This is a review of a manifesto associated with a learning program.| maya.land
The styles that defined Sailor Moon personal shrines and Cardcaptor Sakura LJ icon edits and so forth reached me before Animal Crossing (I was dropped out of college before meeting the latter) and are probably most formative in my sense of what letterforms are unpresuming-appealing, cute-appealing, etc. But I think when it comes to roundedness in letters that’s all AC!| maya.land
I don’t know how much we ought to trust this source but I’d definitely believed the included myths without any sources at all, so this may be of interest to others.| maya.land
The ILC developed a database of tens of thousands of dissidents living in the Eastern Bloc and carefully targeted the books it sent. Paris became a critical hub where travelers could load up; the Librairie Polonaise, a venerable Polish bookshop, let visitors take several volumes for free on their way home. Its manager sent a bill to the CIA, which by the mid-1980s was covering half of the store’s inventory.| maya.land
Female velvet spiders exhibit a remarkable type of maternal care unique among arachnids. Upon the birth of her brood, the mother spider liquefies her internal organs and regurgitates this material as food. Once her capability to liquefy her insides is exhausted, the young sense this and consume the mother.| maya.land
Every day I spawn in. Emerge wriggling out my skibidi bolus of slime. Whence and where? Lol. Idk. Vibes here be mad shady fr. Shit is not aesthetic. Shit is not bussin. Shit is burned-out cars piled in barricades across the street. Shit is THE END IS NIGH scrawled across bridges. Shit is roofs caved in, windows boarded, thin trees already rising out the wreckage, with roots that slip through gaps in the brickwork to return the brief work of man to the senseless rubble that came before. This s...| maya.land
Monthly Packet of Evening Readings, Volume 19, (London: Mozley and Smith, 1875), page 213: —and the rule for sowing is, ‘One for the mouse, one for the crow, One to rot, and one to grow’| maya.land
The Goomba fallacy is a reasoning mistake. When there are two contradicting opinions in one internet community, some readers think that everyone in the community is stupid, because the opinions are contradictory. They do not realise that there are separate people posting in the community, with separate opinions and beliefs. In other words, two groups with contradictory views are perceived as one group that contradicts itself.| maya.land
Rather than engaging with my concerns, some editors have chosen to mock, speculate about my motives, or label my arguments “AI-generated” — without explaining how they are substantively flawed.| maya.land
Work on motivations for using Facebook also supports the distinction between connection-promoting and non–connection-promoting use. A longitudinal study conducted across two time points looked at the impact of Facebook use on adolescents’ well-being. Use motivated by compensating for insufficient social networks predicted increased loneliness at follow-up, while use motivated by the desire to connect with other people predicted decreased loneliness at follow-up (Teppers, Luyckx, Klimstra,...| maya.land
meet me in the sheets / we can CSV| maya.land
Henry Stern was the commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation for almost 15 years. […] One of his idiosyncrasies was giving agency employees and many others an individual “park name,” which was to be used in communication by radio or email. Julius Spiegel, a long-time Brooklyn borough commissioner, was called “Mirror,” his last name translated from German. Stern conferred upon himself the name “Starquest.” Commissioner Stern also directed the departmen...| maya.land
For drawing reference purposes I have had this tab open for longer than I want to admit.| maya.land
I remember hating seeing these little colorful jaggies. The advance of screen tech past them was something I celebrated even as most screen tech advancements seemed to me silly and unnecessary.| maya.land
Like – are they? On the one hand, I love the idea of sheer panels as an easy-mode approach to the giant baggy silhouettes the moment favors. On the other hand, the raw edge where the denim’s been cut away – eugh. (On the third hand – even though that Renaissance mesh pulls toward kitsch, I’m still down!)| maya.land
The promptuary, also known as the card abacus is a calculating machine invented by the 16th-century Scottish mathematician John Napier and described in his book Rabdologiae in which he also described Napier’s bones. It is an extension of Napier’s bones, using two sets of rods to achieve multi-digit multiplication without the need to write down intermediate results, although some mental addition is still needed to calculate the result.| maya.land
This is a long blog post. If you’re not inclined to read something long, please still click through and read the one section the author recommends!| maya.land
Owen Barfield, whom C. S. Lewis described archetypally as his “Second Friend” – “the man who disagrees with you about everything […] not so much the alter ego as the antiself” – on a number of occasions expressed his agreement with the argument of The Abolition of Man, and his admiration of the book. For example, describing various means by which one can become aware of the presuppositions of one’s thoughts, Barfield once wrote: One, of which the best example I know is C. The ...| The Owen Barfield Literary Estate
The publication of the Independent Sentencing Review (ISR) marks a significant step forward in addressing the ongoing crisis of prison overcrowding. Commissioned in response to growing concerns about the sustainability of our prison estate, the review aims to ensure that we never again reach a point where the number of people in custody exceeds the […] The post Independent Sentencing Review report: will policy makers seize the moment to drive criminal justice system reform? appeared first o...| Catch22
“Paul Graham has published a blog post where he is wrong about something” is not a news item so much as expected background radiation of contemporary life. However, I have something specific to say about this one.| maya.land
This application uses a unique approach. It employs statistics and smart algorithms to automatically create typing lessons that match your current skill level.| maya.land
My friend sent me her video on lactose tolerance and intimated that she reminded him of me. This is massively complimentary, I feel. I no longer have round glasses, and I can’t say that my houseplants are as lively as hers, but I still have arbitrary bones around so I’m going to cling to the comparison.| maya.land
Act II, Scene 1: Ophelia tells her father about how a half-naked, deranged-looking Hamlet barged into her room, physically assaulted her, and ran off into the night. Since we never hear anything about Polonius’ wife, we must assume that the strain of raising two children on his own has rendered him non compos mentis, as this leads him to believe that Hamlet is in love and not a booze-shattered date rapist. He decides to tell the King and Queen about it, because Ophelia’s personal life...| maya.land
Through the DARPA award, Szablowski will work with Miao-Hsueh Chen, an associate professor of pediatric nutrition at Baylor College of Medicine and an expert on [brown adipose tissue], to enhance nonshivering thermogenesis. A drug that boosts BAT response could help first responders treat victims of hypothermia and even lower the cost of arctic exploration. “If you have a drug that makes brown fat more active, then instead of having to spend weeks and weeks adapting to cold, you can perfor...| maya.land
One thing you’re not supposed to admit to: not enjoying basic activities of hygiene maintenance. I get that it’s suspect. I swear to you I do shower enough, but the whole process (the hair removal! the exfoliation, body and facial! the shampoo-rinse-shampoo-rinse-conditioner-rinsing!) is to me tedious at its core, and I know few enough of you all in real life to be able to admit it here.| maya.land
The definition above implies that the “World Wide Web” uses the http protocol to send its data. Why then, do we still need to add the “WWW” subdomain? It’s a waste of time to type it. Wouldn’t it be easier to just type in the domain name, without the “WWW”?| maya.land
Yesterday, The Times newspaper has released its Crime and Justice Commission report – an in-depth exploration of the future of policing, courts, sentencing, and prisons in the UK, accompanied by proposals for reform. Committed to building stronger communities and supporting people at every stage of the justice system, we are pleased to see that many […]| Catch22
The following contains some thoughts inspired by a very striking passage in Barfield’s late essay “Meaning, Revelation and Tradition in Language and Religion.” In reflecting on the Incarnation, he considers what it would mean for a divine-human person to speak. He suggests that—while an ordinary human child, in beginning to speak, is bound by the ... Reflections on a Passage from “Meaning, Revelation and Tradition in Language and Religion”| The Owen Barfield Literary Estate
Landon Loftin: Hello Spencer. Congratulations on your newest book: Light of the Mind, Light of the World. Can you say something about the book’s main thesis? Spencer Klavan: Thanks very much indeed, Landon. Light of the Mind, Light of the World is a new history of science from a religious perspective. My hope is to ... “Barfield’s understanding of language was one I had never encountered before”: an interview with Spencer Klavan| The Owen Barfield Literary Estate
The following article was first printed in the 2005 edition of The Golden Blade, an annual anthroposophical publication which survived until 2009. It was written as the draft of a lecture ultimately given in the English Auditorium at the Goetheanum on Thursday 7th August 2003. As Simon Blaxland de-Lange wrote in a footnote to its ... Owen Barfield: Harbinger of the 21st Century| The Owen Barfield Literary Estate
In September 2023 I attended the first conference on Owen Barfield held at Cambridge University. That weekend, Cambridge basked in the golden embrace of a radiant sun, the city awash in warmth and light. This year’s conference, titled Plotinus and Barfield: Emanation and Evolution, took place on 14th September, and the atmosphere in Cambridge was no different. As I wandered through the narrow streets toward the Divinity Faculty, I crossed over quaint bridges, where punting boats lay moored,...| The Owen Barfield Literary Estate
During a rapidly accelerating climate crisis, is now really a sensible time for airlines to place massive aircraft orders? Let's take a look.| Safe Landing - Aviation workers for a sustainable future
We respond EU consultation, highlighting the importance and need for a well-functioning, full scope MRV on aviation's non-CO2 emissions.| Safe Landing - Aviation workers for a sustainable future
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AI-generated stranger; I’m not so young/attractive| Do the Math
For many years now, I have made efforts to live differently—initially motivated by a sense of resource limits and the recognition that scaling back could have a dramatic effect if adopted widely. I was able to cut my domestic energy demand by a factor of four or five. I changed my habits of diet, travel, heating/cooling, laundry, showering, consumer activity, and much else.| Do the Math
I recently read Tomas Petricek’s Thinking the Unthinkable, where he argues that modern PLT makes several restrictive assumptions about the nature of programming. Our reliance on mathematics in CS is not fundamental and our obsession with formal logic and algorithms keeps us from seeing other possible paradigms. He proposes two other unthinkable paradigms that are unrelatable to modern mathematical programming. I disagree with his premises: I think there’s a very valid reason to ground asp...| Hillel Wayne
