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Mandy Brown on personal sites. Particularly this part: A website is, among other things, a container. The shape of that container both constrains and makes possible what goes within it. This is, I think, one of the primary justifications for having your own website. Not just so you can own your stuff (for some meaning of “ownership,” in a culture in which any billionaire can scrape your work without permission …

Dorothy Day is a central character in Spiritual Criminals in terms of what some might call ‘spiritual formation’. The index entry for her looks brief (just 12 pages noted), but Read more The post Dorothy Day’s Spiritual Leadership: Against Capitalism, Imperialism, & War first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.

September has been wet and cold at Longmeadow but also extraordinarily busy with filming and writing commitments. Whilst these projects are enjoyable and exciting it has meant, for the first time in nearly 6 years of writing this blog, I have simply not had time to write this month’s entry. In the mean time I have attached the my job recommendations from last October. These apply to the garden every …

To send a letter to the editor, simply write in. You’ll get a reply and we’ll anonymise any blogged version. The sleeping coffins thing seems to have captured people’s imaginations. Reader X emails: I think the mobile coffin/tent idea is probably too unsafe, but I’ve long thought that cities need ‘nap hotels’ that you can rent with a card swipe. Japan obviously has capsule hotels that sort of check the …

The Canadian Climate Institute, in collaboration with TMX Group, surveyed a wide range of players in the critical minerals ecosystem on the barriers to investment across the critical minerals value chain The post What is holding back investment in Canadian critical minerals? appeared first on Canadian Climate Institute.

Today my book tour event is in Boulder, Colorado (6:30! At the First Congregational Church! Here are the details), which meant that I would be flying into Denver’s airport. And who else was flying into Denver’s airport today, connecting through to California to visit friends? Why, Krissy, as it happens! Our flights landed within ten minutes of each other, so I got to spend a whole 40 or so minutes …

Charles Baudelaire There are many translations of this, and the one I prefer is the one that has the closing line"It is the hour to be drunken! Lest you be the martyred slaves of Time, intoxicate yourselves, be drunken without cease! With wine, with poetry, with virtue, or with what you will."That's a much more interesting headswerve - the idea that you could get intoxicated with virtuePerhaps it's even possible …

We kicked October off in Tokyo, with a woman alternating between caring for her terminally-ill mother and painting the town red, but while today’s choice keeps us in the capital, there’s a distinct change of pace. We’re heading off to Jimbōchō, Tokyo’s famous book town, where a young woman has come to try to mend her broken heart. Little does she know that she’ll end up changing in more ways …

Written by Morpheus KitamiBy observations of what's noticeable in a scene it is the most visible...but then again, it is supposed to be...As nobody else really felt like looking up a walkthrough to give hints, it fell upon Ilmari to once again look up the walkthrough, giving me the clue that I should check the electrical box. On the left, with the obvious markings. The game says its suspicious, but …

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Unless their Planar Influence grants them interesting traits, Bariaur wanderers are merely elementary hit point–reducing engines. The post Bariaur Wanderer Tactics appeared first on The Monsters Know What They’re Doing.

I'm reading a book titled "The Coming Wave" by Mustafa Suleyman co-founder of the Artificial Intelligence firms Deepmind and Inflection AI. I predict it will replace Fred Wilt's "How They Train". Fascinating read about what AI , Bio-Technology, robotics, and DNA research are up to and capable of doing and will do in the near future. The advances are so huge and mind boggling. A couple of paragraphs on pages …

This is a really interesting article about how some people managed to talk like adults about a piece of art they didn't like. Whether or not you like their solution: it appears they came to a solution that made a variety of people who disagreed but who all cared happy.Basically, they solved this thorny public art problem by not allowing drive-by comments.Without fail, people arrived at these events primed to …

The war in Sudan shows how during conflict, the internet is as critical as food or medicine. Satellite over the African continent. Credit ESA/Mlabspace via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Sudan is battling not only bullets but also the suffocating absence of communication infrastructure, an often-overlooked lifeline that is as critical as food or medicine. As the country grapples with a severe food-security crisis, grassroots initiatives, such as mutual …