mr. TIM (@timkellogg.me) — another researcher accuses OpenAI of training on conversations and then claiming a breakthrough
ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life — ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game
Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE — Two days after Alex Pretti was murdered by federal ICE agents in Minneapolis, on January 24, 2026, we published a “Letter From Minnesota” from the poet Dobby Gibson. As I wrote at…
Is There a God? Stephen Hawking Gives the Definitive Answer to the Eternal Question — “The universe is the ultimate free lunch.”
Dave Eggers on Writing a Sprawling Novel of Art and Artists — Dave Eggers’s new novel, Contrapposto, transmits a deep understanding of the impulse to make art—to study, practice, commit to making art on a regular basis, to exhibit and sell your work (or your …
Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren’s Shakespeare — The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Mike ta…
Rose In The Glass Dome | Songtip Sermsawatsri | TEDxThammasatU — “พิพิธภัณฑ์จะไม่ตาย ถ้ามันยังหายใจไปพร้อมกับผู้คนในวันนี้” — Museums will not die if they continue to breathe with the people of today. พิพิธภัณฑ์ไม่ใช่เพียงที่เก็บรักษาอดีต แต่คือพื้นที่ที่ถ่ายทอดเรื่องเล่า…
Canada’s Plans for Donald Trump — Canadians think America “is toxic and broken and can never be trusted again,” Chrystia Freeland, the former Deputy Prime Minister, tells David Remnick, and they’re seeking allies abroad.
What to read next based on your favorite A24 movie. — Have you heard? A24 is taking over Hollywood. Possibly the world. The indie company that initially marketed itself as the edgy underdog has become a pillar/last bastion of extra-Marvel movies. No l…
How Romance Novels Filled in the Gaps Left by Sex Ed — Chewed up gum, unraveled yarn, a flower stripped of its petals. Like so many in my generation, my introduction to sex was in pro-abstinence talks with my church youth group and in my sterile health…
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On the Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins’s No Name — Wilkie Collins’s No Name (1862) is, to use its narrator’s own words, a “a narrative of dramatic disasters,” an exercise in building a “dramatic world out of a domestic chaos.” It is the story…
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates, extending to "the fundamental cosmological makeup of the universe" — Infamously simulation-heavy colony builder Dwarf Fortress is getting a Myth and Magic update later in 2026 that generates a sorcery system to fit your…
How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change — The most assuring thing about life is that we can change, that things can change, that they are always changing. The most maddening is that despite living in a universe that is one constant transmu…
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The Business of Watches Podcast: Q & A Episode - Your Business Questions Answered By The Hodinkee Team — How will 3D printing tech change watch movement manufacturing? Do watch brands consider enthusiasts when designing and setting release schedules? All this and more as your…
Grand MS-DOS gaming General MIDI showdown | John Novak — Personal blog of John Novak
South Sudan calls for sanctions to be lifted at UNGA — Speaking at the UN General Assembly, South Sudan’s UN envoy Cecilia Adeng called for sanctions to be lifted
Interactive Warhammer 40,000 Galaxy Map — Explore 52 worlds, switch between M41 and M42, and watch the Great Rift divide the Imperium.
The Art of the Sacred Pause and Despair as a Catalyst of Regeneration — Just as there are transitional times in the life of the world — dark periods of disorientation between two world systems, periods in which humanity loses the ability to comprehend itself and …
The Curious Power of Punctuation — Commas, dashes, semicolons, and spaces have shaped how we read for centuries. What happens when machines start crafting the sentences?
Tinywind — Pixel Pirate Sailing Game — Outsail the Royal Navy in your browser. Real sailing physics, 5-minute voyages, 30 historical treasures to recover. Free to play.
Thank You, Everything: An Illustrated Love Letter to the World — We forget that none of this had to exist — that we weren’t owed mountains and music by the universe. And maybe we have to forget — or we would be too stupefied with gratitude for …
How JD Salinger’s Experience of WWII Suffused All of His Writing, Even Catcher in the Rye — Among the things troops carried with them on the battlefields of World War II was the “heart shield bible”—a pocket-sized, government-issued book of scripture, sometimes with a metal…
Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler — History of how I made portable my transputer C compiler to work in modern platforms.
Writing is Magic: Why We Should All Follow Our Literary Dreams — I was reading one of Jules Verne’s novels when I first experienced the magic of writing. The heroes had just crashed their balloon in the desert. The heat was relentless. They had run out of food d…
Peter Hessler on the Implications of a Chinese Education — Acclaimed nonfiction writer Peter Hessler joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about his new memoir, Other Rivers: A Chinese Education. Hessler, a New Yorker staff writer …
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Blizzard video game workers ratify union contracts — Nearly 1,900 Blizzard Entertainment video game workers have ratified union contracts covering wage increases, remote work protections and AI workplace rules.
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update — To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Quake, we have collaborated with MachineGames to create a new episode, Dawn of the Machine, now available as a free update to Quake.
Sony says "efficient" AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market — But human artists still "must remain at the center," PlayStation maker says.
Soundboks Rider Party Speaker Review: Loud and Durable — I’m genuinely afraid to go full-volume on the Soundboks Rider, which is built like a party-ready tank.
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Chess engine analysis of every Kasparov loss. You can see exactly where he stopped calculating and started hoping.
Backloggd - A Video Game Collection Tracker — Keep a virtual backlog of your video game collection, then rate and review the ones you've played to share with your friends!
Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles — In response to shifting trends in consumer preference, new games will be released on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only.
Windows GOG DOS Games on M-series Macs • F055 — GOG is great. I bought a few old games from them: SimCity 2000, Theme Hospital, Syndicate Plus. And by old games, I mean games from my childhood that still
Sony PlayStation digital game ownership lawsuit — Four California buyers sued Sony in 2026, alleging the PlayStation Store's "Buy Now" button does not sell digital games, only licenses them.
GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow — GPT-6 Astra autonomously clears World of Warcraft’s Orc starting zone in 40 minutes using agent-wow.
Yen Pares BOJ-Fueled Declines as Nikkei Reports a Rate Check — The yen pared declines seen after the Bank of Japan disappointed traders who wanted clearer guidance on the central bank’s plans to further raise interest rates, with the Nikkei reporting that officials conducted a…
“Authority” — It’s been seven hours and thirty-five days since he took his love away. Josephine knows the world is crowded with people like her, that hers is a fundamentally ordinary predicament, but she feels …
Fisher & Paykel's Steam Assist oven explores precision as "architectural principle" — <p>Promotion: luxury appliance brand Fisher & Paykel has unveiled its 30-inch Steam Assist oven, which uses precision as a design principle to enhance the "architectural clarity"…
Stories From Memory: On Finding Inspiration in My Husband’s Moroccan Family — In my living room a framed photograph hangs on the wall. A man clad in balloon pants and torn white shirt tosses a wooden pitchfork full of straw into the air with athletic grace. He’s thresh…
found a library book with someone's grocery list from 1987 still in it—milk, eggs, divorce lawyer. the divorce lawyer part is circled twice 😭📚
Idol Mahjong Final Romance: A Slideshow Disguised as a Video Game — We’re back into the strip mahjong games today, here going back to 1991. Video System is a company that’s probably best known in retro-gaming circles for Aero...
Trump hosts awards party for tech billionaires, almost as if he doesn’t care about ordinary Americans — Amid a cost-of-living crisis, with US midterms a month away, the president held a ceremony to celebrate our tech overlords – again
Lit Hub Daily: September 11, 2026 — Where does Harlan Coben get ideas? “Sometimes, it’s a simple ‘what-if.’” | Lit Hub Craft Phillip Lopate explores the lore and legacy of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” | Lit Hub Biograph…
This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell” — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On the afternoon of September 6, 1951, in a friend’s Mexico City apartment, a drunk William S.…
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
The World’s Languages Are in the Middle of an Extinction-Level Event — Upstairs, a language is dying. Nonna is in bed—al lett—and we are in the living room, waiting for the swelling in her legs—i gamb’—to go down. Mum and I rushed here from the other side of London wh…
On the Ethical Problems of Clinging to My Sighted Life — The letter that my eye doctor had sent to the state’s agency included diagnosis and prognosis, and it described my functional limitations: some trouble reading print and computer text, more trouble…
NHL Rank: Predictions for the top 100 players for 2026-27 — Connor McDavid remains No. 1, but who lands after him? Here are the players our panel believes are the best this season.
An Arson Investigation Is Underway After a Suspected ‘Senseless Act of Vandalism’ Destroys a Newly Installed Benjamin Harrison Statue — The 3D-printed piece was created by students and faculty at Indiana University Indianapolis and had been installed on September 16
Video Game Reviews, Articles, Trailers and more — Not every critic is the same. Metacritic offers aggregated game reviews from the top critics, and our own METASCORE pinpoints at a glance how each game was reviewed.
When did grey squirrels start posing a threat to reds? — A pair of grey squirrels was reportedly brought to the United Kingdom by a Cheshire banker in 1876.
Emerging Market Investors Shun Riskiest Bonds as US Yields Soar — Emerging-market investors from Aegon USA Investment Management to JPMorgan Asset Management are dialing back their riskiest bond bets as the deepening selloff in global credit markets threatens to derail a…
Why the iPhone Duo could be beneficial for Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 — Apple's iPhone Duo is far from the first foldable phone, but it could upset the foldable market in all-new ways.
Lit Hub Daily: September 28, 2026 — “The spectral are getting louder, more insistent, more prevalent, and our literature, our cinema, reflect this.” Tara Badstubner explores why recent ghosts are (actually) haunting us. |…
TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS | ClassicBits.net
This developer made a fully playable Zelda dungeon in Excel and honestly?? It works so well.