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At the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival, Indian director Payal Kapadia etched her name for eternity in the annals of cinema history by winning the 'Grand Prix.’ Kapadia's debut feature All We Imagine As Light, …

Last month, I analyzed the programming languages and UI frameworks used to create iOS 17. This month, let’s analyze macOS from OS X El Capitan 10.11 to the latest macOS Sonoma 14 and answer a …

Storyville: War Game was shown last week in the UK on the BBC, and is a documentary film about ‘gaming’ the future. In fact, it is gaming a very specific future: after the violent attack …

This post follows up on the one I did a couple of weeks ago, which involved Jason's fishing trips to Smith Lake with me and our trip to Oak Mountain State Park for some top …

I used to be quite fond of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels. I hadn’t read them in years, but now that the earliest books have entered the public domain, I’ve re-read a few. I still …

DC recently announced an alternate universe sub-line called Absolute as part of their current All In push, which will feature re-imaginings of various heroes as underdogs. Absolute Flash, by Jeff Lemire and Nick Robles, is …

It's well-documented that acquiring a CRT display instantly awakens an instinct to show off photos of game title screens and calibration patterns to every Discord friend and server within earshot, at the expense of actually …

Chris puts AI feelings into words

Herein lies the tale of our abrupt and terrifying end to Death Frost Doom. As if it could end any other way.When we last met with The Pillories, their halfling, Remi Knotwise, had crawled through …

There is a classic statistical test known as the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test (Wikipedia). This post is about an off-label use of the KS-test that I don’t think people know about (not even Kolmogorov or Smirnov), …

Visibly moved after a visit to the Galleria Borghese, my friend recounted their first encounter with Bernini’s The Rape of Proserpina, especially the texture and yielding softness of the skin. Years later, after spending an …

A review of A Winter in Zürau and Partita by Gabriel Josipovici Gabriel Josipovici has said that as a critic he is conservative but as a novelist he is radical. The second claim may not …

Now it is 30 years later, and you are still sending me books, just more expensive ones, and we both are in it together bc you put us there. While I am reading your old …

Alongside Crystal, the supernatural mystery series stars multi-Emmy and Tony Award winner Judith Light (“Transparent”), Jacobi Jupe (“Peter Pan & Wendy”), Oscar-nominated performer Rosie Perez (“The Flight Attendant”), Tony nominee Maria Dizzia (“Orange Is the …