… is the best kind of synth-rock.

Emblogginated "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage" --> blog.fogus.me/llm/born-aga...

Raise your hand if you're going to Clojure/conj this year? ✋

From about 7th grade to the time that I graduated college was peak TV to me. In that span I found the three big shows of my life: STNG -> Twin Peaks -> X-Files. I will still stop whatever I'm doing if I happen upon an episode from one of these shows.

I want to read the rest of Edwin Drood.

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What's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story

We revisit one of the new horror classics of the 2010s, David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows. Tangents include (but are not limited to): good cinematography, twisted coming-of-age stories, suburban horror, and. of course, where is our damn clamshell e-reader already?

Episode S07E13: It Follows

We revisit one of the new horror classics of the 2010s, David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows. Tangents include (but are not limited to): good cinematography, twisted coming-of-age stories, suburban horror, and. of course, where is our damn clamshell e-reader already?

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Saw the Doomsday trailer... yawn... still no Alpha Flight.

I wrote a post “The Centenary of 'Flower Phantoms' by Ronald Fraser” celebrating a beautiful whimsical fantasy. —> wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

Hey what better way to celebrate not being able to breathe air because of wildfire smoke than to go to a movie about animals finally getting sick of our shit and attacking us. Tomorrow is DAY OF THE ANIMALS at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social! I will be there as part of a panel discussion! Go animals!

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What do horror movies have to do with climate change? More than you might think. 🌎 🎬 As part Chicago Climate Week (ChiCW), Chicago Climate Connect is excited to partner with the historic Music Box T...

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RIP

What a gift it was to have Sam Neill. Beyond all his other work, fearless performances in two of my top tier horror films. I will miss his Instagram dispatches from the Aotearoa countryside and his herd of animals named after other actors.

Does anyone else find it particularly insidious that a bulk of LLM tokens in the workplace are burned to help make tools that make LLMs more useable in the workplace?

William Byrd on "The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written" [PWL NYC] (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyfBQmvr2Hc #programminglanguages #metacircularinterpreter #lisp

Libraries of dead literary figures has always been a topic of study and interest. Sadly, no one gives a hoot about the libraries of computerists. "Dijkstra's library" is the first attempt to even inventory such a thing since Erik Naggum's books were listed years ago. www.dijkstrascry.com/inventory

Has anyone found out if 1-trillion dollars is enough to buy happiness?

Ha! My Lithp project from 2008 made a brief blip on the HN front page earlier today. fogus.me/fun/lithp/

Saw "Backrooms" and really liked it. It fits nicely into exactly the kinds of films that I love; those that show how the mundane world is punctured by something weird and eerie.

The weirdest experiences in my life have involved light switches.

Received my copy of Arthur Machen’s book of essays The Guide, published by Darkly Bright Press in the mailbox today. This little lovely contains a humble appendix by yours truly!

The problem with listening to music with bleeps and bloops in it is that I constantly think that I'm getting Discord notifications.

I'm going to save my company some money today by using my human brain!

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 thank you @batsov.net

Was there anything more beautiful than a 1980s video-store horror section?

See you there DC!

AI must be IA, or not at all.

Emblogginated about LLMs -- "Mind the van Emden Gap" --> blog.fogus.me/llm/van-emde...

The legendary game designer, distributor, and publisher Louis Zocchi has left us at the age of 91. He founded Zocchi Distribution (the first distributor dedicated exclusively to hobby games) and Gamescience (which made games and polyhedral dice).

An ocean of mouthwash can’t wash the bad taste in my mouth brought on by learning what shadow pages are. 🤢

The phrase "Icelandic doom metal" popped into my head this morning and now my day has been made so much better.

We need a cutesy name for the dialect LLMglish used in the States. Something like “gherkin” maybe…