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FROM (2022) s03e06 “Scar Tissue” [2024] D: Alexandra La Roche. S: Harold Perrineau, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Eion Bailey, David Alpay, Scott McCord, Ricky He, Corteon Moore. It’s one of the better (if not best) FROM …

Video: Edith Frost – “Hold On” Directed by Simon Russell. From In Space, out February 28 on Drag City. This is so exciting. Edith Frost’s last album, It’s a Game, has been on regular location …

I know, I know; these days, everyone and their five-legged, three-eyed dog is writing a piece about AI. I can’t promise that this one will be more insightful or educational than any of the others, …

From Private Eye, 1-14 Apr 2022, columnist MD writes: We saw similar things in the U.S., with official and quasi-official sources giving contradictory and flat-out nonsensical advice, all with the overconfident air of science. Once …

Back when I started this, the Internet was a lot more promising. You could assume that your words would be indelibly etched forever into the conciousness of humanity. I’ve seen the future, I can’t afford …

A visit to a Polish castle leads to some unexpected connections between England and Poland in the early Middle Ages.

Six years ago I spent a week training a neural network to write blog posts and the results were terrible. Now with LLMs I want to see how much easier and better the results are.

Ah, Kentucky. If you’ve ever spent a week with three greyhounds and two cats, you’ll have an inkling of the enjoyable time I had in the bluegrass state. The greyhounds would greet me each morning …

More than 30 earths could fit between the earth and the moon. Our elementary school models of the solar system really undersell how big space is. The problem is, space is too big and human …

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will …

OK, I built a new PC last year, and it’s been generally awesome. Except for one little thing. I put a NZXT Kraken Z53 in it. The Z53 is a nifty dual-fan all-in-one water cooler, …

I've shared these at work and thought it might be helpful to post my notes from the launch of the Museum Data Service at Bloomberg last week in public too. The MDS aggregates museum (and …

This is my dovetailed housing dado. I think you will like trying it out. Another joint emerges from a maker who’s conscious of loss in handwork to his craft. In the moment, he decides on …

As I wrote the both editions of CSS in Depth, I worked hard to stay on top of emerging features in CSS and where browsers were at in regards to adding support. The book writing …

The answer is traverse. It's always traverse. I recently came across a Stack Overflow question about collecting and handling sum types (AKA discriminated unions or, in this case, result types). While the question was tagged …