Exhibit 1 The same day I posted Downgrades Peter Oppenheimer et al from Goldman Sachs (GS) weighed in on the same topic with Competition for Capital: "There are two themes dominating our investor conversations: the impact of AI and the rise in interest rates. The two issues are linked as demand for capital from both the private and public sectors increase. In the private sector a surge in capex spending to fund AI infrastructure has eaten into free cash flow and forced companies to raise more…

I have a beautiful planner from Owl Paper Co. to give away today. I reviewed another Owl Paper Co. planner last week that uses the same 80 gsm Delphina paper and a similar layout if you’d like to see pen tests and ink swatches. The Owl Paper A5 Undated Bullet Journal features a Caramel Macchiato leatherette cover. It is a 6-month, undated bullet journal. For each month, there is: a two-page monthly calendar spread followed by a two-page habit tracker spread followed by a two-page vertical…

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I’m in the final stretch of pregnancy. My body has been blessedly mobile until recently, but some of the most demoralizing changes are almost old news by now. A few months back, I lost my ability to draw due to pregnancy-related carpal tunnel syndrome. This is a temporary impairment, but a hard one to accept when drawing has always been a part of my life, how I see the world, how I process things. It’s forced me to consider how I rely on drawing and what kind of things I can produce without it.…

You may recall that when I started the Green Sweater, I had to choose between the green and the pink sets of yarn I’d put together. Green won the coin toss and got to go first, but now it’s time for Pink Stuff! Based on my notes, I made some adjustments to both the shaping and the fading and got started. Here it is at the start of the third colour, laid out with the green sweater under it for scale and as kind of a progress bar… but at this point I tried it on and had to admit that there are…

Sword Beach, Ouistreham, Normandy. Great day for a landing! Why is the sky blue? I asked a couple of years ago. At the end of the day the answer really is “because we say it’s blue”. In 2012 Radiolab had a fascinating broadcast about color which explores this as well as other questions. They repeated the show in August this year. You can listen to the program, or if you prefer follow the transcript, at this link. William Ewart Gladstone loved Homer, and would read The Iliad and The Odyssey over…

Opus 5.5 was released on Tuesday. I covered the system card yesterday, and will cover its capabilities soon. By all reports it is an excellent model. There are lots of fun videos going around that Opus has generated, which I will include as part of that. OpenAI released a new cheaper and improved Sol and Luna. No one is talking about them due to Opus 5.5, but these should be an important upgrade under the hood. Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar have formally introduced the Ban Artificial…

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Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts - Capitol Theater, Port Chester, New York, September 24, 2024Over on Aquarium Drunkard this week, I shared my thoughts on Second Song, Neil Young’s latest album. Go read my thoughts, damnit! In short, this is definitely one of Neil’s best this century, with introspective lyrics, gloriously loose arrangements and an elegiac vibe. It’s also a major upgrade in quality from Young’s last album, the mostly dismal Talking to the Trees. Second Song is the second studio…

Every single leader gets mocked behind their back. Your school teachers, the professor at the university, your parents, and even your manager at the corporate office. Everybody gets mocked and gossiped about by people. And yet, their approval is often the very thing those people crave the most. Not all mocking is the same, and you should never take it seriously enough to change your personality. A lot of mocking is a coping mechanism. They cannot read a book, so they mock the person who does.…

I’ve posted several things to The Cramped in the past couple of days. Hoping to do a little mini feature on a unique stationary store that has opened in my town recently. Feeling good about this.

It dawned on me, after last week’s Dreamcast shenanigans, that if I’m porting the EH500 to 20 year old machines, then I probably don’t have an excuse not to port it to the Mac. Other than, I suspect, that it’s going to be a massive ball-ache at some point. As much as I used to get on fine with XCode, 12 years ago, when I daily drove OS X, there is absolutely no way on God’s green earth that I'll put myself through the horror of setting it up in 2026. So I’ve done something far nicer: my DJing…

Sydney Carruth • MS NOW MS NOW White House reporter Laura Barrón-López and an MS NOW producer were denied access and had their passes confiscated, while another MS NOW producer was granted access. Politico said at least one of their reporters was blocked. CNN said some of its staffers were denied access, but at least one was allowed in. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the Trump administration early Thursday to temporarily restore White House access to journalists from the three…

I didn't realize that Marvel was going to be publishing a new collection of "Confederacy of Dunces", the story arc that ran through the last five issues of Garth Ennis' 2001-2004 The Punisher ongoing series, until I saw it waiting to be shelved at the library. It was the cover that caught my eye (as covers should). I noticed the big "PUNISHER" and skull logo in the middle of the cover, the odd assortment of characters and the very distinct art of John McCrea, who has long been one of my…

It’s book club time again, where we read a book and watch the film adaptation of it. If you live in Sheffield come join us there are some good ones coming up! This one… I didn’t like so much. Initially I struggled with the prose and the meandering back stories of all the characters, but once that clicked I was locked in. The book as a whole though is a little series of interconnecting vignettes, all horrid, all violent, and it was just a slog to get through. What the hell is it with American…

… maybe not for this guy. I was on my way to celebrate an Ex-Pat’s one year anniversary in Cabo Verde.This lone fisherman, I thought, was a bit too far out with those waves crashing about. What do I know?I don’t fish.I don’t even swim. I do try to not pass judgement on things I know little or nothing about.Brother man actually seemed to have things under control.He has the knowledge and skills. I don’t.And I respect that. Asé Peace & Blessings,"Guided by the Ancestors"

A photography project I've been thinking about since the pandemic. Photos of the countryside - but with *fewer things in them*. Quite pleased with this set.

Saturday evening in Bisutoro, the Bluefin Tuna Chili Sesame roll a delight. Get your head out of the clouds. I miss these guys. Mr big eyes. Love puttering around antique/vintage places, this is Sweet Salvage in Phoenix.

As soon as the days visibly shorten and the air gets cool, I experience a mood best described as "cozy-morose." It is a mood for curling up under a blanket with a cup of tea and reveling in feeling just a bit sad. In 2017, with some help from Pinterest (which was still good at the time), I put together The Cozy-Morose Playlist. It lived on my Rhapsody account and later on my Spotify account. Since I'm no longer willing to pay for music without owning it, it's currently on PipePipe (my…

People don’t seem to have a lot of money these days. It’s starting to show, even in Ottawa suburbia. The post I’m Watching Middle-Class Normalcy Collapse in Ottawa Suburbia first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.

I recently read one of H. Bedford-Jones‘s novels, The Devil’s Bosun. This story is set in the Dutch East Indies in the 1930s. The story was serialized over four issues of Short Stories in November and December 1935. The first part was cover-featured, and that was used as the cover art of the volume. The […]

Intro My solution of a Pwn challenge Stack My Pivot on the CTF site 247CTF.com. Instructions To protect against overflow attacks, we are limiting the number of bytes our applications will read. Is there still enough space to do something useful? Exploit #!/usr/bin/env python3 # No dependencies. Usage: python3 solve.py <host> <port> import socket, sys, select host, port = sys.argv[1], int(sys.argv[2]) # buffer1: execve("/bin/sh") shellcode, padded to 50 bytes b1 =…

...I'm telling myself that, in a kind voice. I fell short of completing Unofficial Blaugust. For my BIRTHDAY MONTH, I decided to take it real easy. I took the time I needed and more. But how to start up again?By Goofin', of course!ragin (positive)In the previous entry, I mentioned running National Rage Week which is usually held in the 3rd week of September. But I never did. I'm tired of ragin', ragin' is tiring and I've been pretty tired.But hey, let's do it! Right now! It's Delayed National…

What started as an exercise for my Witches of Appendix N project has become a rather thorough immersion in the works of Manly Wade Wellman. I have spent more than a couple of months reading his works and listening to his books. I went in looking for witches and any number of useful ideas about magic, and to add another piece to the puzzle: the literary landscape behind Dungeons & Dragons.I did not expect Wellman to start reaching backward into things I had already written.But here we are.The…

Here is another week of indie games I’ve (Josh Bycer) had a chance to check out for my shorts series.

Please click on this link for my YouTube and Substack reviews of: Jean-Paul Gaultier Les Ateliers Gaultier and Lolita Lempicka 2026 re-launch reviews. The post is not behind a paywall and you shouldn’t have to subscribe to be able to read it. Persolaise The post Jean-Paul Gaultier Atelier & Lolita Lempicka relaunch reviews – 2026 appeared first on .

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Wendy’s new emo rock album, Songs to Listen to in a Wendy’s Parking Lot is probably my favorite fast food promo project since the anime-styled “choose your own adventure”/dating simulator game I Love You Colonel Sanders. With songs produced by Matt Squire (credits include Panic! at the Disco, 3oh!3, All Time Low, Simple Plan and Sum 41) and featuring the following artists… Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire and Anberlin Chloe Kinnon of Winona Fighter Shane Told of Silverstein Beau Bokan of…

Rain at first but some sunny intervals later. Car washing. H.Doc.B2. H old car on Wednesday making 125 to date. Cleared all the lab bins out. A big truck load today. Got some rags off Mrs K.