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The New York Times reports that Amazon is being flooded with AI-generated biographies every time a celebrity dies, with such compelling titles as Tom Smothers: Revealing 4 Untold Truth About Half of Smothers Brother. As you’d imagine, they’re badly written, full of errors, and shameless money-grabs that take advantage of Amazon rules around only allowing partial refunds on Kindle ebooks. How could this possibly be? Surely the entrepreneurs behind them …

I was standing in a large meadow in Golden Gate Park in the middle of San Francisco before the stage where Śrīla Prabhupāda was lecturing to thousands of young people who were attracted by the Ratha-yātrā. It was July 1974. Perhaps, you remember that famous picture of Śrīla Prabhupāda wearing a white sweater adorned with a starkly contrasted bright red rose garland, his hands raised in ecstasy in kirtan surrounded …

“Can I interest you in a makeover, sir?” The voice stopped Dawes in his tracks once his brain had processed the words. “In a what?” he asked as he glanced in the direction of the sound, convinced he’d misheard, but he immediately saw that he’d understood perfectly. The young man standing there had skin that was clearer and brighter than any twenty-ish-years-old boy in the history of the planet could …

An easy-to-make casserole or hotdish, sauerkraut casserole is basically German lasagna: Sauerkraut, venison or beef, noodles and cheese. What's not to love? Sauerkraut Casserole is the latest post on Hunter Angler Gardener Cook.

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. With truly sufficient thrust, what lands will be more akin to bacon. Oink? Splat!

More synth-y soundtracking from the films I've never seen. This mysterious Paul Hertzog fella only did a handful of scores. 1988's Bloodsport was his second after the legendary My Chauffeur in 1986. Who knows what he did after the early 90s. I'm guessing since this synth-y style of soundtracking became unfashionable he probably ended up in education like the rest of us. Still you'd think some of these 21st century …

You’ve probably had some exposure to the concept of fight or flight by now. It’s a pretty well known, evolutionarily programmed response living things have to sensing and responding to perceived danger in their environment that includes responding with lightning speed and without a whole lot of prefrontal cortex input. Which is a good thing if we want to stay alive. (If you would like to read more about fight …

You are all cordially invited to the exhibition opening of “Bibliophiles Beware: The Situationist International and the Art & Politics of Cultural Hijacking”, to be held at the Book Club of California at 6pm Pacific on March 3, 2024 . Reception will begin at 5:30pm, with remarks by yours truly from 6pm to 6:20pm or 6:30pm or so. A few dozen items from my archive will be exhibited through May …

The Moon will soon experience human beings on its surface again, working and living on a regular basis. But when humans go back there, this time it will be to stay.

Table of contents Context What I want vs What I offer Usage-based pricing Per-seat - Recurring pricing Conclusion References Pricing for a SaaS, or online digital products in general, is a hot topic for debate. All the time. In this article I explain the pricing model I like as a customer of a SaaS product, and then compare that to the model I would (will) offer in my own SaaS …

Howdy to Deliberate Internet – my newsletter combining nuanced perspectives on Remote Work, Technology, Psychology, and other latest obsessions. Smart people tend to sacrifice a lot to make sure everyone around them knows they are indeed clever. Sometime in your thirties, once you have your first few scuffles with the world, you are faced with a choice: You can sound clever by finding holes in everything and start getting bitter …

A new study breaks down the biomechanics of one of the marine world’s most unusual hunting behaviors. Thresher sharks have one of the strangest body plans of any fish, with almost half their body comprised of a scythe-like tail. It had long been suspected that that they use this tail is a whip to stun ... Read More "Here’s how thresher sharks whip their tails back and forth" »

“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs' Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern every Sunday on Sirius XM satellite radio's 1st Wave. The post Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/18/24) appeared first on Slicing Up Eyeballs.

Statically typed languages are also good for ad-hoc scripting. This article is part of a short series of articles that compares ad-hoc scripting in Haskell with solving the same problem in Python. The introductory article describes the problem to be solved, so here I'll jump straight into the Haskell code. In the next article I'll give a similar walkthrough of my Python script. Getting started # When working with Haskell …