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Turned on my chromebook this morning to post the hexjeff below, between last night and this morning chrome installed Gemini, its motherfucking AI tool, and chrome pinned the icon to my task bar and is badgering me on screen and in email, here is my response to Every.Fucking.Thing:Serendipitously if unfortunately, three weeks ago the person I'm related to by marriage accidentally and unknowingly knocked my chromebook off the piano bench …

1 million people visit Vesuvius each year. It is a big number which involves a lot of people struggling up the steep and dusty path to the rim. Rather more people visit the more accessible archaeological monument to Vesuvius that is Pompeii: counting those as well brings the total to 2.5 million. It makes it…

The Philadelphia Pipe Bending Company, founded in 1880, is still in operation today. Here we see two workers standing inside some large coils with advertising signage. 6½ x 8½ inch glass negative. View full size.

The distance between us and eternity is growing and it demands more and more effort in our life in order to return to eternity. So we go out of eternity and fall. Time is a kind of radical sin and not a kind of progress; it’s something completely opposite. We should make time something other than it is, and that is precisely why when Christ was baptised the river Jordan …

1. How do you create an internet archive of all human knowledge? (NPR). Transcript of a 12 minute interview with Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. The average life of a webpage before it’s either changed or deleted is a hundred days. Kahle realised, back in 1996, that our collective digital memory was going to be a problem. He did something about it. The Internet Archive currently holds 866 …

all of this year's XOXO talks were stellar, but this is the only one that comes with a newly-launched archive of nearly-lost artwork #

Arguably, one of the most beautiful villages at the foothills of the Picos de Europa National Park is Potes. This medieval hamlet is nestled beneath the eastern mountain range (Macizo Oriental) of the park and is historically part of the Liébana region. This fertile region is blessed with valleys, rivers, meadows, and forests, all encircled...

Howard Oakley: All storage media, including memory, SSDs and rotating hard disks, can develop fragmentation, but most serious attention has been paid to the problem on hard disks. This is because of their electro-mechanical mechanism for seeking to locations on the spinning platter they use for storage. To read a fragmented file sequentially, the read-write head has to keep physically moving to new positions, which takes time and contributes to …

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Is property dualism really the best way out between the Scylla of physicalism and the Charybdis of substance dualism? Ralph Weir’s book builds on the growing discontent with physicalism among philosophers of mind, accompanied by a simultaneous aversion to substance dualism, with property dualism allegedly being a more adequate and defensible metaphysics of mind. His main argument, the parity argument, builds on the common ground between virtually all dualists (property …

A few people I follow have multiple blogs that they use for various topics, but I don't really understand why. I see it a lot on the various blogs I follow; it generally goes something like... Subscribe to my RSS feed for posts about [topic A] and subscribe to my newsletter for posts about [topic B]. For posts about [topic C] take a look at this blog instead. I don't …

Back in 2021 I had a look around and decided to base this incarnation of my blog on an open-source Jekyll theme called “Type”, though I’ve changed and added so much it’s quite some distance from the original as it stands today. As I added blog posts the performance became much worse. Initially I blamed Jekyll for this, until I took a closer look. What I learned was that the …

The Greater and Lesser Washington Flickr pool is filled with joyful submissions from DC’s recent open streets event, and holy smokes, did you catch that spectacular aurora Thursday night? How could we be expected to leave either of these out of Photo Friday? Open streets! Image by angela n. used with permission. Open streets! Image by Victoria Pickering licensed under Creative Commons. Open streets! Image by Joe Flood licensed under …

Less than one month into Israel’s aerial and ground invasion of Lebanon, myriad historic buildings and areas are under threat, including UNESCO World Heritage Sites, according to Lebanon’s culture minister The post Lebanon Culture Minister warns important heritage sites are at risk by Israel’s invasion, including UNESCO World Heritage Sites appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.