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The Prism tool visualises how surface narratives can be refracted to reveal deeper truths. A guest post by Evy Peña, NGFP2021 Forced Labour Awardee, who works with SOIF on Sprout, a programme aimed at nurturing …

I probably set up and configure (or reconfigure) at least ~5 computers a year for professional audio. A few years back I started configuring some machines to use Arch while continuing to mainly setup and …

2024 is another good year for stone fruit: peaches and apricots have been flavourful and juicy, and our two plum trees are overflowing at the moment. I was surprised that I’ve never blogged about this …

23-24 July 2024 Collingwood College Durham In July 2024, the History of Parliament Trust supported the two-day conference Histories of Scottish Politics in the Age of Union, c., 1700-1945, held at Durham University and organised …

Our friend Geoff Hardy disappeared at the end of April - our, because he was your friend too, whether you knew him well, a little, or had never met him. Geoff was friend to a …

Dogpatch: SurekI’ve linked over to Dante Carfagna and Jonathan Kirby’s phenomenal Dogpatch podcast in the past — but I still feel like not enough people know about it. Consider this another reminder! Dogpatch isn’t on …

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 has posted three preview pages from next week’s issue of The Flash, and you can see them at Adventures In Poor Taste. The preview features the West family going on vacation — but unbeknownst …

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 …