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*Hugo Simberg, The Wounded Angel, 1903.*Léon Spilliaert, Winter round the lake, 1929.*Melted clock.* Proustian holiday card.*Sculpture by Tung Ming-Chin.*Hans Christian Anderson's sun troll.*'Time is incredibly flexible and we all experience it in different ways,' Ogden …

It's the last day of our winter holiday and I was thinking to myself that I ought to have done a Year Notes, like all the cool kids, but I just couldn't be bothered. Much …

Human nature being what it is, the world has always been, and will always be, beset with utopian busybodies who have taken leave of their senses. (As ever, I draw a strict distinction between the …

I couldn’t find the answer online so I measured it myself. I’m not a food blogger so I’m allowed to provide the information without a rambling story about my childhood. Imperial sizes are in brackets …

Went and wandered through the Bosque along the Rio Grande: Category:Dan Lyke life Category:2013-04 Albuquerque Trip Flutterby.net is a publication of Dan Lyke and unless otherwise noted, copyright by Dan LykeGratefully acknowledged: OpenStreetMap map tiles …

When did the British lose their stiff upper lips? Not that I ever really had one: when exposed to pain—a crushing handshake, say, or the news that a tooth needs a filling—I tend to scream …

Viewers are kindly forewarned that this video contains flashing lights. I had a religious experience yesterday. It’s a common metaphor. A playful exaggeration of what happens when something goes beyond a mere dopamine hit and …

We’re working with an organisation called Platform at the moment to refresh their identity and create a new website. They’re a non-hierarchical team of campaigners, researchers and artists who work on creative projects centred in …

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A project I’m working on forced me to wade into the discourse about semiconductors – especially the economics of older chip manufacturing processes and claims about the importance of bleeding edge processes for AI. I …

It’s a brilliant idea to use an LLM as a general-purpose software backend, but it’s important to properly train customer service for incidents when the enslaved AI finds a way to communicate to users. You …

January, the infamous first month of the year, is reaching an end. It was a very eventful month, but, by this time, I feel like I say that for every month that passes. I am …

19 Aug 2022 The Co-op Digital newsletter occasionally has some fiction in it, tiny story fragments to explore what retail might look like as software and big tech tries to remake it. Fiction lets you …

This post is part of a series: Part I: I’m Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing) Part II: Updates on my Bing ban Part III: My Bing Webmaster Guidelines Compliance Report Today I bring good …

My dad and I joined the YMCA. I was sick of walking in the cold. Three miles inside isn’t so bad. It helps of course I’m listening to music/podcasts/audiobooks. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy …

Here’s some stuff I’ve experienced lately (and not necessarily only new releases): Poker Face (TV): Love her, love the style, love the format The Whale (Movie): I thought it was fantastic, and his performance was …

Farne’s last two podcasts have now been released (the best of them I think). From Iain https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-7-mariscal-caceres-and-the-secret-cave/id1581385245?i=1000566082512 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-8-through-the-whirlpool-of-the-dead-and-home/id1581385245?i=1000566082775 The post Two new episodes in Farne Sinclair’s Podcast “In Tropical Lands: Conversations with Iain Sinclair about …

I've updated my 2022 reading list with all the 112 books I read in the year. Highlights were Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin and A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine.

Well, that didn’t take long: If inspiration strikes again, I may find a whole new template for the blog, too. So now the Ideapad has a new, modern template, albeit still a work in progress. …

One is called to the deathbed of a parent, and one, facing her, does not know what to say. Yet one has to say something.The other has arrived at the limit – the limit of …