/dev/lawyer
law, technology, and the space between.
By Kyle E. Mitchell.
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Updated 5 days ago
Open Source When We Say So
still stronger claims of self-authority in OSI’s new AI “definition”
Hypertexthero
flies between realities in art and play to brighten your day.
By Simon Griffee.
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Updated 14 hours ago
❦ Flight Simulator 2024
Notes that will coalesce into somewhat coherent writing about Microsoft’s Flight Simulator 2024, which you plan to use for most of your flights in a flight sim voyage around the world. Videos of flights will …
Dhole Moments - Blog
Writings about information security, cryptography, software, and humanity, from a member of the furry fandom with a dhole fursona.
By Soatok.
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Updated 21 hours ago
Some Thoughts on the Twitter Mass Exodus
Another wave of Twitter users are jettisoning the social media website in favor of alternatives. Some are landing in the Fediverse (Mastodon and other ActivityPub-enabled software). Others are going to BlueSky. Some are just outright …
Max Slater
Computer Graphics, Programming, and Math.
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Updated 3 weeks ago
Bronx Zoo II
Bronx Zoo, New York, NY, 2024
Jabal al-Lughat
Climbing the Mountain of Languages.
By Lameen Souag.
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Updated a month ago
Tlemcen: medieval folk etymologies and their implications
In the mid-14th century work Bughyat al-ruwwād fī dhikr il-mulūk min banī ʕAbd al-Wād, Yaḥyā Ibn Khaldūn (brother of the more famous Ibn Khaldūn) ventures two possible etymologies for the name of Tlemcen (Standard Arabic …
By Lameen Souag الأمين سواق, 485 words
The Untranslated
A blog about literature not yet available in English.
By Andrei.
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Updated 7 months ago
Theodoros by Mircea Cărtărescu
Reluctant to wait for the first translations of Mircea Cărtărescu’s latest novel to start coming out in the second half of 2024, I taught myself enough Romanian to read it in the original. This “pseudo-historical …
Classics of Science Fiction
Remembering the Best Short Science Fiction.
By James Wallace Harris.
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“Zeta-Epsilon” by Isabel J. Kim
Have you ever wondered what being a cyborg would be like? Have you ever wished you had a computer built into your head to augment your memory? Have you ever wanted greater powers to perceive …
By jameswharris, 1,612 words
The Impulsive Buy
Junk Food and Fast Food Reviews and News Blog.
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Updated 13 hours ago
REVIEW: Sour Skittles Pop’d Freeze Dried Candy
Freeze-dried candy seems to have been gaining popularity in the past few years. What was once only seen at craft fairs, TJ Maxx checkout aisles, and farmer’s markets have now gained proliferation in gas stations …
Bangkok Glutton
"Tasting it to the streets...".
By Chawadee Nualkhair.
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Good luck, babe
Just got back from Isan again. What happened while I was away? HAHAHAHAHAHHA. If you, like me, were disappointed by the outcome of an election that feels like 5 years ago, I think we are …
By Bangkok Glutton, 47 words
Dark Highways
By S. Brady Calhoun.
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Grandma at 99
Four years ago my then 99-year-old grandmother needed a chauffeur for a shopping trip. I was the grandchild who was both in town and not working that day so the honor fell to me. As …
By S. Brady Calhoun, 503 words
Lincoln Mullen | Blog
I am a historian of American religion and the nineteenth-century United States, often using computational methods for texts and maps.
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Updated 6 months ago
Antisemitism, U.S.A: A history podcast
Welcome back to the (very) occasional newsletter Working On It. It has been 277 days since the last issue. Antisemitism, U.S.A. A couple of years ago, my colleague John Turner and I bounced around ideas …
By Lincoln Mullen, 1,460 words
Talking Shelf Space
Collecting Modern Board Games.
By Alex.
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Financials of a Hobby Board Game Reviewer – 2024 Edition
So I did a post around this time last year that was quite popular about the behind the scenes financial stuff when it comes to me writing reviews. It also contained some high level reflections …
Bloom | "Late" According to Whom?
Where you’ll encounter authors whose first books were published when they were 40 or older; who bloomed in their own good time.
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Bloom Creative Writing: “Til It’s Gone,” by Alexis Levitin
With this work by Alexis Levitin, we continue to highlight original fiction and poetry from writers who either published their first book of poetry or fiction at 40 or after, or who have yet to …
By joeschuster3, 2,333 words
Riccardo Mori
Writer & Translator.
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Spotify and logins
I have been a very happy Spotify Premium subscriber since 2010. While I don’t necessarily like or agree with certain decisions and stances the company took in the past, from a mere customer experience standpoint, …
By Riccardo Mori, 679 words
Art by Jey Pawlik
Illustration, fanart, and comics.
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ThanksMaka Day!
Posted up for Patrons and VIP folks for Canadian Thanksgiving last month! Here’s some Makas in costume