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Crypto is, in fact, about sending people money.

My nosiest survey yet! Plus: Weird Trash Photo #32!! Good news for ME!!!

Updates on CLPS, ispace, Artemis, Chandrayaan 4, and more. Read to the end for a fact check on an op-ed.

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W I N T E R I N GOver the years, we have learned how to ‘winter’. Perhaps we are better tuned because we are living on a farm, embedded…

Will they or won't they?

The Contact Sheet / January 19, 2025Lightroom's Most Powerful Tool? Tell me if this sounds familiar: you've just shot some photographs you're excited about and come home and loaded them into Lightroom,…

This edition of The Profile features Susie Wiles, Shujun Wang, On, EQT, and more.

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​ Those who follow the business of book publishing—what’s selling, what’s not—probably know that fiction has been reigning over the bestseller lists for a while now. Last year, of the…

Hello, and welcome to 2025. Is it that time already? The possessive apostrophe (or rather, the abuse of the possessive apostrophe) is a recurrent guest star here at Shady Characters,…

A review of the book The Martian by Andy Weir

What we covered in 2024, what are plans are in 2025, and a solicitation for supporting memberships.

The joy of making something easy

Hey friends, It’s been an intense week for my family, as we evacuated our home due to the Los Angeles fires. We are safe and our home was spared, but…

Here are a number of “cutting floor” comics that I wanted to publish all at once.

UofWinds 403, Week 2 2025: Inoreader, Watch Duty, In C Good morning. I'm sitting in the study's reading chair under the thickest blanket. Beside me, the window and blinds are…

As a music student at Juilliard, composer David Lang was told by a professor to "write some melodies." As Lang later recalled in a conversation with fellow composer Steve Reich:[My…

it's our last hope for humanity

Overdose demographics, opioid settlement spending, AI governance documents, NEA writing fellowships, and ISS telemetry.

A conversation with Tarantula: Authors And Art's Inspiration for January Silvio Vujičić

Featuring hits from David Gray, Nil Lara, Cheap Trick, and more

The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 1

Welcome, shipmates, to December's Scuttlebutt blog post roundup! This feature started as a way to capture everything I'd published to my website and Patreon in a given month, but I…

Moonbound update; media theorizing. Read here.

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Poem I’m in the house. It’s nice out: warm sun on cold snow. First day of spring or last of winter. My legs run down the stairs and out the…

Day 27: Oct 6, 2023 Bishop, CA → San Francisco, CA 
Miles: 250 — As I drift off to sleep, I smell fire. I drowsily brush this off, equating it…

Friends, I love making this newsletter but I can’t manage it right now — I am hitting the pause button, possibly for a long while. However, I still will be…

This newsletter was started ~2 yrs ago for trying out Substack and practicing my vim skill.

There’s been a lot going on around here the last few weeks. The weather has turned, giving us a preview of spring so I’ve been spending the weekends outside prepping…

Reader beware: my first fiction

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Hey y’all! Thirteen years ago today (the 24th), despite all evidence to the contrary, Renee decided it would be a good idea to marry me. I was making virtually no…

Your weekly crème de la crème of the Internet is here! 14.06.2022 (read in browser) IntroWhatever is on my mind this week. Things I enjoyed readingTen-ish articles I found worth…

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