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

We have entered a (much needed) rainy period. It has been blue, grey, wet, and humid around here for most of the week.I get nostalgic for upstate New York in Autumn.The gumdrop hues in the hillsides. some soft blues waves This shot was a leftover and a near delete.The photo and I were in a Blues Mood and we both were trying to shake it off.I pushed some sliders around in my RAW editor and Picture said; “That’s enough; Chill!” Septemblog will be over soon.So will the pressure to post every day.…

Doing anything for three hours everyday sounds insane, sure. I’ve been walking 3+ hours a day now for like 120+ days, and well… it sounds a bit much, but I love it. Now, “about half of Americans say they spend too much time on their smartphone.” It’s normal to spend 3+ hours a day on the phone, right? It’s just – haha – the way it is! Somehow devoting 3+ hours a day to your own thing is too much, but selling our attention to our phones, our data plans, and the businesses that monetize our…

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Movies The Book Club (2018) D: Tobias LaMontagne. S: Ray LaMontagne, Sarah Sousa. After accomplished women of a certain age Keaton, Fonda, Steenburgen, and Bergen select 50 SHADES OF GREY for their BOOK CLUB, they start to examine their romantic pursuits (or lack thereof). The script’s entirely platitudes and tropes, but there are a handful of strong moments and occasional honest ones. And an often excellent soundtrack (also of a certain age). Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023) D: Bill…

Neutron, a blockchain in the Cosmos ecosystem that entered maintenance mode in June, suffered a governance attack when someone spent $20,200 to acquire enough NTRN governance tokens to pass a vote allowing them to take control of the Neutron-based Astroport and Drop applications, whose contracts contained a combined $9.5 million in assets.Neutron was paused shortly after the attack, and validators subsequently paused the entire Cosmos Hub network. Together, the pauses prevented the attacker…

„Ein LLM ist ein stochastischer Papagei“ heißt heute meistens: Der Prompt triggert Gelerntes, und das Modell gibt Trainingsdaten in anderer Form wieder. Es kann umformulieren, aber nichts Wesentliches abstrahieren und kein bekanntes Verfahren auf einen neuen Fall anwenden. Das ist eine klare Behauptung über die Leistung des Modells. Sie ist falsch. Der Ausdruck stammt aus On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots von Bender und anderen . Dort bedeutet er etwas anderes: Sprachmodelle setzen…

Citadels (2000) is a classic from Bruno Faidutti, and a highly successful game. Citadels Duel is heavily based on it, and adds some elements not found in the original. What I am most surprised about is this is not designed by Bruno Faidutti. It is designed by Guillaume Montiage (Kemet, Nefertiti) and Manuel Rozoy (TIME Stories, Altered). The nine

Exploiters took advantage of a legacy approvals bug in an old payment processor called Limit Break, which the platform had stopped using in late 2024. The bug affected listings on Magic Eden's EVM marketplace, which the company had shut down earlier this year. The attackers were able to steal numerous NFTs, including 10 Meebits, 50 Otherdeeds, 10 World of Women, and 235 Desperate Apewives. Attackers also subsequently stole 660 wETH (~$1.78 million).A whitehat rescue spearheaded by blockchain…

Each time I load a news site, while it loads, I close my eyes and chant, “Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead!” and smile. Momentum…

This month's Film Album is the soundtrack from the classic Walt Disney film Pete's Dragon, released in 1977. This family musical was notable for combining an animated Elliott the Dragon into a live-action film and the result was truly lovely and memorable. It was, and still is, a childhood favorite for many. Walt Disney's resident songwriting team of Robert and Richard Sherman had long since left the Disney Studios so this picture's songs were composed by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn. This duo…

Next out of the Blender design factory is another Sopwith, this time the 1½ Strutter. I've made it in both twin-seat and single-seater configurations.The Strutter was the first British aeroplane of WW1 to have a synchronised forward-firing Vickers gun, and it went into front-line service in February 1916. It did well at first, but it was too stable to make a good dogfighter in the long run, and it was one of the types that suffered very badly in Bloody April.Its long range and stability made it…

I am indebted to the good folks at Draft to Digital for pointing me toward an interesting essay by Lisa Sibbett (you can get the jist without finishing the part of the piece behind the sign-up wall). Her topic is free time, the places on our calendar without appointments, to-dos, scheduled self care… time off. She notes that people who often have a fair amount of this time–retirees, people who are under- and unemployed, people with disabilities–are usually considered excused from contributing…

Pixel Area Check out this cool project to feature independent blogs! And see if you can find this website in the grid!

• 5-star hike • 1 mile out-and-back • Easy | Gain 100 feet • Waterville Valley, NH | White Mountains . The two-tiered upper section with boardwalks for best views. The Sabbaday Falls Trail is a brief outing off the popular Kancamagus Highway in New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest, and it is a nice stop to fold into a longer drive without much planning. The trail begins directly from the parking area off Route 112, immediately immersing you in the dense mixed forest characteristic of…

StarringChiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell, and Mark DuplassDirectorKane ParsonsOverviewSee how far it goes.A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.Review Backrooms Um, what? This was so, so bad. Why was it so hyped earlier in the year? And why is the cast so well known? The producer must have blackmail on these people because why would they opt into this? Buy on Amazon

An exploiter was able to mint unbacked wrapped MTR and MTRG tokens, notionally priced at more than $2.3 million. They sold some of the tokens on a decentralized exchange, crashing the MTRG price by more than 88%. The price of the project's MTR token — which is supposed to maintain a stable price based on the cost to produce 10 kWh of electricity — also plummeted by approximately the same percentage. Meter has attributed the exploit to a "block validation flaw".Meter paused the blockchain and…

It is a matter of public record that I only-slightly-abashedly love Godspell. I’ve been a fan ever since I was a drama club kid in high school, and I saw a production of it performed by our “rival” school across town. (And credit to them: I’ve seen an off-Broadway revival and multiple filmed or recorded versions, and I still think their staging was the best). If you haven’t seen it, the show starts with a single trumpet and the performer playing John the Baptist/Judas solo belting out “Prepare…

These Japanese pumpkin croquettes have a crisp, golden coating with a naturally sweet and creamy mashed kabocha squash filling. Unlike classic potato korokke, kabocha gives the filling a richer flavor and fluffier texture. Kabocha korokke was one of my favorite dishes in Japanese school lunches (gakko kyushoku (学校給食), so this recipe brings back a lot ... The post Kabocha Korokke (Kabocha Squash Croquette) appeared first on Chopstick Chronicles.

It looks like we’ve skipped an episode here, as today’s recording is the third episode of Sherlock – The Great Game. Very careless of me. But I do have a later recording, so I wonder whether last week’s broadcast had a problem, or possible it didn’t record at all. But I’m fairly sure I watched it at the time. I guess I’ll never know. The opening scene doesn’t have anything to do with the rest of the story, but it’s quite amusing, as Sherlock talks to a you English man in prison in Minsk,…

Thanks to Charles Lewis III for his nice writeup about our parklet situation in 48 Hills! (Vote for us in Best of the Bay!) But since this wretched timeline is one that moves backwards in all the worst ways, City Hall and the SFMTA want the Lounge's parklet destroyed. Again. Seemingly for no other reason than "just because." The 41-year-old club has two weeks to take down the utterly harmless, wholly beneficial structure, or face a 500-dollar daily fine. You know how this very column has…

The Payy Network, a stablecoin infrastructure company, disclosed that a bridge contract had been fully drained of funds, netting attackers $1.8 million. They later stated that the theft was "NOT a compromised key, social engineering or exploit of our off-chain infrastructure," but has not disclosed what it was. They also announced that the stolen funds were "users' non-custodial deposits to Payy Network / Payy Wallet", which is somewhat of an oxymoron.Payy Network has halted all activity…

Maiwar (Brisbane River) stretching out under The Story Bridge Yesterday, my better half and I celebrated 27 years of marriage. 27 years 🎉 The first few years were a slog (we both agree on this). We were young and naive and carrying a lot of baggage. Today we’re older, less naive and carry the baggage together. 😂 It’s a joy to share life with someone who makes me better than I am by myself and who I want to be a better human for.

I watch hundreds of soccer games every year but other than the Halifax Wanderers of the CPL this is my first pro soccer game in person. Seems crazy but happy to be here! I’m at: Stadium Saputo, Montréal, Québec Location map: https://misterchrisjones.ca/location/chris/7393/ Note tags: checkin, montral, qubec, stadium

I booted up Google Maps today when the time came to decide the best route for an outing with Clarkson (we went and walked the Delmar Loop for fun, thanks to it being a nice and cool day). As I started driving, I noticed that she sounded different. I'm not alone in this, with various phones seeming to have this, "Feature," rolled out. It can be easy or difficult to tweak the voice as well if you want her (or him) to sound different. This isn't annoying and I can deal with change that is useful.…

The Duelbits crypto gambling site lost around $7 million to an apparent hot wallet compromise. The site went offline shortly after the attack, and the company has said the site will stay offline "until we have clarity". The Curaçao-based platform offers casino games and sportsbetting. Tweet by DuelbitsJoe

Attackers stole $387.5 million in crypto assets from Bitget, a cryptocurrency exchange originally founded in Singapore and headquartered out of the Seychelles. Centralized stablecoin issuers Circle and Tether (issuers of USDC and USDT) froze $318,000 in stolen assets, but the vast majority were swapped to decentralized cryptocurrencies and have not been frozen.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen has said the company believes that a North Korean cybercrime group may be behind the theft. Bitget halted…

Recently, TypeSafe AI introduced a new frontier AI model called Jev. What’s unique about this model is that it specializes as a zero-shot classifier. In other words, you can give Jev a question and a fixed set of answer choices and it will tell you which answer choices it thinks are most likely to be correct. You get all of this out of the box without having to fine-tune or train the model on a representative set of examples. Jev is not designed to be a generative model, so it doesn’t output…

Leo is a CLI tool that lets you scaffold and quickly create scripts and run them through a unified interface. It’s highly configurable and ships with a JSON data store accessible from the unified CLI. Why? Over the years I’ve written a lot of scripts for myself for various reasons – automating repetitive tasks, cron jobs, text manipulators, meme makers etc. I usually throw them all into my home directory and invoke them through shell (zsh) functions or some directly. This can get out of hand…