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Produire l’abondant en utilisant des ressources rares Petite déambulation sur l’écriture, l’art et le productivisme Je discutais avec mon épouse de l’œuvre de Marina Abramović, une artiste totale qui nous remue profondément (que j’ai découvert il y a des années à la lecture de 2312, roman de Kim Stanley Robinson). Grâce à elle, nous sommes tombés d’accord sur une définition de l’art. 'The idea of a vagina stopping the rain …

Nine chapters into his book The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies makes a little self-deprecatory joke. He had intended to write a detective mystery about cybernetics, he says, but has spent eight chapters describing the construction of the murder weapon. The question that Davies starts out with is about how it is that the modern organisation has become structured in structured in such a way that when bad things happen, to …

My Prized Possessions 11 September, 2024 After reading this post at 47Nil, my thoughts slowly turned to the items that mean the most to me. Even though I identify as a small m minimalist, I’m not against owning stuff. It just has to be the right stuff, and not too much of it. Most material things come and go, but there are certain items that stick with us for the …

From The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan by Catherine Clément:Lacan was […] a skillful rhetorician capable of translating the terminology of psychoanalysis into a language, other than “Freud.” (p. 44)This statement is a good description of what Lacan was doing in Seminars I-VI. It seems to me that Lacan diverged from Freud a bit in Seminar VII when he started to theorize the real as something separate from reality. …

I have a new open access paper in Economy & Society, co-authored with Sahil Dutta and Nick Taylor, on the rising centrality of ‘home’ to current political, economic and governmental problems.

Plan a trip to Rome, and you’ll wish you were there for weeks! From the Colosseum to the Vatican Museums, there’s a lot in the Eternal City to check off your bucket list. But if you can tear yourself away from Rome’s top attractions, there are plenty of excellent day trips from Rome. Rome is centrally located in Italy, allowing you to do day trips along the coast, further inland, …

Thomas Ligotti and Brandon Trenz have written two screenplays, both unproduced, and both now published by Chiroptera Press. The first was Crampton, a 2000 reworking of a 1998 proposed X-Files episode into an original full length feature. It appeared in print in 2002, and was reprinted by Chiroptera Press in early 2024. (I reviewed this edition in this blog on March 17, 2024.) The second, Michigan Basement, was written soon …

When you build up a collection of notebooks over the years, it’s important to remember that sometimes the stash may not stay as well-preserved as you’d like if you aren’t using or at least handling them regularly! I was recently going through some of my boxes of notebooks, trying to decide what to use next … Continue reading Notebook Deterioration →

Damn, guess that's it for Cohost. I have thoughts, but, whatever, I'm not an expert, I just live here, and I swore an oath that I was not going to Go Into Social Media, or something. Anyway, it's a bummer seeing how many people are like: "Actually maybe I'm done with trying to socialize in public with people on the web." comments

I co-founded console.dev back in 2021 because there wasn’t anywhere for experienced developers to find good tools. There are so many interesting tools for developers, so writing short reviews every week has been a lot of fun. Four years later and the newsletter now goes out to almost 30k engineers each week. At the same time as writing console.dev I also started to get into security. I learned a lot …

My friend Mike and I decided to pursue the same reading goal separately, probably because we each discovered book YouTuber Benjamin McEvoy on our own. We both concluded we wanted to become better readers, diving deeper into the books, to develop a note-taking system, and remember more of what we read. Mike brought it all up with me when he told me about reading A Heritage of Stars by Clifford …

In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-assisted software development, a new category of tools has emerged: repository-to-prompt converters. These utilities address the growing need to feed entire codebases into Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini. Let’s delve into the technical aspects and implications of these tools. Core Functionality At their heart, these tools perform a seemingly simple task: they traverse a directory structure, typically a Git repository, …

A multi-instrumentalist, he started playing mandolin when he was seven, guitar at age eight, and piano in church at age nine. Having lived through enough heartache, joy, embarrassment, love, and renewal for several lifetimes, Sean condenses our human failures and triumphs into stories that make the Southern heart resound. His wildly popular blog and musical podcast, Sean of the South, is suited for anyone with red clay on their car …

The ability to embed images in web pages has been officially supported since 1995. Whereas, the <audio> element was not added until 2015. For 20 years, people were looking at naked people on the web. But, for the same 20 years, there was no officially sanctioned and standardized way of hearing a naked person. And if it's not sanctioned and standardized, it's just not sexy. In the absence of a …