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A long post with notes and reflections and photos from my recent trip to Toronto and Halifax.

,When I think about that little newborn baby—the first one I birthed, the first true obsession of my life—I recall the haze of sleepless nights and the excitement of new…

I recently read that using artificial intelligence creates fewer carbon emissions than human labour. Really? The human brain doesn't have much going for it, but we know that it is…

AppleInsider: –”EU’s antitrust head is ignoring Spotify’s dominance and wants to punish Apple instead“: Speaking to CNBC the EU’s Margrethe Vestager said her office was continuing to investigate Spotify’s complaint…

Building a Pi Frigate NVR with Axzez's Interceptor 1U Case In today's video, I walked through setting up Axzez's Interceptor 1U case with a Raspberry Pi as a Frigate NVR,…

Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography... Click to continue reading Early photography: Canada Geese – H. T. Bohlman and William Finley.

If anybody ever tells you to go fuck yourself. You tell them you have. A psychiatrist (Heather Graham) starts an affair with a young patient (Judah Lewis) but it soon…

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Most of us want to raise children who are ethical and caring. Indeed, when surveyed 96 percent of us say that this is a "very important, if…

This is exactly what I'd hope to see from a standards organization like the W3C: "W3C leads the community in defining a World Wide Web that puts users first, by…

James Heathers reports on the article, “Contagion or restitution? When bad apples can motivate ethical behavior,” by Gino, Gu, and Zhong (2009): There is some sentiment data reported in Experiment…

The wooded area near the volleyball field in my neighbourhood is a great location for bird photography.

“Hearing the rising tide,” Rachel Carson wrote in her poetic meditation on the ocean and the meaning of life, “there are echoes of past and future: of the flow of…

I think there’s a strong causal relationship between (a) the overly structured lives of children today and (b) the silly political stunts of protestors and “activists.” As has often been…

Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the…

I painted this dead van in Greenport, Long Island using watercolor and gouache. You can watch the YouTube premiere today at noon NY time.Stage 1. MeasuringI establish a unit of length. The…

It’s a blustery Friday morning. Like the few small flurries yesterday, mornings like this are a good reminded us that in North Dakotaland, winter is over when winter is over,…

Are you ready for a little bit of honesty . . .I am as imperfect as anyone else in this world.I’m crazy too,or mad as any madman. Or worse,I am…

We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for? What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful for everyone, right now? Do Large Language Models become universal tools that…

Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance, has has to pay multiple fines. Western Union was famously busted in 2017. Meanwhile, Cash App is…

How news organizations filled with smart, dedicated, ridiculously overqualified people can be manipulated into making serious and seemingly stupid mistakes.Uri Berliner's controversial article about his now former employer, NPR, didn't…