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I know lately I’ve been in commercial mode, pointing you toward various projects of mine that you can support by giving me money. And I promise I’ll get back to less commercial musings as time goes on. But for now, I also want to alert you to a way you can give other people money, one I’ve been thinking about for a long time. For many years, I’ve had a …

We’re raising money to take an ecological artwork to Venice. Support us here. In 2022, my partner and I co-founded the artist’s collective Vessel on the island of Aegina to explore creative approaches to ecology, climate change, and the needs of our community. We’ve taught students how to build collectively and ecologically, painted murals in local playgrounds, and invited people to explore the lost springs of the island. Now, we’ve …

THE WORK OF Dave King, the artist, graphic designer, photographer and publisher who created what became the ‘Crass logo’, is being celebrated in a new exhibition in San Francisco and a new book. The exhibition, at the San Francisco Center for the Book, documents King’s work in the sphere of zines, short-run books and the huge breadth of other printed materials that he produced between 1977 and his untimely death …

Auriferous Flame: The Insurrectionists and the CaretakersOut 8th November on True Cult Records/Stellar Auditorium Productions “The album explores the theme of revolution and delves deep into the complexities of resistance and change, offering listeners an intense and thought provoking experience.” Given the eagerness to share the complex subject matter that inspired this album, one might have expected a clearer vision expressed through the music itself. But true to form, as …

Ready to geek out? In this episode of Podcast Awesome's Nerd Show and Tell, Matt sits down with none other than Zach Leatherman, the tech dynamo and creator behind Eleventy — the static site generator that’s got web devs buzzing. Zach’s tech-world experience is a wild ride of innovation, grit, and love for the open web. With a little help from our team here at Font Awesome, Zach’s pushing to …

Back in 1939, Winston Churchill famously said in a radio broadcast: “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma …” One might say something similar today about the state of Russia’s economy. Since Russia’s renewed invasion of Ukraine in 2022, international economic sanctions have increased. However, Russia’s economic growth appears robust, according to IMF figures, because of enormous …

MARISKA BAARS, NIKI JANSEN, RUTGER ZUYDERVELT - HARDANGER You can trust Rutger 'Machinefabriek' Zuydervelt to always come up with surprises again and again - even with approximately 103 albums as Machinefabriek and another 43 under his own name. This time, it's a new collaboration with Mariska Baars - known for her work as soccer Committee but also for various other collaborations, Piiptsjilling and Fean among them. And with Niki Jansen, …

This is an addendum to our previous post. Newspaper archives can also be a valuable source for medical and legal precedents as they relate to the Arbuckle case. We found one source that is worth noting. It further supports the hypothesis that the fatal injury that Virginia Rappe suffered had to involve violence or, at least, physical mistreatment approximating the same. And this nineteenth-century case is one that so far …

We used to say witches lived there. Probably everyone did something like that when they were a kid. A whole family of witches in our case, living in big old house set way back from the sidewalk that was most likely apartments but we didn’t realize that. We’d see old people shuffle in and out and thought they were all witches and dared each other to make eye contact with …

I'm giving a talk at LSU on murmurations in number theory, and to a lesser extent about machine learning in number theory. The slides for my talk are here. I do some relatively fancy (for me) slide shennanigans, so there is no handout form available. This is closely related to My paper BBLLD23 on murmurations of modular forms of fixed level and increasing weight. My paper BLLDSHZ24 on murmurations of …

The Young Voices Council (YVC) is breaking new ground in futures literacy and youth leadership, proving that young people are not just participants in the future—they are its architects. Since the Council’s first meeting, the YVC has grown into a global force for change, advancing Teach the Future’s mission to embed futures literacy into education systems worldwide. In partnership with Dr. Peter Bishop, the council is collaborating on the Teach …

Recently, we overhauled our shared ESLint config, and while testing, I needed to release an alpha version. I knew this was possible, but I had no idea how to do it. Thankfully, it turns out to be straightforward, once you know how to do it. Creating the prerelease version Normally, when we bump the version number of an npm package, we use the npm version command. This automatically increases the …

Jonathan Schneider This is a an excerpt from Megan Fitzpatrick’s new book “Dutch Tool Chests.” I have been looking forward to its release for some time now and have finally had a chance to read through it. It is incredibly beautiful, which may not always be an applicable word for an instructional book, and clearly written. I appreciate this as one who is not a regular woodworker. I will include …

I like iguanian lizards…. who doesn’t? But among this enormous group are a great many lineages and species that you hardly ever hear anything about. In my continuing efforts to rescue material from the Tet Zoo archives and republish it here, at ver 4, let’s look today at the leiosaurids. This article was previously published at ver 3 (a wayback machine version is here)… Caption: leiosaurid species observed in the …

We recently had the pleasure of interviewing acclaimed British illustrator, Cliff Wright, whose designs for J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and the Prisoner of Azkaban captured the imaginations of millions. This Christmas, we embarked on a project with Cliff to create a bag that embodies the spirit of the festive season. In this interview, he discusses his creative process, where he finds inspiration, and how …