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As announced by Automattic and covered by TechCrunch, I want to take a moment to welcome Elijah Potter and Harper to join Automattic. Harper is a super-fast (way faster than LanguageTool and Grammarly), local English grammar checker. The technology is nascent, but I’m very excited to embed this throughout all of Automattic’s products, and then expanding it to other languages, all in an open source way that can be embedded …

EagleFiler 1.9.16 is a maintenance release of my Mac files/notes/e-mail manager. This version improves the formatting of community notes and quote tweets when importing from X/Twitter and includes a bunch of other fixes (e.g. for the help viewer) along the lines of what was in SpamSieve 3.1. I had left in support for Growl, even after it was retired, in case anyone was still using it, but it’s now removed …

NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is again inviting its guests to "Discover Something Real" with the debut of Michael Lopez-Alegria's Axiom Mission-1 (Ax-1) flight suit on Thursday (Nov. 21). The black and blue uniform, which is now on display alongside space shuttle Atlantis, was worn by Lopez-Alegria when he became the first NASA astronaut to revisit the International Space Station on a privately-funded mission two years ago.

Submitted by Bushland Maps, who say: Ferries are a bit of a forgotten mode of transport in Melbourne. With no integration into the fare system or journey planners, and with overarching public transport body PTV only “overseeing” three of the routes (which doesn’t have any practical effect on the service), they are mostly either seen as a tourist attraction (which fairly some are) or not seen at all. Since there …

seekingstars:I’m going to New York!(what a lark! what a song!)where the tough Rocky’s eaveshit the sea. Where th’Acro-polis is functional, the trainsthat run and shout! the booksthat have trousers and sleeves!I’m going to New York!(quel voyage! jamais plus!)far from Ypsilanti and Flint!where Goodman rules the Empireand the sunlight’s eschato-logy upon the wizard’s bridgesand the galleries of print!I’m going to New York!(to my friends! mes semblables!)I suppose I’ll walk back West.But …

ALTA page in the Book of the Eramprunyà Barony showing the donzel* Eimeric de Cunit paying homage to Jaume Marc, baron and lord of the Castle of Eramprunyà (Gavà, Barcelona Metropolitan Ambit, Catalonia).One of the other documents in this book was written by Jaume Marc himself, narrating in first person and with all kinds of details how he was invested as a knight by the king Peter the Cerimonious in …

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I was on the New Models podcast recently and stated: Worlds are the first emergent medium of the 21st century. This statement is the hot take that drives all my professional work across various domains, and serves as the main thesis behind all the essays at worldrunning.guide. Worlds as a Medium Meadowlark The Challenges of World-Running Worlds Need Running Where Do We Go from Here? Reality Coordination A New Discipline …

Getting AIs to work together could be a powerful force multiplier for the technology. Now, Microsoft researchers have invented a new language to help their models talk to each other faster and more efficiently. AI agents are the latest buzzword in Silicon Valley. These are AI models that can carry out complex, multi-step tasks autonomously. But looking further ahead, some see a future where multiple AI agents collaborate to solve …

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To a visitor from lands afar (me) who sees this part of the world in little two-week periods twice a year, Jeune & Jolie feels like it did all the work of establishing itself as one of the best restaurants in California in a metaphorical blink of an eye, a few short months between opening, winning its Michelin star and becoming the last word in sophisticated Cali-French dining. Of course, …

Account of a trip round England by the Czech writer who introduced the word “robot” to the world.

Subscriptions are everywhere these days. From the big names like Netflix, HelloFresh, and Amazon Prime to the more niche ones, like car features unlocked by a monthly fee or olive oil delivered to your door — companies are leaning into subscriptions over single purchases, and it’s easy to see why. The model provides predictable revenue, fosters loyalty, and builds long-term relationships — all driving profitability. Chances are, you’re subscribed to …

It’s been a while since the last update, summer, holidays, birthdays, etc have all taken precedent over the last few months but there been progress! We’ve laid a lot of sleepers! I did make full use of child labour too! Abbie’s made a decent job of the sleepers she’s laid, probably between a third and a half of this board. My wife Kerry was helping me thread chairs as some …

Top stuff from English jazzman John Surman. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize A lovely album with a mix of avant-garde/free/spiritual/post bop. A majority is on the free side though. It’s bombastic and chaotic at times and slower paced and more melodic in parts. There are plenty of different interesting passages throughout. It keeps …