Killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, an evil wizard convocation, and a garlic festival. All at once. All in all, Dread Lord Gavrax has had better weeks. The post Read an Excerpt From Caitlin Rozakis’s Dreadful appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
The two images illustrate the fundamental split over what players think Dungeons & Dragons is for The post One D&D’s New Covers appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
new GroupRide feature inbound with awards, leaderboards, performance stats and climbs The post new Garmin GroupRide Feature Inbound appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading
Two members of Congress are urging the Justice Department to investigate the fossil fuel industry, We have our own suggestion. The post Democrats Urge Department Of Justice Investigation Of Fossil Fuel Companies appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Corn is a problem. Or rather, America’s growing reliance on government corn subsidies to power our everyday lives. Beef is artificially inexpensive because farmers feed corn to cows, even though their digestive systems aren’t designed to process it. Sweet foods are artificially i … | Continue reading
When is an announcement less an announcement than a confirmation? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 2024 hurricane season outlook, issued Thursday morning, might be one such case. For the past several weeks, hurricane agencies around the country have been warn … | Continue reading
Elon Musk shared his dystopian vision for the future on Thursday while remotely joining the Viva Technology Conference in Paris. An audience member asked whether AI would one day replace Musk, expressing real concerns about automation taking jobs—a situation many are already faci … | Continue reading
Fifteen new faculty members join six of the school’s academic departments. | Continue reading
Reading the words of my younger self and revisiting that guy's process was... educational. Tags: book, writing | Continue reading
It goes without saying that Star Wars fans are extremely excited for The Acolyte, which arrives on Disney+ June 4 to reveal a Jedi-centric crime tale set a century before The Phantom Menace. A new behind the scenes video reveals that The Acolyte’s cast has equal levels of excitem … | Continue reading
Do we live in an unusual star system? Astronomers have been trying to figure out if the Solar System is unique compared to other stars and their orbiting planets, and they just took a major step towards answering the longstanding cosmic mystery. Read more... | Continue reading
Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download the video and watch it with your favourite video player. Yours truly demonstrating the new Interactive Shell (REPL), Multi-page Settings, and backup and restore (data p … | Continue reading
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Somehow, this film lives up to its logline. The post Dennis Quaid Joins Psychosexual Sci-Fi Film This Blue Is Mine appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
I am the first and only person to suggest this bold and innovative new idea. The post Microsoft Should Make A Version Of Windows That Doesn’t Suck And Then Gets Worse appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
Google Workspace released an update today that could make video conferencing in meeting rooms a bit more convenient. With its new ‘adaptive audio’ feature, Google Meet will sync the mics and speakers of all the laptops in a room for an improved overall audio experience. It will o … | Continue reading
The findings also reveal why identifying objects in black-and-white images is more difficult for individuals who were born blind and had their sight restored. | Continue reading
I enjoy making RSS feeds for sites whose content I would like to follow. I have made an RSS feed for Hugging Face Daily Papers, a curated list of research papers in machine learning. This feed is available at: https://jamesg.blog/hf-papers.xml You can also subscribe to the JSON … | Continue reading
Discover the wit and weight of the Ancillary Justice and Raven Tower author’s short fiction. The post Ann Leckie Dredges Up Short Fiction Treasures in Her New Collection Lake of Souls appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Japan is known for its affinity with unique manhole covers, often decorated with local motifs or popular characters, contributing to a boost in tourism. The Pokémon franchise is no exception to this trend, with the “Poké Lids” project launched in 2019. Most of the Poké Lids are f … | Continue reading
The Instagram-worthy alignment of the setting sun and the streets of Manhattan is about to begin again. The annual spectacle is caused by New York City's gridiron layout. | Continue reading
Built when the Clark Freeport Zone was still a U.S. military air base, the K-9 Cemetery is a memorial for military police dogs that served alongside the military officers. 284 headstones bearing the names and identification numbers of each dog are arranged in rows surrounded by a … | Continue reading
“Schlimmer geht immer” the Germans say. “It can always get worse” As regular readers of this blog know, I am not the biggest fan of current European Commissioner for Transport, Adina-Ioana Vălean. But her term is ending later this year, and while she might be re-nominated as a Co … | Continue reading
It’s that time of the year again—but warmer than average. Hurricane season is upon us and the National Weather Service is expecting “above-normal” hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin, which could portend a difficult six months for coastal states, the Caribbean, and eastern C … | Continue reading
X-Men ‘97 just wrapped up its first season on Disney+, and we’re still trying to recover from the thrilling conclusion. To hold us over until season two, here are the best behind-the-scenes tidbits we learned from the new doc Assembled: The Making of X-Men ‘97 to geek out about u … | Continue reading
A silent witness to the evolution of religious life and architectural prowess, Leiston Abbey was a religious house dedicated to St Mary and home to Canons Regular following the Premonstratensian rule. Founded by the Chief Justiciar to King Henry II Ranulf de Glanville, St. Mary d … | Continue reading
It’s a clear sign of the parlous state of the British economy that even the Prime Minister cannot afford an umbrella. Either that, or yesterday’s announcement was somehow intended to communicate that only woke elitists bother with such things, whereas true men of the people will … | Continue reading
I test whether there are rules for breaking the rules of the tutorial of an underrated classic game, Pokémon Trading Card Game for Game Boy Color. | Continue reading
We are thrilled to share the GNOME Foundation’s Draft Five-Year Strategic Plan proposal, a roadmap that sets the stage for our collective journey towards a brighter, more sustainable future. This comprehensive plan encompasses our goals, priorities, and strategies aimed at propel … | Continue reading
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Sometimes design firms are commissioned to do concept work that never sees the light of day. As one example, Berlin-based agency XOIO was asked by Daimler to envision future mobility scenarios. The project yielded few images and is only published on XOIO's site, but I find these … | Continue reading
“Nikki Haley says she’ll vote for Trump, despite previously saying he’s ‘not qualified’ to be president.” – ABC News, 5/22/24 - - - I’m voting for Donald Trump, but that doesn’t mean I’m vouching for him. The difference between a promise to vote for someone and a formal endorseme … | Continue reading
Alaska's melting permafrost is dumping toxic metals into the state's rivers, turning them bright orange and making the water highly acidic. The contaminated rivers are so vibrant they can be seen from space, and the problem is likely to get much worse in the future. | Continue reading
If you want to do multiple HTTP requests in a row using the HTTP client from Laravel and persist cookies between them, you can use a cookie jar. This is a class that stores cookies and sends them back to the server when needed. Here's how you can use it: 1use GuzzleHttp\Cookie\C … | Continue reading
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The crew attempts a classic Star Trek heist in the penultimate episode of Discovery... The post “Warm fuzzy encouragement that I don’t need” — Star Trek: Discovery’s “Lagrange Point” appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
A wearable ultrasound patch could soon be saving lives, by monitoring the blood flow in hospital patients' brains. The device is only about the size of a postage stamp plus it works continuously, unlike traditional methods. Continue Reading Category: Medical, Science Tags: UC San … | Continue reading
Midlife crisis via trickster demon? Okay, cool. The post The Ghost With The Most Gets Up to Some New Tricks in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Since the start, I’ve known this was going to be ‘an aimless, unprincipled blog’, as the tagline says. But maybe that’s just because I know myself too well. Maybe I too am pretty aimless. (Am I also unprincipled? I’d like to think not, but perhaps my views have been nudged along … | Continue reading
Forty years to the day after Steven Spielberg sent Indiana Jones on a mine cart chase, he’s chasing his next movie, and it sounds like a biggie. The legendary director just set May 15, 2026 for the release of his new movie, which is being described as a “new original event film.” … | Continue reading
In Helicopter from Los Angeles to Maskachusetts, Part 3 (They Built the Wall in Texas) we saw that man proposes and God disposes with respect to flying weather. Unable to proceed over the next batch of mountains, we enjoyed El Paso, Texas for about 26 hours. Downtown El Paso seem … | Continue reading
Claims of predatory stock clawback clause and unethical use of an actor’s voice plague leading AI startup. Also: Microsoft’s urgent focus on security. | Continue reading
HIM by Geoff Ryman (Angry Robot, 2023) “Women, of course, can not be sons of God.” In Nazareth, the virgin Maryam gives birth to a baby girl. Named Avigayil, for her grandmother, she is an unusual child: alert, quiet, attentive, her first words a polite rebuke. At five years old, … | Continue reading
Switch Maritime has revealed that the US Coast Guard has given the green light for the first hydrogen passenger ferry in the US to enter commercial service. The Sea Change is expected to start full operations later this year. Continue Reading Category: Marine, Transport Tags: Hyd … | Continue reading
A long time ago, I developed a charted design for the word Wilderness. I was still a new designer, so | Continue reading
Finally. The government of the United States finally passed a law that would allow it to force the sale of, or ban, software and websites from specific countries of concern. The target is obviously TikTok — it says so right in its text — but crafty lawmakers have tried to add eno … | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Quick thankyou to patreon subscriber/friend Dave Luebke for making this joke more legible. Today's News: | Continue reading
Mr. Wizard are known for their exciting rock nostalgia, embracing the punk and grunge integrations of the 90's obscure sound. I | Continue reading