so when are the newly found dalek masterplan episodes gonna be up online
Ping! The WhatsApps that should have been an email | Tim Harford: https://stream.jeremycherfas.net/2026/ping-the-whatsapps-that-should-have-been-an-email-tim
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Ping! The WhatsApps that should have been an email | Tim Harford
Did I say that all these instant messages were like asking me to pick up your discarded chocolate wrappers? Let me change the simile. Your instant messages are like you eating the cheeseburger, while I have the heart attack.
12.03.2026
Baking for Friends
Joan Westenberg’s recent article The Noble Path has been getting a lot of interest from people who like and make software. My reaction was different.
“Scale Poisons Everything It Touches” is definitely true of some of the projects I have had to work on, in agricultural devel...
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Yes: Love it when Pacific has sprung forward and we have stayed where we are.
Yes: Love it when Pacific has sprung forward and we have stayed where we are.
i don't want TOS but bad. that's not a pitch I'm interested in [contains quote post or other embedded content]
watched Gaslight (1944) yesterday and I really liked it
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Finished reading: Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the ...
Finished reading: Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes by Anthony Gottlieb, ISBN: 9780300180473
#Non-fiction
11.03.2026
Their name would be the same as mine and that would be the evil thing [contains quote post or other embedded content]
No, Not the Mind Probe! [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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@help I keep getting Bad Request error ...
@help I keep getting Bad Request error trying to post from Sunlit to my Micropub enabled info site. I know the app is authorized. I can’t seem to get any extra info. Nor can I delete the existing external blog to start again. Anything else I can try?
this review of Gaslight (1944) is lowkey cracking me up. You're the one who turned on a movie called "Gaslight", what did you think was gonna be the plot?
10.03.2026
how many times have i told you to play car accident outside! [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Iceland • Joel Dueck
Really great set of photos and words.
My new host, three months on
It’s now been a bit more than three months since I first opened an account on Hetzner and a week since almost everything (not the DNS for this domain) switched over, so I thought it was a good time to recap.
Pros & Cons
The main points in favour are:
Price is favoura...
The unstoppable rise of extra virgin olive oil
The standards for extra virgin olive oil were adopted in 1960, after a decade marred by wholesale adulteration. Today, EVOO is everywhere, transformed from a mark of quality to a mark of little meaning. The terrible frauds have mostly vanished, but all is not rosy.
“I would argue,” says Carl Ipsen, “that a bigger problem today than fraud is transportation and storage.”
Listen at https://eatthispodcast.com/evoo
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2026-03-09
Extra virgin olive oil appeared in 1960, after a decade of scandalous adulteration. Then, it denoted quality. Today, not so much. “I would argue,” says Carl Ipsen, “that a bigger problem today than fraud is transportation and storage.”