Driving on one of New York’s poorly maintained and crowded roads, I found myself in a situation one can more safely observe through numerous YouTube ‘bad driver’ videos: a driver for whom all other traffic apparently ceased to exist confidently pulled into a lane I already happened to occupy. After…

I first heard of Mark Fisher when I downloaded a large torrent file advertising itself as some ‘Academic and Theoretical eBook Megapack’ that contained a fairly heterogenous mix of classic texts in the social sciences, philosophy, literary theory, feminism, and economics. This was in 2015, when I…

GitHub Pages, our static site hosting service, has always had a very simple architecture. From launch up until around the beginning of 2015, the entire service ran on a single pair of machines (in active/standby configuration) with all user data stored across 8 DRBD backed partitions. Every 30…

I was privileged to deliver the opening keynote at this month's FediForum, a conference for people building and supporting the open social web. My talk touched on what's happening now, drew on my experiences building Elgg and Known and investing at Matter Ventures, and gave participants three…

written on October 17, 2025 In August I wrote about my experiments with replacing MCP (Model Context Protocol) with code. In the time since I utilized that idea for exploring non-coding agents at Earendil. And I’m not alone! In the meantime, multiple people have explored this space and I felt it was…

Over the years, acronyms have come and gone to describe America’s tech darlings — the companies college grads dream of joining and Wall Street investors love to watch. First, it was FAANG: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google.Then came the Magnificent Seven.Now, in the age of generative AI, a…

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works Home / Latest / Opinion / Here’s why I prefer to shoot with older Canon EF lenses Dan Mold 19 October 2025 / 10:30 BST17 October 2025 / 11:11 BST Canon EF 50mm f1.2 L USM As a photographer shooting…

by Gary Borjesson To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing red-hot iron: it burns into you and that is very painful. Therefore, to love somebody else in the first place is always an escape which we all hope for,…

This is a story you know, right? It’s early in the war and western Europe has fallen. Only the Channel stands between Britain and the fascist yoke; only Atlantic shipping lanes offer hope of the population continuing to be fed, clothed and armed. But hunting “wolf packs” of Nazi U-boats pick off…

In a world with over five million podcasts, Dwarkesh Patel stands out as an unexpected trailblazer. At just 23 years old, he has caught the attention of influential figures such as Jeff Bezos, Noah Smith, Nat Friedman, and Tyler Cowen, who have all praised his interviews — the latter describing…

Werner Herzog on Psychotherapy: A Review of Into the Abyss by Werner Herzog by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Oct 19, 2025 | A Review of Into the Abyss by Werner Herzog Trigger Warning: This essay discusses capital punishment, murder, violence, death, and contains descriptions of…

Edward Hopper, Ground Swell, 1939, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. Historical Context Edward Hopper (1882-1967) was an American painter known for his images reflecting isolation and loneliness like his most famous painting, Nighthawks. He was born in Nyack, New York, a port on the…

Since it was made free to download, install and use for whatever you want, VMware Workstation Pro (and macOS counterpart Fusion Pro) has continued to receive frequent updates — the latest of which landed this week. Now sporting a new date-based versioning scheme, VMware Workstation Pro 25H2 is a…

I have a friend named Gerry. I didn’t have much choice about being Gerry’s friend. If Gerry decides you’re going to be his friend, you don’t have much choice about it. He calls. He invites. He emails. If you don’t answer, if you can’t make it, if you make plans and then cancel, he doesn’t care. He…

See all topics Email Link Copied! Over the next five years, New York City will welcome two new momentous spaces for the arts, both along Manhattan’s iconic Fifth Avenue, some 40 blocks apart. The first is an airy new $550-million wing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s modern and contemporary…

Let’s start with sharks were many of us started: with the film that made millions of people afraid to go in the water. In 1975 the shark had long been a mythic figure, the ultimate terror of the deep, but Stephen Spielberg’s adaptation of Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel captured the popular imagination.…

Ever since DeepSeek burst onto the scene in January, momentum has grown around open source Chinese artificial intelligence models. Some researchers are pushing for an even more open approach to building AI that allows model-making to be distributed across the globe. Prime Intellect, a startup…

Taylor Eastman bringing the youth and athleticism to the USSCA Women’s North American Championship, hiking to an overall win. William Crawford / Harbor Pictures Company Lake Wawasee, Indiana, is no stranger to Sunfish history. The Wawasee Yacht Club has been hosting sailors for decades, and when the…

Natural Sciences October 8, 2025 A built-in ‘off switch’ to stop persistent pain J. Nicholas Betley has led collaborative research seeking the neural basis of long-term sustained pain and finds that a critical hub in the brainstem holds a mechanism for stopping pain signals from reaching the rest of…

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works Home / Latest / Opinion / Are DSLRs really still better than mirrorless cameras? 5 reasons why DSLRs are still better than mirrorless Joshua Waller 1 October 2025 / 10:55 BST2 October 2025 / 09:50…

The “I drink your milkshake” is one of the most unbreakable scenes—finales. When some people hear Daniel Day-Lewis’ name, it’s the first thing that comes to mind. Others experience a fever dream that lingers long after they have left the theater. This is one of those cinematic moments that will…

What happens when you say “Hello” to ChatGPT? Such a simple query might seem trivial, but making it possible across billions of sessions requires immense scale. While OpenAI reveals little information about its operations, we’ve used the scraps we do have to estimate the impact of ChatGPT—and of the…

Table of Contents Remove ads Python 3.14 nears release with new features in sight, and Django 6.0 alpha hints at what’s next for the web framework. Several PEPs have landed, including improvements to type annotations and support for the free-threaded Python effort. Plus, the Python Software…

Everyone is worried that AI will replace programmers. They’re missing the real revolution: AI is turning everyone into one. I’ve been noticing a new pattern: people with deep domain knowledge but no coding experience are now building their own tools. Armed with AI assistants, they can create custom…

Python has long relied on pip as its standard package manager, but a blazing-fast alternative is now changing the landscape. uv is a Rust-based package manager that aims to transform Python dependency management with unmatched performance and simplicity. In this guide, you will learn everything you…

Django: Introducing django-watchfiles, for more efficient runserver autoreloading 2025-09-22Django’s runserver automatically reloads when you change Python files. Without this autoreloading feature, you’d need to manually restart the server every time you made a code change. However, the default…

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Posted by gooseva on March 17, 2011 · 1 Comment Congee Village Cuisine: Cantonese Neighborhood: East Village Price: $30-40 per person including drinks Phone: (212) 941-1818 Address: 100 Allen Street, NY, NY 10002 Congee Village has been on Jen’s wish list for a while, so when a friend from Ohio was…

Posted on September 09, 2024 proctrace is a profiler that runs on top of bpftrace (for now) and traces the execution of a process tree rooted at a user-provided command. Right now it records the following events and the time between them: fork exec exit setsid setpgid In the future I'd like to…

Maeve Was a Language Model: The Scene in Westworld That Predicted GPT Daniel Manu 5 min read· Jun 19, 2025 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size “Pair what with me?” — the moment Maeve uttered those words in Westworld (Season 1, Episode 6: “The Adversary”), something clicked. Not for…

I was 34 years old when I first had the idea for the world wide web. I took every opportunity to talk about it: pitching it in meetings, sketching it out on a whiteboard for anyone who was interested, even drawing the web in the snow with a ski pole for my friend on what was meant to be a peaceful…