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Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Mere Christianity. He gave the talks on BBC radio during the war. Lewis puts aside church rules that divide people. He focuses on the core of the faith. The book...

Phishing For Attention

Read Phishing For Attention Colleague: "[Store] has this thing I want that I saw on their Facebook. I went there to buy it on my lunch break, but they told me that it was an online-only item!" Me: ...

Daily News Stuff 5 April 2026

Bug Buggy Bugger Edition Top Story North Korea used a supply-chain attack to gain access to widely-used open-source web client package Axios. (Axios) And here's a version you can actually read. (CN...

Despite Penalties, Lawyers Can’t Stop Using AI

Despite a few high-profile cases in recent years with lawyers getting caught using LLM-generated documents and facing disciplinary action due to this, it would seem that this is not deterring …read...

Starbucks Japan closing only Shinkansen platform branch for popularity-triggered renovations

Even the massively popular coffee chain itself wasn’t expecting such a positive response, prompting temporary closure less than half a year after opening. It was with great fanfare that, in Novembe...

NaPoWriMo 2026 [5th April] - What I Learned to Hate; What I Learned to Hear

NaPoWriMo 2026 [5th April] Day Five Happy first Sunday of Na/GloPoWriMo, all! Our featured participant today is Kim M. Russell, who brings us a stormy response to Day Four’s weather/season prompt. ...

2026W13

The Singularity Will Not Be Streamed — What makes this story land is the contrast. The Singularity doesn’t get stopped by a hero or a kill switch — it gets killed by a toothpick, a neighborhood mee...

The Next King of Jerusalem

With the unexpected death of Henry II of Champagne by falling out a window, Jerusalem's Queen Isabella (the real ruler) needed a new husband to help lead the kingdom. The Prince of Galilee and Tibe...

Sydney City Walk

We did a leisurely walk through Sydney’s city center. We will probably do one more walk. But this one was mostly around Uma’s need to walk in the park and see water, and that’s what we mostly did. ...

The attack that changed the history of the Vascones: evidence of a Roman Republic battle found at the oppidum of Irulegi

A study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology has just revealed the secrets of a war episode that remained hidden for more than two millennia. Researchers from the University of the Basque...

Today in Supreme Court History: April 5, 1982

4/5/1982: Justice Abe Fortas dies. The post Today in Supreme Court History: April 5, 1982 appeared first on Reason.com.

Cursor 3 launches unified multi-repo workspace for building software with AI agents

Cursor 3, the latest release of the AI-native development environment, delivers a unified workspace designed for building software with AI agents. The new multi-repo interface enables humans and ag...

05 April, 2026

It really is the stupid phone ruining everything isn’t it? The stupid screens of doom and the stupidity of the world isn’t it? Yes. However, it's not the device itself, and not the base functionali...

Making sense of Codebase

Can Free VPN and AI Save Firefox From Decline?

Mozilla is betting on free VPN and AI to revive Firefox browser. Can this bold strategy bring users back or is it too late already?

U.S. Special Operations Forces Rescue Air Force Officer

We welcome Easter with the remarkable news that U.S. Special Operations forces successfully extracted the second airman (a Colonel, according to President Trump) who had been shot down over Iran on...

Research should be allowed to kill the post

Research is not there to justify a topic that once sounded promising. It is there to clarify whether there is a real post here at all, and sometimes the honest result is to split, demote, or kill t...

Can a downtown Tokyo super sento bathhouse beat a hotel for a one-night stay?

Does the morning sauna make up for a night of communal snoring? With Tokyo hotel prices increasing due to the tourism boom, both domestic and international travelers are often left on the hunt for ...

A Pretty Gourd Deal, But For Who?

Read A Pretty Gourd Deal, But For Who? Customer: "If I buy a pumpkin, can you give me change for a hundred?" Me: "I don't even make that much in a day." Read A Pretty Gourd Deal, But For Who?

Exposing a Radiation-Hardened 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi Receiver to 500 Kilograys

From outer space to down here on Earth, there are many places where ionizing radiation levels are high enough that they effectively bar access for humans, but also make life …read more