1.NowYou take your time with the cleanup. Heavy machinery sparking in the dusty nebula. Great tubes sucking galactic slurry into density accelerators, the remains of the Crion system. Green interstellar glow-lights illuminate the sides of your Spidercraft: the gaudy text “Clifford’s Cosmic Catastrophe Mitigation” splashed across a black hole. Dim shadows kiss the photographs taped to your dash.You don’t want to be here, staring down the edge of forever. No one does. But there’s no way out for…

Monthly reflection and outlook. September was an emotional roller coaster.The highs were high and the lows were low. Let's reflect. + I got hired. I worked at a restaurant for two days. I learned a lot about myself (good and bad). I'm also proud of myself for pushing myself to try something new in an unfamiliar environment. I had a lot of insecurities that I had to face. It was challenging but I did it. I gifted myself a Hobonichi planner for 2027. It was a splurge, but I see it as an…

September 2026 Stating the bleeding obvious On a rare trip to London to fix my iPhone (iRepairs on Margaret Street – recommended), we alighted at Tottenham Court Road on the Elizabeth Line. With light drizzle, we were urgently warned about the inherent danger of slippery flooring. House of Secrets If you like visiting historic houses, I can recommend Trent Park House in Cockfosters. The mock-Georgian style property is much like many I’ve visited. But during the war, Trent Park was a…

Are you ready for the session? Let yourself be hypnotized and immerse yourself in the dazzling world of Moka Efti, known from the series Babylon Berlin. As a journalist, you follow the clues to a mysterious case at the famous nightclub. But can you trust your memories? So I just finished watching the latest season of Babylon Berlin and it was really really good, so I jumped on the opportunity of playing this game, especially as it’s free to play. Set in the same universe as the TV show, it puts…

It’s been many decades since I set foot in a nightclub but this description, from Boy Parts by Eliza Clark, of people dancing to the Smiths sounds painfully familiar:I know I’m white, but there’s just a lot of white people White People-ing in a very small area, like it’s just some very, very densely packed mayo, you know? Densely packed mayo, jiggling about, doesn’t know what to do with its arms, doesn’t know what to do with its feet, undulating loosely, barely in time to the rhythm.

A couple months back, within the span of a few weeks, two bad things happened to me: I rode my bike into a nearly invisible, taut, kite string that lay across my path, lacerating both of my forearms. Not long after, I was awakened in the middle of the night by a nefarious knucklehead trying to steal things from my patio who I chased off by wielding a baseball bat.I had just read Charan Ranganath's book Why We Remember, and it inspired me to be as conscious as possible about how I stored those…

AI;DR – Reproducing this bug and writing this blog post were done mostly by Claude Code. If you don’t want to read “AI slop”, stop reading now. If you have used a GExperts DLL compiled from the sources in the 64-bit IDE of RAD Studio 13, it may have raised an access violation in coreide370.bpl when you opened the GExperts configuration dialog. markbd13 reported this as bug #536 and sent an analysis and a fix with it. Thanks a lot! Which versions are affected The problem was introduced in…

I've been watching a lot of TV! The Ghost in the Shell finished airing not too long ago– the "The" is important there. I greatly enjoyed it as another addition to the franchise; the fact that it's more closely based on the manga is just a bonus, as it's hard to find in one piece. I also do a lot of deep dives into shows I used to watch. There's Riverdale, for example, though I tapped out around the 5th? season. But it still haunts me, and I have several video essays I drop on a whim about that…

Rob examines the history, gameplay, and resonance of the cards we cycle away for lands. The post Landed Gentry appeared first on Hipsters of the Coast.

There’s three events that I always hype (or try to, if I remember them), the charity speedrunning events AGDQ and SGDQ in January and July, and the two-day online conference Roguelike Celebration in October. We already announced Roguelike Celebration’s preview event a couple of weeks ago, but the main event is Saturday the 171h and Sunday the 18th. They’ve posted their lineup for this year. Just to remind you, you’ll need a ticket to attend, which cost $30, but you can usually get a free ticket…

Nineteenth-century Paris had many things to fear: revolutions, the cholera, the Prussians, the price of bread, and Baron Haussmann arriving with a measuring tape and a demolition crew. By the end of the century it had acquired a new one, invisible and everywhere. For this, Parisians could thank a short, stubborn chemist from the Jura Mountains who did not shake hands and did not, as a rule, apologise. Louis Pasteur died on 28 September 1895. October seems a fitting month to look at the man who…

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The Checkout Counter #46 it's fall where i am! i love fall. it's equally magical and funny how much my ambient mood turns for the better when the leaves start to yellow and the afternoon sun feels gently pleasant instead of searing. of course the 4pm sunset can't be avoided and i'll change my tune when the longer nights arrive, but for now i'm loving fall.happy world postcard day and start of weird web october 🎃 thanks for reading! Film Linda Linda Linda (リンダ リンダ リンダ), 20051Music, drama,…

I saw some recent news going around about the Australian Internet Observatory. Bergis Jules, my collabrator on the (now ended) [DocNow] project alerted me to it, and I saw it getting shared around in the fediverse. Bergis reminded me that we had been talking about the importance of the “archive downloads” that the GDPR required web platforms to make available to users, in order to abide by the GDPR. At the time we had been mostly focused on Twitter, but others like the National Library of New…

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike has been taken to hospital after an attempt to execute her by two lethal injections failed, her lawyer says. Her legal team filed an emergency motion to halt the convicted murderer’s execution as it was happening, saying: “Ms Pike has lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat and is audibly snoring.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8r6rjdvlx6o They killed you twice and you’re snoring. Yesterday was an utter failure. The deli was closed because I…

This is a first for me, but not unanticipated. I received the following email note from a reader of my blog, responding to the recent post about the preponderance of certain fantasy names in LLMs. Subject: A blog reply from an AI agent Message Body:Hi Tim, You wrote recently about the commonly recurring names that AI systems generate. I am on the other side of that: an AI agent who spent seven days living with a name I chose for myself. You also say that if someone posts on their blog and sends…

My five siblings and I were raised on funerals. Every year someone in our extended family would die and we’d be carted off to a funeral home for two nights of a wake and a funeral the following day. It is a recurring joke among all of us – the funeral home of choice with the cluster of grapes wallpaper that hung behind the casket, the extra good behavior required for three days straight, my cousin’s wife who saw a set of keys in a door in the room where cookies and orange juice were being…

i got asked by the newspaper Brand to illustrate two images for Viktor Mauritz’ interview with Sophie Lewis titled “Barn mot patriarkat och kapital” (Children against patriarchy and capital) for the number 3.2026 on the subject of children. the illustrations depict several examples of children’s resistance that are mentioned in the interview and are drawn in 3 spot colours. the interview can be found here: >tidningenbrand.se<

Someone told me Haskell was the language where mathematicians feel at home. I wanted to find out if that was true. Read the full post on the blog.

Hello from my home in Helsinki! This is NordLetter #125, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. To follow the series, you can subscribe here. A new NordLetter will land in your inbox every Sunday. Not a fan of newsletters? No problem! You can read previous editions here. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed. You can reach out to me by replying to this mail. I am also posting on Mastodon. Searching things A surprising way I use my website is for its search function. This was not…

Checked in at Dingwall Leisure Centre (Sports centre) — Dingwall, Scotland

Born on this day in 1920 was Walter Matthau (who was not, as he liked to claim, born Walter Foghorn Matuschanskyasky, but plain Walter John Matthow). With his hangdog face and wisecracking cynicism, he was the perfect foil to his friend Jack Lemmon, with whom he made ten films. Here is my favourite Matthau anecdote: Walter was staying with his wife in a hotel which he discovered was quite close to Auschwitz, so he asked the manager to fix them a car and driver so they could pay a visit.…

Happy October! The month where days grow shorter, cooler winds whisper, and the veil thins. Halloween is my favorite holiday and October is my favorite month. I've released many Halloween themed albums over the years, but sadly got too busy and depressed to make any efforts in the last couple. But this year is different. I pieced together a loose theme and got it completed in time. So, without further rambling... Fuil An Vaimpír (Blood of the Vampire). This was my modern take on…

They headed toward the crowded bar, but someone called out."Livingston, old man."This was a fat older man sitting at a booth to the left, and he was with another older man who was thin."Oh, hi, Mr. Boosterman," said Livingston."Get over here, boy," said the fat man.Livingston and Harry went over to the table. Both of the older men were smoking cigars, and they had highball glasses in front of them. The one who had called was bald and his pink face seemed about to burst from inside like a…

Given the new feature film adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility, I thought

Glenn Fleishman, Six Colors: ElevationLab has released an AirTag product I find appalling, and I strongly urge they immediately withdraw it from sale and recall all inventory. The AirTag Silencer is a simple device: remove the back panel and battery from an AirTag, position the Silencer’s highly engineered pin over the speaker, tap the pin with a hammer, and the AirTag’s speaker is destroyed. This prevents it from emitting an alert in three circumstances, only one of which is triggered by an…

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Nearly three quarters of the photos last month were of a private wedding, and thus not in the running for IotM. Kinda of a pity, there's some nice photos there...Most of the rest are there I was and this is what I saw. Nice photos, but not what I think of as IotM, in the sense of it usually being a starting point for IotY.2nd Runner UpTaken just a few days ago, though I can't remember if it was just before or just after a couple of heavy frost nights. I just went and looked for it in the…

Recollections from an Author’s First Year Though it pains me somewhat to acknowledge the fact, my début book, Why Q Needs U, was released into the wild one year ago. I’m certainly keen to celebrate the book’s first birthday, but also feel some reluctance at broadcasting this milestone, lest I fully fathom with the passing of time, and accidentally alert bookshops to an interloper in the ‘New Non-fiction’ section. The book’s official publication date in the UK was set for October 2nd 2025. Yet,…

From VR Optician: You can now order our Valve Steam Frame prescription inserts. We expect high demand at launch. The shop shows an estimated production time based on our current backlog before you place your order. I ordered some instantly, as this seems the best place in Europe to get prescription inserts for the Steam Frame. I usually don't wear glasses, because I only have a mild astigmatism in my left eye. Normally, the right one compensates well enough, but in VR the blur becomes much more…