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Daily News Stuff 9 March 2026

Petabyte Pie Edition Top Story Two court cases have ruled that AIs aren't people. (Yahoo) And they're not lawyers either, though lawyers also aren't people. Mostly. Will the Anthropic's Pentagon co...

MacBook Neo: The Starting Point of Apple's Return to Campus - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #126

Last week, Apple launched several new hardware products. Unlike previous launch events, this release was unusually low-key. Initially, I was only interested in the newly announced monitor, but afte...

Disabling Some Truly Bad Parenting

Read Disabling Some Truly Bad Parenting Kid #1: "Mom, why does that man only have one foot?" Mom #1: "I don't know. We can ask him if you want." Mom #2: "No, don't do that. I know why he's without ...

Morning Docket: 03.09.26

* After about-face on withdrawing lawsuits against law firms, Justice Department uncorks almost 100 pages of vitriol against federal judges for ruling against the administration generally. [NY Time...

Lawsuit Over Cancellation of April 2024 Pro-Palestine Protest at U Texas Can Go Forward

From Heilrayne v. Univ. of Texas at Austin, decided Jan. 27 by Judge David Ezra (W.D. Tex.) but just recently… The post Lawsuit Over Cancellation of April 2024 Pro-Palestine Protest at U Texas Can ...

IRC Log: rm -rf /var/opt/gitlab/postgresql/data

2026W10

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity — The Engineer A vs Engineer B comparison is painfully recognizable. A ships a 50-line solution in days, B builds an event-driven architecture over three weeks, ...

Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other

A couple of days ago I recounted a common complaint: I keep seeing programmers say how angry it makes them that people are willing to write detailed CLAUDE.md and PROJECT.md files for Claude to use...

Running Bash programs on Moodle CodeRunner

I have been teaching a course at APU that includes Bash scripting. I have a love-hate relationship with Bash. It’s a weird combination of a programming language and an iterative CLI. It’s confusing...

Is this Tokyo government office still one of the best places in the city for a curry rice lunch?

Shinjuku Ward Office has a restaurant that’s open to anyone, but have they kept up their quality and value since our last visit? With Tokyo being as big as it is, it isn’t really practical to have ...

🌰 it’s not that machines can do everything– it’s that we left behind anything they can’t do

I think we forget sometimes that it’s not that machines can do everything– it’s that we left behind anything they couldn’t do.

Weekly Robotics #351

It is my pleasure to welcome Anyscale as a new partner of Weekly Robotics! Please give them a round of applause. This means that, under our partnership structure, we only have one sponsor seat avai...

No Fortitude For Longitude, Part 31

Read No Fortitude For Longitude, Part 31 Customer: "My order isn’t shipping! It says, 'processing Monday AM'!" Me: "Right, ma'am. The warehouse reopens tomorrow morning. Today is Sunday." Customer:...

Dancing on the Head of a Needle

For roughly seven hundred years, the big theological brains of Western Christendom bent themselves into magnificent logical pretzels over whether beings of pure incorporeal intelligence, massless a...

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the gauntlet i set before myself

Court Upholds New York's Limits on Unauthorized Practice of Law

From Upsolve, Inc. v. James, decided Friday by Judge Lewis Kaplan (S.D.N.Y.) (for the earlier decision reaching the opposite result,… The post Court Upholds New York's Limits on Unauthorized Practi...

Daily News Stuff 8 March 2026

Space Shark Edition Top Story Look to the skies: For the first time a spacecraft has diverted the orbit of an asteroid. (Science News) Two asteroids, in fact, the pair Dimorphos, which was the dire...

Iran's BGP Behavior under Fire

Iran’s HTTP requests from February 24 to March 8, 2026 from the perspective of Cloudflare. Courtesy of Cloudflare Radar. At approximately 06:15 UTC on February 28, 2026, the United States and Israe...

Is Japan’s Crab-shaped Cup Ramen Timer worth the hype?

This crustacean does more than just keep time on your three-minute instant noodles. Back in October, ramen lovers in Japan began scrambling for a hot new noodle accessory called the Crab-shaped Cup...

Do AI coding agents improve velocity and quality?

I know you have Betteridge’s law of headlines in mind, but the answer to this question isn’t as simple as “yes” or “no”.