...so I'm behind on my blogging. In lieu of a proper post, here is a picture of our cat, Stampy. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow.

A Yuno dress up game is now available! Thanks to Cypress @scaramutual on Tumblr for the art!

I’ve bounced off jrnl a few times. While I like its simplicity, most of my past journaling is sitting in my Obsidian vault, and jrnl isn’t quite on Obsidian’s wavelength. It uses @tags instead of #tags, for example. Anyway, I realized this is a great use case for vibe coding, so now I have my gournal.1 To start a new entry, which will create a new Obsidian daily note and open it in $EDITOR: gournal new Here's the title of my entry To peruse my entries: # list everything gournal # filter by tag…

Apparently, you're allowed to be annoyed with people you don't like? Cool, another social thing that nobody told me 1. I'm so used to being the hoe nobody likes. Desperation emenating out of my pores, my (obvious) insecurities around my lack of socialisation and general "feralness" would drive people away, and my fixation on fixing these flaws caused a vicious feedback loom. It's weird being on the other side of this. Not only tolerating my consciousness and my body, but liking both to the…

My cousin sister Swathi Murali has her first peer-reviewed paper out, expected in print in the December 2026 edition of Forensic Chemistry. Excerpt from the abstract: Electrical tapes may be submitted to forensic laboratories for analysis concerning their utilization in the construction of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). However, post-blast tape specimens collected at an explosion site are seldom pristine and may undergo physical and chemical alterations that can affect the outcome of a…

It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy! Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot The post Sunday picdump…

Splash is making waves in LLM inference on Apple silicon: "It delivers 2× the decode speed of the next-fastest engine we measured on Qwen3.8-27B and stays ahead at every context length we tested, to 32K tokens. At four parallel subagents, the speedup increases to almost 4×." The official release requires M3 or newer, but Erik Paperniuk has backported Splash for M1 and M2 Macs: You can now run Qwen3.8-27B on a 2021 M1 Max at 39 tok/s: I ported Splash (M3+ only) and wrote custom Metal kernels…

I liked this post by Roel Nieskens, about ten lines of code that, one way or another, mean something to me. Either because I wrote them, or I extensively copied them, or they made me laugh. Or cry. It’s perhaps a different take on cursed knowledge, and made me wonder what those would be for me, or for other people with different specializations. (We previously talked about Duff’s device, which had a certain impact on me – even though I never used it myself.)#coding

I was writing up my main post reverse-engineering Skyrim pickpocketing and found myself going a little too deep into how Non-Player Characters gain skills. Once again the wiki had the wrong formula, which was making it hard to answer my question: who has the lowest and highest pickpocketing skill?

Lines that Point to Chrysler – New York, New York I realize I’ve posted many pictures of the Chrysler Building in this series already, and it is one of my favorite buildings, but I think this one looks a bit different and deserves a little attention. Notice how the facade of the building on the left has elements that point toward the Chrysler. There is also a break in the “urban canyon” where we can see the landmark skyscraper standing proudly. It’s almost as if the street is gesturing toward…

So what we’ve been talking about–machines and algorithms are just kind of like running the whole show…That’s been referred to as the dead internet theory, the idea that there’s really not a lot of humanity on the internet, it’s all the bots and we kind of just sit there. Aiden Walker took that a step further recently and his theory–it’s somewhat colorful–is that it’s like the cuck internet theory…which is that the synthetic product of these artificial intelligence things, be it a slop video of…

A few weeks ago we went for a shot trip on the 3801, a vintage steam train that was visiting Canberra. I had not heard of the 3801, but apparently it is quite famous. Transport Heritage NSW has a bit of a writeup: 3801’s status as leader of the class was first recognised in 1962 when it made the last run of steam on the Melbourne Limited Express from Junee to Albury. Returned to green livery in 1963, it set a new speed record from Sydney to Newcastle in the following year, covering the 167…

Tech people (like Manton Reece, the creator of micro.blog), whose growing inability to think becomes more apparent day by day, have been praising a long-winded post from Alexandr Wang, Meta's "chief AI officer", about why he's "building"[1] Muse, Meta's new product which is basically (and explicitly) openclaw for people who are too nontechnical to run openclaw. Now imagine every person on earth with a second mind beyond their own. A general manager whose whole job is to find out what you want…

In response to a previous post, one of the readers wrote this: I would phrase this as the fault of the animation having violated the Hippocratic oath for animations, which is “first, do no harm” a.k.a. “first, don’t interfere with user input”. Yes, one has to be afraid of hyperbole – was there ever an onscreen transition that saved a life? – but there is something I really liked about this phrasing. After all, most transitions and animations are decorators, and every transition and animation…

Today, we had rain off and on all day, so very little got done outside. After I posted yesterday, though, I headed outside before it got dark and ended up gathering a little harvest. Last time, I’d gathered bush beans from the ones planted later in the season around the Arikara squash. This time, I … Continue reading Wet and dreary, taste test and a little harvest

Author and activist Rebecca Solnit isn’t too keen on the apparent eagerness to categorise. “Categories too often become where thought goes to die. That is, there’s a widespread tendency to act as if once something has been categorized, no further consideration is required.” — A is for Airtight Categories I’m not all that keen on the established categories myself. Not in my notes, anyway, and often not in my life. I’m not looking for categories. Instead, I’m usually looking for patterns. I feel…

I listened to the recent Ezra Klein interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, which seems to be something of a Rorschach test for AI doomerism: if you are inclined to see doom, Jensen sounds dismissive, but if you (like me) do not fear for the future of humanity at the (metaphorical!) hands of a computer program, Jensen’s responses seem very reasonable. (With some exception: does this guy really not know his own zip code?!) But I also think there was a lost opportunity. While Jensen rightfully…

One attacker stole crypto tokens from three cryptocurrency projects that are part of what's called the "Artificial Superintelligence Alliance" — a group of crypto projects "dedicated to decentralized Artificial General Intelligence". The attack occurred within just one day, netting around $2.25 million in actual profits, though the stolen tokens were notionally priced considerably higher.Most of the profits came from stolen FET tokens, which are linked to Fetch.ai. The attacker was also able to…

I intended for “shorts month” to be a single month, but it has jumped the fences, and now we have Infinite Shorts Month. – Hittin’ the Trail for Hallelujah Land (1931, Rudulf Ising) Some Steamboat Willie action, Black-coded animal creatures sing and dance, but either there’s nothing in here worth banning this cartoon for 100 years, or my version is edited. Finds time in its seven minutes for multiple overboard rescues, a girl’s Uncle Tom getting spooked by graveyard skeletons, and a dastardly…

by Cláudio Alves In 1971, Mike Leigh appeared on the scene with Bleak Moments, an exercise in social realism that wouldn’t immediately open the doors one might hope for in the British film industry. Instead, he became a TV writer-director, slowly building his reputation and drawing on the easy rapport with actors and improvisational methods he’d developed on stage. By 1988, he’d make his grand return to theatrical features with High Hopes. Eight years later, he won the Palme d’Or for Secrets &…

Recently I had a lovely chat with Andrew Stuck for his podcast, Talking Walking. The episode is out now if you'd like to take a listen. On Talking Walking, Andrew interviews people from the world of walking. Artists, activists, professionals and, in his words, "those of us who have a passion for just taking a walk." We got off to a slightly embarrassing start. Two people who work with audio for a living, and we couldn’t get rid of a persistent echo. We got there in the end! Then we had…

Lifehacker published a really good article on installing a simple solar house setup with battery backup as a bundle. One thing the author mentioned is that a lot of utilities aren’t crediting the full amount for any power fed back into the grid, which is bullshit. His total cost was $8000 for the panels, battery and inverter, and he says he got a deal on the latter from Costco, which is good to know. I’d really like to install solar on the house somehow, but, as with everything else, money…

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Subscribe and Listen: https://youtu.be/LDsfZKDOKdg🎙️ The Hardened Infrastructure EditionWelcome to What The Fudge podcast for Sunday, September 27, 2026. This week will spend a couple of minutes breaking down the stories that caught my attention each day for the past week. Following last week’s format, I am bringing the deep links and coverage directly into the topics I am referencing.📍 Field Report: Quantum Capital and Validation at ScaleVC Quantum Interest Rising: VCs reached +$4B in quantum…

Today was the final scheduled repair for Uma the VRRV.The left side radius arm bushings were replaced. The mechanic had noted they were dry rotted and compressed while doing a front end alignment.Below pic shows the bushing in question, you can see the dry rot condition of the bushing. Also, the gap between it and arm, should not be there.Radius ArmSo, for the record:Ball Joint, upper and lower. Inside and outside tie rods.Transmission drained/refilled. Serpentine belt inspected and found…

Introduction This is another entry in the minimum viable series at Circuspam, following the same idea we’ve used for the cheapest possible computer, the cheapest and longest-lasting bed, and our wider experiments with cheap housing, useful technology and off-grid living. The question is always: What do you actually need? This time we’re applying it to […] The post Minimum Viable Cuisine: The Cheapest Possible Diet That Is Still Actually Good appeared first on Circuspam.Coffee.

Every time when a song that I was singing in my head was played on the radio right after: Psycho Killer - Talking Heads (Live 88.5 - fall of 2025) Another Brick in the Wall pt.2 - Pink Floyd (Chez 106.1 - june or september 2026) Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (Chez 106.1 - September 2026) The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries) 1495–1505 Metropolitan Museum of Art