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I recently discovered that there's an old software edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (the second edition) on archive.org for download. Not sure how legal this is, mind, but I thought it would be useful …

Sometimes the sunset filters through the sliding doors at Target in a way that reminds me of church. A honey-red radiance soaks the self-checkout lanes and the mannequins in women’s apparel. We pause our carts, …

This is the full text of a letter written on behalf of one of the defendants charged with narcotics violations in conjunction with the death of my friend and collaborator Michael K. Williams. It was …

Nothing ticks straight women* off more than these two sentences: “Pillow princess” is exclusively a sapphic term. People outside of sapphic relationship dynamics shouldn’t use it. *Or LGBTQ+ women in heteronormative relationship dynamics, or women/NB …

The Dutch controlled the Brazilian northeast for around 25 years in the 17th century. On the heels of shaking off Spanish colonial control in the Netherlands, they managed to haul several Spanish and Portuguese flotillas, …

Do you ever think about how Musky Elmo basically killed the chances of “to tweet” ever genuinely entering the English language as a real life verb

I immediately got messages from friends on Saturday following the assassination attempt on Former President Trump. One friend immediately thought that the event was staged. Another said he thought there was a “nonzero” chance it …

Four new art pieces. In the Celestial Kingdom of Heaven: Be Still and Know That I Am God: Behold Your Little Ones II: Infinite and Eternal: Reply via email

This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Anthropic. Recently I’ve been having a lot of conversations about how to structure and staff teams. One framework I’ve referenced repeatedly is to break …

I'd rather give you cancer than having it myself. A Brazilian music critic (Sônia Braga) is the last resident to live in an apartment building. A developer has bought all the other flats and wants …

2024 has been a hectic year so far. Most recently, we very nearly moved to western New York, but a series of unfortunate events and observations made us reconsider at the last second and decide …

[Ian Sample in The Guardian]"England’s former chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, has said there is no safe level of alcohol intake. A major study published in 2018 supported the view. It found that alcohol …

In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn’t very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that …

cars at a busy intersection wait for their turn to drive. the surroundings are mid-rise city buildings with just a cloud or two in the bright blue sky. somewhere, just out of frame, a person …

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Epic Games in a press release today: Epic's New Game Strategy for Mobile StoresIn exciting news, we are announcing that our mobile games will come to AltStore on iOS in the EU, and we expect …

Mon. 06.03.24 – Hello Lovelies, Sorry if Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen’s Blog has been down for a week or so, but we here at Black Phoebe central have been a bit busy. I just …

So we've toggled from Trump certainly winning to Trump not a certainty to win. That's my hot take beyond reminding you that two days of celebratory relief for the majority of Americans that Trump's return …

TL;DR: In my previous posts, I tinkered with a few variations on clustering ideas by named topics using embeddings and text generation. In this post, I'm going to show off a web UI that I …

We usually buy potatoes from a potato farm up near the Scottish Borders. They have a shipping container just inside...