It has been a busy summer over at Inanimate. Yes that is still a holding page. Bringing up a new consumer electronics company is, uh, kinda intense. So where we’re starting with the whole room computer, ambient intelligence thing is WORKS: five limited-edition devices for your AI agent and you. Firstly: five?? Yeah haha it’s wild. It’s one platform, many instances. But also: what are they? At this point I would recommend you go watch our latest vid from this week… Watch: WORKS in Progress:…

Smells like pizza. On plane to Ottawa to a friends wedding. [redacted, for now] I keep saying I’ve never been poorer but yeah… a new low. It kind of sucks. It’s humiliating. There is no dignity in poverty. I see where the saying comes from. I keep saying this is a lesson i’m learing. But man… do I want this lesson to be over. A steady income. A steady place to stay. A steady… sense of self. I see why people cross oceans for the hope of accessing it. Steadiness. It truly is a luxury. // A lot of…

Accidentally, I only bought German releases today. The full discography of Aphroe is off 50%—that’s seven releases for less than 15 €! He is one of the best hip hop lyricists in Germany and I highly recommend that purchase. I’ve owned almost all releases already, but it is nice to have the full catalog on Bandcamp and, of course, to support him a little. I finally bought Klirre’s debut album Eat Your Bricks. You can ctrl + f for him on this page, he’s come up; it’s only a matter of time once I…

I came across this post from Ben G and thought I'd try to do something similar.If I've done things right then there will be something at the bottom of this post inviting you to like or comment on bluesky and mastodon.If you could like or comment on Bluesky or Mastodon I'd appreciate that. Just to see if it's working. You don't really have to like it. Just 'like' it.I'd also like to try and get blog mentions happening too but that seems a bit more squirrely via Ghost so it might have to wait.

Happy birthday to me and a surprising number of folks in my extended family! What'd you get me, studios? Mainly, Digger, the new Alejandro G. Iñárritu film starring Tom Cruise as an oil billionaire whose operations have apparently caused and environmental disaster and brought the world to the brink of World War III. It kind of looks like a cautionary tale about trying to make Doctor

Recently the New York Times asked actors, show runners, insiders, and other TV enthusiasts to rank the best tv shows of the 21st century. They then came back and asked readers the same poll and noted the differences. Here are The top TV shows according to 100,000 New York Times Readers. I agreed with a lot of the choices (or they were shows I hadn’t watched) until about the mid 60s and then it started to fall of the rails. Rick & Morty coming in at 101 (on the runners up list) is a travesty.…

This summer I did the adult summer reading program at Melrose Public Library: Under one reasonable definition of "summer," here are the books I read this summer, in chronological order: Sartor Resartus Everything We Do is Music Notes from a Small Island Make Believe Prisoner of Trebekistan The Song of the Lark A Month in the Country Banal Nightmare Gullah Geechee Home Cooking Norwegian Wood The Hound of the Baskervilles Music: A Subversive History Persepolis Romola All the Beauty in the World…

Mix by DJ STUXNET Intertext · Digital Listen & Download Tracklist REMEMBRANCER 1: "AMOR FATI" (58:56) Notes None. Credits STUXNET is Tyler Etters.

All economies are cyclical. But in recent years the UK economy has been like a baroque town clock – one where a cuckoo pops out every 60 minutes, a peasant girl emerges every four hours to chase the geese, and at midnight the clock face spins wildly around before ending up exactly as it started. This article can be read by selected Monevator members. Please see our membership plans and consider joining! Already a member? Sign in here. The post Their first home. The next buying opportunity?…

there is an inward cut i feel when passing by life happening around me people out with their best friend in newtown stumbling from one venue to another or heading to a party dressed up and full of joy or glancing at people they fancy with that glimmer of hope and optimism that they may glance back and each others night's may blend into one with a story to share with other when you're older\ this wound is from everything i didn't do or didn't have a chance to experience or decided to withdraw or…

AI;DR – Implementing this feature, investigating the bookmark problem and writing this blog post were done mostly by Claude Code. If you don’t want to read “AI slop”, stop reading now. Delphi 13 no longer comes with a source code formatter: Embarcadero removed the old one together with other legacy code. But the Open Tools API of Delphi 13.2 has a new interface that lets a plugin take over the IDE’s Format Source command (Ctrl+D and the editor’s context menu). GExperts can now register its Code…

You've seen the demos. Someone spent an afternoon romancing Claude and built the thing the business has been asking about for years. Everyone is impressed and can feel the possibilities unlock, looks are exchanged, this feels like a game-changer and that we're now living in a different world. You might even be thinking about what to build next. As the applause dies down, some poor soul scarred by years of broken promises squeaks, "When can it go live?". You can feel the mood deflate, because…

Quick post today, as I travel across several American cities: United States attitudes towards higher education soured yet again, according to a new Gallup poll. The main question asked this time was “How important is a college education today — very important, fairly important or not too important?” It’s one Gallup has asked regularly for decades. Here are the results, measured against annual reports dating back to the late 1970s: Look at that sheer plummet from 2013! The “very important”…

I just published an article titled Trackback Spam on Iroha Isshiki Hair Color Study. In that article, I covered a rather impious spam backlink to one of my family friendly Japanese 2D person hair color research articles. While that article never, to the best of my knowledge, attracted visitors looking for impious content, there was one case where I discovered that The New Leaf Journal did in fact benefit from web surfers with impious interests. I had intended to share this story a long time…

There are many reasons I do not enable comments on articles here at The New Leaf Journal. Among those reasons is spam. I have comments enabled on our Guestbook page and that page alone receives hundreds of spam comments every week. Fortunately, the very effective free and open source Antispam Bee plugin sends the spam comments directly to my spam folder with a 99.9% success rate, but I shudder at the thought of how much spam there would be on more than 1,700 articles and short posts (and…

Gull (2025) / Leica MP. Summilux 35mm.Sal's follow-up to my post about ending my Linux experiment includes a note about Apple Messages. I can't believe I didn't mention that. One of the biggest drawbacks for me on Linux was not having easy access to Messages. (Nearly) everyone I correspond with uses Messages. I hate typing anything on my iPhone, so having to switch to my phone to text someone was no fun at all. And forget about sharing a funny meme or whatever. I could never get KDE Connect,…

London does Christmas well. The lights are beautiful, the windows are works of art, and the Christmas markets are full of lovely things. And then there are the Christmas experiences – as many of them as there are Christmas lights, it seems. You could go the DIY route, and it’s never not worthwhile, but sometimes, it’s nice to turn up and be entertained, rather than standing on Regent Street wondering whether the angels are better from here or from the other end. But how do you choose which ones…

Written in 2023 at the very dawn of AI among the general populace, this little series of poems and collages proves that, sometimes, the sex really is in the machine...read it HERE...

Four more really great shoutout requests from my Private Collector crew on Patreon, some fun fanart and extremely fun JigZeni~ It’s the beginning of the month, which is the best time to sign up for these! You’ll also get access to my entire archive of either SFW ($5) or NSFW ($10) art, comics, and… over 100 sketchbook PDFS?!

Here’s the latest video from Vanessa Wingärdh. This video highlights how everything we buy today is much worse in quality and experience versus how things were before 2020. It’s being a customer versus being a consumer. I agree with most of the points in this video, and Vanessa does a great job of articulating and showing exactly what is happening in 2026. We don’t deserve this. I also learned today that some self-order kiosks will raise the prices on your order if you select “no tip” when…

Susan Pedersen’s LRB review (24 September 2026; archived) of Twilight of the Dons: British Intellectuals from World War Two to Thatcherism by Colin Kidd combines snarkiness with imperturbability in a way that is pleasing to me; it doesn’t hurt that I agree with both her premises and her line of argument. She starts off with Noël Annan’s Our Age, an apologia for “those members of his generation who, as he put it, ‘make their times significant and form opinion’” and continues: Annan perfectly…

OverviewThis week’s urgent work sits inside systems that defenders and IT teams already trust: Citrix access gateways, Cisco’s SD-WAN manager, a help-desk platform, secure email appliances, remote support clients, and security products protecting a cryptocurrency exchange. Several of those systems were not merely vulnerable. Attackers had already used them to gain administrative or root access, deploy persistence, or reach high-value internal services.The practical distinction is between…

Photo: Marina Waters, via Book Riot. According to Book Riot YA author John Green has set a world record by signing 875,557 tip-ins — leaves that will be pasted into books once they’ve been printed and bound. I guess if you’re going to sign almost a million autographs, it saves a whole lot of time if you don’t actually have to open up books. This total does not count the uncounted copies he’s already signed in the old-fashioned way — by opening up the book. The book Mr Green is promoting right…

A whiteboard variant appears in Zero Day s01e05 (Netflix, 2025). ▲ Zero Day s01e05 (Netflix, 2025) ▲ Zero Day s01e05 (Netflix, 2025)

Yet another run where I can hardly stay in Zone 2. I talked to my trainer, ChatGPT, about it, and apparently it might just be accumulated fatigue from training. It recommended taking a week off from pushing myself too hard. That might actually make sense, so I’ll report back on whether it helped.

The real start of autumn and the end of Hyperion, more Traitors, and some P5T and FGO grinding. I've been semi-unemployed for less than a week and the words are flowing for blogging. I guess I had a mental backlog of stuff to write about. Still pretty tired though so none of it is very polished. Still haven't heard anything about the interview I had last week. I'm going to therapy for the first time in a long while today. It's annoying that I've spent literal years on the waitlist for free…

I saw these two Blue Goatfishes hunting with a Bluefin Trevally one morning, and particularly liked the look I got from the goatfish in the center!

I met Titanium, the maker behind Penultimate Inks at the Dallas Pen Show and felt like kindred spirits. I was so excited to see the selection of unique ink colors all named after D&D characters like Paladin, Barbarian, and Cleric. Are these the perfect ink to use for your gaming journal, Gamify planning or just for everyday. My first experience with Penultimate inks was at the Ink Crawl following the Pelikan Hub. There were nine colors at the Ink Crawl and they were all amazing. A lot of the…

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