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Trump’s Fear Of Looking Like A Loser Becomes DOJ’s Embarrassing Legal Headache

A frantic 24-hour pivot in the Biglaw cases suggests optics may matter more than outcomes. The post Trump’s Fear Of Looking Like A Loser Becomes DOJ’s Embarrassing Legal Headache appeared first on ...

A Grape Injustice

Read A Grape Injustice Part of my job is to call customers who have left our bank a one-star review. Customer: "Your vending machine gave me Skittles that were almost all purple!" Read A Grape Inju...

Daily News Stuff 4 March 2026

Tiger Stripe Edition Top Story Apple has announced its new MacBook Pro range with update M5 Pro and M5 Max CPUs and faster SSD speeds. (Tom's Hardware) The SSD speeds are simple: They're still Appl...

Another New Lick of Paint

Around a month ago I switched this blog to Pure Blog, at the same time, I decided to simplify the design and give it a new lick of paint. Here's what it looked like: It was okay. But I've done the ...

Court Dismisses Discrimination Claims Against Northwestern Over Alleged Post-Oct. 7 Anti-Semitism

[1.] From Judge John Robert Blakey's decision yesterday in Doe v. Northwestern Univ., the allegations in the Complaint (note that… The post Court Dismisses Discrimination Claims Against Northwester...

A Field Guide to Your Internal True North (An AI Experiment)

A note before you read—this is an experiment. I've spent years accumulating ideas, learning, and ways of thinking about risk, ego, the body, the noise in your own head, the difference between a lif...

Taste-testing Japan’s real-world Dragon Balls and Senzu Beans at Marugame Seimen

The treasures of Dragon Ball come to one of Japan’s favorite noodle restaurant chains. Marugame Seimen is a chain of udon noodle restaurants, and the “Marugame” part of their name translates litera...

ಅನ್ಯಮತೀಯ

ನಿತ್ಯಾನಂದ ಬಿ ಶೆಟ್ಟಿಯವರ ‘ಅಳವು ಅರಿಯದ ಭಾಷೆ’ ಪುಸ್ತಕಕ್ಕೆ ಇಸ್ಮಾಯಿಲ್ ಅವರು “ಕೇಡಿನ ಭಾಷೆಯೇ ಆಡುಭಾಷೆಯಾದಾಗ…” ಲೇಖನದ ಮೂಲಕ ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯಿಸಿದ್ಡಾರೆ. ಸಮಯ ಸಿಕ್ಕಾಗ ಓದಿ. ಆ ಲೇಖನದ ಈ ಎರಡು ಪ್ಯಾರಾಗಳು ನನ್ನ ಮನದಲ್ಲಿ ಉಳಿದಿವೆ. ಆ ದಿನ...

Why Does Passing NSManagedObjectContext Across Isolation Domains No Longer Error in Swift 6.2? The Real Change Isn't in the Compiler

This post documents a recent debugging journey: starting from a test failure, tracing all the way down to the Core Data SDK interface, and ultimately discovering that the key change had nothing to ...

5 Logical fallacies in the era of RFK Jr.

Common rhetorical tricks that are trending right now

HTTP/2 From Scratch: Part 3

Decoding HPACK and the evolution of the HTTP header

Paypal can charge you a 'Dispute Fee' even if you did nothing in a transaction

On the 15th of January I got the following email from a stranger: Good day Roy, I just sent money on your PayPal by mistake. Accidently I typed the wrong email and sent you money that was supposed ...

Solar Warning

Autonomous AI In Law Firms: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

This is not an argument against the use of AI agents. It is an argument for discipline. The post Autonomous AI In Law Firms: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? appeared first on Above the Law.

Save A Penny, Lose A Person

Read Save A Penny, Lose A Person While I was working for this company, we sometimes had to file papers in person at municipalities. If they were close enough to our office, someone from the office ...

Equal Protection Clause Challenge to Single-Sex Public School Classes Can Go Forward

Plus, some allegations of some unusual teacher behavior in the boys' class.

Another Tomato

I’m still enjoying programming in OCaml, but because most of the code I have written to date is a toy compiler that may not go anywhere at the end, I realised I didn’t have anything to show my prog...

Geese in the Snow in Brooklyn Bridge Park

Sharing photos of geese on a snow-covered lawn in Brooklyn Bridge Park, all captured on February 13, 2026.

Sabbatical #05: Rotorua Lakes

A travel journal from my visit to Rotorua Lakes, New Zealand.

My 'Oh My Opencode' Setup

I’ve been bouncing between AI tooling lately: editor copilots, chat UIs, CLIs, agents, you name it. The thing I kept wanting was a repeatable setup that lives in a repo-friendly config file, works ...