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Where's the Good Beer Guide update, you may be asking. My early copy was lost in the post so here we are on publication day and I still haven't seen it. Hmph!!Anyway, off to St Helens today to mop up a few odds and ends, starting in the Royal Tavern:(Due to a camera malfunction I didn't get a picture today, this one is from 2021.)This is a plain comfortable boozer and it was ticking over well at two on a Thursday. I enjoyed my first Carling of the day, costing £4.10.A quick scan of the glasses…

My old Canon Rebel T1i camera’s batteries started failing months ago, they didn’t reliably hold a charge. My concern was that the camera would not shutdown correctly and break. Better safe than sorry, I stopped using it. I dearly missed my DSLR a lot, especially on a family travel to Cuzco. While smartphones can take great photos, they can’t compete against a larger sensor and larger interchangeable lenses. I’m delighted that, with the help of my mother-in-law I got ahold of two new batteries!…

The emergence of increasingly capable artificial intelligence has been causing a fair amount of uncertainty in the mathematics community. Jessica Randall, a South African mathematician for Google Developer Groups, says she sensed a collective existential dread rising among the young mathematicians [at the 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum]. […] AI has the potential to transform their discipline. But there’s far less consensus on what that transformation will mean in practice. What It Means to Be a…

We had some rain, off and on, during the night, and today was mostly overcast. Overnight temperatures were quite nice, and the garden survives. This morning was very good, on the pain scale, for myself, but not for my daughter. I headed to the garage this morning on my own, and didn’t even bother to … Continue reading Our 2026 Garden: another little harvest, plus an update

[You know, maybe they deserve each other.] Remember rich dingus Bryan Johnson, who’s obsessed with beating aging? He’s the one who publicly compared his erections against his son’s. Right, “ick”. “Ick” indeed. Anyhow, Johnson now has a girlfriend, Kate Tolo. Despite some initial discomfort, she’s decided to share Johnson’s hobby. Describing herself as an introvert, she says she was initially uneasy about becoming “the world’s most measured woman,” as Johnson put it in a video from last August.…

I’ve been enjoying following along with Simon Willison as he plays with LLMs via his llm tool but haven’t tried it out yet. Now I have a small task in mind — I recently planted some seeds, taking a photo of each seed packet while I was at it. I’d like to extract the plant names from these photos. The first step is to install the llm tool along with llm-mlx to get variants that should run better on Apple hardware: % brew install llm % llm install llm-mlx Let’s get Gemma and give it a try: % time…

One event, modelled at every scale I could reach — the actors, the arena, the simulations, and the emergent agent behaviours worth watching for. The post How I Track AI Risk Claims — and Notice When I Am Wrong appeared first on The Emergence Machine.

I love this story about middle school kids hanging out in the comments section of an @npr.org podcast episode. Why? Because they weren't allowed to use social media. Life finds a way. 🦖

Don Geddis pointed out a problem with my relativity animation:... with either Linda or Ralph stationary, you have the angled light hitting the end clock at "the same moment" as the light pulse that just goes straight up and down. That's not what would happen. If light was going at a constant speed, the light on the angled path would need to take longer to reach the end point.That sounds plausible

p2p.kiwi is a free and open source desktop conferencing and screen-sharing app from The Don't Be Evil Company for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It connects participants without requiring accounts, using STUN to help establish direct peer-to-peer connections and optional TURN relays when needed. Under the hood, it uses WebRTC for transport, MLS for group key management, and SFrame for end-to-end media encryption.

I’ve had iPhones since the 3G. These are issues I expect I’ll always have. Scheduled updates. I’ll set it to run updates overnight, when it’s plugged in, fully charged, has jiggabytes of free space, and is connected to Wi-Fi. It almost never works. I have always had to do updates manually. Android comparisons. Anyone voicing frustration with iOS will be told they should just use Android. Now that I have experience with both, I can safely say Android saw how far iOS has slid, and said “hold my…

The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Price Tower rises into the blue sky over Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The post Below Price Tower appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Mentre scrivo, stasera, ho lanciato un task su Visual Studio Code. Tutto è nato da un’idea relativa ad un tool che potrebbe semplificare un po’ alcuni flussi di lavoro che mi è venuta mentre guidavo, nel traffico al quale sono tristemente tornato. Ho pigiato un pulsante sul volante, chiesto a Siri di aprire i memo vocali dell’iPhone ed ho iniziato a parlare. Ho parlato per poco meno di quindici minuti, da solo, guidando. Arrivato a casa ho riaperto l’app, cliccato sul tasto di conversione in…

lying in bed in the winter with my feet on a heating pad. Reading or journaling. both pets (molly and moon) wanting to cuddle at the same time. snow white mode. moon (cat) trying to help with a project tea/coffee in the brief window of being the perfect temperature the low sun in the morning or evening that makes everything glow shifting leafy shadows— especially on a cloudy window or the bright, flat plane of a building the way leaves and branches move in wind when air is cool and crisp and…

They were the least of those that served. They were corruption given flesh; a corpulence of festering death and decay. Rebellious in spirit, yet forever bound to the power of their masters. This tome describes the zaug – one of the “servitors of the Galchutt”. Physically the zaug were grossly obese humanoids with no hair. They had wide mouths full of teeth, claws for hands, and short horns on their heads. Some are described as possessing vestigial, rotting wings. A few passages describe their…

Ava's The reduction of intellectual labor is an interesting frame for me on AI and on automation in general. The thing that most stands out is that Ava wants to do intellectually demanding things. Funny that? I think a lot of people actually do, and so do I. But the 'a lot' of people that do are not a lot in the grand scheme of things. So we have a completely different problem. The people that work in similar ways and would probably work great together on something, are spread out across the…

I look forward to inspiring future design improvements to OpenAI products.

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Regina McBride’s novel The White Deer is an imaginative look into the lives of Anton Chekhov and Vera Denisova. Roxana Robinson wrote of the book: “Regina McBride’s new book evokes a loving…

Before I stumbled into a software career, I got an English degree. A lot of people think that this means that I spent college reading a lot and writing a lot, and I did do that, but I also spent my undergraduate years contemplating a handful of repeated questions across almost all of my classes. The most important of these questions was, "What is a Text?"People who haven't studied this question carefully tend to have a model that's something like this:There is a Meaning and it lives in the head…

When you have a camera in your hand and a photographer’s eye, windows are no longer windows. Windows are mirrors, and kaleidoscopes, and liminal planes, and filters, and sheer dissectors and image reflectors. I took the main photo with my new camera (Ricoh GR IV Monochrome). It’s a tiny pocket-sized thing, an everyday carry. With no viewfinder, and only shooting monochrome, it is a simple, quality, point and shoot. Unlike my Fujifilm, I can travel light with it in my satchel, ready to spring…

Bild: ADFC Fahrradtaschen mit Motto (ADFC, 2026) im ADFC-Merchandise-Shop für Mitglieder. Der ADFC Bochum veranstaltet am 3. Oktober eine Raddemo mit dem Motto »Weil Radfahren glücklich macht«. Sie startet um 14 Uhr am Bochumer Rathaus, endet gegen 16 Uhr an der KoFabrik und führt innenstadtnah über ungefähr 9 km. Hintergrund ist eine Mitgliederwerbeaktion des ADFC: Egal, ob der tägliche Radweg – etwa auf ruhigen Nebenstraßen oder im Grünen – beruhigend gestaltet wird, oder ob er zur…

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Cat shield. The bookshelf cardboard keeps on giving.

"Some people were born just so they could be buried." This is a follow on post from the book review, where I was a bit mean. The film version stars Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Riley Keough and Bill Skarsgård amongst others. Unusally, the film is narrated by the book’s author, Donald Ray Pollock. So how does it stack up to the book? Well it’s not a terribly unfaithful adaptation in terms of narrative, but the narrative was what I hated the most. What worked in the book was the deep…

Anjanette Comer, who starred in such movies as The Loved One (1965) and The Appaloosa (1966) and guest starred on shows from The Donna Reed Show to Columbo, died on May 28, 2026 at the age of 86. Her death only was only recently made public. She had suffered from leukaemia and had issues with her heart.Anjanette Comer was born on August 7, 1939, in Dawson, Texas. When she was 16 she was named queen of the Corsicana Fair and Rodeo. She studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. It was there that…

I really like mint tea. I drink it everyday. There is something satisfyingly about weeding At this point I’ve been writing code in some fashion for half my life Kdrama’s are fun It’s back to boot weather and I love it Jewelry is fun to wear. I’ve spotted several outdoor cats today as I ran around. Two were orange, one was black and white. I wonder how life would’ve turned out if I wasn’t so shy The area I live is really pretty Gym’s in high-schools filled with kids are so loud Afternoon naps…

After taking a break for a couple days, my elbow is feeling better. But I still laid off the heavy triceps work. As I was on the ab machine an older gent came up to me and gave me a high five. Unknown location (probably inside)

Kelly Foscroft-Poirier hosts a session during an Art of Hosting we did at Tseshaht back in 2019. I had a lovely call today with Sean Andrew, a colleague in the world of hosting, complexity and systems change work. At one point we were both sharing stories about what the Art of Hosting workshop meant to us as experienced practitioners. We both came to the Art of Hosting approach after years of facilitation and practice in other domains. For experienced practitioners, the Art of Hosting, as a…