This is the altar of the Church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, a few minutes walk from our apartment in Paris last year. The building was begun as a church; interrupted by the French Revolution; redesignated as a monument to the Grande Armée by Napoleon; and eventually finished as a church. It was designed in the neoclassical style ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"
The Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund has announced the Rock for Ronnie benefit concert in memory of the late Dio frontman. The event will take place…
Here's an odd thing. I asked GPT-4 to write a poem about the Ides of March and it produced one with rhyming couplets. I asked it to try again without rhymes, but it just produced a poem with different rhymes. So I asked it a third time, and then a fourth: I apologize for the ...continue reading "GPT-4 is a little too good at rhyming"
The UK government is entertaining even more plans to undermine (or actually outlaw) end-to-end encryption. And it’s not gaining any support from the multiple services (and multiple people) these efforts would harm. Both Signal and Proton have made it clear they’ll pull their services rather than weaken their encryption to comply with UK government demands. […]
LEAGUE OFFERS VOTE VOTERS GUIDE FOR APRIL 4 ELECTION, Voters can cast Absentee Ballot without Excuse The League of Women Voters of Metro St. Louis has just released an online guide to help voters cast an informed ballot in the April 4 municipal election. “It’s even more important to vote in local elections since […]
Bethany Mandel, a conservative writer, had a bit of brain freeze on live TV yesterday and was unable to define woke for her interviewer. This gave us lefties a chance to laugh at her, and fair enough. That's life in the arena. I really don't understand why movement conservatives haven't yet figured out a simple, ...continue reading "What is woke?"
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and officials in a handful of other Republican-leaning states left a national system designed to improve the accuracy of voting rolls last week, the likely GOP candidate for governor…
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is hoping to return dozens of stolen vehicles, tools and items to rightful owners, all recovered from investigations within the last two years.