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  1. macwright.com, , more info

    2025 Predictions
    I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not. 1: The web becomes adversarial to AI The history of search engines is sort of an arms race between websites and search engines. Back in the early 2000s, juicing your ranking on search engines was pretty easy - you could put a bunch of junk in your meta description tags or put some text with lots of keywords on …
    By Tom MacWright, 1,196 words
  2. furialog, , more info

    .of.what?
    For anybody interested in the particular subgeekery of language design, I thought of five potential ways to address the Dactal usability issue of .of.of:=where are we?.of being hard to follow. 1. Try to embrace the weirdness. This is always my first discipline. Don't be too quick to treat every weirdness as a problem that has to be solved. Some things are weird compared to outside references, but normal in a …
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  3. Richard Smith's non-medical blogs, , more info

    Do only the rich fear death?
    The peasants in Anton Chekhov’s novella Peasants published in 1897 live unremittingly grim lives. Impoverished, they sleep on the floor in huts and are hungry, cold, and illiterate. The men drink heavily, increasing their poverty, and beat their wives mercilessly. They are dishonest, unbelieving, and conniving. They think that live was better before “freedom,” when they were serfs. Chekhov wrote the novella after five years of living in a village …
    By Richard Smith, 1,155 words
  4. Silver Scenes, , more info

    Gidget Grows Up (1969)
    Gidget Grows Up has been playing a number of times on the Cinevault channel on Roku over the past few months and I always happened to catch little bits of it but never had time to sit and watch it all the way through... until today, that is. Like many women, I grew up with the Gidget film series and have seen them all many times over. A lot of …
    By The Metzinger Sisters, 460 words
  5. Real Ale, Real Music, , more info

    Tapping Along In Manchester....
    My first trip out of the new year, in which I spent a cold afternoon out and about in Manchester. Not surprisingly a few pubs were involved, including one that has only recently opened....If I have a spare few hours, fancy a trip out, but have nowhere specific to go in mind, I will tend to take myself over to Manchester. It's 40 minutes or so on the train from …
    By Chris Dyson, 2,094 words
  6. Punya Mishra's Web | Blog, , more info

    Shattered: Myth, Metaphor & Gen AI
    A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott” and its resonance with our AI age (The Mirror Cracked: AI, Poetry, and the Illusion of Depth). In that post I explored how our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by technology, AI just being one (and the latest) variation. […]
    By Punya Mishra, 62 words
  7. Ratcatcher, , more info

    Quick RPG setting: THE SUNDER
    Basically this is my version of a D&D fantasy setting, generic enough so I can slot in other peoples’ dungeons without much modification but weird enough to be interesting. Big sources of inspiration are the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories (Ziragzar is just Lankhmar), seventeenth-century India and America, and Ghibli fantasy. THE SUNDER is a continent which holds forests as old as the world and magic from the Outer Spheres. …
    By Quick RPG setting: THE SUNDER, 505 words
  8. RealClimate, , more info

    2024 Hindsight
    To no-one’s surprise 2024 was the warmest year on record – and by quite a clear margin. Another year, another data point. Unlike the previous year, 2024 was anticipated to be a record breaker even before it began (I predicted a record – despite the huge anomaly in 2023 – with a 55% probability). It did fall at the higher end of the prediction, so maybe we are seeing the …
    By Gavin, 849 words
  9. Spoon & Tamago, , more info

    The Daruma Leather Bag is the Perfect New Year Accessory
    Commonly associated with the new year, Daruma dolls are a type of wishing doll considered an ornament but also a symbol of good fortune and the ultimate lucky charm. With its austere, rounded form, intense expression, and distinctive eyebrows, the Daruma doll was originally modeled after the 5th-century founder of Zen Buddhism, Bodhidharma. Japanese leather […] Related posts: Tsuchiya Kaban Creates Leather Randoseru For Dogs Tsuchiya Kaban Creates Leather Bag …
    By Johnny, 93 words
  10. Dead Wax, , more info

    The Swamp Women
    Colonel Jubilation B. Johnston and his Mystic Knights Band and Street Singers Attack The HitsColumbia, 1966"enigmatic" credits from the back coverNashville, 1966. After so many recording sessions for the Bob Dylan’s album "Blonde On Blonde » Bob Johnston, the producer and the musicians led by Charlie McCoy needed some relaxation, and also perhaps some kind of revenge. That’s understantable. That’s why they recorded in the process Moldy Goodies as by …
    By Bob, 272 words
  11. DK1MI.radio | Blog, , more info

    Analog DXCC Mapping
    I have firmly resolved to worry less about awards and QSLs in general. I still log my QSOs and upload them to QRZ.com and LotW, but I only do the latter for my communication partners. I personally consider logging itself to be very important and I will never give it up. However, I was looking for a solution to keep track of the DXCC entities I had already worked. Then …
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  12. Grizzly's Reviews, , more info

    Convoy 3X21C Review – UI Letdown
    Pricing & AvailabilityWhat comes in the box?Design & ConstructionSize & MeasurementsUser InterfaceEmitter & BeamMode ChartRuntimeDriver & RegulationBatteries & ChargingSwitchCarry & ErgonomicsCompetitionConclusion Pricing & Availability Convoy sent me this light in exchange for an honest review. Here is the official product page where you can see current pricing. At the time of writing, it’s $89 USD with the optional Molicel P45B batteries I chose. What comes in the box? The box …
    By Tactical Grizzly, 2,103 words
  13. Minutes to Midnight - Blog, , more info

    A new plan
    This might read like yet another manifesto, when in fact it's a series of choices that I have either already gone through, or am about to. In general, it's a mid-long term plan that I want to follow to regain sanity. Refuse the ultra-capitalistic point of view on society Premise: my devices are at least 4-year old. My main music instrument was built in 1991 and bought a year later. …
    By Simone Silvestroni, 1,380 words
  14. Notes, links, etc, , more info

    Oh! I love this.
    lakecountylibrary:LIBRARY WRAPPEDYou checked out… probably some stuff? Thanks for doing that :) Used our wifi maybe? For something? Look we actually don’t know what genres you read or how many times you renewed Gender Queer. We don’t want to know. Our gift to you is privacy. Take it. Be free. Oh! I love this.
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  15. 333SOUND, , more info

    Dolly Parton and the Country Music Genre
    In part two of Stephen Deusner‘s interview with Steacy Easton, we delve further into Dolly Parton’s tightly controlled persona and how she has navigated country music’s conventions. Steacy and Stephen also discuss mainstream country music more generally, and who it allows to bend the confines of the genre. This is part two of a two part interview. You can read part one here. STEPHEN DEUSNER: Your analysis of the title …
    By 33 1.3 Admin, 1,249 words