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For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the first part of a two-episode look at the song “Dazed and Confused” by Led Zeppelin, although this episode doesn’t get as far as Led Zeppelin’s formation, and is mostly about the intertwining session careers of John Paul Jones and (especially) Jimmy Page. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

Patreon backers also have a thirty-five minute bonus episode available, on “Boom-Bang-a-Bang” by Lulu.

Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by editing, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/

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This is an information war.

Only one side was fighting. Now Gavin Newsom has gone full meme warfare—but is that enough to save American democracy?

https://www.theframelab.org/from-maga-lapdog-to-trumps-worst-enemy/

I dug into a little bit of pulse oximeter history. That to me was the major breakthrough, decades ago, so I’m still skeptical there’s enough innovation in Masimo’s new patent. Maybe all the legal fallout is karma for Steve Jobs’s “and boy have we patented it” bragging during the iPhone introduction.

New version of FeedLand coming. It has features to support an Edit This Page function in WordLand and possibly elsewhere.

Jerry Jones has not yet brought to a conclusion the latest in his annual series of contract stalemates with high-profile Cowboys players. Micah Parsons remains inactive, a quiet-quitting sort of hold-out, technically due to a back injury but the sort of back injury that will...

It’s a small world after all, and these cameras can capture all of it at once, giving you a 360-degree view.

Save cash without sacrificing quality with one of these excellent budget TVs.

On the 4th of July, Nathan Lambert launched “The American DeepSeek Project,” a plan to counter the open-weight AI large

The post Nathan Lambert’s ATOM Project Seeks American Open Source AI Models appeared first on The New Stack.

These chest straps and watches will help you keep your finger on your pulse—and many other heart-related metrics.

At last, a Nintendo N64 controller designed for two-handed humans.

Help the whole family catch more z’s with soothing background noise from our favorite sound machines.

Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture.

This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to audio speakers. Oh, and without it we’d live in eternal darkness.

Digital Rights Management software makes it difficult to copy movies, music, ebooks, and games that you already own. There are ways around it, but breaking DRM opens up legal and ethical concerns.

Stories of romantic love are everywhere, but the actor, singer and comedian Bridget Everett says that friendships deserve our attention, too. Onscreen and in everyday life. Last Fall, Everett appeared on Modern Love to talk about her HBO Original series “Somebody Somewhere,”...

Great profile of R. F. Kuang in The New Yorker:

I actually am afraid of being totally happy with my work, because, if you are perfectly satisfied with your abilities, there’s nowhere else to go.

Finished reading: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz. Cozy sci-fi! Several robots (and a human) open a noodle restaurant. 📚

BER has these new scanners where they don't ask you to take anything out of the bags anymore, but more importantly, they have explicit instructions to ask for a handcheck for photographic film, and the security has a special tray for it, which I really appreciate.

My thanks to Fly.io for sponsoring last week at DF to promote Phoenix.new, their new AI app-builder. Just describe your idea, and Phoenix.new quickly generates a working real-time Phoenix app: clustering, pubsub, and presence included. Ideal for multiplayer games, collaborative tools, or quick weekend experiments. Built by Fly.io, deploy wherever you want. Just try it, and see how far you can go.

In March 2025 the Earth was hit by a fast radio burst as energetic as the sun, but lasting only milliseconds.