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The sequel is co-directed and co-written by Samoan-American filmmaker Dana Ledoux Miller, who is co-founder and board chair of the Pasifika Entertainment Advancement Komiti, or PEAK, a nonprofit organization working to promote innovative storytelling that honors the richness and diversity of the Pacific Islands.

Book Review by George S: David Garnett was one of the younger members of the Bloomsbury set. His father was Edward Garnett, the critic and publisher, and his mother was Constance Garnett, the translator of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoyevsky. Born in 1892, David Garnett had been a conscientious objector during the Great War, working on a fruit farm in East Anglia. This short novel was published pseudonymously in 1919 by …

This 1984 debut record by The Cult (after they changed their name from Death Cult) addressed lead singer Ian Astbury's interest with Native American cultures and themes that would continue throughout most of the The Cult's career. Guitarist Billy Duffy hadn't quite found his signature guitar sound yet (that would happen on subsequent album Love covered here), but you can get a sense of where he was heading with it. …

The Beano and Dandy Comic Libraries were digest-sized spin-offs of the two full-size comics, which were published at the rate of four per month (two Beanos and two Dandys) from 1982 to 1997. Each one was 64 pages long and told a single, long-form story starring one or more of D. C. Thomson's main characters, often pairing them up in unusual crossovers. In 1997 the Comic Libraries were supplanted by …

Summary of previous episodes (CH32v3):1- Reallocate shadow ram to have 128k of RAM2- In flash, put a basic harmless loop3- Tweak the linker script to put everything in ram4- Load the code (to ram), change the PC to the code in ram5- You now upload much faster with infinite software breakpointsVscodeYou can use the cortexm extension with riscv, it works fine with one caveat : you cannot "attach"You can only …

Leaving Mastodon and Bluesky earlier this year was a great decision and I don’t regret it one bit—except for the part where some of my friends don’t blog at all and I miss them terribly. But that’s okay because the intense doomscrolling burnout continues to be too big of a tradeoff, and up until about ten days ago my time away from the electrically charged firehose of rage bait and …

The Wayback Machine, Archive.org, Archive-it.org, and OpenLibrary.org came up in stages over the week after cyberattacks with some of the contributor features coming up over the last couple of weeks. A few to go. Much of the development during this time has been focused on securing the services so they can still run while attacks continue. The Internet Archive is adapting to a more hostile world, where DDOS attacks are …

Well, huh... here we are.This post has been in the queue for two weeks or so now. It's involved a lot of note-taking, thinking, writing, and rewriting—rinse and repeat.For this post, I wanted to jot down a bunch of random things, take a step back, and then come back later when I had some additional thoughts sorted out in my brain.And don't fret - I won't get into politics here. …

Pulled from a memo posted around the Idaho State Correctional Institution Nov. 15, 2024. IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO __________________________________________ Reuben Cortes, Pete Kimball Roberts, et al., Plaintiffs v. Josh Tewalt, et al., Defendants __________________________________________ Case No. 1:18-CV-00001-BLW Notice of Petition for Payment of Attorney Fees and Court’s Intent … Continue reading "Notice of Petition and Intent to Grant Payment for Attorneys Fees in …

Micropayments, microbilling, microtransactions, call it what you will; it is one of those ideas people say they want but actually do not. In particular, micropayments are not a viable replacement...

Who are you, and what do you do? I'm Michelle, and I'm a member of the team at The Pudding, which is a publication of visual, data-driven essays. Some of my favorite projects are about the sounds of Mexico City, monkeys playing piano, and the most extra national anthem performances. Creating these stories involves data analysis, data visualization, front-end web development, design, and writing. My background is in computer science, …

With panto preparations in progress across the country, Dick Whittington is making his annual trip to London to seek his fortune. This year, Dick finds himself in Greenwich Theatre, where panto veteran Anthony Spargo is writing the show for a third time. Spargo is joined in the cast by panto regular Louise Cielecki, who played Muddles in last year’s brilliant production of Snow White. We caught up with them to …

This was (I think) a CapnAhab design. I added a pilot and some engine detail, but that's all, and I printed it on my Mars Pro at 1:200 scale.The model has no wing-rib or control surface detail at all, and I've just painted some in. The effect is fine, for a gaming piece, and having smooth surfaces instead of ribbed certainly does make applying decals a bajillion times easier.I've messed …

The original: Vagammo tutto il pomeriggio in cerca d’un luogo a fare di due vite una. Rumorosa la vita, adulta, ostile, minacciava la nostra giovinezza. Ma qui giunti ove ancor cantano i grilli, quanto silenzio sotto questa luna.\ Two young lovers are looking for a place where they can “make one life out of two.” All the afternoon they wander around under the sun, surrounded by the noise and the …

In early May 2017, a tree at 16th Street and Meridian Place NW began to sag:Within a week or so, somebody did a bit of trimming to let the pedestrians by more conveniently:But earlier this fall, somebody just dealt with it,leaving some child from the neighborhood to decorate what was left.