“Running Around (83)” finds Valya Ying-Li Hooi once again working with long-time collaborator, Tarquin Manek, who himself caused quite a stir as Static Cleaner Lost Reward and the recently repressed “Breathing Under Honey”. The new single takes that album’s experimental dub direction, and, if anything, dives even deeper. The main body of the track is an immersive vapour. A slow, slow steady, tech skanking, with rolling bass rumbling and percussion hitting in short, sharp delayed snaps and…

The Steam Autumn Sale is here and uh, someone has ambushed my wallet. As usual, I went in with no plan and a magnetic pull toward the ‘add to cart’ button. I added eight new games and I think it’s safe to say my backlog is more of a small country at this point, it has its own economy and clearly no border control. Did I need any of these? No. Did I need any of these this week? Also no. Source

As a newsletter hawker who uses Buttondown, I appreciate that Buttondown has controls to manage how newsletter archives get crawled – by search engines, LLM tools, etc: Crawling settings. And I was chatting with James the other day and he had a clever page which uses checkboxes to create some interesting, game-like effects. I went deep on it: it was so fun to experiment with Pug and Sass: I am working on some Weird Web October submissions too: The other day the puzzle on CSS Battle was…

I recently published an article about rescuing a ladybug and katydid in my home nine days apart in September 2026. That was not my first foray in publishing bug rescue stories. I previously shared my heroic rescue of an ailanthus webworm moth from my building’s lobby and a ladybug from my TV. While I did not share these stories in article forms, I twice rescued bumblebees that found their way into my room. I have rescued a number of moths and beetles. But I do not rescue every bug I see, mind…

Kafgres: Embedding a Kafka Broker into Postgres Interesting project: a Kafka broker built into Postgres as an extension. I’ve considered Kafka for several projects, but I’ve yet to use it. It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs Cal Newport is wondering the same thing I am: Why not pursue criminal liability for them running systems they knew would likely commit crimes? There are already laws on the books against unauthorized access to computer systems. I haven’t heard of any authorities…

I've taken my Fokker E-III model and converted it into a two-gun E-IV, with a new cockpit shroud and coaming. The fuselage and wingspan were both lengthened too, though visually the difference isn't very significant.As an experiment in up-gunning the fairly mediocre E-III, the E-IV was a failure. The extra weight of the second gun and its ammo, along with the lengthening of the fuselage to cater to the altered centre of balance, made an already fairly sluggish aeroplane even worse. It was…

I used to write a review and list math-related puzzles for each MIT Mystery Hunt. Recently, my team, Death and Mayhem, started a new tradition of adding descriptions to the puzzle list. This makes it easy to find puzzles related to math. Nowadays AI can also help. So I plan to stop writing hunt reviews. So consider this a farewell to my annual MIT Mystery Hunt reviews. I will just mention some puzzles that my team loved. I will provide the official descriptions where available and perhaps add a…

I am proud to publish these excerpts from CHERRY’S CACHE by Cherry Gilchrist, a graduate of my writing course. Cherry set out to research and bring alive the lives of her forebears and her account of Ned Despard is a fascinating example of this. Ned was a man who through his sense of decency found himself fatally at odds with the spirit of his age. Follow CHERRY’S CACHE I am taking bookings for the next writing course, HOW TO WRITE A BLOG THAT PEOPLE WILL WANT TO READ on February 6th & 7th.…

Fountainhead Seen the other day. For a moment, it looked as through the flowers were perched atop the water. Quote of the Day “The love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life — will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity…”. John Maynard Keynes Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Dvorak | Song to the Moon — from Rusalka Link Long Read of the Day The dangerous myth behind AI agent…

hard to believe you've been gone for 13 yearssome days it seems like yesterday, some days notcan't believe you would've been 87 todaythankful for you always looking out for uslove you

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. Grace Byron’s novel Herculine is a brilliantly riveting and visceral debut. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “A brilliant addition to the growing genre of trans horror…a piercing…

Adventurers Character Race Class Description Ainsley Human Ranger level 1 An older gentleman with a groomed moustache and a wooden pipe in his mouth, covered in dark green cloak. Aurella Elf Fighter level 1 / magic-user level 1 Exiled and chased out of her tree commune, she now wanders the Wilderlands. Herbaecious Roncule Human Druid level 3 A sun tanned, grubby, dried-berry-looking fellow dressed in green cloak. Chews a large cigar. Ignaeus Elf Fighter level 4 / magic-user level 5 A slightly…

Alas, the time has come to say goodbye to the great Eva Marie Saint.Saint has passed away today at the age of 102.As I shared in my centennial birthday tribute, I was very fortunate to see her in person multiple times over the years, including on stage with Henry Fonda in THE FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER. I'm very grateful to have had those experiences; she was a delightful person in every way.Eva Marie Saint had a wonderful long life, including not only a great career but a happy marriage and…

The basics: Hall effect 4mm travel North-facing LEDs Knob 70% key configuration, but missing F11 and F12 Aluminum case Comes with a couple of spare switches Buying this board was a mistake. It does have an appealing feature: you can make a few changes from the board itself, without using a driver. However, the options are limited. The on-board configurator documentation is minimal. There is no MacOS driver. The Windows driver is undocumented and impenetrable, at least by me. The key feel is…

In the month of August was my birthday, and as per usual I figured it would be a quiet time at home doing nothing to special beyond maybe having some food and visiting. Turned out that the celebration or gift was not something I would have ever thought of. I’m not sure how but, my children seem to keep surprising me in recent years. I suppose part of that is because I treat my birthday like just another day, and I don’t expect anything different to happen then any other day. This year was one…

OpenAI has just released a vast number of new results in preprint form, see here. These are the products of an internal frontier model. About the AGMAI, they say they “have drawn on their advice and public recommendations⁠ to inform how we release these results.”, although one of the recommendations at the top was “we ask them to stop testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models.” Like everyone else, I’ll spend some of this evening sorting through the long list to see what is of…

o-craven-canto:Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped:catastrophe -> contraversecephalopod -> capitopedchlorophyll -> viridofoliademocracy -> populimperyhomicide -> anthropoctonyhomosexual -> equigamickilometer -> millimensureinterregnum -> mesarchymagnanimous -> megapsychicmanuscript -> chirographymotorcycle -> ergatorotemicroscope -> parvovisoroxygen -> acidofexpolyamory -> multierastytelevision -> remotoscopeuniverse -> monostrophe

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Every October 6, the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe celebrates Snoqualmie Rights Day. The sdukʷalbixʷ Snoqualmie Tribe are the rightful stewards of the land in Snoqualmie Valley and have been in the area since time immemorial. The first Rights Day was celebrated in 2019 for the 20th Anniversary of the United States Federal Government’s affirmation of the... The post Snoqualmie Falls Postcard by Edward H. Mitchell #590 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Or rather, I started crying, because I didn’t have the courage to let myself cry all the way. These past few months in therapy have been some of the hardest I’ve ever had to face, because for the first time, I’m talking in depth about how much my brother’s illness has affected me since he was diagnosed almost eight years ago. At the same time, I’ve discovered how that pain, which I thought had already healed, has manifested itself in the rest of my relationships and my daily life. How the pain…

Misty morning.

“There is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.” So the Bible says, but there was much rejoicing in heaven, or rather the second balcony of the Teatro Verdi, today over Seven Sinners (Lewis Milestone, 1925). And we don’t repent a second of it. … Continue reading Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2026: Pordenone Post No 4 →

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Bob Mackie, the costumer and fashion designer known for his work on The Carol Burnett Show and for designing fashions for everyone from Cher to Taylor Swift, died on September 14, 2026, at the age of 87. Bob Mackie was born on March 24, 1940 in Monterey Park, California. He attended Rosemead High School in Rosemead, California and then Pasadena City College and the Chouinard Art Institute. He started his career as a sketch artist with Jean Louis. It was during this period that he drew the…

As promised in last week’s post, this week we get to ride the new continuous cycle route from Woerden to Utrecht.The F12 is about 18 kilometres long and it took me under an hour to cycle from one end to …

First you get to college via the wrong metrics, as previously discussed in #12. Then things get easier. I’m still digging out from under everything that happened the four days I was gone. Normal AI posting should resume tomorrow, likely with a report from the conference. Is Our Children Learning The declines in NAEP scores and other tests seem to be concentrated on the weakest students. The bottom of the distribution is falling through the floor and the rest is mostly holding up. This does not…

[This is a guest post by Ben Antieau, cross-posted from his blog. — T.] There was no personal problem, no world problem, whose eloquent solution did not exist— somewhere in some hexagon. —Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel” [1] New repository I am writing to announce Hexagon, a new repository for research works in the mathematical sciences and theoretical computer science. This has been a joint effort of many people over the last couple of months, starting in early August 2026. We felt…

I’m a bit frustrated to discover that the Immigration Services Agency is now claiming that my application to use their website was granted on 29 September (which means I could, in theory, have lodged an application before the fee hike). When I logged in on Thursday, it wasn’t showing as granted.

After a night and afternoon in Worthing, our Saturday evening saw us venturing to another place in the county of Sussex. Read on to find out about our evening in Chichester, visiting some of the city's real ale pubs....Chichester is the county town and only city in West Sussex, situated around 18 miles to the west of Worthing and 30 miles from Brighton. There is a regular train connection from Worthing, and our journey to this historic city took us less than half an hour. We arrived in still…

Combining arts, politics, economics and bisexuality, James Graham has already chosen John Maynard Keynes for Radio 4's Great Lives, it was only a matter of time before he wrote a play about him. The Standard of Living takes us from the start of the First World War to the fallout from the Second as the economist Keynes* (Rory Kinnear) starts to get the ear of the government despite being a conscientious objector. He spends his days with the Bloomsbury Group, including Virginia Woolf (Naomi…