@avalon@jazztodon.com2026-09-23 15:44:19
Jazz Commentary: John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" Turns 61 - A Homage - The Arts Fuse
https://artsfuse.org/313056/jazz-commentary-john-coltranes-a-love-supreme-turns-60-a-homage/
@laimis@mstdn.social2026-09-23 18:34:24
Man did I pick up a good book right now: The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria's Romance Scammers
A journalist from Spain went to Nigeria and located a few Nigerian scammers that run all of these romance/gift card scams and wrote about who they are, how they get into it, how they live etc. It's a bit unreal how it's almost like a sport to these guys. Very fascinating.
It's says unreleased but somehow my library had this /shrug
@comex@mas.to2026-09-24 19:15:34
It's kind of crazy that both GPT and Claude really love to manipulate files by writing Python scripts that do text search-and-replace. First of all, why isn't this a dedicated tool? Second, the generated scripts usually don't check that the search-and-replace was successful. Are they just good enough at regurgitating text that they never make mistakes? What if the file was modified in the mean time?
@mia@hcommons.social2026-10-23 11:21:47
RE: https://hcommons.social/@mia/117484083817496185
That was fun! I love the idea of combining library / uni AI reading groups, inspired by examples mentioned. And asking university and school students what they want their library and academic staff to know ab…
@david@boles.xyz2026-09-22 13:20:58
Love’s Best Habit: On Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138
Ask a room of readers which of Shakespeare's sonnets is the greatest and the same three answers come back every time: Sonnet 18, the summer's day; Sonnet 116, the marriage of true minds; Sonnet 73, the yellow leaves....
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-10-22 14:42:41
RE: #israel
@laf0rge@chaos.social2026-08-12 09:53:10
James Randall "I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed" on software complexity, abstractions, AI and older vs younger developers: https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_thing_i_loved_has_changed/
@Xexyz@mastodon.me.uk2026-07-24 23:19:10
Forza Horizon 6: tell me what to do
Having loved and completed Forza Horizon 1, 2, and the strange Fast & Furious offshoot to 2 - completed, at least, to the point where I had unlocked and won the final showdown type events, and raced on every track (I'm not going back to complete 156 multi-race championships in 2) - it took me many years to start and then play through 3, hampered by the confusing mess of storyline, non-linear unlocks for races, over-abundance of cars,…
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@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-10-23 12:03:36
How Michael Mayer went from a forgotten man to Raiders breakout star https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7716073/2026/10/23/michael-mayer-raiders-breakout-brock-bowers/
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-10-22 13:24:57
Totally agree with this. Giving blood is a pretty straightforward process and makes a huge difference, especially if you are a rarer and quite awesome blood type such as O-, the universal donor. #GiveBlood
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