The first recording today starts with the end of Copycats. There’s a trail for Ultimate Summer programmes. Then it’s Deadly 60 – Australia. Steve Backshall takes a microlight to look at the Australian landscape. He looks at the Cane Toad, a hugely invasive species which were deliberately introduced to kill insects which were eating the sugar cane crops, and it was discovered that they were useless at that, but they ate everything else, and they are also poisonous, so they’re not eaten by other…

I really love Sophie’s newsletter You Are Doing A Good Enough Job, which was both the inspiration for Kaijuville and its original launch vehicle. I love Erin’s newsletter The Old Shoebox; I aspire to the kind of enthusiasm and joy she brings to her deep dives there. I read every issue of Escape The Algorithm, and while I wish they were more frequent, I also like the way Elan Ullendorff publishes it only when moved to do so. Conversely, I depend on the clockwork cadence of reading Numlock News…

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Thus far this past week, we have attempted to trace the intellectual origins of Ronald Coase’s counter-intuitive idea of reciprocal harms to his undergraduate years at the London School of Economics (see here and here), but as I asked at the end of my previous post, what if the English economist had developed his model of reciprocal harms after his undergraduate years at the LSE? More specifically, another possible catalyst of Coase’s reciprocal-harm axiom is Chicago economist Frank H. Knight…

Checking out the Renoir silents with my faithful playlist of weird jazz. Cute riverboat girl Catherine “Nana” Hessling loses her dad to a random fall overboard and becomes the ward of her abusive uncle. Things aren’t gonna get any better from here, if the film title is to be believed. She meets a charismatic poacher named Weasel who provokes the locals into burning his house down, the girl left crying while Weasel skips town with her dog. But the girl doesn’t deserve all this torment by 1920’s…

Every documentation site has an AI agent and a human reader nowadays, where AI agents are dominating the number of requests sent to the server to fetch a docs page. Agents fetch pages with HTTP clients and either use tools like web fetch to read the context of HTML or if provided, the markdown content of that page. When a URL is missing or is referenced in a wrong way, these two readers need different responses. For humans, you would use a 404 page with a link to homepage or a better and a…

I’ve read The Breakout Principle by Herbert Benson and William Proctor as part of my exploration of the concept of creative incubation. The subtitle of this book is “How to activate the natural trigger that maximises creativity, athletic performance, productivity and personal well-being”. Notes The main claim is that certain physical activities can interrupt current mental patterns and encourage new insights and greater productivity. We can learn to trigger this state. The authors argue that…

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Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 17th April 2026 Dutch anarchist black metal project Drang have just released their debut album back in April, and were kind enough to get in touch to let me have a listen to it. I always like to make sure I review work by small bands who contact me directly, no matter what its like and how long it takes, but I immediately took to Drang’s sound on a cursory first listen. ‘De Doorbraak’ is out now self released digitally and also through Fiadh Productions on…

Earlier this week I asked a question on Mastodon: “Who are the Jane Goodalls and David Attenboroughs of software?” Goodall was a primatologist best known for decades of research on chimpanzees, and Attenborough has been making nature documentaries longer than I’ve been alive. Both are well-known to the general public (at least in the English speaking world) and have been powerful forces for good. Which means that the answer to my question is, “We don’t have any.” If you ask someone who isn’t in…

The idea of “superpersuasion” has been floating around the AI safety community for decades. Now that powerful and difficult-to-control LLMs have appeared, people are again talking about the idea that a sufficiently intelligent AI might be able to persuade people to do whatever it wants. The classic1 version of this idea is an AI persuading some engineer to “let it out of the box”: to grant it access to the internet. The modern version of this idea is the “killswitch”, where if some AI ever does…

Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have looked at our own heavy and escalating life challenges, at the UK law and policy-scape, at the immense threats to trans life and trans childhood in the UK, and said to ourselves, “things are really bad and getting worse – if they get any worse we really should try and leave”. Every year we have looked…

After making my previous map "One Need Not Be A House" for Quake Brutalist Jam 3, I swore I wouldn't make another giant non-linear castle island single player Quake level.... anyway, this is another giant non-linear castle island single player Quake level called "Mermaids In The Basement," made for Quake Rooftops Jam organized by Naitelveni and Sock. You can download and play Rooftops Jam now on Slipseer! It has 19 rooftop-themed maps.I couldn't resist the rooftops theme, and it quickly grew…

# The migraine EP is now available That's right, four acid tracks (including a revised version of postdrome which was originally released on 909 Day) moving through the disorientation, pain and exhaustion of migraine, where the world narrows, time stretches, and the only way out is to sleep. prodrome/aura attack phase postdrome sleep it off You can listen and buy it on Bandcamp here

I'm in a group project, and my prof released the readings late in a database that refuses to log anyone in. My two other group members and I were on a mission to fix the login and access the textbook, but we got the runarounds ... the poor front desk staff told me to email the company. We decided to sail the seven seas as a last resort, and that's where the fun began (for me). The open access part of the database only had the title of the book & the authors - no info about the edition, or the…

Last City of London tour of the season tomorrow. Click here to book Commemorating the ninetieth anniversary of the Battle of Cable St Portrait of Beattie Orwell by Phil Maxwell It was my delight to accompany photographer Phil Maxwell to visit one hundred and five year old Beattie Orwell (1917-2023) and sit beside her in her cosy flat while she talked to me of her century of existence in this particular corner of the East End. A magnanimous woman who delighted in the modest joys of life, Beattie…

One of the fundamental tensions in American (and, arguably, Western) culture and law is the five-way tug-of-war amongst privacy, freedom of speech, intellectual property, distrust of monopolies, and access to information. Every nation balances these differently; indeed, every decade balances them differently, and every information user1 balances them differently. All too often, a display of

In my mid-thirties, I grew dangerously depressed. I did not look depressed, if there is a look, did not talk sad, did not verbalize despair, but inside… I was losing any ability to feel. Love, anger, hate, hunger, fatigue, joy… nothin’. Why get out of bed ever again? I was the single parent of a young child, so the Slough of Despond was an untenable option. I could still think–thank heavens for that–and I asked myself: When was the last time I was happy? Most of my regular commenters have heard…

We’ve been lucky in that we’ve had time to prepare for all these krazy typhoonsA lot of times for these typhoons, I plan out what we’ll eat for the next four or more days so I won’t need to leave the houseSince Satoshi went to work during this last “typhoon” I had to make sure he had stuff for his bento too.Anyway, I had bought chicken breast for one of our dinners so I had to figure out how to

At last, another month we say good bye to, and all of a sudden, the year is on its final stretch, the days go by faster and faster, and I am getting old with everyone around me! In any case, there’s plenty of stuff to go through here, media, movies, videogames, podcasts. You Know the usual stuff! I have decided I would highlight the best things on this little intro, in case you are bored or looking to just skim through. Podcasts: The Play Station Episode of Into The Aether, The Wolf 359 podcast…

THE STORY: Valerie King is having a dinner party. She's invited eight guests, among them Sheridan Keith Wesley, a private detective. Included in Wesley's invitation is a $100 retainer. He's being hired to attend the party...and do what, he wonders? When he arrives he discovers a motley group of people none of whom claim to know one another. But although all the guests showed up, their hostess did not. Wesley and his wife Diane decide to do a tour of the grounds and they find Valerie's naked…

Delightful birthday dinner at Alastair and Hamish’s Lark Farm ;-)

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. Nick Francis’s graphic novel The Tumor in the Clay is a stunning debut. Shinichi Sakamoto wrote of the book: “The Tumor in the Clay is an astonishingly immersive experience. My heartbeat…

By Ben Miller Alejandro G. Inarritu's Digger is sure to be divisive. While you might have an understanding of the film's tone and messaging early on, a sharp-left turn in the narrative reframes your entire comprehension of what transpires. It's a real mess. It's going to be very difficult to talk in detail about this film without discussing spoilers, but if you are confused by reading my review, imagine how you would feel in the theater. When the "twist" happens, I stared at the screen…

23-09-26 You can't possibly be putting up another trip to the Botanics where not very much happened just because you've got round to editing that comma footage shot the day before? Exactly, let's do it! 😁Same robin as yesterday. Maybe it remembered me and the food I gave it, but today, with very little prompting it took food from my hand. Which is always a thrill.Akebia fruit!Akebia fruit: inside, it contains a translucent, gelatinous white pulp filled with numerous small black seeds. The pulp…

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Back to @sohoplace, the theatre with a name so current it's learnt almost half the moves to the "Tragedy" dance, and a new revival of one of the definitive 20th century American classics. In Edward Albee's pitch-black 1962 tragicomedy Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Question Mark Gillian Anderson plays Martha, the daughter of the elderly president of a university. Her husband George (Billy Crudup) is a lecturer in the History department, briefly its head but only when all his other colleagues…

For use with Dolmenwood. Rites by which the old gods are asked to interfere. A witch is bound to one of the Gwyrigons and may learn its rites. Each rite leaves an Obligation. It may not be used again until the Obligation is fulfilled. Refuse it, and the Gwyrigon falls silent until the debt is paid. ErttaErtta the Devouring Mother concerns ageing, death and decay. She moves in the winds above the Wood. Empty SeasonDead leaves, nail clippings and a mouthful of grave soil are sealed in a clay jar.…