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  1. Rascal News, , more info

    Cryptid Creeks for Halloween!
    This is a community submitted press releasevzUEdq.jpg429.64 KBWe're delighted to announce that Cryptid Creeks is now available to purchase from itch.io, and just in time for Halloween!This ttrpg Carved from Brindlewood combines the mystery, horror and coming-of-age genres to emulate media we love, such as The Goonies, Gravity Falls, Night in the Woods, Stranger Things, Lumberjanes, and Hilda.In this RPG, you play a crew of River Scouts setting out to …
    By Rich Oxenham, 190 words
  2. The Urbanist, , more info

    Launching Our Fall 2024 Member Drive – Give Today!
    The Urbanist’s fall member drive is here, and we’re counting on readers to step up to keep our organization strong. Give today so that our team can keep growing. Donate today! Over our decade of existence, The Urbanist has become a fixture in Puget Sound journalism and advocacy. Whether policymakers, advocates, or average citizens, people rely on our coverage to shed light on complex issues and stay on top of …
    By Doug Trumm, 697 words
  3. soundtrack heaven, , more info

    Branford Marsalis Quartet Featuring Terence Blanchard – Music From Mo' Better Blues
    Music From "Mo' Better Blues" is a collaborative album by Branford Marsalis Quartet and Terence Blanchard. It was released in 1990 through Columbia/CBS Records as a soundtrack to Spike Lee's 1990 film Mo' Better Blues. Recording sessions took place at RCA Studios and Sound On Sound in New York. Production was handled by Bill Lee, Delfeayo Marsalis, Raymond Jones and DJ Premier, with Spike Lee serving as executive producer. It …
    By Marty, 200 words
  4. Daring Fireball, , more info

    WorkOS
    My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring the week at Daring Fireball. WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. Ship complex features like SSO and SCIM (pronounced skim) provisioning in minutes instead of months. Today, some of the fastest growing startups are already powered by WorkOS, including Perplexity, Vercel, and Webflow. For SaaS apps that …
    By John Gruber, 103 words
  5. Black Hand Inn, , more info

    Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All
    Genre: DeathCountry: U.S.A.Year: 20241. Stelae Of Vultures2. Chapter For Not Being Hung Upside Down On A Stake In The Underworld And Made To Eat Feces By The Four Apes3. To Strike With Secret Fang4. Naqada II Enter The Golden Age5. The Pentagrammathion Of Nephren-Ka6. Overlords Of The Black Earth7. Under The Curse Of The One God8. Doctrine Of Last Things9. True Gods Of The Desert 10. The Underworld Awaits Us …
    By Giak, 130 words
  6. FXRant, , more info

    Lighter Darker: The ILM Podcast
    I'm so happy to say that I'm the co-host of a podcast produced by Industrial Light & Magic. We call it "Lighter Darker."Our name comes from the 1997 artwork made by ILM art director Benton Jew of a cover of a fictional comic book called "Attack of the Nitpickers", where scary, undead people (clients) hover behind a digital artist (who is handcuffed to his desk) and the poor artist is …
    By Todd Vaziri, 313 words
  7. One Man 1001 Albums, , more info

    New Model Army Thunder And Consolation
    New Model Army Thunder And ConsolationGet It At DiscogsNMA proved that they were well worth waiting for. Thunder and Consolation begins grandly, keeping the keyboards from "White Coats" on "I Love the World," an anthem filled with bittersweet irony and sarcasm. Self-produced, the album never falters, and the single "Stupid Questions" made an impression on American college and modern-rock radio, especially when working visas were granted to the band and …
    By Aid00, 128 words
  8. Donald Clark Plan B, , more info

    AI will not take your job but someone using AI will – it may well replace Doctors?
    This paper (Influence of a Large Language Model on Diagnostic Reasoning: A Randomized Clinical Vignette Study by Goh et al.) on ‘diagnostic reasoning’ hasn’t had enough attention. The authors fully expected Doctors plus GenAI to win. But GPT 4 on its own beat Doctors hands down.One of the authors made the point that the surprise was that the results broke that oft quoted trope that “AI will not take your …
    By Donald Clark, 389 words
  9. Italian poetry for English speakers, , more info

    La Nencia di Barberino, by Lorenzo de Medici
    The original: 4 Le labbra rosse paion de corallo, e havvi drento duo filar’ de denti che son più bianchi che que’ del cavallo: da ogni lato ve n’ha più de venti. Le gote bianche paion de cristallo, senz’altro liscio, né scorticamenti, rosse entro ’l mezzo, quant’è una rosa, che non se vide mai sì bella cosa. 8 Ell’è dirittamente ballerina, che la se lancia com’una capretta, girasi come ruota …
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  10. Tale of Painters » Classic Blog, , more info

    Review: Kill Team: Hivestorm Pt. 2 – the rules
    In this post we take a look at the format of the new Kill Team Core Book and the Hivestorm dossier from Kill Team: Hive Storm. We share our impressions of the new Kill Team edition from a casual player's perspective and analyse what has improved and what has not. The post Review: Kill Team: Hivestorm Pt. 2 – the rules appeared first on Tale of Painters.
    By Stahly, 76 words
  11. Retraction Watch, , more info

    Weekend reads: Retractions by Nobel Prize winners; privatizing peer review; fake mouse brains
    Would you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Web of Science puts mega-journals Cureus and Heliyon on hold Hidden hydras: uncovering the massive footprint of one paper mill’s operations New engineering dean has two retractions for authorship manipulation Pain researcher in Italy up to seven retractions Authors sue Sage over “discriminatory” retractions of papers cited in abortion pill case …
    By Ivan Oransky, 849 words
  12. SCOTUSblog, , more info

    Supreme Court to decide if Oklahoma must execute Richard Glossip
    ShareTwice in the past decade the Supreme Court has blocked Oklahoma from executing Richard Glossip. Now the state has joined Glossip to argue that newly uncovered evidence shows prosecutors violated his rights at trial. But even with the Oklahoma’s rare confession of error, both the state’s highest court for criminal cases and the state’s pardon and parole board turned down Glossip’s pleas for relief. On Oct. 9, two former U.S. …
    By Amy Howe, 1,751 words
  13. Now Smell This, , more info

    Lazy 3-day weekend poll ~ fall reading list, edition 6
    Welcome to our 6th annual fall reading poll! Please recommend a great book to add to our fall reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it. Or, as always, just talk about something else, and of course, do report your fragrance of the day if you like. What I’ve read since the summer poll… Read the rest of this article »
    By Robin, 76 words
  14. String-Or-Nothing, , more info

    DO WHAT’S RIGHT
    And we have more progress to report on the latest sampler strip in my series of stitched pieces commemorating the literary output of my Resident Male. First we start with the now expected Mysterious Saying. In this case, “Ant-Aransa,” a quotation from the inspiring work – Treyavir. It translates roughly to “Do what’s right.” An admonishment that should be heeded more often for us all. The lettering is not from …
    By kbsalazar, 430 words
  15. The Aperiodical, , more info

    Carnival of Maths 232
    The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of September 2024, is now online at Storm Bear World. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. See our Carnival of Mathematics page for more information.
    By Katie Steckles, 53 words