A classic example appears on a wall in the “Build a Show” exhibit (2026) at the Broadway Museum in New York City. From contributor Kelly Williams.

These spontaneous walks have become less frequent since Ines moved to a different part of the city, and I miss them. It was great having friends in the neighborhood. Unfortunately, there's no way of finding an apartment anywhere else, so I'm stuck here in my absurdly beautiful Winterhude. Oh well...

Palaeontologists have just identified the first confirmed Diplodocus fossils found outside North America. Until this discovery, confirmed Diplodocus fossils were known only from the Morrison Formation of the western United States.The remains—14 tail vertebrae and several chevron bones—were recovered near El Castellar in Teruel, Spain. They belonged to an animal roughly 25 metres long

10-year Treasury yield Recently, interest rates for government debt have been rising worldwide. As I write the yield of the 10-year US treasury is over 5%. It had been below 4.5% for over a year when, in March, it started a steady rise. This is despite (and probably because of) Scott Bessent's efforts to force it lower, which JP Morgan compared to 'paying your mortgage with your credit card'. Source A big part of the reason is governments persistently borrowing to cover deficits, with no plan…

I spend way too much time on Reddit and the Jinhao #59 pocket fountain pen ($9.99-$12.99) is a popular pen amongst the folks in r/fountainpens. So, I finally broke down and purchased one. I was iffy as to the quality and I am fully aware its a dupe of the legendary Pilot E95s ($176) but the price of the Jinhao version makes it a very appealing alternative. I don’t actually own an E95s but I do have a vintage Platinum pocket fountain pen which I’ve included in the photos for size comparison. The…

Filip R. Zahariev Under Review:Engines of Reason. Adrian Tchaikovsky. Tordotcom, September 2026. Adrian Tchaikovsky’s new novella Engines of Reason picks up fifteen years after the moving finale of 2021’s Elder Race, itself a remarkable and rewarding mash-up between fantasy and sci-fi. The beginning of Elder Race was all too reminiscent of your favorite classical fantasy: a princess, off on a quest to fetch a wizard in the hopes he’ll know how to deal with a looming threat to the realm. Only…

Pondering the circumstances that led to the retirement of a 64-year-old cable brand in a merger. Turns out, brand loyalty matters less than we thought.If you bear with me, I’d like to discuss cable providers with you for a second. Yeah, yeah, I know, not the most exciting thing. These are not well-loved companies.And yet, I feel a bit of a way about the loss of one of the legacy cable television providers, Cox Communications, in the midst of a massive merger. It was the oldest of the massive…

ITMS 2026Two years ago I attended the International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago's McCormick Place and found a rather limited focus on artificial intelligence among the exhibitors. ITMS is back in town so I went again this week. A quiet respite from all the AI/math angst, though that will come in full view when mathematicians take over the same venue in January.I picked up my badge, the last to say "Illinois Tech" as I registered for a free academic pass well before the layoffs. Of…

Hello, loves! While you were away, I did a little refactoring. Let’s see what it shows us. I think we’ve done some good here. I’m still working on paths between sections, and still doing most of the work in the tests. Mostly. Yesterday’s afternoon session, unpublished, made a change to the Passages object. Here’s what our active test looked like when last we met: layout.clear_subregions() path_cells = suite_1.find_extended_path(suite_2) # now path_cells[0] is in one suite, and # path_cells[-1]…

[This is a guest post by Timothy Gowers, crossposted from his blog. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] When I was around 11 I heard for the first time about Fermat’s Last Theorem. I was immediately captivated by the problem statement, as well as by the accompanying story, and made a fairly serious attempt to prove it. And while, unsurprisingly, I failed, I learned a lot from the attempt. Blissfully ignorant of the fact that the case had…

An accurate description of Alien 3Blogger ate this post too, which makes me think that something in the formatting went fucked as I copied it in.Alien AliensAlien 3Alien: ResurrectionPrometheusCovenant **Alien 3 (1992, dir. David Fincher) Worth noting that, in what was probably the wrong move yet again, I watched the theatrical version, rather than the Assembly Cut. Guess I just kinda default to "director's cut is just a longer version of the movie with weaker scenes left in". ** Back to an…

General InfoThis one is another from Marukyu Koyamaen, so far the most reviewed company on this blog! I really like their matcha variety and tastes, and the shop I order from always has a wide selection of theirs on the website, so that is why :) "Wako" supposedly means “Peaceful Light”, taken from the Taoist phrase “Wa-kō dō-jin” meaning “to soften one’s brilliance and live in harmony with the world.” According to the shop page, this one is suitable for both koicha and usucha. I paid 39,50…

La Belle Sauvage – Philip Pullman Lyra’s origin story, in which we meet youngsters Malcolm Polstead and Alice Parslow, nuns Sister Fenella and Sister Benedicta, academic Hannah Relf and arch villan Gerard Bonneville…. and Malcolm’s beloved canoe, La Belle Sauvage. I like to imagine that the Sausage lines stemmed from PP’s personal experience of autocorrect…. Michael Sheen’s narration is wonderful. Publisher page: La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One – Philip Pullman (read by Michael…

There are some relationships which appear as if they were designed by God himself. They appear romantic; their love keeps growing with time. They are least bound by worldly desires and instead focused on making each other happy by any means. Everybody wants such a relationship, but they don’t yet understand its essence. A man is seen as a natural provider. Someone who takes care of things. Someone who doesn’t mind dealing with the harsh realities of the world so his family can remain safe and…

Armando 'Bing' Lao is 2026's National Artist for FilmThis September 2026 Armando 'Bing' Lao (1948 - 2024) was posthumously granted the title of National Artist of the Philippines, generally considered the highest honor the state can give one of its citizens.Personally ambivalent about this. First instituted by Ferdinand Marcos Sr. in 1972, the award-- meant to recognize those who contributed significantly to the Philippine arts-- is actually an attempt to ingratiate the president into the…

So after years of not using instagram, I finally gave up and made an account. To follow and be connected with local parkour community (and after creating account I remembered many of my friends and family also still post, so to connect with them as well.) Still, I despise instagram and everything meta has done to steal our attention... so here's my strategy for using it, trying to minimize the harms of it, while still getting the benefits. Use on browser - That's easiest way to set up ig in a…

Currently reading: Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell 📚

This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans. Current status Radicle CI is in production use. There are several CI nodes, and Lars runs a public one for open source Rust projects at callisto.liw.fi. CI node leaderboard This is a demonstration of a leaderboard of CI nodes that have opted into being on the board. For privacy reasons I won't publish node IDs whose owners haven't opted in. But the next version may have…

The We Live Inside a Dream Weekend in Washington continued on Friday, August 14, 2026. Before the evening screening of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive at the North Bend Theatre, I spent the day exploring Snoqualmie Valley which including a visit to the base of Snoqualmie Falls. This trip report is my third in a series... The post Trip Report – We Live Inside a Dream Weekend | August 14, 2026 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

There will never be a channel where people who do things I find interesting can inform me about new interesting things without inevitably filling the channel with maddening blather. I've now been internetting for 34 years, signing up for mailing lists and notifications I was inevitably compelled to ignore or to cancel. And I'm convinced it will always be thus. There's something about the human world that won't allow meaningful opt-in update channels to maintain meaningfulness and authenticity.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff in today’s Ness Labs newsletter reveals a secret I’ve been skating on for most of my life: What you want is to understand the ideas so well that you can trust yourself to find the words when you need them. The critical exception is the very first words you’re going to say, whether it’s a hard 1:1 conversation or a packed auditorium. Memorize them. Practice them. Then when your brain inevitably goes to lunch just as you open your mouth, you can start speaking while it gets…

The Lagniappe Sessions :: Instrumentals (2016-2026)Aquarium Drunkard’s Lagniappe Sessions have been rolling along at a steady pace since 2011, bringing together a global lineup of artists to offer up cover versions of a few of their favorite tunes. It’s always fascinating to hear these wide-ranging interpretations, to experience old songs with new ears, to connect the past with the present. Over the last 15 years, Lagniappe contributors have gone in all sorts of directions. There are no rules —…

A winter series of conversations moving from neuroplasticity and the changing human brain to evolution and the possibilities of life, HIV/AIDS, medicine, and public health. Hosted by Farha Guerrero, The Blue Hour is a conversational ideas show on CiTR 101.9 FM at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Tuesdays at 2 p.m. PT Listen on CiTR 101.9 FM, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Tuesday, December 1Dr. Lara BoydProfessor and Distinguished University Scholar, Department of…

“Agentic AI” is the single most-searched AI term I found when I went digging through market data recently: 90,000+ searches a month, and rising fast. It’s also, in my experience talking to business owners around Denver, Boulder, and Golden, the term people understand least. Most of what gets pitched to you as “agentic” is a chatbot with a to-do list bolted on. Let me tell you what the real thing looks like. The Definition That Actually Matters What is agentic AI, in one sentence? It’s AI that…

Radio 3 this morning was getting very excited about Radio 6 Music's T-Shirt Day (not to be confused with International T-Shirt Day or National T-Shirt Day – heaven knows what thrills await us on those dates). This is the kind of thing that tends to happen on the once sedate Radio 3 (what would Piers Burton-Page say?), and I guess it's the price we pay for keeping the network afloat, with enough listeners to justify its existence. It still plays much high-quality music, and heaven knows, it is…

In July, I began circulating a draft of my next book, Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights. I set it aside for a couple of months to get some distance on it while it accumulated comments. I'll soon dive back in for a fresh round of revisions. Comments are still very welcome! As a teaser, here's the current draft of Chapter Zero: The Cambrian Explosion – how slow, how subtle! About 540 million years ago, in the Cambrian period, most of the major animal phyla arose – arthropods (becoming insects,…

• 4-star hike • 4 mile loop • Moderate | Gain 650 feet • Woodstock, VT | Central East Region . Enjoy the rolling Vermont scenery from Mt Tom's South Peak. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park sits just outside downtown Woodstock, Vermont. The park honors three visionaries connected to the land. George Perkins Marsh grew up here and later warned against the dangers of deforestation. Frederick Billings purchased the farm and put the ideas of Marsh into action by reforesting the…

[This is a guest post by Talia Ringer. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] When I was wrapping up graduate school in computer science in Spring 2021, I was given access to a curious little programming model on OpenAI’s “playground.” The model, called Codex, took in natural language text and generated programs from that text. The task of automatically generating programs given an expression of programmer intent had been one of many major…

We have done this before, we take a useful technology, wrap it in a huge financial story. We centralize it, try and monetize it to turn it into a platform. Then we pretend the social consequences were somehow an accident, it is what we are doing with LLMs. We took an interesting piece of software and started selling it as AI, then AI became AGI, became super-intelligence. This smoke and mirrors feeds the path of building gigantic data centres, burning enormous amounts of energy, raising…