The Chills, Thrills and Kills book bundle runs for the month of October. It’s a chonky bundle, over 80 books of varying size for $69 (nice). My ghost story, “Always and After,” is included. Check it out if you’re in the mood for something creepy. Cover photograph by Valeriia Neganova.

by Cláudio Alves While our TIFF 51 coverage isn’t over – sometimes, it feels like it will go on forever, with Eurocheese and I falling into Sisyphus' fate – one must acknowledge the other big festival of the moment. Right now, the New York Film Festival is blessing audiences with some of the best in world cinema, from September 25 to October 12. As we’ve done in years past, Joanna Sodeman-Taylor will join me in covering the fest from a distance, relying on screeners and whatnot. Hope you enjoy…

tag(s): #español #emacs El domingo hice un post relatando los pasos que seguí para tener fuente del sistema y de aplicaciones Flatpak en japonés. Así puedo ver sitios en japonés sin que sean un mar de cuadraditos.[1] Ah, y ver letras de canciones en Cider. =P También compartí un pequeño snippet de Elisp para complementar mi fuente normal con otra para caracteres que corresponden a un cierto alfabeto particular. Más correcto, más claro Cuando llegó la hora de poner todo en mi repositorio de…

The Terrornauts (1967) Scientists make contact with an alien outpost stationed on a nearby asteroid. Before you can say, “plot complication,” the scientists (along with a meek accountant and an outspoken lunch lady) are whisked away to the asteroid, where they’re confronted with portals to other worlds and hostile aliens. To make matters worse, they’re locked in a war between two extraterrestrial civilizations – and all this for a budget that would make Moon Zero Two look lavish by comparison.…

RAID Array Mischief is intentionally a lean and mean game. The goal is to get a table of people playing one of your poor, neglected adventure modules in as little time as possible, which is why there's no character generation and there's a single shared memory sheet. In my open table lunchtime game, I even skipped any assignment of "Positronic Clusters", the mechanical differentiation of different players at the table, until after a session or two so that players could jump right into the core…

I’m almost done with all the improvements I wanted to make at the start of this series. Only two left. We’ll start with disabling tailscale subnet routers as they aren’t needed at the moment. Tailscale subnet routers come in really handy when you have a bunch of devices on your network and you can’t or don’t want to install tailscale on all of them. I still have devices that meet that criteria, but I think now that I have caddy setup as a central access to most of my services, I don’t need…

Did BB28's privileged white guy who came into the game with a fuckload of advantages win $750,000 on Big Brother 28?

i'm participating in weird web october again this year! if any of the themes sound interesting to you, i hope you'll consider making a silly page about it. i love a silly page. you can find mine in the usual place, and you can follow everyone's wwo pages with this handy RSS feed.

As I approach 130 days of walking at least 10 miles per day (yikes), I’ve noticed the decay all around. Mostly wooden decks. The type of decks built onto houses. I notice them, and they’re beat up, falling apart, faded. And I think about when they were built, and how enthused the families must have been. The outdoor meals they’d have, the friends they’d host. I think about this too with the basketball hoops in the drive ways. The ones that are rusting away, the nets falling apart from multiple…

In yesterday's Lyte Bites, I shared a link to an app I've started using to provide me sound throughout my day - Coquiet. What I didn't notice is that the site also has a journal with a handful of posts, including one on what they describe as a "gentle way of starting a habit."The one-line morning. Make yourself a coffee — or tea, or warm water with lemon; the drink is up to you. While it's still hot, sit down with a notebook and a pen, and write one line by hand. That's it. One line. Not a…

Search for View advanced system settings Hardware -> Device installation settings No Many thanks to Bashkarla @ Windowsloop. Their article includes how to do it using GPO + other info.

Hey there. Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week: #1. Do you remember the first lines of code you wrote? I do! It was in school using QBASIC. Here are 10 lines of code that shaped a career (6min). Maybe you recognized some of them too. #2. When AI handles almost everything, we lose touch with our systems (6min). Just like pilots, we should train for what the autopilot can’t and shouldn’t do. #3. The saying is true: We’re either the customers or the product. And we’re the…

Coffin Joe is still a real asshole to everyone he meets – an atheist and completely insufferable about it. In the last movie, after killing a bunch of people, he ended up blind, insane, and dead. This one simply opens among a mad montage of grave-clawing hands and squigglevision credits with [townspeople] “he’s still alive!” [doctor] “he’ll see again!” [judge] “exonerated for murder!”, and then we get on with it. The townspeople gather to shout about their women who’ve gone missing, figuring…

My music library is still a mess!I’m finding folders with no files within.Where did they go?I was in the mood for some Duke Ellington with Charles Mingus; and the mp3’s were missing! 😱Shout Out if you feel me!My resolve is to inspect every single folder (nearly 900 of those bad boys!). I just took a snap out of our kitchen window as I saw the clouds. color starting point - no adjustments B &W starting point - straight desaturation I had dusted off my Nikon DX mirrored DSLR camera.I’ve set it to…

This story starts quite abruptly, a change from the usual Singing Hills novellas. I noticed, but figured it was Vo wanting to try something different fore the 5th entry. I should have paid a bit more attention. This story seemed to me to be a mix of a European folktale and asian mythology, but there are also a lot of themes that seem to be universal among humans. For example, I just learned today of a historical myth around one of the big samurai families that involves a swordsman meeting a…

Jev is TypeSafe’s new “System One” classifier model. The name is inspired by Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking, Fast and Slow, in which he distinguishes between fast, instinctive, System One thinking and slower, conscious, System Two thinking.1 In this analogy, Large Language Models (LLMs) like Claude or GPT are System Two models and “Decision Models” like Jev and its predecessors (e.g. Laya) are System One. The transformer architecture is the backbone of modern LLMs, and it is an extremely…

If you missed it back in 2020, Call of the Sea was a neat little adventure game. Taking place in the 1920's, our protagonist, Norah Everheart, has an unknown but terminal illness, and her husband plans an expedition to a remote island in the Pacific Ocean in search of a cure. When he doesn't return, Norah makes the trip herself in search of her missing husband - only to find (among other things) that the source of her "mysterious illness" is that she's actually descended from eldritch beings,…

As the sun sets in Tokyo, its alleyways become illuminated by the lights of “sunakku” snack bars. But OrySnack is illuminated by something entirely different: the gentle, glowing eyes of six small humanoid robots that are pouring drinks and interacting with customers. But you would be mistaken to assume that the robots have replaced human […] Related posts: Pop-Up Café In Tokyo Will Allow Severely Disabled to Work Using Robotic Avatars Braille Nueu Typeface Communicates Visually and Physically…

I’ve been dreaming of retiring early, selling all my shit, and slow-traveling S.E. Asia. We're close. Plans have been made; the pieces are coming together. But now there's Mei, our little Bombay void. She was VIP at the shelter, a cat nobody wanted. And now we’re all obsessively in love with her. Considering the strict quarantine protocols and the stress of constantly moving between countries, dragging her along would be unreasonable and cruel. It looks like I’m going to stay in the U.S.…

An awful workday followed by a wonderful tai chi class. Its amazing how tai chi can turn my day around. Selfie a day for a year, day 40: Oct 1, 2026 edition.

My computer reminded me I took this photo 5 years ago. I think this was New Mexico.

A couple gets axe-murdered in the opening seconds, orphaning their two fully grown frizz-haired daughters who are pretending to be cavorting schoolgirls. Once they’ve grown into their actual ages they get exploited by the patriarchy, as far as I can understand – Kirsanoff is more of an editing nerd than a clear storyteller. The cad who has taken advantage of one (or both) of them gets his head smashed in by some third woman and her mustache-man, in a mirror to the open. I played the music on…

The Amazing Race 39's premiere didn't put teams on planes immediately, but gave them three fun challenges and 13 Express Passes to battle their way to the finish line.

In the past day or two on social media I kept seeing this graph, from a Semafor story on the declining volume of international visitors to the United States. Semafor Graph. It seems to show, and was being remarked on as showing, that the second Trump administration was responsible for a drop in visitors from abroad from some countries on a scale comparable to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. My first thought was “that can’t be true”. And indeed it is not true. I mean, the pandemic shut…

In case you haven't noticed, artificial intelligence and it's potential for destroying humankind has been a hot topic lately. Evidently, we are racing toward the end of life on earth, one iteration at a time. An argument might be made that we are doing a pretty good job of messing things up without the assistance of AI. I'm not a "tech" guy. At least not like many of you out here on the small web. I don't code, have my own server, or understand phrases like "static site generator." I certainly…

A Thousand Morningsby Mary OliverGenres: Poetry Pages: 82 Rating: Synopsis: Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Mary Oliver is beautifully open to the teachings contained within the smallest of moments. In A Thousand Mornings she explores, with startling clarity, humour and kindness, the mysteries of our daily experience. I think A Thousand Mornings is my least favourite of Mary Oliver’s collections that I’ve read so far. It retains that strong sense of…

It has continued to feel odd, and I have continued to feel resentful about, going to a library not my own. It’s a smaller library, but it’s a member of the same grouping of libraries that shares materials, so I can still access anything in the same system. It’s been odd to need to drive to a library to pick up my holds, instead of just picking them up on my way out at the end of my shift. The new library doesn’t feel like Mine at all, but it is starting to feel like, for example, my…

We get a little more serious today with a documentary, Faith Schools Menace? It’s presented by Richard Dawkins, who I use to really like when he was doing his great science writing, but I found his later pivot to being grumpy that religion is a thing a little less interesting, even though I agree with a lot of it. He talks to Charles Clarke, the minister who increased the number of faith schools in Tony Blair’s government. “You could say, well, we’re only going to keep it that you have…

In my previous two posts (see here and here), we attempted to trace the intellectual origins of Ronald Coase’s reciprocal-harm axiom to Wesley Hohfeld’s theory of legal relations and to the “LSE tradition in cost theory” developed by Lionel Robbins and F. A. Hayek at the London School of Economics in the 1930s. A more likely source, however, is Arnold Plant (pictured below), Coase’s favorite professor at the London School of Economics. Why Plant? For starters, because we have no evidence of…

We visited my aunt Dolly the week Dolly Parton died and somehow it never came up. A week earlier I saw the Lily Tomlin Snow White fantasy sequence from this movie at a Hard Light pre-show and didn’t recognize it at all from having seen snippets of this on TV through the 1980s, back when everybody knew who Dabney Coleman was. Sterling Hayden doesn’t show up until the very end, after they’ve kidnapped their boss and improved the company without him. Dolly somehow got three Globe nominations for…