I had a very pleasant experience last week while I was reading through the RSS feeds I’m subscribed to. I came across two blog posts that were responding to blog posts of my own. Robin Sloan wrote a post clarifying his position after I linked to him in my post about the slipperiness of the term “AI”. Then Jim Nielsen wrote a deliciously satirical piece in response to my pithy little parable about research. I love it when this happens! Elizabeth Spiers recently wrote a piece called What ...| Adactio: Journal
An experiment in Finland has shown that children benefit from lots of contact with mud pies. CC-licensed photo by JBColorado on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a … Continue reading →| The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
Obesity rates have declined in the US for the past three years after rising for years before that. Guess why. CC-licensed photo by stuart anthony on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. … Continue reading →| The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
An emerging use of AI is to fake images for expenses claims. Ambitious or stupid? CC-licensed photo by Joe Loong on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a … Continue reading →| The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
iRobot, which makes the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, says it may soon go bust unless it gets a bailout or buyer. CC-licensed photo by Patrick on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. … Continue reading →| The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
A new study has made a 3D reconstruction of a quadrillion connections in the human brain – equivalent to a cubic mm of tissue. CC-licensed photo by Rev314159 on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up … Continue reading →| The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
In the US, you can give up your house keys for a facial recognition unlocking system – if you want to give ADT $40 per month. Deal? CC-licensed photo by the Original Muddog on Flickr. You can sign up to … Continue reading →| The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
Ask a chatbot for a random number between 0 and 9, and there’s a 90% chance it’ll offer seven. But why? CC-licensed photo by Niklas Morberg on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by … Continue reading →| The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
A wiring mistake by BT meant three people were wrongly accused of downloading child abuse images. CC-licensed photo by Paul Robertson on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click … Continue reading →| The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
A YouTube documentary about birdwatching gives an insight into how app gamify, then corrupt, hobbies. CC-licensed photo by JuliaC2006 on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a confirmation … Continue reading →| The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
The British Transport Police say they won’t check CCTV over two hours for bicycle theft. But one person has created a tool that could review that in around 20 seconds. CC-licensed photo by Da…| The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
Tim Cushing: Trump Continues to Attack Biden for All the Stuff Trump Officials Did While Trump Was Still President If there was anyone with any spine, honesty, or morality in the Trump administration, these astounding gaffes would have been headed off. But there’s no one left with any| Birchtree
This post came across my radar, which shows Windows game support on Linux is at a new all-time high. You can see that the area in red has been constantly shrinking, at a steady pace, and this past month is no exception with this category getting very close to just| Birchtree
Joe Rosensteel: Creative Neglect: What About the Apps in Apple? While the acquisition was announced almost a year ago in November of 2024, Apple only folded the developers in eight months ago. Prior to the acquisition, Photomator was updated monthly, often with major features. In the last eight months, the| Birchtree
Back in February 2024, Xbox held a short podcast where they reacted directly to swirling rumors about Xbox exclusive titles that were about to go multi-platform, which was giving Xbox fans anxiety. This question from host Tina Amini was right near the start: So when you are thinking about the| Birchtree
Matias Heikkilä: AI Can Code, but It Can't Build Software Coding, however, is not what most people are getting paid for. Building a production-ready app is not coding, it’s software engineering. Absolutely true. I've said a few times that the software development work| Birchtree
Mike Masnick: Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is an Attack on the Open Internet Even if you love Reddit and hate AI, you should be worried about this lawsuit. If it succeeds, it would fundamentally close off most of the open internet. And: If that’s the case, then… you| Birchtree
Welcome back! How is October over already? I’ve been in deep in cozy activities. I made soup. I’ve been bundled up in blankets, playing PowerWash Simulator 2. Lots of reading in bed; I’m back on my webcomics grind. How are the changing seasons treating you? … I recently re-discovered my love of Book Outlet. I used it a ton in grad school and then sort of forgot about it. But with purse strings getting a bit tighter, … Continue reading Links: Hope, Agatha Christie, & More→| Smart Bitches, Trashy BooksSmart Bitches, Trashy Books
Welcome back to Links! We’re about a month out from Thanksgiving and I’m slowly working on my share of the menu. For the past couple years, we’ve done an “all sides” Thanksgiving, because I don’t want to bother with a turkey. It’s just two of us and even a breast would probably be too much. I also think sides are the best part of the holiday anyway. My partner is usually in charge of the … Continue reading Links: Birding, a New Romance Bookstore, & More→| Smart Bitches, Trashy BooksSmart Bitches, Trashy Books
One of our favorites, Andy Clarke, on the one thing keeping the CSS contrast-color() function from true glory: For my website design, I chose a dark blue background colour (#212E45) and light text (#d3d5da). This … --- The thing about contrast-color originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.| CSS-Tricks
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I've run into over the last week (October 13, 2025 - October 19, 2025). Enjoy!| same stuff, different day
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (October 6, 2025 - October 12, 2025). Enjoy!| same stuff, different day
Our bodies and our humanity, shame and sexual sin, the art of preaching, hard assignments, and more| DashHouse.com
Criticism in ministry, preaching the word, importance of deacons, identifying scrupulosity, private communion with God, delight in church monotony, and more| DashHouse.com
"But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. New York has great water for coffee." - David Lynch| Makoism
"If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all." ― David Letterman| Makoism
Anil Dash: The Majority AI View What's amazing is the reality that virtually 100% of tech experts I talk to in the industry feel this way, yet nobody outside of that cohort will mention this reality. What we all want is for people to just treat AI as| Birchtree
The Great Feminization The most relevant differences are not about individuals but about groups. In my experience, individuals are unique and you come across outliers who defy stereotypes every day, but groups of men and women display consistent differences. Which makes sense, if you think about it statistically. A random woman might be taller than a random […]| SovietMen
What’s Worse? I was chatting with my sister the other day, catching up, and she said something funny that resonated. “At least you’ve been through the worst, cancer. I said cancer wasn’t the worst thing, For me, divorce was far, far worse… With Cancer, for me, there was an end, one way or another, and […]| SovietMen
We’re into the best week of the year, if you’re into Hitchhikers of the Galaxy lore. These are some of the things I read this week that I found interesting: Noel Rappin: Ruby and its Neighbours: An ode to one of the two languages that inspired Ruby. I’m still a Perl writer today, so I somewhat bristled at the opening that it had “vanished completely”… but I also get where they’re coming from. A fun read. Radicale: This looks like a great self-hosted option for CalDAV and CardDAV...| Rubenerd
Welcome back, everyone! It’s the middle of the week, which means now we get to start thinking about Friday. Let’s be honest, though, there are some weeks when I start thinking about Friday on Sunday evening. I’m already seeing Christmas stuff despite Halloween still being two weeks away. I know there’s the recurring joke that Christmas decor is getting put out earlier and earlier and I think that’s pretty accurate. This year, I’m pretty meh … Continue reading Links: Romance Cove...| Smart Bitches, Trashy BooksSmart Bitches, Trashy Books
Nick Heer: The New MacBook Pro Is €35 Less Expensive in E.U. Countries, Ships Without a Charger In Ireland, the MacBook Pro used to start at €1,949; it now starts at €1,849; in France, it was €1,899, and it is now €1,799. As mentioned, the| Birchtree
On today's show we discuss why it's so difficult to call the top, why earnings matter so much, we were due for a correction, valuations aren't that crazy, good news for low income Americans, how the housing market is impacting the stock market, why Gold is rocketing higher, the cash on the sidelines fallacy, the crypto liquidation, the problem with being house rich and much more. The post Animal Spirits: Did the Market Ju...| A Wealth of Common Sense
On today's show we discuss investing in data centers, airports and other types of infrastructure assets with Scott Litman from CION GCM Grovesnor. The post Talk Your Book: How Infrastructure Funds Work appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...| A Wealth of Common Sense
On today's show we discuss the melt-up phase of the AI boom, there is a bubble in bubble predictions, no one is going to call the top, hyperscalers vs. the labor market, international stocks are outperforming, Taylor Swift, junk stocks, the top 1% vs. the bottom 90% and more. The post Animal Spirits: It Feels Like 1999 appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...| A Wealth of Common Sense
Welcome to the Morning Commute Today we are talking about College Football! It was a pretty dry day on the Mizzou side of things (aside from Colin’s story), so I decided to take a step back and look at college football as a whole, especially with this kind of news. Cignetti just got PAID. This […]| Rock M Nation
Welcome to the Morning Commute Today we’re talking about Mizzou at Auburn Injury Updates Wednesday night means the first injury reports become available across the SEC, and there is some positive news for Missouri. Heading into the Mizzou at Auburn game on Saturday, there are no new injuries reported for Eli Drinkwitz’s team. Meanwhile, offensive […]| Rock M Nation
A dramatic decline in literacy among the young is matched by the rise of the smartphone. Are we in a post-literate society? CC-licensed photo by James West on Flickr. You can sign up to receive eac…| The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
Apple Newsroom: Apple Vision Pro upgraded with the powerful M5 chip and comfortable Dual Knit Band With M5, Apple Vision Pro renders 10 percent more pixels on the custom micro-OLED displays compared to the previous generation, resulting in a sharper image with crisper text and more detailed visuals. Vision Pro| Birchtree
Apple Newsroom: Apple Introduces the Powerful New iPad Pro With the M5 Chip iPad Pro with M5 unlocks endless possibilities for creativity and productivity — with a huge leap in AI performance and a big boost in graphics, superfast wireless connectivity, and game-changing iPadOS 26 features, it pushes the boundaries of| Birchtree
Xbox Series X: long term review Game pass has literally been a game changer and I’ve played so many more games I wouldn’t have looked at before. Aside from buying the occasional plane in flight simulator the console hasn’t cost me any additional money. Looking at the| Birchtree
Becca's spent one year going solo and breaks down her revenue through the year. The biggest thing that stood out to me was that 75% of her revenue came from sponsors on her videos. As someone who can't be bothered to do sponsorships on his channel (which is 1/4| Birchtree
Rebekah Valentine writing for IGN: Pokémon Legends: Z-a Review in Progress If the rest of my adventure holds up (and the Switch 1 performance isn’t a disaster), we could finally have a 3D game worthy of the Pokémon franchise on our hands. It’d be about dang time. This| Birchtree
Not to steal Alec's thunder here, but apparently some of these TV show re-releases are using single-layer DVDs instead of dual-layer DVDs like their original releases, meaning they have less storage space, and meaning they have to be encoded at lower bitrates, ultimately meaning that the video quality is reduced.| Birchtree
Hank Green on the new Sora 2 app: If you are the kind of mother fucker who will create SlopTok, you are not the kind of mother fucker who should be in charge of OpenAI. It's a great, short rant from Hank Green, and it 100% resonates with me. I| Birchtree
Chris Cameron writing for The New York Times: Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps in Response to Trump Pressure Campaign Apple has removed from its App Store several programs that alert users to sightings of immigration agents after Attorney General Pam Bondi demanded they be taken down. Setting aside how| Birchtree
Microsoft is updating Game Pass again, most notably for many that the price of the Ultimate tier is increasing from $19.99/month to $29.99/month. The $9.99/month and $14.99/month tiers remain the same price, but get new names and the perks somehow change, but| Birchtree
I’ve got shirts, hoodies, hats, sealed vinyl, and more available to purchase on our new merch site.| End on End
Every day, The Overhead Wire collects national and international news about cities and sends the links to their email list. At the end of the week they post some of the most popular stories to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to Streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the D.C. region. Signal timing turned off in Houston: An unreported change in the signal timing system along Houston’s Red Line light rail has led to delays on trains and service bunching. Advocates are ...| Streets.mn
Every day, The Overhead Wire collects national and international news about cities and sends the links to their email list. At the end of the week they post some of the most popular stories to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to Streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the D.C. region. Care infrastructure: In Flint, Michigan, a program called Rx Kids gives expecting mothers $1,500 during pregnancy and $500 per month for a year after birth. Researchers found the program sa...| Streets.mn
An updated global map projection, using ancient technologies to combat rising temperatures, rainbow crosswalk outside of Pulse Night Club removed twice and more stories.| Streets.mn
In case you missed it — we were on the Clearer Thinking podcast with Spencer Greenberg, talking about cybernetics, psychology, and philosophy of science. Check it out: Episode 281: A new paradigm f…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
Werdahias wrote an informative blog post about Dark Mode for QT programs on non-QT environments (mostly GNOME based), we need more blog posts about this sort of thing [1]. Astral Codex Ten has an i…| etbe - Russell Coker
Welcome back! For me, I think things are best described as busy, but boring. My wedding dress has officially been dropped off for alterations, our household is obsessed with Hades II, and I’m already eager for winter vacation. The tourism in my area is about to hit its peak and I don’t love it. That being said, October is absolutely flying. Does anyone else feel the same way? Anything exciting on your calendar or are you in … Continue reading Links: Quilt Shows, Kresley Cole, & More→| Smart Bitches, Trashy BooksSmart Bitches, Trashy Books
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I've run into over the last week (September 29, 2025 - October 5, 2025). Enjoy!| same stuff, different day
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I've run into over the last week (September 22, 2025 - September 28, 2025). Enjoy!| same stuff, different day
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (September 15, 2025 - September 21, 2025). Enjoy!| same stuff, different day
Divine justice, praying when you exercise, Christians and social media, killing cynicism, and more| DashHouse.com
The gospel beats porn, refusing AI help, trusting AI for theology, and more| DashHouse.com
"Without my morning coffee, I'm just like a dried-up piece of roast goat." - Johann Sebastian Bach| Makoism
'I don’t need an inspirational quote. I need coffee.' -- Unknown| Makoism
'The magic of espresso is that it's only made with 50 beans.' - Andrea Illy| Makoism
Left Vs Right As Bickering Backseat Kids And like bickering couples and backseat kids, stuck together in a society but eager to takedown their rival, left and right have been getting very good at figuring out what will bother the other side, especially the more numerous and powerful moderates on the other side. People often […]| SovietMen
Billionaire Bill Ackman convened stormy Israel ‘intervention’ with Charlie Kirk, sources say Multiple sources including a Trump administration official have revealed to The Grayzone that Kirk personally visited Trump inside the White House to lobby him against attacking Iran. Trump “roared” at Kirk, one said, and shut down the conversation. Don’t Be the Guy Someone’s […]| SovietMen
A list of links to things I liked & shared with friends this month.| A parenthetical departure
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Jeff Starr of Perishable Press,, shares insights into his life and offers valuable business advice.| WPfounders
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Welcome back! This week has given me the first hint of fall. I love a crispy morning. We’re also in the middle of getting a new porch since the old one had only a couple years left anyway. I can’t wait to enjoy a coffee on the new one, wrapped in a big ol’ blanket. Aside from that, I’ve been fully on the Hades II train. Anyone else with me? … Libro.fm is hosting a “read-in” … Continue reading Links: Emily Henry, Banned Books, & More→| Smart Bitches, Trashy BooksSmart Bitches, Trashy Books
On today's Animal Spirits Talk Your Book we talk to Matt Bartolini from State Street and Chris Ward from Bridgewater Associates about the SPDR Bridgewater All Weather ETF, the strategy's origins, how it works, the fees involved and much more.| A Wealth of Common Sense
On today's show we discuss bubble behavior from tech CEOs, the AI inflection point, S&P 10,000, panic selling, $7.7 trillion in money markets, the two-speed economy, most IPOs are terrible investments, how to bring down mortgage rates, the demographic housing battle, youth sports and more.| A Wealth of Common Sense
On today's show, we are joined by Graham Day, EVP and CIO of Innovator Capital Management to discuss what the Dual Direction ETF is, how the portfolio is constructed, different outcomes with this product, the timing around buffered ETFs, and much more.| A Wealth of Common Sense
Random Tables d100 – Vignettes for Faerie & Other Unseen Lands (d4 Caltrops) d100 – Pecuniary Problems, Awful Arrears, & Delinquent Debts (d4 Caltrops) D6x6 Grimy Grimlocks (Arc…| Stuffed Crocodile
Don’t throw away that disposable vape – you could use its internals to power a web server. CC-licensed photo by Vaping360 on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post …| The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
Every day, The Overhead Wire collects national and international news about cities and sends the links to their email list. At the end of the week they post some of the most popular stories to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to Streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the D.C. region. Light rail begins bridge tests: Sound Transit began full testing of the light rail on the I-90 floating bridge in Seattle, signaling the start of a new era in the region. The 2 Line extensi...| Streets.mn
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I've run into over the last week (September 8, 2025 - September 14, 2025). Enjoy!| same stuff, different day
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (September 1, 2025 - September 7, 2025). Enjoy!| same stuff, different day
Homemade apple pie, defeating sin, dangers of pastoral ministry, perfecting your voice, and more| DashHouse.com
It started two years ago, on a street in Dublin. They have a cool program where notable historical figures get a little bio on walls. The key part was this: She invented a unique uncrushable linen …| Heidi Waterhouse
Am 10. September 2025 wurde Charlie Kirk, einer der bekanntesten konservativen Aktivisten der Vereinigten Staaten, während einer Veranstaltung an der Utah Valley University,... The post Konservativer US-Aktivist Charlie Kirk ermordet first appeared on TFP Deutschland.| TFP Deutschland
"Coffee! Because anger management is too expensive." – Unknown| Makoism
"If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all." - David Letterman| Makoism
So … is AI writing any good? …. PART 2! Below are 8 pieces of flash fiction, all of them ~350 words. All of them were written to the prompt: “write a piece of fiction based on ‘a demon'” – for the AI there were additional very brief suggestions concerning tone &/or setting to generate […]| SovietMen
Daniel Andrews [remember him?] is under fire for his appearance alongside dictators and autocrats in China The question nearly everyone — Labor friend or foe — is asking is, why would Daniel Andrew…| SovietMen
On today's show, we are live in Huntington Beach, California for Future Proof 2025.| A Wealth of Common Sense
On today's Talk Your Book we speak with Ehren Stanhope from Canvas Custom Indexing about the evolution of investment products, why 2019 changed everything, how financial advisors are using Canvas with their clients and why technology is such an important component in this process.| A Wealth of Common Sense
On today's show we discuss rich people everywhere, why this isn't like the dot-com bubble, the markets don't care about bad vibes, junk bonds are on a tear, there are more ETFs than stocks, Reddit loss porn, American exceptionalism, what would actually fix housing, the S&P 500 is outperforming private equity, 7 year auto loans, the 9-9-6 lifestyle and more.| A Wealth of Common Sense
The original idea of Disney World – a place where everyone is equal – has been gradually subverted by financial targeting of customers. CC-licensed photo by Haydn Blackey on Flickr. You…| The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
Every day, The Overhead Wire collects national and international news about cities and sends the links to their email list. At the end of the week they post some of the most popular stories to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to Streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the D.C. region. A new electric company: Ann Arbor Michigan is creating a power company that would build renewable energy inside the city limits through microgrids and rooftop solar. The existing power com...| Streets.mn
New Substack to watch, on diverse and outlier science: Reinvent Science And here’s an example of what they’re talking about: Lay research on turtles, and the evolution of scholarly journals (see al…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
Dimitri John Ledkov wrote an informative blog post about self encrypting disks and UEFI with Linux [1]. This Coffeezilla video highlights an interesting scam, run a broker for day traders and don’t execute trades, just be the counterparty for every trade and rely on day traders losing [2]. First Sight is a Dust SciFi short [...]| etbe – Russell Coker
Users in the US will be able to view blood oxygen measurements on their phone.| stuartbreckenridge.net
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I've run into over the last week (August 25, 2025 - August 31, 2025). Enjoy!| same stuff, different day
Here are the most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (August 18, 2025 - August 24, 2025). Enjoy!| same stuff, different day
"Coffee is a language in itself." - Jackie Chan| Makoism
"My doctor told me to give up coffee. But I told him, I’m a writer, not a suicide bomber." – Jerry Seinfeld| Makoism
Every day, The Overhead Wire collects national and international news about cities and sends the links to their email list. At the end of the week they post some of the most popular stories to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to Streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the D.C. region. World’s smartest city: After gaining a reputation as being a rural outpost, Etteln, Germany, has stepped into the modern age. A digital communication strategy has connected every part of ...| Streets.mn
