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Scrawls Library Updates Next August doesn’t have many holidays for us to latch onto, so fair warning, this month’s developer diaries will end up naming themselves for an assortment of sometimes-odd anniversaries. Case in point, today marks the 248th anniversary of the premiere of Salieri’s Europa riconosciuta, which itself marked the opening of La Scala. And with that, on to the week’s projects. Scrawls scrawls We now have a default configuration file to identify the
My Own Failure The Second Coming Meanwhile Broader Story So What This may seem simplistic and superficial, and if not that, then almost tautological—and at least has the virtue of relative brevity, for once—but I want to suggest that the last decades of political positioning by those in the United States with progressive views has given conservatives and regressives the space to metastasize into what we see today. I didn’t make the connection until recently, but I see two ideas bracketing this.…
Titan Tactics What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Manuel, the Magnificent Mechanical Man
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A couple of months ago, I put together a post—not entirely serious, but also not entirely joking—about how corporate personhood might provide an opportunity to wipe out almost every exploitative organization. I won’t rehash that blog post, but at the end of the post, I joked that the idea could probably gain some traction with the cynical addition of a clichéd dystopian logo for hypothetical branded merchandise, coming up with this example. Maybe surprisingly, I haven’t gotten any feedback on…
Entropy Arbitrage Newsletter Mini-Server, Part 28 Scrawls Library Updates Next Lacking a more substantial holiday, on this day in 1794, the French Revolutionaries put Maximillen Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just to death in the guillotine. If the names sound familiar, the close friends—despite a strong start as staunch, pro-democracy voices—led the Reign of Terror. Louis also lends his name to the fictional Marguerite St. Just, the actress married to Percy
What Has Come Before Structure Origins of the Structure Pacing Creators First Terminology Distinction What If I Don’t Care, Though In many ways, this post feels like a waste of everyone’s time t
Galactic Mutant Animals What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Manuel, the Magnificent Mechanical Man Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club reads the remainder of Galactic Muta
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SPARQL Commas, Commas, Everywhere Expansion As most readers here probably already know, I spend Thursday evenings on the blog digging through an episode from the Star Trek media franchise. Starting in February 2025, those posts began including what aired on “sibling productions” at around the same time, to (I hope) give some context to what the writers might have had in mind in the script. In my eyes, it made a reasonable compromise between watching each show entirely in isolation (scrubbing…
Recipe What Passes for Design Notes Maintenance Get to the Point Entropy Arbitrage Scrawls Library Updates Next While not nearly as important as some historians like to present it, today marks the 178th anniversary of the s
The Radioactive Kaiju in the Room The Why Real Example, Watching Media Your Version Actual Needs Media Box Requirements Flexibility More to Come It occurs to me that
Galactic Mutant Animals What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Manuel, the Magnificent Mechanical Man Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club reads the third quarter of Galactic
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Mini-Server, Part 27 Entropy Arbitrage Scrawls Notoboto Library Updates Next While the date changes depending on exactly where one lives—by a lot, I mean, not the usual week or so that you’d expect from asymmetric calendar changes—Mongolia will wrap up their National Naadam (ᠨᠠᠭᠠᠳᠤᠮ) Festival today, featuring wrestling (Bökh/ᠪᠥᠬᠡ), horse racing, and archery. And with that, on to
Recap Taking Responsibility, Again The Four Freedoms Again Libertarians at the Gates Digital Microbiomes Opportunistic Schism Licensing Gaps
Galactic Mutant Animals What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Manuel, the Magnificent Mechanical Man Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club reads the second quarter of Galactic
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Social Media Recipes Scrawls Entropy Arbitrage Library Updates Next Reviving the former Emancipation Day/Fifth of July, New York celebrates the first Monday of the month as Abolition Commemoration Day, marking the state’s 1827 abolition of slavery. While the state declared Emancipation Day to coincide with the country’s Independence Day on the fourth, fears about violence from white people—legitimate, given that anti-abolitionist riots would rip New York City apart about seven years…
Callooh Callais Social Constructs The Origin of Race The Triangle Oh, Right Post-Racial Society, Though Sabotaged Amendment Vote-Nihilism
Galactic Mutant Animals What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Forgotten Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club reads the first half quarter of Galactic Mutant Animals, Operation Nature Space and Anti-Human Commando
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Entropy Arbitrage Newsletter Mini-Server, Part 26 Entropy Arbitrage Scrawls Library Updates Next Again lacking a real holiday, today marks the 413rd anniversary of the fire that destroyed the original Globe Theatre. About a year later, the replacement on the same site opened its doors, which the 1997 reconstruction down the road mimics.
The Maybe-One War A Hundred Years Plus More Civility Labor Pains No Asterisks Getting to the Point Siege Engines Leading the Witness
