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"New rule for trail running: if you set out to climb a mountain within six hours of sunset, bring your damn headlamp”

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This is of course Julianne Moore in the 2006 dystopian thriller Children of Men, directed by Alfonso Cuarón.

Another Christmas movie!
This still features the actor Julianne Moore in the 2006 dystopian thriller Children of Men, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. She plays the character Julian Taylor, the leader of the militant immigrant rights group known as the Fishes. The background, filled with chaotic newspaper clippings and headlines about infertility and global collapse, is a signature visual element of the film's "near-future" world-building. A medium shot of actor Julianne Moore from the film ‘Children of Men.’ She has long reddish-brown hair and is wearing a dark blue button-down shirt under a brown coat. She stands in front of a wall densely plastered with old, yellowing newspaper clippings and overlapping headlines like “PLASTIC SURGERY,” “SCANDAL,” and “FERTILITY DRUG.” The lighting is moody and gritty. Overlaid on the image in clean, white sans-serif text are the words “POPULAR NOW ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL.”
December 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Most of my desktop images are calm and soothing Cape Cod landscapes from my runs. And then there’s this one from SHOP THERAPY in Provincetown.
> Please describe this photo, which is a storefront in Provincetown, Cape Cod, as "alt text" for an unsighted person. There's a lot going on. Try to capture the vibe, the chaos, the vibrancy of a very noisy painted image. This storefront for ‘Shop Therapy’ in Provincetown, Cape Cod features a two-story maximalist mural characterized by clashing neon colors, surrealist imagery, and a street-art aesthetic. Upper Level: A row of primitive, black-and-white sketched heads sits on a bright yellow background. They are labeled with words like ‘mushroom,’ ‘pi,’ ‘orange,’ ‘cat,’ and ‘sky,’ alongside strings of binary code (10100010). The Dragon: A long, green-scaled dragon with a jagged red spine and multiple glowing eyes stretches horizontally across the second-story windows. Directly beneath it, a black sign reads “SHOP THERAPY” in white block letters. The Main Mural: A dense lineup of oversized, psychedelic portraits dominates the mid-section: A lime-green woman with intense eyes and blue lips. A wide-grinned, multi-eyed character. A hollow-eyed skull with long, dark hair. A three-eyed figure wearing a fedora. A white robotic head labeled ‘ENS’ with mechanical parts for a body. Ground Level: The storefront is framed in vibrant cyan. Racks of tie-dye clothing are visible inside the dark entryway. The overall effect is one of intentional visual "noise," using high-contrast patterns like polka dots and abstract splotches to fill every available inch of the facade.
December 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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…so I added them to my calendar
Screenshot of a calendar for December 2025 showing the sunrise and sunsets as events. The “Earliest Sunset”, “Winter Solstice (shortest day)” and “Latest Sunrise” are three different days, weeks apart. Screenshot of a calendar for June 2026 showing the sunrise and sunsets as events. The “Earliest Sunrise”, “Summer Solstice (longest day)” and “Latest Sunset” are three different days, weeks apart.
December 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Let’s turn out backs on Solar. That newfangled stuff is not for us! We’ll burn good old oil, just as we always have *cough*
The graph displays time on the x-axis and global capacity in gigawatts (GW) on the y-axis, ranging from 0 to 2,500 GW. Solar: Starting at near zero in 2000, the red solar line remains flat until roughly 2010. It then begins an exponential ascent, crossing Wind in 2021, Hydropower in 2022, and Natural Gas and Coal in 2024. By 2025, it is the highest-capacity source shown, reaching approximately 2,800 GW. Coal and Natural Gas: Both show steady, linear growth. Coal reaches about 2,300 GW and Natural Gas reaches about 2,000 GW by 2025. Wind and Hydropower: Wind shows a consistent upward curve, reaching roughly 1,300 GW. Hydropower remains relatively stable with a slight upward tilt, also around 1,300 GW. Other Sources: Nuclear, Oil, and Bioenergy remain largely flat and grouped at the bottom of the chart, all below 500 GW.
December 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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But also
uBlock Origin Lite blocked 277 elements from Gemini. Google’s gonna Google.
December 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Google Gemini has a “watch this YouTube video for me,” which works… really well?

(Of course Claude is blocked from accessing YouTube content. That’s not a problem for anyone, I’m sure.)
Screenshot of Google Gemini, a large language model. It says: I've watched the video "Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10" featuring Scott Jenson. In this talk, Jenson argues that desktop user experience (UX) has stagnated for roughly 20 years, largely because open-source projects have "drafted" behind Apple and Microsoft, who are no longer providing meaningful leadership [03:041. Key Themes: • The Problem of Stagnation: Modern desktops are essentially refined copies of 1980s and 90s concepts. Jenson notes that while hardware power has increased exponentially, the fundamental way we interact with windows and files hasn't changed [36:321. • "UX vs. Ul" Confusion: He critially analyzes the term "UX/Ul," stating it has "fucked everything up" by reducing the complex discipline of user experience to just "making things pretty" or designing icons [15:34]. • Learning Loops: He introduces the concept of "learning loops" from game design —where one simple action (like a click) can be layered into more powerful gestures (like a drag or force-press) to enable deeper productivity without increasing complexity [22:54]. • Al Critique: Jenson expresses skepticism toward large-scale Al integrations, predicting a "crash." He suggests that "boring" but ethical, locally-run Small Language Models (SLMs) are a…
December 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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A typo squatter has been spotted in the wild! It is somewhat effective!
Screenshot of a “typo squatter” who registered the mis-tipped backbalze (“back balls”) to catch people searching for back blaze. Can you imagine uploading your whole computer to the wrong company?
December 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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I hope Maisy doesn’t mind my taste in music.
December 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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@bryan “Website Settings” is your friend. Adblock Pro works for me. The ad blocker is probably too heavy handed.
December 17, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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This is rough! The font is wrong, the animation is janky, it sounds like he’s phoning it in, but this is a start
December 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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I’ve been using Google Gemini through their web page and it’s constantly arguing and correcting my implicit assumptions and I love it 😆 it has Big Nerd vibes. “Well, actually…”
Circling back, is Triangle Building sitting empty awaiting re-development, or can we tell if it is occupied? Apple Maps implies it’s still an Apple Building, "Stevens Creek 9” The Triangle Building at 5300 Stevens Creek Blvd is currently occupied and actively used as office space by Apple Inc.. It is not sitting empty awaiting re-development. Occupied by Apple: Apple is the primary, if not sole, tenant, having leased all six floors (85,600 square feet) of the building since early 2020. Active Use: The building is part of Apple's cluster of offices in the area (including nearby buildings on 5400 Stevens Creek Blvd) and is listed in internal directories as "Apple Stevens Creek 9". There are reports of Apple logos being visible inside and active use of amenities like an on-site gym and cafe for employees. No Redevelopment Plans: The building was sold to LBA Realty in 2021 with Apple as a secure, long-term tenant, indicating stability rather than impending demolition or redevelopment. The large-scale "The Boulevard" urban village project you were thinking of is located further west at the intersection of Stevens Creek Boulevard and Saratoga Avenue, an entirely different parcel of land.
December 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Progress?
No Take, Only Throw refers to a webcomic strip in which a dog wants to play fetch with its owner by asking "please throw?" in reference to the toy in its mouth. However when the owner reaches for the toy, the dog says "No take. Only throw." The comic became an exploitable in which the dog is depicted as various characters making contradictory demands. Here the dog is asked, “Progress?” and responds, “No progress! Only work!”
December 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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🙈
"9652 posts | 1588 boosts | Archive generated December 08, 2025"
December 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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It took 30 minutes with Claude to generate a 24KB standalone Python script that converts my Mastodon archive into a single HTML page. Very simple!
Screenshot of a webpage showing Stephen’s posts from December 2025, extracted from a Mastodon archive. It has the post, and embedded media downloaded from the server and served locally. Just one static HTML page so far.
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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He has an Instagram but I’m re-sharing here. I was there when this video was recorded 😆
December 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Donatas Jonikaitis showed up at run club one evening and shared his project for the summer: Yosemite Extravaganza, a kind of CityStrides for Yosemite National Park covering all 1,800 miles of trails he could find over 49 days. So we joined him for his final […]

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December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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It has come to my attention that QNTM’s There Is No Antimemetics Division is now available as an audiobook.
December 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Oh here’s Reader Mode by the way. Boring. Readable.
Bad Dye Job Wednesday, 3 December 2025 In my post earlier today on the then-breaking news that Alan Dye has left Apple to join Meta as chief design officer (a new title at the company1), I wrote: It sounds like Dye chose to jump ship, and wasn’t squeezed out (as it seems with former AI chief John Giannandrea earlier this week). Gurman/Bloomberg are spinning this like a coup for Meta (headline: “Apple Design Executive Alan Dye Poached by Meta in Major Coup”), but I think this is the best personnel news at Apple in decades. Dye’s decade-long stint running Apple’s software design team has been, on the whole, terrible — and rather than getting better, the problems have been getting worse.
December 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Here’s an average website. It’s not like I’ve enabled tiny font mode or anything. Mister Design Critic can’t be bothered to fix his website.
Screenshot of the CNBC website, which is where I learned Alan Dye is leaving Apple for Meta. It’s not stylish but it renders correctly on an iPhone.
December 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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The amateurs pack up and leave when the sun drops below the horizon but the pros stick around
Deep purple blue sky with golden horizon reflected in rippling waters. The sun has set not long ago, and still the sky is all aglow.
December 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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“Owing to its distinctive quality, primarily the absence of shadows and the appearance of objects silhouetted against the lit sky, twilight has long been popular with photographers and painters, who often refer to it as the blue hour, after the French expression l'heure bleue.”
Twilight is defined by the Sun’s position below the horizon, measured as a negative altitude angle. There are three standard categories: Civil twilight occurs when the Sun is between 0° and 6° below the horizon. This is when there’s enough natural light for most outdoor activities without artificial lighting. The horizon is clearly visible, and only the brightest stars and planets appear. It ends (in the evening) or begins (in the morning) at the moment the Sun reaches exactly 6° below the horizon. Nautical twilight spans from 6° to 12° below the horizon. The term comes from its traditional use at sea—during this period, the horizon is still sufficiently visible for celestial navigation (you can see both the horizon line and navigational stars simultaneously to take sextant readings). General outlines of objects are visible but detailed outdoor work becomes difficult. Astronomical twilight covers 12° to 18° below the horizon. For most practical purposes, the sky appears dark to casual observers, but scattered sunlight still interferes with observation of faint celestial objects. Once the Sun drops below 18°, full night begins and the sky is as dark as it will get (absent light pollution, moonlight, etc.). The 6° increments aren’t arbitrary—they correspond roughly to thresholds where atmospheric scattering produces meaningfully different illumination conditions.
December 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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As someone who has lived in the shadow of a mountain, I've looked into calculating local twilight which is very much A Thing.

Twilight in my old neighborhood started about half an hour early which was eerie.
The sky was bright, but everything was in shadow. Because, mountain.
Photo of Apple Park, indicated by a drawn red arrow, at the edge of the shadow cast across the Bay Area from a mountain. Twilight arrives early and lasts longer for people in a valley.
December 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Enjoying Joost Swarte’s work is left as an exercise for the reader
Joost Swarte illustration on the cover of The New Yorker magazine. Very similar to Tintin with simple, crisp lines and clear colors. His illustrations are often humorous or show ridiculous/impossible situations, like a man sitting on a desk suspected from roof beams. Very distinctive!
December 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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When looking for non-Disney “Snow White” illustrations, I found this very modern-looking Franz Jüttner piece from 1905. Look at that anime face! This is over a hundred and ten years old now!
Snow White wanders in the woods, watched by birds and animals including a pari of wolves and a squirrel. She’s drawn in a very Ligne Claire style that would not be out of place in a Japanese manga drawn today. Franz Jüttner (1865-1926) was a German illustrator, draftsman, and cartoonist. The son of a cooper, Franz Albert Jüttner was essentially self-taught as a draftsman and cartoonist. After school, he worked as a draftsman before becoming a decorative painter and reproducing artist in a lithographic institute in 1880, after moving to where his older brother lived in Berlin. He developed into an illustrator under Ludwig Burger, and although his hoped-for success as a painter was denied him, he became one of the star artists of the satirical journal, Lustigen Blätter. In addition to his thousands of cartoons, he left behind other artistic works—oil paintings and drawings, for example for children’s books. On medical advice, he moved in 1918 to Wolfenbüttel, where he was a respected member of society. He died unexpectedly on 1 May 1926.
December 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Stephen returns from Thanksgiving Break to find seven little projects that need his attention
"Snow White", illustration from "Deutsche Märchen" (text Paul Alverdes, with 100 illustrations by Paul Hey) from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Illustrations_of_the_fairy_tale_Snow_White
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM