In the world as it currently functions — replete with near-forced information overexposure, algorithmic idea siloing, and digital acceleration — even the most novel or contemporary ideas can so quickly seem to become rote and antiquated, sometimes within days. It’s no wonder then that all forms of nostalgia, even vicarious nostalgia for times we never experienced, become ubiquitous coping mechanisms. We collectively seek out the stability, warmth, and comfort of home — often homes we never…

we were snuggling under the fort and you had to go pee. you ran and said, "mama, be back right!" tonight, before i left the room at bedtime, you said, "can i tell you something?" i said of course. you said you didn't want anyone to steal our house or to steal you. i told you that would never happen and you fell asleep instantly.

A poem Sometimes I stand on summer nights,look at the stars and smile as I smell the atmosphere. I grab a lightning bug and then open my hand to watch it prepare to fly again. As it does, I wonder at a creature who only wants to fly and make light, and nothing more.

I think this hits very different if it comes out even one year ago. In this environment it feels like what you're buying is a ticket for two hours of respite for slop world (so you can walk out and immediately find out that Letterboxd might be bought by the fascist new york times, in which case this review, and everything else on my account, will be promptly deleted from the website. sorry. I syndicate them all to my blog.) I think Laika knows this; at the very end of the credits sequence, they…

I appear to have caught a cold.

video games and other media usually need to be set at a certain point in timeunless youre like a puzzle game with no story but i digressand with only 365 days to choose from, its eventually going to come around to that day in your own lifenow obviously, unless the date matches too (like the half life 2 thing recently) its not going to be momentousbut i think having that bit of whimsy to note down important dates and celebrate them in the real worldthat really can brighten your day a bit,…

What’s missing from every story about Tuesday’s anti-Trump rout Journalists covered their protests, minimally, when they had to. But did you ever see diner interviews with people who opposed Trump, or feature stories on them? Did you hear their voices regularly reflected in the coverage? No, you didn’t. The media pretty much ignored their presence in the polity. Great point about the highly visible No Kings protests. They weren't covered much by the media but millions of people attended and…

Intro and Installation This is a Fedora 45 review covering installation, performance, XFCE, included applications, and the overall desktop experience to help you decide if Fedora is worth trying. Installation... The post Fedora 45 Review first appeared on Anthony the Tinkering Explorer.

Wow, I didn’t see this coming. Salon had been A Thing on the internet when I was just beginning to dive in to it seriously, and their site was a regular stop of mine for years. They went to a paywall model at some point in the early 2000’s and my readership tailed off, but every once in a while articles of theirs would pop back up in my feed. Another gravestone for the early web…

The month of Inktober starts with excitement, then the month drags on with waning interest, and finally limping into the end. I’m quite happy with this five-pack, but these pieces dip into some calligraphic habits (straight brush, flat brush, and architectural-ish wild style). , I had a hard time with figuring out what to do with gangly. I fell back on the straight brush, , I’m super happy with this one, but many of the attempts at contraption came out well. I reuse the reverse side of rejected…

There's nothing wrong with skipping around a little bit while we pursue our eldritch endeavor of trying to read at least one story from every issue of Weird Tales. So let's take a little break from 1927 and look at the January 1944 issue of the unique magazine of the bizarre and unusual. The cover of this issue was reused for the July 1954 issue, and I'm pretty sure I also saw it on some recent vampire anthology, but I can't recall the title of that recent volume. In the letters column we have…

A sub-series within Big Tech's War on Users On Tuesday, voters were asked about data centers 41 times. They said no 40 of them. On Thursday, OpenAI said, more or less, let us explain. Per Reuters, out of 41 data center ballot measures this week, all but one went against the data centers, according to Ballotpedia. Democrats flipped the governorships in Texas, Georgia and Ohio with candidates who promised to pause new data center permits and tighten construction rules. Data center operators and…

The real danger of AI (w/ Timnit Gebru) Silicon Valley billionaires claim they are building a godlike “superintelligence” that will save—or destroy—humanity. But is this apocalyptic storyline a massive marketing scheme to seize natural resources and consolidate power? Yes. This is a great interview with Timnit Gebru that helps deflate the AI doomerism that doubles as IPO hype. Just hearing a bit of the history of the way the current AI hype came to be helps cut through the illusion.

Wie kühlt man ein Rechenzentrum? Vorne Wasser rein, hinten Dampf raus? Und wenn da schon so viel Wärme anfällt, warum heizt man damit keine Häuser? Die Frage kam auf Mastodon. Hier ist der Thread. Es gibt eine Reihe von Kühlsystemen. Welches man nimmt, hängt davon ab, wo das Rechenzentrum steht und wie viel Wärme auf engem Raum anfällt. Fangen wir mit dem günstigsten Fall an. Kühlen mit Außenluft Das ist ein Ex-Facebook-Rack aus dem Open Compute Project. Pre-AI-Technik. Die Person im…

It took me the better part of a year to write Software Design by Example in Python. It would have had more impact and a wider readership if I’d done it a decade earlier, but I learned a lot along the way, and I’m proud of it. It took less than ten minutes for DeepSeek to write this lesson explaining how a filesystem works. I told the LLM to read three of the existing lessons, then create one of similar length, depth, and style; it came back with working code and prose that’s as good as any…

Showing various methods for doing linear interpolation with integer values.

When I heard the first stun grenade, I rushed back upstairs to grab my camera. The post I Went Out for Bread and Ended Up Behind a Barricade first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.

Everyone's searching for an "AI SDLC", but there's no magic product or process you can buy off the shelf and call it a day. Instead, the SDLC is now a loop with humans at the two ends. The same things still happen, but they happen differently, and you have to figure it out […]

Began: 22 Jun 2026 Concluded: 04 Sep 2026 I first encountered Base in an article entitled “Build What’s Fundable.” It was a compelling, if somewhat unintentional, sales pitch. I applied, they emailed me to schedule an interview, and I shot right back with some times. A couple days passed, I realized that there was a good chance my email hosted from a treehouse in Finland had been sent to spam, and so tried again from my school email. We scheduled an interview and a few months later I was on the…

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 15th August 2026 Many people who read this might not remember, but this blog’s early days were built on reviewing extreme metal from India, as I had just discovered the scene and its fertile underground back in 2014. Well, I’m not as clued up as I used to be, but I’ve been lucky enough to be sent the debut record from old school death metallers Crypted Hate, ‘Moral Onslaught’, which is out now self released. Ah, this takes me back… Old school is right, as…

Today’s high was just a bit above zero, so it was pretty much a completely indoor day. I spent most of it working on a crochet experiment that, in the end, I was quite happy with, even though I had to modify my plans because I was running out of the yarn I was using. … Continue reading An indoor day

StarringCatherine Lagaʻaia, Dwayne Johnson, Rena Owen, John Tui, and Frankie AdamsDirectorThomas KailOverviewThe ocean chose her for a reason.Teenage Moana answers the Ocean's call and, for the first time, voyages beyond the reef of her island of Motunui with infamous demigod Maui on an unforgettable journey to restore prosperity to her people.Review Moana This was a solid remake and a perfect plane movie. Did we need a live action remake of a nearly perfect animated film that’s only ten years…

Being a collection of Sherlock Holmes-related news bits I’ve seen recently. The comic series Holmes: Undead will be crowdfunding issue #3 next month (December 2026), with a new regular artist announced. Mato Aranda replaces Virgilio Calcagno. It’s also the first time I’ve seen it mentioned that the first storyline is six issues long. Sir Sherlock, the audio/book series starring Tom Baker (Doctor Who) as Holmes and John Leeson (voice of K-9, among many other roles) as Watson, is crowdfunding its…

The Amazing Race 39 episode 8 started with a double U-Turn—and a penalty U-Turn for Doug and Dylan—but the leg design offered opportunities to catch up.

I’m sitting in front of our living room hi-fi system, listening to a used vinyl copy of Aja by Steely Dan on the turntable I brought back from the dead. The turntable itself is a Technics SL-0033, a really nice midrange deck with automatic start and stop. It’s playing through a Denon head unit I saved from the side of the road (really, no kidding), a pair of Mission bookshelf speakers—also saved from the side of a different road, on a different day—and a KLH subwoofer saved from my parents’…

“Right wing, left wing — same bird” — Iowa Governor-elect Rob Sand on winning over voters – YouTube

I’ve used a bracket system for combat opponents in my home campaign for a while now. It’s been useful to pull stats and moves out of my butt without having to design monsters ahead of time, but sometimes it’s still a bit painful—I won’t extend the metaphor further than it has to go. I don’t like having to refer to the table in my head, and I imagine others wouldn’t like to refer to the table in the book either. The general problem of D&D combat is that ape together strong: many smaller…

AI content is too perfect… and soulless. Em dashes were a clear giveaway of AI-generated content. But you can instruct your LLM of choice not to use them and still sound robotic. It’s. Not. That. It’s. This. Beep… Beep… Maybe typos and imperfect sentences are a sign of human-written content. To show there was a human behind my words, I stopped using AI to proof-read my writing. You can instruct your LLM to add typos too. Apart from personal stories and an interesting life, brevity is maybe the…

“Wall Street sheds $3.2tn as Democratic midterm sweep triggers brutal AI rout”: The Democrats’ win in Congress was “a horrible day for America”, said a US portfolio manager with large positions in tech companies including Anthropic. A: Gobsmackingly idiotic. Q: Which two words best describe 2020s finance?

Wie lange hält ein Handy? Heute hält es oft so lange, wie der Hersteller es unterstützt. Das sind drei, fünf oder auch sechs Jahre. Vielleicht will ich zwischendurch den Akku tauschen. Danach kann ich das Ding weiter benutzen. Das war nicht immer so. Beim Motorola Milestone, dem Mühlstein, oder beim HTC Desire vergingen gefühlt sechs bis neun Monate, bis das nächste Gerät so viel besser war, dass ich das alte kaum noch haben wollte. Der Mühlstein kam 2009, das Desire 2010. Das iPhone hatte die…