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  1. heavenali, , more info

    Tales from my reading chair – an update.
    I disappeared again – I’m sorry. I’m trying to decide whether I’m done with this whole blogging malarky – there are aspects I miss – but I get overwhelmed with the effort it takes me now. So, if I do stick around, I might need to change the kinds of posts I publish and focus less on the long review posts I used to write, and would prefer to write …
    By heavenali, 951 words
  2. Poemas del río Wang, , more info

    The Buddhas of Drakgo (Traveling in Kham 4)
    Traveling in Kham • Jashideley! • Burial in the sky • Kangding, the gateway of Tibet • The Love Song of Kangding • The monastery of Tagong • The Buddhas of Drakgo The city of Drakgo, in Chinese Luhou, is located on the road from Tagong to Garzê, on the banks of the Xianshui, i.e. Freshwater River, which runs along the road. The name of the city seems to come …
    By Studiolum, 913 words
  3. Rob Weychert, , more info

    Robtober 2024
    A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake Every October, I put together a big schedule of horror films to watch, focusing mostly on ones I haven’t seen before. The schedule, a mix of theatrical screenings and home viewings, is published for posterity and for the sake of anyone who might like to join me. This year I seem to be nostalgic for the age of Satanic panic, …
    By Rob Weychert, 223 words
  4. Disoriented, , more info

    Totally Tubular Festival
    My teenage years played a show at New York’s Pier 17.
    By Angus McIntyre, 14 words
  5. Seven Out Of Ten, , more info

    Weeknotes – 06/10/2024
    Hello, and welcome to another edition of Weeknotes, a stream-of-consciousness post about life, work, media and everything in between. Here’s what I’ve been up to: Life I have very little to report when it comes to my life at the moment. Other than passing my driving test, I’ve mainly just been catching up with friends and family before we scoot off to Mexico in a few weeks. I always feel …
    By Liam Richardson, 743 words
  6. Maggie Appleton, , more info

    Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh
    My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
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  7. The Candybox Blog, , more info

    Positive feedback loops (The power of choice, digital independence, and building something better for everyone)
    There is a positive feedback loop that happens when you make a tool for people, how people that use it inform what you build, and in turn what you build informs their creative decisions. We will talk about how building these alternatives helps to create a better overall culture where everyone can participate. Let's leave behind monopolies, enshitification, and present tech controversies to discuss building better avenues of participation with …
    By alienmelon, 118 words
  8. Pub History Project – Leicester, , more info

    BULLS HEAD, 13 OXFORD STREET
    First record we have is circa 1815, William Haddon was the victular. John Briggs, circa 1827 – 1846. The Bulls Head was up for auction in 1842, whilst John Briggs was in occupation. Thomas Sarson, circa 1846 – 1867, Susanna Sarson, Thomas’ wife would die there aged 63 in 1863. Thomas Wade circa, 1867 – 1869. Amos Wall circa 1869 -1874. George Lawrence, 1874 -1877. Anne Bent in 1977. The …
    By pubprojectleicester, 191 words
  9. This Space, , more info

    No safe landing
    A review of A Winter in Zürau and Partita by Gabriel Josipovici Gabriel Josipovici has said that as a critic he is conservative but as a novelist he is radical. The second claim may not be controversial but the first will come as a surprise to those who remember what he said about the big-name contemporary novelists in What Ever Happened to Modernism?. This novel and non-fiction combination offers an …
    By Stephen Mitchelmore, 1,908 words
  10. Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog, , more info

    GDrive to S3
    I have Google Takeout setup to periodically export to GDrive as a series of 10Gb .zip files. I’ve been meaning to get these over to S3 for a bit in part for backup purposes, and in part because I wanted to futz with the photos. I’m quite confident I’m not the first person to want to do something like this. But we’ve reached an awkward and unfortunate moment in the …
    By Kellan Elliott-McCrea, 228 words
  11. Sharon Lohr — Blog, , more info

    Reviewing the 2023 National Violent Crime Statistics
    It’s time for my annual update on crime statistics, following the September release of 2023 numbers by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). We also have preliminary numbers on homicides in 2023 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Data sources are listed at the end of this post along with my comments on data quality; see …
    By Sharon Lohr, 2,818 words
  12. The Neglected Books Page, , more info

    The Young Immigrunts, by Ring Lardner (1920)
    This is a guest post by David Quantick. Covers of the first U.S. editions of Daisy Ashford’s The Young Visiters and Ring Lardner’s The Young Immigrunts. “My parents are both married and ½ of them are very good looking.” This is the story of two very different writers, one an American comic writer of genius, playwright and sportswriter, the other a young English girl with terrible spelling. The American was …
    By editor, 929 words
  13. Killed By A Pixel, , more info

    Astronomic Comics in Austin People’s Gallery
    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.
    By Frank, 58 words
  14. cadence's weblog (personal blog), , more info

    "Created by a human" badges
    It is becoming harder and harder to tell whether information on the internet is created by humans or by computers. As more money and time is funnelled into new generative AI models, their output becomes better at blending in.Some words I associate with human works are: create, imagine, think, dream, inspire, connect, heart, brain, soul, love.I believe that computers cannot do or have any of those things. Computers are the …
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  15. Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves, , more info

    Looking at Picture Books
    Two of my favorite children's book authors have started a Substack called, aptly enough, Looking at Picture Books. Jon Klassen and Mac Barnett will be exploring how picture books work. This is a total dream collab for anyone interested in kids books. Fangirling hard on this one. Their first study is on Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. Subscribe and do not miss! (You can follow me over there, too. …
    By Burgin Streetman, 100 words