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  1. Rethinking Athletics, , more info

    Field events at the Paris Olympics
    I have given a (more or less) detailed account of the men's long jump competition in my "Stop the presses" article, so there is no point in elaborating further here. Instead I can start with the women's event. My preferred long-jumper, world champion I. Spanovic (the name "Vuleta" was short-lived; she divorced in December) did not manage to reach the final. Fortunately another athlete I really like, T. Davis, dominated …
    By Vasilis Grammaticos, 2,090 words
  2. AksDev, , more info

    My Akademy 2024 trip
    Akademy is this yearly thing where bunch of KDE people go to talk about and work on KDE software. I had never been in one before, but this year I managed to make it there! This year Akademy was held at the city of Würzburg. This was also my first time in Germany, which is the furthest I've ever been from home. I also had my wife Jenny with me, …
    By Akselmo, 1,845 words
  3. some LANDSCAPES, , more info

    Summer storms, sea, light, silence
    Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-73) is included in The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry but his landscape poems are given rather faint praise: 'the themes of his nature poems are conventional - blazing sunsets, snow mountain peaks, etc. - but he presents these scenes from an unexpected point of view.' His greatest work according to the editors was his love poetry, although their selection is too small to give a good sense …
    By Plinius, 590 words
  4. Kimimi The Game-Eating She-Monster, , more info

    Divinity Original Sin 2: These surfaces run deep
    Poison, blood, water, lava, fire, oil, ice, steam, deathfog… If there’s something harmful that can be spread across the floor or passively float in the air in Divinity: Original Sin 2, I’ve stood in it. Yep, even when it was electrified, cursed, burning, or even blessed. Stood in it, and then stayed standing in it. On purpose. With a big smile on my face. Not for a good long while, …
    By Kimimi, 1,106 words
  5. Ant Harris, , more info

    Icecreams #1 – #11
    1. Vanilla – Homemade – 21.07.242. Tiptree Marmalade – Anya Hindmarch Icecream project – 25.07.243. Filippo Berio Classic Pesto – Anya Hindmarch Icecream project – 25.07.244. Kikkoman Soy Sauce – Anya Hindmarch Icecream project – 25.07.245. Mint Choc Chip – Homemade 28.07.246. Cherry – Homemade 29.07.247. Vanilla – Worton Kitchen Garden 03.08.248. Millionaires Shortbread – Treleavens 17.08.249. Brown bread – Palais Provisions 20.08.2410. Fig Leaf – Palais Provisions 20.08.2411. Banana …
    By adramble, 77 words
  6. Shouting Into The Void, , more info

    15mm Ruin
    It has been a while since I've done any 15mm terrain, so I slapped together some 3d printed ruin bits from Printable Scenery and made a simple box for my little men to hide in.The figures are PSC's plastic 15mm paratroopers.
    By Peter Fitz, 43 words
  7. Canadian Climate Institute - Blog, , more info

    Industrial vs. consumer carbon pricing: A cost comparison
    By conflating consumer and industrial carbon pricing, PBO's modelling skews the perceived impact on the economy and households The post Industrial vs. consumer carbon pricing: A cost comparison appeared first on Canadian Climate Institute.
    By Aiman Ghori, 42 words
  8. aka pastor guy, , more info

    Why Not?: Tariffs
    This is the first in a series of posts on the reasons I will not be voting to return the former president to the White House. My focus here is not to support his opponent but instead to explain why I believe that Donald Trump is manifestly unqualified for the role.For someone who graduated from the Wharton School (albeit graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Economics rather than an …
    By Mark (aka pastor guy), 1,124 words
  9. Joel Auterson, , more info

    Is Bluesky in the Fediverse?
    Bluesky is having A Moment right now, and my feed is getting busier with games industry folks. It’s lovely! I’m a little sad Mastodon didn’t get the same love but Bluesky is undoubtedly easier to use. At the same time, another challenger social media platform is having a different kind of moment. Cohost is being shut down - the creators are understandably unable to sustain funding for it. I didn’t …
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  10. The Analog Antiquarian, , more info

    Chapter 14: The November Mutiny
    November 6 – 28, 1520 The San Antonio rode at anchor for 48 hours just north of Dawson Island, awaiting a rendezvous that failed to materialize. Sensing more than ever that he was losing his authority to his pilot Estevão Gomes, Captain Mesquita turned his ship into an avatar of his nervousness. He ordered huge smoky fires to be kindled on the poop deck and musket volley after musket volley …
    By Jimmy Maher, 3,699 words
  11. The lost outpost – technology, photography, society, and life, , more info

    Overview of the Fediverse Discovery Providers project
    At Fediforum today, Renaud and I presented on the new Fediverse Discovery Providers project, initiated by Mastodon gGmbH via a grant from NGI Search. The slide deck below mostly presents the information from the website in an alternate format – but, hopefully the brief talk and then the broader discussion with the group that came to the session will have been a useful way to learn more about this new …
    By Andy Piper, 208 words
  12. Niklas's blog, , more info

    Thoughts on OpenAI models released in September 2024
    Cornelis Cort, The Last Judgment Triptych, engraving on laid paper, plate: 33.5 × 49.2 cm (13 3/16 × 19 3/8 in.) sheet: 37.5 × 52.1 cm (14 3/4 × 20 1/2 in.), 1570 1560, https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52407.html. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington OpenAI have just released two new models, 'o1-preview' and 'o1-mini'—both of which are in preview, in spite of the name of the later model—and I think there are a …
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  13. The Casual Optimist, , more info

    Cari Vander Yacht National Book Awards Illustrations
    The Cari Vander Yacht illustrations of people distracted by reading that accompany the New Yorker‘s announcement of the 2024 National Book Awards longlists are really lovely. The animated versions on the site are really nice too.
    By Dan, 43 words
  14. Shapers of the 80s, , more info

    2024 ➤ Chris Sullivan re-lives Blue Rondo’s second album at a Soho party
    ❚ MOST OF US have fond memories of Blue Rondo a la Turk, the seven-piece jazz/salsa band created by Chris Sullivan in 1981 and their first album Chewing the Fat, which I still consider the most original album of 1982. … Continue reading →
    By OTL, 57 words
  15. Will Hawkes — Blog, , more info

    August: Small Wonders, Punch-Ups and The Joy of LCBF
    Is Small Still Beautiful? Last month’s newsletter drew the usual postbag: thoughts, assertions, random abuse (thanks Mum). But amongst the odds and sods in the LBC inbox, one London brewery worker’s email stood out. It was written in response to the predictable beer lists at London stadia and at Cahoots, a 1940s pub in Soho, and the wider post-Covid problem of bar space being monopolised by multinational beers:
    By Will Hawkes, 77 words