the porous city

isitsunnyinthemission.com is back.

Redwood Hikes Hiked through the biggest stand of old-growth redwoods in the world today.

why not In categories: Other

I spent the last couple of years working on this.

"When I pushed forward, I was whirled about.

Is God a Taoist?

from Ianto Cannon very possibly coming to a website near you In categories: Design/Cool, Design/Web

from /r/NewOrder In categories: Music

Is figuring out if the on-screen keyboard is open as easy as comparing visualViewport.height to window.innerHeight?

crucial aphex blog In categories: Music/Musicians

blog post that obeys Betteridge's law If in three years LLMs have run up against a clear wall due to not being Turing complete, I'll point to this post smugly.

Friend sent a link to her kid's Girl Scout Cookie sale page.

Blog post Saving this for reference, eg Despite some impressive lab demonstrations we have not actually seen any improvement in widely deployed robotic hands or end effectors in the last 40 years.

We're not going to get the kind of sophisticated behavior that people associate with intelligent beings until we get a motivational system that's at least as rich as the ... well, whatever it is that LLMs do.

Interview In categories: Philosophy, Philosophy/Mind

Development wonk argues with doomers, lots of good stuff in here about coping with climate change, In categories: Other/Politik, Science/Environment

Inana and Enki You have brought with you heroism, you have brought with you power, you have brought with you wickedness, you have brought with you righteousness, you have brought with you the plundering of cities, you have brought with you making lamentat…

The psychedelic inspiration of Hypercard In categories: People/Stories, Tech/MacOS, Tech/Development

The Joyce Project has a nicely annotated hypertext version of Ulysses.

According to data from LA, they spend most of their time on what they call "proactive policing", which has been shown to be ineffective and often racially motivated.

micro.blog is a blogging platform and a social network in one (it's also very The Dream of the 90s Is Alive In Portland.)

The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force.

I'd like to be able to play my library of mp3s without opening the laptop, but when I think about using a phone or tablet with some kind of iTunes-like interface (Microsoft Access for music!)

Rigorous scholarship on Buddhist scripture is way behind e.g. study of the Bible.

Maṇḍala is a Sanskrit word meaning 'circle'.