Kirk McElhearn
@kirkville.com
Lapsed New Yorker in Shakespeare's home town. I write and podcast about Apple, Scrivener, computer security, music, and photography. kirkville.com
Today’s Loaf: One-Third Wholemeal Flour and Two-Thirds White Flour Instead of my usual 50/50 loaves, I wanted to try a different split.
Today’s Loaf: One-Third Wholemeal Flour and Two-Thirds White Flour
Instead of my usual 50/50 loaves, I wanted to try a different split.
imperfect-loaf.com
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Philip@puggle18.bsky.social · 23h agoNot that I'm now hyperventilating or something. @stevenwilsonhq.bsky.social @burningshed.com
Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised
The Sunday dozen for Monday morning www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...
The Sunday dozen - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: One of the pleasures of the past weeks was a day’s ‘churching’ with friends in Suffolk, during which we visited the tiny thatched church of Thornham Parva. Behind the altar is the a...
illuminationsmedia.co.uk
So not only blatantly racist but also pissing off every living actor, great job, Paul
The Playlist@theplaylist.bsky.social · 24h agoPaul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”
Radars across the eastern half of the U.S. States exploded with reflectivity ~22 hrs ago. Most is the result of birds with current estimates now over half a BILLION actively in flight. This is part of the annual fall migration southward and appears to be the busiest night of the season underway.
This is wild: only *one quarter* of the New Yorkers who live in the city today were there on 9/11. It's basically an entirely new city. Cities are magic: constantly changing, churning engines of human progress. This is why conservatives hate them.
A City Forgets. Maybe It’s Supposed To.
The New York of today is a different city than the New York of 9/11.
vitalcitynyc.org
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Where's JG Ballard when you need him? (If you've ever read New Wave SF from the 70s you'll understand how this image is right out of Michael Moorcock's NEW WORLDS magazine)
"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change." brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...
I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
brettcodes.com
Because until now there's been no way to depict them? Ffs
Deadline@deadline.com · 2d ago"There's about 30 seconds of it in our movie," the Oscar winner said about using AI to bring the Kray twins and Margaret Thatcher to life on screen.
Could you imagine dying in such a way that people get to be like oh shit, he was taken out by small dick syndrome
ᴋɪɴɢᴘɪɴ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴋᴘᴇɴ@killlthehype.blacksky.app · 2d ago
Kevin Rowland and Dexy's Midnight Runners are very unhappy that Nigel Farage used their music at the Reform party conference.
Natalie sent him a note saying she’d love to see him with a nice chestnut/auburn (level 5-6, warm/red base) instead of the old platinum blonde (level 8-9, cool/ash base). “Like that dreamy President Bartlett when I was a little girl.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agowhat is the world is going on with Trump's hair? (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty)
zero excuse for doing this, let alone when you already have so much money your great-grandchildren will be born rich
LeBron James partners with Polymarket as latest athlete to enter prediction market space (Gift Article)
James is joining the likes of Giannis Antetokounmpo, Bryson DeChambeau and Lionel Messi in partnering with a prediction market service.
nytimes.com
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
bbc.co.uk
If you follow me online, you've probably seen my daynotes (since I post them... uh, near daily) and my monthly newsletter. I love writing them. Indeed, it's probably my favourite thing to do aside from writing books. So - I've got a bit of news! www.davidgoodman.net/announcing-m...
Announcing my new membership programme
Yes, we've had first newsletter. But what about second newsletter? (or third?)
davidgoodman.net
just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 2d agoMasked protesters block access at Port of Dover
Today in “rise of the AI overlords”: www.newscientist.com/article/2587...
Fermat's last theorem formalised by AI agents in just 11 days | New Scientist
Converting the proof of Fermat's last theorem into code that computers can check was expected to take years – Anthropic's Claude AI managed it in less than two weeks
newscientist.com
How many times are they going to pull this very obvious trick before Chris Mason wakes up to it?
Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 2d agoReform UK Ltd : "Counter Terror Police won’t let Farage on stage" West Midlands Police : "We can confirm that Counter Terrorism Policing have had no involvement" www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
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The unsettling rise of cat seducers: ‘My little companion was missing – and I was consumed with anger’
Has your cat been gaining weight and staying out at night, only to arrive home reeking of marijuana? These are just some of the signs that a neighbour is trying to entice them away ...
theguardian.com
This is the government of Canada’s scientific finding. It is true. It is also a terrible message. Here’s what’s also true: 🧵 www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...
Changes to Canada's climate now 'irreversible,' federal report says
The impacts of climate change in Canada are now largely irreversible and average temperatures are expected to rise by at least 3.5 C by the end of the century, a new government report warns.
ctvnews.ca
This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
carbonbrief.org
UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... it’s 2026 & for the first time, the UN voted to allow Africa to be accurately scaled.
UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
theguardian.com
“We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries” — Trump’s bonkers view of trade is that you become wealthy by not engaging in commerce
