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A lovely vegan sushi restaurant Z found. One does not simply fly from Denver to Taipei… because there are no direct flights. So this year we decided to fly from Denver to Tokyo first, and then, after a few days, move on to Taipei. My wife is the only one among the three of us who has ever been to Japan. (1) The life-sized blue whale statue outside the science museum; (2) the model train at the Railway Museum We spent a few days in Tokyo first, visiting places like the National Museum of Nature…
Dare to suck is, for all intents and purposes, my friend Pete’s motto. I’ve been playing Irish music with Pete since about 2010, and for as long as I’ve known him, he has encouraged people in his seisiúns to dare to suck. (I recently learned the phrase did not originate with Pete, I believe it came from someone else he used to play with before my time.) He says it to newcomers to encourage them to lead tunes when they’re reticent; he says it of himself and other more experienced players when a…
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This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. This fellow, Jerry, has been making this map of an imaginary place for decades. The map is incredible. His process is incredible. What a delightful way to spend one’s time. The entire 45 minute People Make Games video is worth your time. (It’s also available on Nebula, if you have a Nebula subscription.) Play Video: He Won’t Stop Building a Map to an Imaginary Place He Won't Stop Building a Map to an Imaginary Place Comments, questions,…
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin When I began writing this, I intended to make the case that there is no responsible use of “AI”. I was motivated by three separate encounters in a single morning of people arguing that the path forward is to adopt “AI” and find a way to do so responsibly.123 In the course of writing, however, I discovered that my real disagreement with this position was that it is predicated on the…
Time again to call your representatives. In case you haven’t heard, back in February the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act (H.R.7661) was introduced in the House of Representatives. It is a book ban. It prevents federal money given to schools to be used for programs, activites, or books that include sexually oriented material; which includes, by the way, lewd or lascivious dancing. I guess Mary Miller thought John Lithgow was playing the good guy in Footloose. But don’t worry, there are…
Ben nudged me to publish this list, so here it is. Also because Drew DeVault wrote about Zine (including the facts that both Hugo and Zola seem open to the use of large language models in their code base). Copy-left license Anti-AI contribution policy Binary executable for easy installation Good documentation Good error messages Extensible via a scripting language Fast Built-in image manipulation Incremental builds I have yet to find anything that ticks even half of these boxes. It’s…
