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Latest — 19 Aug 2026

Circuses

The number that was supposed to make you feel bad about each AI query is falling toward zero — while the total climbs, the grid strains, and the bill arrives at a house that never submitted a prompt Third in a series on how debates about scarce resources get told as

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Casual Encounter: Margaret "May" Lumarrinu

A non-player character for the Classic Traveller RPG in the tradition of the Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society. Merchant Captain Margaret "May" Lumarrinu — 89999A — Age 54 — 9 terms — Cr60,000 Mechanical-3, Electronics-2, Jack-o-T-2, Gun Cbt-1 (Revolver), Gunnery-1, Navigation-

Mojave 3: Ask Me Tomorrow

I used to think that Mojave 3 was Neil Halstead's post-Slowdive break-up document. Turns out it was and it wasn't. I was listening to Ask Me Tomorrow yesterday and was struck by how much the songs themselves reminded me of Slowdive's first

Corpse Run

Getting Started Touchstone The party cleared the Ashen Spire, banked the loot, and logged out for the night — and woke up here. Clocked in, badged, mortal, and scheduled for Sunday inventory. Nobody knows how. The portal in Receiving flickers sometimes, like a monitor that won’t quite sleep. Scene Cassiday’

A Working Doctrine: Stochastic Tools in DevOps/SRE Practice

An engineering-use doctrine — not a substitute for enterprise security, privacy, legal, procurement, or regulated-use controls. Premise. Generative and agentic tools produce outputs whose correctness cannot be assumed from fluency, confidence, or repeatability — and they operate on whatever they are shown. Two consequences drive everything below: reliability must be

Return to Target: An Afterword

I spent a few hours the previous Saturday helping with the PST 103 class, primarily keeping an eye on students for basic safety, changing targets, and driving the brass Zamboni between drills and during breaks. Or was that the other way around? By this point, the students are in the

Runner-class Data Courier

Classic Traveller Book 5 High Guard (1980, second edition), rules as printed. TL15, 400 tons. Description The Runner-class data courier is a dedicated jump-6 express vessel built to shuttle high-volume data payloads across a single six-parsec link between two prosperous tech level 15 worlds. Governing tech

Nyet, Bass Is Fine

I've been playing electric bass since college. I do not call myself a bassist. I've never taken lessons, never watched a YouTube video on technique. I've lost myself in my favorite albums, fumbling along, listening and deciphering, often rounding down fractions and sometimes learning

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Sevren

How trying to port an old space adventure into a tiny game accidentally produced a reusable mechanic — and what it taught us about clocks that have opinions. We did not set out to invent anything. We set out to deliver a dozen gray boxes. The mechanic was just what we

Nuts

How the almond took the blame for California's water — while a thirstier crop drank in peace, a bigger one escaped notice entirely, and in the end it wasn't guilt that moved the water at all Second in a series on how debates about scarce resources get