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    EVENTS

    .. In The Style Of…

    Over at Pharyngula, [pha] Covert Master Provocateur xohjoh2n mentioned a Midjourney prompt about Robert Smith of The Cure, in the style of Titian.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 16, 2024
    • AI, Things That Delight Me
    • 11 Comments

    Here’s an idea for an app

    Remember screen savers?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 6, 2024
    • AI, Art, Silliness, Things That Delight Me
    • 6 Comments

    Riot comme des Français

    I was a kid sitting on my dad’s big shoulders during the student riots in Paris in the 60s. I don’t remember it, but dad says it was weird that it felt safe to carry a kid right down to the battlefront where carefully aimed cobblestones were flying at cops. I guess there was zero chance of a Bloody Sunday style response at that time.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 5, 2024
    • Nationalism is Bullshit, Things That Delight Me
    • 6 Comments

    A Master’s Masterpiece

    I learned a surprising thing about Japanese swords the other day.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • January 23, 2024
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 5 Comments

    I have Questions

    I’m not afraid to read a book (if I can handle it) but I feel you need to know something of a field, in order to know which books are definitive and represent a consensus.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • January 17, 2024
    • Science, Things That Delight Me
    • 39 Comments

    PSA —

    The talented Mr Fingers is at it again. This time he built a rowboat out of a super realistic sculpture of Jeff Bezos’ head.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 21, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 7 Comments

    A Lesson in Programming

    Over at Bill Seymour’s, I made the mistake of getting into the topic of comparative programming languages. Ow. My bad!

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 1, 2023
    • Things That Delight Me
    • 21 Comments

    I Am Not Sure How I Missed This

    This is exactly how I imagine imperialism and “The Great Game” worked. A bunch of people sitting around with sharpies drawing lines on maps.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • October 30, 2023
    • Things That Delight Me
    • 14 Comments

    Ubu Roy

    I was in high school when my sweetheart, Rachel, discovered Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roy [King Ubu] and started reading big chunks of it out loud to me, as we walked to and from school.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 18, 2023
    • AI, Art, Things That Delight Me
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    Stable Audio

    Right now, the popularity/interest in stable audio is so high that you basically can’t get to it unless you’re a journalist who has a public relations person making calls for you.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 17, 2023
    • AI, Things That Delight Me, We are Fucked
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