, flat key, and finish the track only to be polite. This isn’t out of some principle: I just don’t find it that compelling or moving and can’t seem to get into it because I know there’s no one there. The Inventor of the Thinking…

Absolute Superman #24A Rafa Sandoval Regular Release: Oct 07, 2026Cover: Dec 2026 ABSOLUTE STEEL SUITS UP! Get Brainiac continues as Superman enlists a new ally in his search for his most fiendish foe. But if the man known as Steel is going to join the fight, he’s going to need a new suit of armor… Creators WriterJason AaronArtistJuan FerreyraCover ArtistRafa SandovalCover ColoristUlises ArreolaLettererBecca CareyEditorChris ConroyEditor in ChiefMarie Javins Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees…

There’s not much on Just For A Life, a tribute album to Slowdive curated by now-defunct shoegaze blog The Blog That Celebrates Itself, that would have caught my eye or ear when it was released in 2017 – I knew the songs, obviously, but none of the artists. Ten years later, I still have never […] The post Plant Cell – “Shine” appeared first on Space Echo.

Over at his newsletter, Dan Cohen has a brief history of how Zotero came into existence.

⏱️ ~05:30 total (? actual) ⇄ 57.7km ⌀ ?km/h ↗ 11m ↘ ?m Group outing on Sunday with FIAB Ruotalibera, from Cesano di Roma station to Parco Leonardo station. Perfect day for it, sunny but not too hot, although the technology let me down. I've missed lots of FIAB excursions this year for a variety of reasons, mostly being too busy at the weekend, but this was one I was looking forward to. I know the area well, having lived nearby for a while before moving into Rome, and was excited to see what…

RemoveMacAI: An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back "defaults write -g ComputerUseAllowForbiddenTargets -bool YES unlocks full YOLO mode for ChatGPT/Codex app in macOS" "Another useful one: BROWSER_USE_SECURITY_MODE=disabled-for-local-testing The codex built in browser has a load of features but its permissions gated, even with yolo mode. OpenAI seems to want to pretend you use the built in…

As I enjoyed one of my morning walks, I noticed there was not a bit of wind. Everything around me was very quiet and perfectly still. There wasn’t a rustle of leaves, I didn’t hear birds, it was just very quiet. I glanced to the west and noticed the air over Tucson was perfectly still as well. This was evidenced by the smog layer that had settled over the city. It formed a perfectly straight line across the entire metro area.

A lot can happen when you take a one-thousand year nap, and there may or may not be consequences when you wake up. Author Mia V. Moss takes an interesting look at false narratives and wrongfully upheld beliefs in the Big Idea for her newest novel, The Heresy of Thieves. MIA V. MOSS: Humans are story-powered creatures. We tell stories about the stars, the seasons, ourselves, and each other. And if we are very rich or persuasive in other ways, the stories we tell about others are the stories that…

Waterslides on the cruise ship Carnival Magic as it sails in the Gulf of Mexico. The post Slides in the Sky appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

There is a lot going on this week: bond yields continue to rise, and OpenAI published proofs to 400 outstanding math problems. I want to focus the discussion on the debate over “strivers”. Consider the tweet below: Seeing the striver discourse, one difference with Western obsessives is that a parent notices genuine talent in the kid, and then sacrifices everything to make sure it gets developed. Mozart benefited from having a father like that – but he probably would have become a musical… —…

The Community Memory corpus consists of approximately 5,500 scanned printouts of bulletin board-style posts made by Berkeley residents in the 1980s. Since residents posted messages through publicly accessible terminals, the postings reflect a potentially distinct and broader population than other computer-facilitated networks of the time (e.g. Usenet, The WELL). In advance of a potential project to translate the scans into an indexed, machine-readable form, we evaluate the optical character…

In the 1980s, the personal computer placed microprocessors onto desks, replacing mainframes with graphical desktops, where Microsoft built an empire by taxing the operating system. In the 1990s, the commercial web connected those machines through the browser, creating an open protocol layer where Netscape proved the market before Google established a tollbooth over human attention. By the late 2000s, smartphones and cloud datacenters turned computing into an ambient pocket utility, swapping…

You know you’ve made an indelible mark on your craft when your longtime employer launches a premium line of gear and then puts your name on it. Chuck Taylor, eat your heart out. Michael Jordan? Pfft. Congratulations, Tom Rosenbauer. You have officially arrived.

Imagine you're building a web app that provides one of these experiences: Custom echo cancellation or voice processing. Note taking from a meeting or lecture playing in another tab or application. Livestream production or music creation tools, which process audio from different sources. To build these, your app needs access to the audio that's playing on the user's device. This could be the audio that's coming from a browser tab, another application, or somewhere else on the device. Let's call…

I was a big girl this week and I finally read and closed all the tabs I had open. Here's my picks from that selection. Fresh browser start - here I go. Bookmarks related to tech and web development Native HTML and CSS Features That Replaced JavaScript by Ronalds Vilciņš. What happens to our blogs when we die? by Michael Harley. favicons to go by Robb Knight. My HTML boilerplate in 2026 by Manuel Matuzović. StaticHost. GoAccess. Pixquare. What happened to the frontend by David Poblador i Garcia.…

Here is my own recipe for falafel, a fried chickpea dish that can be a light snack or part of a meal. While falafel would typically be deep fried, I find that process messy and a pain to clean up, so I experimented a bit and have settled on a very quick and easy solution. This recipe was entirely developed from scratch by myself and is probably not entirely authentic. Note: This recipe is on its fourth iteration; I do not consider it perfected yet, but it is ready to share with people in its…

I’m working on keeping my blogroll current, highlighting blogs Written by friends Focused on my interests (gardening, birds, Detroit, Michigan, science, and positive news) Publishing posts at least once a month. My update for fall 2026: Rewilding Institute. I discovered their website a couple years ago, when I began my efforts to convert my lawn to native plants. Finally subscribed to the Rewilding Institute weekly digest newsletter this week. If you’re interested in conservation, healthy…

Since Daniel and I started The Rocker Step —— subscribe if you love me, btw —— I've levelled up my live-clipping game. In all honesty, yesterday's clips are less spectacular (and less plentiful) than Monday's, but there's still good stuff in there. 🏀 Warriors rook Yaxel Lendeborg with a strong take (and the harm). 🏀 My son/Nets second-year guard Nolan Traore gets to the rack with the quickness. 🏀 Nets second-year guard Drake Powell with a pretty layup. Powell had been blocked immediately before…

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Via Marcin Wichary's excellent blog, Unsung, where he riffs off Marques Brownlee (aka MKBHD)'s video talking about YouTube's new "feature" of letting creators A/B test their videos:On top of all that, we can add what Brownlee started with in his video: overeager A:B tests feel like software’s version of gaslighting. How can you trust an app if it feels like it’s changing without rhyme and reason seemingly on a weekly basis, whose changes are not announced or documented anywhere (small A:B tests…

If anything looks wrong, read on the site! Context When Apple unveiled Liquid Glass and showed the new floating URL bar for iOS 26, a sense of dread set over me: what is the browser going to do with the space behind the URL bar? So many websites rely on the URL bar being an opaque (or nearly opaque) part of the UI, and therefore anchor important elements to the bottom of the screen. The web is built on many things, but one of them has always been the most important: backwards compatibility. A…

West Norwood Cemetery is one of the famous ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemeteries in London. Others I have written about previously include Highgate, here and Abney Park here. They are all fascinating, sombre, atmospheric places to wander around, bursting with stories but also spaces of peace, solitude and nature. West Norwood is the resting place for a […] The post From Doulton To Mrs Beeton: Exploring The Amazing West Norwood Cemetery appeared first on Living London History.