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Trevor Paglen has developed a series of works based on the well-known ‘Psychological Operations’ (PSYOP), i.e. deceptive military operations to influence the population through the audiovisual staging of non-existent facts or events. Cyclops is the latest in this series and is presented in the form of a game. Players are presented with obscure audio tracks containing either musical compositions, letters and numbers or simply sounds, representing a puzzle to be …

Over the last year I’ve been working with our local school system to include preferred pronouns in their student information system. The use case for this arose out of direct experience with one of my own kids being misgendered in a classroom. Now as a technology-savvy parent, it is not like you check out the source code of your school’s student information system and go patch the problem yourself - …

Some wild stuff has surfaced in my RSS reader this week about WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s corporate-but-very-personal war with WP Engine, full of absolutely S-tier business maneuvers. I could hear the tiny *squelch* of braincells dying within my skull as I searched for logic and reason behind this stuff, but by golly have I found it. Behold: Exhibit A, Exhibit B. I’m sorry. It’s not right to make fun of …

My 17-month-old baby has been going through an absolutely awful sleep regression, and most of the month of September has been a sleep-deprived tornado. Because she can’t fully sleep… I can’t fully sleep. We tried everything. My husband and I switched off taking care of her, we tried rearranging her bed setup, we tried letting her sleep with us, we tried feeding her more before bed, we tried different pajamas, …

This is both the second part of my meditation and a review of Tabarome Millésime. Here’s the crux of it: Tabarome Millésime is the most important Creed of the 2000s, and yet no one discusses it. Before you dismiss this claim, hear me out, and then draw your own conclusions. My argument rests on a theory that ties this Creed fragrance to one of the biggest successes of 2010—a wildly …

Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow.

Not a new idea, but just another visualization and reminder. Wealth, feeling like you have plenty, is an equation. Wealth = Have ÷ Need If you have nothing, then focus on having some. Once you have some, the easiest way to increase your wealth is to decrease your needs. Have 10 but think you need 100? You are poor. Have 10 but only need 5? You are wealthy. Have 10 …

Miriam Kent joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Yelena Belova not quite managing to break her 'eating stale biscuits' conditioning in Black Widow.

Photographer: Gabriel MuñozSummary Author: Gabriel MuñozShown above is the active, snowcapped Villarrica volcano in the Andes Mountains of Chile. I was about 3 miles (5 km) south of the crater when I snapped this photo on May 11, 2024. Subject to frequent small outbursts, known as Strombolian eruptions, Villarrica's last major eruption occurred in 1948. On this autumn night it's ejecting incandescent material several hundred feet into the air. The …

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Hopefully the little video I put together yesterday will have explained what's happening here at Bear Alley Books: I had a third and final proof of THE PHANTOM PATROL through, which looked great; all the necessary contracts are signed and fees are paid; and I've pressed the button on getting some copies of the book printed. They should be with me first week of October, but I'm taking orders now

The first time I saw this sunscreen was from someone I follow in IG. I remember seeing its texture and thinking how my skin would like it. So being the curious person that I am, I added it in Shopee cart. I didn’t check it out immediately because I was waiting for it to go […]

History book prizes divide opinion - how can you ever fairly decide on a 'best' book? What does best even mean? And how come my book didn't win? Personally I like them. Even trying to keep tabs on all new books as I do, the prize shortlists always throw up a bunch I have missed, which I am confident will meet a minimum level of quality. The purpose of this …

Here’s a question for you. What do Oltréé, The Plum Island Horror, The Struggle for Zorn, Earthborne Rangers, Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies, Striking Flint, The Mandalorian: Adventures, Mass Effect: The Board Game: Priority: Hagalaz: Subtitle, and The Lucky Seven all have in common? That’s right: they’re all solitaire or cooperative games from the past year that I broadly enjoyed that are too easy to win. Time and time again, I …

La semaine prochaine, nous fêtons les 35 ans de la sortie de Prince of Persia, en 1989. Les fans de PoP ont beaucoup à fêter, cette année : deux tout nouveaux jeux (The Lost Crown et The Rogue Prince of Persia), le remake des Sables du temps qui a été confirmé et arrivera en 2026, ainsi qu'un nouveau DLC pour The Lost Crown, sorti la semaine dernière. Aujourd'hui, j'aimerais partager …