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Things Must Be Busy At Milbank — See Also

Milbank Offers An Early Start, And Actually Means 'Optional': The firm is offering its incoming class a start date three weeks early, and citing 'exceptionally strong client demand' to explain why....

Full Teardown of a 2026 Amazon Fire Stick HD

After the release of Google’s Chromecast so-called ‘streaming sticks’ have remained a popular form factor, even though such technology is these days part of ‘smart’ TVs. Being curious as to …read more

Sugar Rush To Judgment

Read Sugar Rush To Judgment Mother: "My son can’t have white chocolate. They're fine with milk chocolate." Me: "Can I confirm what ingredient specifically they have an issue with?" Mother: "Just wh...

📝 2026-08-05 22:52: I have a habit of giving all our pets nicknames, there's many of them for...

I have a habit of giving all our pets nicknames, there's many of them for each of our dogs. We've Nelly for 4 days and already I have: Nells Bells Nelly Bean Nelly Furtado Man Eater (after the song...

Court Upholds African People's Socialist Party Convictions for Being Unregistered Russian Foreign Agents

From today's decision in U.S. v. Romain by Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge William Pryor, joined by Judges Jill Pryor and Andrew… The post Court Upholds African People's Socialist Party Convictions fo...

Don't be negligent

Cory Doctorow beschreibt, wie die Google-Suchergebnisse ein Paradies für Betrüger geworden sind und das Google etwas dagegen tun könnte, aber es nicht macht.

Recent reports reveal Apple’s iCloud Private Relay is leaking users’ real IP addresses

Researchers have discovered that Apple’s iCloud Private Relay, an iCloud+ feature designed to hide users’ IP addresses while browsing in Safari, can be bypassed through a Passkey WebAuthn request, ...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-05-26

Two Pook-Emu Bee daily links in a row? What in the world is going on here? 1. Mega Drive, Saturn And Dreamcast Watches Are Coming To Japan (Damien McFerran for Time Extension. July 5, 2026.) The Dr...

Daily News Stuff 5 August 2026

Spain And Suffering Edition Top Story On the fifth of August of this year, SpaceX will blow up the Moon. (Yahoo) Wait, that was... Two hours ago. Well, can't see the Moon right now. Guess it worked...

Starbucks Japan to open Shinkansen platform stores at Kyoto and Nagoya stations

New stores add a fresh taste and aroma to high-speed travel on Japan’s busiest bullet train route. One of the joys of Shinkansen travel is being able to bring your own food and drinks on board. How...

One of the 7 Stations of the Vigiles, the Firefighters of Ancient Rome, Discovered on the Caelian Hill

Excavations carried out as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) have brought to light an architectural complex of incalculable value in the heart of Villa Celimontana. Under the...

The road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coins

Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game In the previous article we saw how to interpre...

Thomas of Woodstock

I mentioned yesterday that Henry Bolingbroke, son of John of Gaunt, married Mary de Bohun, through whom he inherited the title Earl of Hereford, but that it almost didn't happen. That uncertainty w...

This New Open Source Project Wants to Be the AI-First Alternative to Microsoft Office

Built by a single engineer using open source components, GenOffice bundles editors like Docs, Sheets, Slides, and PDF.

Metro Chronicles V

The system should be on trial too.

Lindsay Clancy and the larger narrative that's needed

I Totally Misunderstood ATProto

I thought I knew what AT Protocol was about. It was for Bluesky and Bluesky-like sites and maybe auth. I wasn't entirely wrong but I was also way off the mark.

What Minneapolis Can Teach Jacksonville About the Power of Clustering

For years, The Jaxson has championed a simple but powerful urban redevelopment principle we call Clustering, Complementing Uses within a Compact (CCC) setting. While the concept may sound technical...

Antiques Roadshow

User Experience of Nomenclature

work-in-progress