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Paramount’s “Apartment 7A,” a “Rosemary’s Baby” prequel about the woman who died outside the apartment when Rosemary moved in, just had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest.

Newsletter scheduled to send in a few hours from now. This will be issue #213 and its title is The [Inherent] Evil of Techno-Optimism, and just as it says on…

The street scenes of the U.S. in the 1950s evoke a vibrant and transformative era. Picture bustling main streets filled with classic cars—Chevys, Fords, and Cadillacs—shining under the bright sun.…

Suzanne Smalley, the Record: Ford Motor Company is seeking a patent for technology that would allow it to tailor in-car advertising by listening to conversations among vehicle occupants, as well…

Will Stankes and I set out in the morning betimes for Gravely, where to an ale-house and drank, and then, going towards the Court House, met my uncle Thomas and…

Read The Daevabad Trilogy by S. A. Chakraborty within a few weeks, after I started the first book in a NE Seattle Barnes & Noble on a bookstore long stop…

Amelia Watson has announced her soft retirement from Hololive EN Myth: Watson Amelia, a member of the VTuber group hololive English, will conclude all of her channel activities on September…

We report a few hours after we hung the washing out to dry: this is rain, it absolutely is rain. Our expert confidently told us it would not rain this…

The Comp Book, the last-minute lecture ideas. Just stay with me, with this… looking at professors at SSU, […]

QuickTime My first look at QuickTime came before it was publicly released. I was working at Apple in IS&T in 1990, and we had a session one afternoon showing everyone…

“O’Keeffe’s paintings are often seen as displays of flamboyant female sexuality. But a broader reading of her art suggests that it came from the life of a new kind of…

I found this tiny snail sliding across the painted chess board on our dining room table after lunch. She was no doubt on the flowers that I picked for Jon…

It’s so good to be pain free! I’ve had a couple of weeks with pain on my left hip that was impacting my running, my walking, my yoga. I did…

A short list of inspirational links

I’ve been trying to think of a suitable analogy for the rise of Generative AI. Currently, I’m torn between cigarettes, asbestos and neoliberalism. The point is to think of something…

I know it just came out today, but I am already ready to declare that there is no greater device than iPhone 16 Pro. I am flummoxed. Bewildered. DISCOMBOBULATED, even.…

When does science become magic? Or is all magic really just science? Author Lauren C. Teffeau explores this in the Big Idea for her newest novella, A Hunger With No…

What impacted the Earth 66 million years ago at Chicxulub and caused the extinction of 75% of all species of life? A new analysis suggests it was an asteroid from…

However, following the start of PhD studies, the use of psychiatric medication among PhD students increases substantially. This upward trend continues throughout the course of PhD studies, with estimates showing…

[Kyle Orland at ArsTechnica]"Microsoft and Constellation Energy have announced a deal that would re-open Pennsylvania's shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant. The agreement would let Microsoft purchase the entirety of…