Cages wrought from crabs claws, bent into shape by the, dead bodies that have since started walking, again as if the, water now saltless osmosed, into their cells, and activated transcription, factors long since dormant.

Gabriel García Márquez shocked me in the prologue of Strange Pilgrims. I’m binge-reading some of his most popular books. Love in Times of Cholera was the last one. I’m not ready yet for One Hundred Years of Solitude. But in the meantime, I picked up Strange Pilgrims, a collection of short stories that take place outside his hometown. Here’s an excerpt of the prologue: “When I started Chronicles of a Deaht Foretold, in 1979, I confirmed the fact that in the pauses between books I tended to lose…

Prototipo TopolinoA prototype of the Fiat Topolino "senza ruote". The model year is approx. mid-1950s. The Cadillac Motor Car Division of the US auto maker General Motors Corporation investigated wheel-less cars. This concept ad for the 1955 model year was not used. Cadillac Series Sixty Special concept carNoted: the other models in the ad still have wheels.

I’ve seen three blog posts about major performance improvements recently. Two of them are from Cloudflare: How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache and Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust). The third comes from Anthropic: How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks. And they couldn’t be more different. Starting with the title, which in the case of both Cloudflare’s posts gives a (pretty big) hint on the area of the performance improvement. They go…

Set up T3Code for local Laravel and Rails work this week. My guess is 70% on orbs and the other 30% local.I love Herdr, but I don’t see the benefit of being tied to the terminal.

Cory Dransfeldt published a list of inspirations for what to do to become worthless to tech companies. A lot probably sounds easier than it actually is nowadays, but anything is better than nothing, right? One of my ways to handle subscriptions is also to check if there’s some regional pricing available or tricks to get the subscriptions cheaper using a VPN, etc. Especially when it’s a subscription from a tech company that is exploiting tax regulations to get the best out of it for themselves.…

Earlier this year I was developing some guidelines for more environmentally-friendly use of generative AI for the Norwegian certification foundation Eco-Lighthouse. In this process I collaborated with Stine Vintervoll, senior advisor from Eco-Lighthouse, who one day asked me: "Could we somehow connect AI's climate footprint with the waste hierarchy?" The waste hierarchy is a framework for managing waste to reduce environmental imapct. In its most basic form, it consists of 1) prevention, 2)…

NRAO/AUI/NSF/NASA Artist’s concept depicts a tidal disruption event, which occurs when a star passes fatally close to a supermassive black hole. The easiest way to find a black hole is to look for its jets. These trails of ionized gas stream away from a black hole at near light speed. They form when a black hole consumes matter and forms an accretion disk of hot plasma. Inactive black holes don’t produce jets, making them harder to discover. But just how active does a black hole need to be for…

A man hovered over a small pile of logs that crackled and smoked, glowing red in the ambient darkness surrounding what was left of central London. The once great city, and its empire, had crumbled—along with all the others. There were no nations left. Six months ago the world, built over the past six millennia by countless humans, had come crashing down. In the before-times the man, Professor Erol Kettner, taught students about how humankind spread beyond Africa nearly 200,000 years ago, how…

This summer we got a gift from a friend: a portable A3 typewriter! I say portable because it came with this good-looking travel suitcase, very practical to transport its 10.9 kilograms of pure beauty around: We got an expert helping hand from Achille (check his blog, he writes about typewrites and other geekeries) to dust off some rust (not crab-related) and put a touch of oil at the right places. We've tested it to write some Brazilian songs for child for future reference: (the author of this…

MapQuest continues to ride a wave of positive publicity after their refusal to rename Lake Ontario. They’ve posted billboards in Chicago and Toronto with directions to the Lake, their CEO made a well-publicized visit to… More

I’ll be turning 75 soon, and looking back, science fiction has given me much enjoyment, insight, and even inspiration. However, over the last couple of years, science fiction’s magic has ceased working. The state of the world has made me cynical. But then, it might be what I call The Williamson Effect. I had a friend, John Williamson, who slowly lost interest in everything he once loved before he died. I saw the same thing happen to Samuel Clemens in the many biographies I read of Mark Twain.…

This is what it actually looked like when I was taking those pictures of the darkened trash removal barge I posted yesterday. I needed a flashlight to avoid tripping off the top of the quay: This is a picture I took half a second before this wave actually hit me and made my shoes nasty: I was taking random pictures of the shore while walking around and later realized that because of the way the edge of the beach curves, and the way the hills work on the horizon here, it absolutely does not look…

As they kick off promotion of their upcoming album, Carnaval De Luz, the four member of U2 were interviewed by Brian Hiatt for Rolling Stone.🎸Note: Andy Greene has usually covered U2 for Rolling Stone for the last decade. Maybe he was too busy to hang out in the south of France with the band this time? Which reminded me that Matt McGee and I got to interview Andy back in 2017 for the atU2 podcast.) As usual, there's plenty of Bono'isms about the new album in the interview, but also lots of…

Andy Sylvester has developed a tool that provides a way to generate oldSchool blogs to a local file system and thus host them on any web server. Its a niche tool that provides a way to host blogs rendered using Dave Winer’s blog template apart from his hosting. I use Drummer, which is Dave’s web-based outlining tool, to write my Daynotes and I was using his blog hosting to serve it, but I switched to different hosting. My Daynotes are now served via my own server running an instance of…

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If you're making computer-based music, the best results always come from taking your stuff out of where you started. By this, I mean, if you make a jam on Ableton, take it out of there somehow. Try to play it on guitar, or bounce it to the SP-404, or bounce it to some other ridiculous thing. Or try to play it on drums, or maybe dust off the piccolo. There's so many videos and chit-chats out there about how to bust out of the four-bar loop, but you have to ingest some kind of organic matter…

Eldara is an odd game. I tried to play Melvor Idle at one point ( still on my Idle game kick ) and I just didn't get it. Eldara is a better game with a better skin, but still the same underpinnings and I like it a bunch. I don't know what this says about me. One of the my favorite comments ever about a game is this one on Steam LINK. Its kinda spot on, but also, its kinda why I really enjoyed the game. I can work on code and just let that bad boy progress in the background and not really check…

I am constantly evaluating my intent and subsequent interactions with social media, especially those social media platforms that are owned by the big corporate conglomerations. I fully believe the corporations have absolutely zero interest in fostering honest connections between humans; corporations simply see such interactions as a source of money. For those that live in the ever-growing and ever-present corporate world, money is the deity. Despite what the PR spin claims, Mark Zuckerberg and…

Not quite two decades ago I was over at my friends’ house when their neighbor stopped by and half-jokingly asked if anyone was interested in a cat. I went next door and found a ginormous scrawny tan monster of a tomcat who almost immediately decided I was his new best friend and demanded all of the head scratches while purring loudly enough to wake up the rest of the neighborhood. This is how I met Bosco. At this point he wasn’t Bosco yet. His previous name was Chloe, which is just a terrible…

Small Decisions: Engineering a Leading Model Or trying to, at least. My day job has been primarily in AI for three years now, but I’d be the first to admit that’s been almost entirely in one corner of AI: infrastructure, safety, and tools for AI agents. That work has brought me in contact with a lot of the AI science (and I’d dabbled there over the previous decade), but I’m super far from the day-to-day of work like model building. I wanted to catch up a little (after all you have to know what…

Read the full post at - Bend On Conasauga River This bend is off-trail within the Cohutta Wilderness, Georgia, about 2 miles from the north Conasauga River Trailhead. The river is slicing across hard, exposed granite.

Luna return to Toronto tonight for the first time in seven years, settling in at Lee’s Palace, the room I saw them in every time before they bid farewell almost 22 years ago. Post-reunion they’ve played bigger and smaller rooms, but returned to Lee’s for their last visit in 2019 and it just feels right. […] The post Luna – “Slash Your Tires” appeared first on Space Echo.

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by Cora Buhlert The Art of Wrapping Modern art has long broken out of the confines of painting and sculpture and introduced new forms such as installations or happenings. And so the West German town of Monschau just became the unlikely site of a fascinating art installation. At age 36, the Bulgarian artist only known … Continue reading [September 28, 1971] Duelling Warlocks and Warriors, Part 1: Warlocks and Warriors, edited by L. Sprague De Camp → The post [September 28, 1971] Duelling…

CARNAGE SPIDER-MAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES (TOY BIZ) “Of all Spider-Man’s foes, Carnage is perhaps the most dangerous, the most feared! Criminal Cletus Kasady shared a prison cell with Eddie Brock (better known as the Lethal Protector, Venom) – that is, until Brock’s symbiote freed its human host. However, Venom left behind a fragment of his alien costume, which bonded with Kasady… creating the sinister menace known as Carnage!” When the Spider-Man spin-off Venom had gotten too popular to suitably…

TL;DR Link to heading A Redis ACL user can hold two passwords at once, so a rotation needs no moment where anyone is locked out. Add the new password to every Redis and Sentinel process, publish it, restart the clients, then restart the Redis pods one by one. The restarts remove the old password; you can’t do it at runtime on the Bitnami chart, because the health probes still log in with it. Before restarting, move sentinel-pass to the new password as well, or the Sentinels lock each other out.

This week’s edition of Culture.pl has an interesting historical article by Jakub Zarzycki, titled The Grand Tour, or the ‘Great Journey’ Through Europe. Here are some excerpts from the introduction. The concept of a Grand Tour was introduced in the 1770s by an Englishman, Richard Lassels, to describe a journey serving to supplement education, develop aesthetic taste, acquire practical skills, broaden the knowledge of foreign languages ​​and acquire general refinement by young noblemen – this…

It’s not that our attention has been weaponized, a word that vanishes in hyperbole, but rather, mechanized. As in: Our attentions have been wrest from our control, like a flock of android starlings, or a million IP enabled toasters. We were reasonably autonomous things. Now we’re indifferently synchronous, easily manipulated. I want my attention back. Craig Mod

Hey. Hello. I hope you’re keeping safe and well. Things are a bit busy around here, so let’s just gone on with things shall we? Against Convenience by Gabe Bullard; design by Jason Ramirez (Hanover Square Press / September 2026) I’m here for the plastic bag covers… (The cover of Returns and Exchanges by Kayla Rae Whitaker from May this year was designed by Chris Allen) All Them Dogs by Djamel White; design by Grace Han (Riverhead Books / May 2026) Basic Pistol by Harel Shapira; design by Tyler…