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Cultural conflict is fine (how we do things), but conflict on strategic goals is not (what we are building).

 It’s that time of year again, for the first round of sales going into the holidays. While I still expect we’ll see bigger deals as we get closer to Black Friday, there are some solid deals in here. The list below is constantly updated, especially later in the day as more deals go live (or, I find them buried deep in the caves). Still, below are my favorites thus …

From the late 1980s, allegations of sexual abuse of children as­s­ociated with Catholic institutions and clerics in several countries started to be the subject of formal investigations. In Ireland, in the 1990s, a series of criminal cases and Irish gov­ernment enquir­ies established that hundreds of priests had abused thousands of children over the decades. Catholic sexual abuse cases in Australia have involved convictions, trials and ongoing investigations into allegations of …

Ezekiel Elliott The baby name Ezekiel, which has been on the rise since the late 1980s, saw higher-than-expected usage in 2017 specifically: Boys named Ezekiel (USA)Boys named Ezekiel (Texas)20194,932 [rank: 71st]697 (14.1%)20184,363 [rank: 87th]594 (13.6%)20174,773 [rank: 82nd]754 (15.8%)20163,401 [rank: 121st]444 (13.1%)20152,811 [rank: 146th]287 (10.2%) What caused the uptick? My guess is football player Ezekiel “Zeke” Elliott, who was chosen fourth overall by the Dallas Cowboys in the 2016 NFL draft. …

A good week for music It was an excellent week for music. Aside from splurging out on Bandcamp Friday there was a trip to Truck. It's comforting to know GY!BE are still out there doing their thing. And a second The Smile album in one year. Yes please. Shox 24! Sunday saw the first night of Shocktober 2024. I'm taking photos the whole week, so if you read this, and …

To celebrate the reissue of Selected Ambient Works Volume II, there will be a special listening event at the Tate Modern in central London on the 25th of October. This will be free to attend, the details are below: Aphex Twin ‘Selected Ambient Works II (Expanded Edition)’ Listening Event Friday, 25 October Tate Modern South Tank, Blavatnik Building, Level 0 18.00 – 21.30 This event is free to attend. No …

I t needs a summer of love, of course. But you cannot give what you don’t have or maybe never had. As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞

I've been a long time away, but I'm back! Though I was offline for longer than expected, I never stopped writing and cartooning, and I'm excited to share what I've been working on with you.Starting this month, I'll resume sharing updates and artwork regularly again, on my blog and Ko-fi page. I'll be back on Instagram selectively.My new portfolio website is up as well, where you can also sign up …

What am I Talking About If you've been shell scripting for some time you have most probably seen the following construct: [ -n "$something" ] && foo This runs the foo command, but only if $something isn't empty, a very useful and common thing to check for in some scripts. So far no problem. Another useful thing in scripts is set -e which aborts the whole script if some "line" …

There is no shortage of classic horror gems. From the German expressionist classics of the ’20s to the grim, moodier chillers of the ’70s, I have an embarrassment of riches to choose from every spooky season. However, there are still several horror films that have gone missing over time, ones I would love to see even if they turned out not to be very good. Here are three of them. …

I bought a license for Fantastical before they switched to subscription pricing. I don’t have a particularly busy schedule to manage, but I liked their calendar sets and how they handled the month view on both their macOS and iOS apps. All the features I paid for were available—until today. When I opened Fantastical this morning and clicked on the calendar set, a dialog box popped up that couldn’t be …

Trip:48 Nights: 167-169 We planned to be at Grayson Highlands State Park in SW Virginia this past weekend. Hurricane Helene had other ideas. When I checked Tuesday for alternate camping options in the state park system, I found 6 sites at Kiptopeke State Park, and nothing else. At least it made the decision easy. We had never been to Kiptopeke, so it was nice to check it off the list. …

Storyville: War Game was shown last week in the UK on the BBC, and is a documentary film about ‘gaming’ the future. In fact, it is gaming a very specific future: after the violent attack on Capitol Hill in 2021, it games the 2024 American Presidential election in the event that the election result is disputed. It was directed by Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber: It’s on BBC iPlayer, for …

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