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Fall is here and I’m excited for my October class at Pete Galbert’s. I’ll burrow into the shop for the winter, then we’re going to do it again in spring. Registration for a class at Pete’s March 10-15 opens up … Continue reading →

Tuesday A new month. In the city there are blue coats, black coats, tan coats and a boxy fake fur jacket with shoulders so wide it could be concealing an actual box. Question: Who grew the sunflowers at One Exchange Square? I’ve been wondering about this for weeks. One Exchange Square is a never ending building site. Scaffolding, tarpaulins, hoardings and tall boards conceal it. And all summer, peeking out …

I think the reason Bresson’s films resist singular interpretations is that they are composed of multiple, overlapping perspectives. His films contain elements of humanism, nihilism, absurdism, existentialism, transcendentalism, and numerous[...] The post Bresson, Schrader, and the Fool: Transcendental and Materialist Interpretations in the Films of Robert Bresson appeared first on Bright Lights Film Journal.

L’ECONOMIA DEL POST-LAVORO Finora abbiamo assistito alla rivoluzione di internet e dei computer ma in generale l’automazione è stata relegata per lo più nei processi di produzione nelle fabbriche; ora lo sviluppo dell’intelligenza artificiale generativa sta creando un’iper-abbondanza di lavoro cognitivo e la cosiddetta sostituzione del lavoro umano riguarda compiti fisici e intellettuali indifferentemente. Siamo infatti già in grado non solo di automatizzare i lavori della produzione, ma anche quelli …

Albert Einstein? Paul Arthur Schilpp? Marilyn Ferguson? Apocryphal? Picture of chairs in a lecture hall from Unsplash Question for Quote Investigator: An overly rigid approach to education is counter-productive because it extinguishes natural inquisitiveness. This viewpoint has been expressed as follows: It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. The famous physicist Albert Einstein has received credit for this remark, but I have never seen a solid citation, and …

A print from my generative series Astronomic Comics has been chosen to be in the Austin People’s Gallery! It is on display at City Hall until April of next year! I am honored have my work shown at a prestigious event like this. You can read more about The People’s Gallery here.

Here’s all the writing about beer and pubs that grabbed our attention in the past week, from splitting the G to the GBG. First, some news: if the disappearance of various big beer festivals in the past year seemed significant, then the return of the Campaign for Real Ale’s Great British Beer Festival must also mean something. It’ll be back in 2025 but not at Olympia in London, where it’s …

If you think of the politics of rural America, you probably think of it in terms of conservativism. A mixture of rugged individualistic politics, cynicism about government and conservative political leanings. There's a lot of truth to this. In 2016, 62 percent of the US rural electorate voted for Trump. This reflected the way that Trump's political movement had become the outlet for general

Ari Levy at CNBC has a great article covering the battle between WordPress and Silver Lake / WP Engine: Why WordPress [co-]founder Matt Mullenweg has gone ‘nuclear’ against tech investing giant Silver Lake.

Valerie Antwi, Emma McDonald and Christopher York in Foreverland, Southwark Playhouse Photo: Charlie Lyne If medical science made it possible to live forever, frozen at the age you have the procedure, would you do it? The ability to stay young and live way beyond what is normal is the premise...

“Time for Peace” (זמן לשלום), Lyrics: Amnon Abutbul, Yair Dalal, Fathi Kasem; Melody: Amnon Abutbul. Performing Shlomit Aharon and Yevgeni Shapovalov. This year I had the rare event that the new Jewish year coincides with my birthday, and “time for peace” expresses my wishes for both these occasions. Click here for the previous post on exciting mathematical irrationality news.

Merge Grant is a micro-grant initiative designed to give ambitious builders resources as they pursue compelling projects. It is run by Merge Club members—called Mergers—who review applications, conduct interviews, and make grant decisions. They take no equity, ownership, or future right to invest. You get perks and an invite to join the Merge Club. The awesome people at On Deck back the Merge Grant initiative. › Apply for a Grant …

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 …

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 …

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 …