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Passing The Time
The Last Sunset of 2025 The Earth spins slowly around the Sun, whilst spinning around itself. The last sunset of the old year passes, here in England. We move in universal measured time, across unknown space to an…
By toomuchrose
Setting up a Clojure development environment
I finally found some time to play with Lisp again. I always wanted to try Clojure, but I don't like the available online editors very much. While their functionality has increased dramatically over the recent years, you…
By M. H. Neifer
Not just read
Read to understand, not to finish - because content is unlimited, and you can't finish all even if you want to. Understand because brain remembers meaning.…
AIs: No Skynet, No Terminators
Toward the Emergence of “Correspondence Space” and the Law of Conservation of Responsibility in AI In December 2025 I released a short paper on…
New Moon in Sagittarius
Finishing the solar year with a fresh beginning feels like the right time to start a blog. As a Sagittarius rising, this puts the new moon - a new beginning - in my first house, which represents self. I have thought…
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m far from satisfied with the direction certain features are taking in the world’s most widely used operating system. In response, I recently purchased a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad—one of…
By Ozzie
December and I
November quivers each time it is destined to leave my threshold. Decembers enters my doorway, dark, deep and somber. It has been such for the last 14 years. I do not wish to reveal the details of the somberness of…
Addressing AI Slop: What It Is and When It Is Not
Note: This article is originally published at: https://www.richardorilla.website/ai_slop.html Introduction…
Embracing Limitations: A Year of Lessons
For some reason, even though I know I am making progress, I feel opposed; I feel like I’m receding in some way, and I don’t know why. That’s why I stopped everything and tried to understand what’s wrong. A few days ago,…
By boma6528
You don't have to have an opinion
Opinions as the source of most misery. “We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind—for things have no natural power to shape our judgments.” —MARCUS AURELIUS,…
By melyanna
Thinking About Spelling
I recently read the book "The Adventure of English" by Melvyn Bragg.It contains insights into all the different ways English has spread across the world and usurped, been attacked by, merged with, other languages.While…
By lonm