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It’s January 1, 2025. David Shiffman and I have been writing on this old blog for 17 years To mark the milestone, we’ve decided to switch things up. Today, David Shiffman is writing about conservation …

A few years ago, I summarized Keith Bell’s copyright enforcement efforts: Bell published a short book in 1982. It contained a passage that has become a meme in the sports community. Bell has separately registered …

Taking the new year holiday to try and prepare for the upcoming year. Trying to review the last year and figure out where I’d like to do something different. I am going through my social …

TIL: This thing is very useful IMHO … what ??? Acronyms ALT (Text) Alternative Text ALT-Text is a kind of image description that describes the meaning of or the intention behind an image (but not …

by Jendayi Brooks-Flemister Jendayi Brooks-Flemister returns to the pages of Asimov’s with their story “Completely Normal” in our [January/February issue, on sale now!]. In this essay, Brooks-Flemister discusses how the the unique perspectives of science …

Comments on Ryan Barrett’s plan to create a “bridge” between the Fediverse and Bluesky, with reference to defaults, consent & moderation. (Originally entitled “Bridging from the Fediverse to Bluesky (or not)” – I changed it …

Hoshigaki is a traditional Japanese delicacy that transforms fresh persimmons into candy-like dried fruits. The process of creating hoshigaki has been perfected over centuries and involves carefully peeling and hand-massaging the persimmons as they slowly …

In the early days of OSM, when the map was formless and empty, mappers in the United States conducted data imports without much discussion, because there were just not a lot of people to discuss …

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2024 was a transformative year, marked by both challenges and cherished moments. My journey began with my work on Gemini at Google, an experience that allowed me to collaborate with brilliant minds and contribute to …

“I’d like to see a butterfly fit into a chrysalis case after it’s spread its wings.” —Second Doctor, shortly after beginning to exist (1966) They’re restarting NuWho – I told you so. When Russell T. …

Merry Xmas everyone, or Happy Holidays if you prefer. As I said to a few people in our Facebook Group The post Combat Patrol Contents Issues 21-40 Revealed appeared first on FauxHammer.

Friends of the blog weigh in on another chaotic year. The post THE LIST OF LISTS 2024 appeared first on No Bells.

Unless you’re retired, and maybe not even then.Assumed audience: Despite the programming languages in the opening, this applies outside tech and across industries. It is about careers, not about computers. Many years ago, when I …

A bit of a painfully tenuous title for this blog post, basically to have an excuse to have some sort of image to place at the top there - showing that the audiobook version of …