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After being sold out for months, the upcoming sponsorship schedule at DF is unusually open at the moment — including this upcoming week. Weekly sponsorships have been the top source of revenue for Daring Fireball ever since I started selling them back in 2007. They’ve succeeded, I think, because they make everyone happy. They generate good money. There’s only one sponsor per week and the sponsors are always relevant to …

For a large portion of the year, I’ve been collecting evidence on unions in post-WWII to very early 60s American science fiction.1 To be clear, I am not on the hunt for the best by these authors. This project is about stories that reference unions. I will read all the stories I can by American SF authors on the topic during this timeframe for this project in order to understand …

Just in time for Thanksgiving1, Cabel Sasser gave a talk at the 2024 XOXO Festival about the importance of appreciation for art and craftsmanship in this 20 minute talk. I’d say more, but trust me when I say the unfolding of this journey is worth it. Hi, I’m Cabel. I was driving to Seattle and got hungry, so I stopped at a McDonalds in Centralia, WA. And when I went …

Arizona State University continues to push boundaries. I’m excited to share two recent developments that intersect with my collaborative work at ASU over the past few years. These initiatives showcase our institution’s commitment to leveraging AI responsibly while prioritizing student success and ethical considerations. The first is the AI Journey report, which “highlights ASU’s commitment […]

Challenges of the map and territory disconnect are frequent and easy to find. There is no need to make it very complicated at all. Let’s look at a simple example. Think of ice cream. Remember, it might be good for you? Now, imagine this. You are sitting at a small table at an outdoor cafe. It is a beautiful summer day, mid-August. The sky is blue, you feel the warmth …

DC's 20 Oldest Heroes, Ranked By AgeCBR put out a ranking of the top 20 oldest DC heroes, and both Hawkman and Hawkwoman are on the list. Hawkman's first life as General Ktar of the Deathbringers and Hawkwoman's first life as Shrra the Herald. It's impossible to know when they first came into existence. They both lived an incredibly long time before their reincarnation cycle of thousands of lives even …

Recently, my attention has been focused on building web apps to suit my very specific needs. The first one was a financial dashboard of sorts, where I took the data from my YNAB account and built out custom reports so help me make sure we're hitting our investment goal and spending according to our values. The second one (I just finished) was a digital recreation of the weekly layout from …

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***It may have seemed October 1984 was going to be a quiet month for cinema-goers, seeing, as it did, the release of such non-blockbusting fare as Comfort and Joy, Give My Regards to Broad Street and Paris, Texas.But it was not to be so.For, that month also experienced the unleashing of a …

The quantum Zeno effect is that, if you observe a quantum state it won’t change. Is this a real effect? What does it mean and when does it apply? I have answers.

The weather’s getting colder, I’m getting sleepier. The weekdays are, if anything, becoming busier, dense with technical challenges and fraught conversations. I should take some time off; maybe next month. I had one of the top… five?… best burritos of my life for dinner at Club Mexicana on Thursday, followed by waffles & ice cream at Unity Diner. Heavenly. I watched A Quiet Place: Day One. It was alright. It …

I first shared this recipe after mentioning that my Mom’s meatloaf remained my favorite, even after trying Ina’s individual meat loaves. Doesn’t everyone who loves meatloaf think their mom’s is the best? There are no surprising ingredients in this recipe, and that’s what makes it so good! It’s a hearty, satisfying comfort food that I’ve enjoyed for nearly four decades. While it’s delicious when I make it, it’s always better …

Artist: Noxis Album: Violence Inherent in the System Year: 2024 Genre: Death Metal Web: https://noxisdeathmetal.bandcamp.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/Noxisdeathmetal/ Country: United States Quality: 320 Kbps Tracklist: 1. Skullcrushing Defilement 2. Blasphemous Mausoleum for the Wicked 3. Paths of Visceral Fears 4. Abstemious, Pious Writ of Life 5. Torpid Consumption 6. Excursion 7. Horns Echo over Chorazim 8. Violence Inherent in the System 9. Tense and Forlorn 10. Emanations of the Sick 11. …

Ooops! A lack of proper planning saw me on the train to Tranmere with some noisy football fans. To be fair, they were noisy but well behaved. I considered changing my plans and going somewhere else but decided to stick with it. Off the train at Rock Ferry, all the fans dived into the Bedford while I turned the other way. My first intended target was close to the ground …

Spoilers are everywhere these days. In the past I have been spoilered just overhearing a conversation on a bus. They are online, especially in the first few hours after something drops. And I’ve now discovered they are on Wikipedia too whose character breakdowns for this series do not always stop at what has already been shown but go on to explain the ultimate fictional destination of many of the characters. …

Now it is 30 years later, and you are still sending me books, just more expensive ones, and we both are in it together bc you put us there. While I am reading your old letters you write me new letters, again, which are like your old ones, mild-mannered, caring, yours; and I can see that you have forgiven me and I have forgiven you also, but my heart has …