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Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIb: The Opposite of Love

This is the second half of the third part (I, II IIIa) of our long-delayed series looking at the theory of history advanced by Paradox Interactive’s Hearts of Iron IV, one of the most popular strat...

Weekly Notes 42/2026

It was my birthday week. I took the day off and didn’t do much. Anju took me to Mai Mai on MG Road. I loved the food. I also liked that we could sit outside. It’s rarely possible in Bangalore these...

Ubuntu 26.10 is here with Linux 7.3 kernel, GNOME 51, Rust coreutils & Myna speech-to-text

Canonical has announced that Ubuntu 26.10, code-named “Stonking Stingray”, is now available for download and installation. The company framed the release as one that both consolidates earlier groun...

This Japanese sandwich mascot is filled with fiery rage, and he’s got a point [Video]

Pocket sandwich innovator is sick and tired of being called an imitation, and furious too. Npa might not be Japan’s most famous mascot character, perhaps because of his difficult-to-pronounce name,...

Iran to Deepen PRC Ties Despite Lack of Military Support

Javad Heiran-Nia

Daily News Stuff 16 October 2026

Prewhining Edition Top Story Tesla announced its new model Roadster - yes, the one The Verge was whining about. Taking reservations now for delivery in 2028. Or later. It flies. (Business Insider) ...

2026-10-16 13:51: The amount of AI generated sales emails I get these days is astonishing. If you...

The amount of AI generated sales emails I get these days is astonishing. If you can't be arsed to write your own sales pitch, why the fuck should I be arsed about your product? Thanks for reading t...

Emperor Heraclius

Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (reigned 610 - 641) was mentioned here when he tried to make the whole empire follow Monothelitism. The idea that Jesus had only a single "energy" and not two (the human...

Feeling Lonely After Socializing? Name the Connection You Miss

You enjoyed seeing people, yet came home lonely. Separate contact from the connection you wanted, choose one useful request, and leave room for rest.

UF Jacksonville Campus LaVilla Neighborhood Workshop planned for Tuesday

Be part of the conversation about honoring LaVilla's past while helping shape its future. -

Valve’s Steam Client for Linux Goes 64-bit in Beta and Moves Into a Container

They say running Steam in the same kind of container its games use should make the client behave more consistently.

New Structures Have Been Discovered in Ancient Arsinoe, the Greek City that the Egyptian “Philadelphus” Queen Named after Herself in Aetolia

Ancient geographers listed many cities called Arsinoe, from Cyprus to Cilicia (in what is now southern Turkey), from Ephesus to the Gulf of Suez. Most of them were linked to the Ptolemies, the dyna...

🌰 focus in an agentic age

As a software engineer, LLM-use is non-negotiable at work. When I wrote 🌰 loot boxes, casinos, and work chat, Slack was the “Instagram for work”: the loot box of notifications winning against the T...

A thank-you for your hospital catering team / ward host: a photo as a jigsaw, with your note at the end

Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We've tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We're not affiliated with any hospit...

Debloat My Mail

I finally started that email client/RSS reader project here. As you can probably infer from the docs folder, this is so ever-lovingly-vibe-coded-to-shit because I am a writer and not a programmer. ...

Momentum Demonstration

You Apparently Don’t Have To Pass The Bar Exam To Declare Yourself A Lawyer — See Also

You Sure About That? Katie Zacharia failed the bar exam, but still insists on referring to herself as a lawyer. Judge’s Lorax-Laced Benchslap Asks Why Trump’s Tree Massacre Was So Urgent: Spoiler, ...

45 Years Later, The Sinclair ULA Design Documents Surface

In the 8-bit home computer boom of the early 1980s, Sir Clive Sinclair’s machines were always among the cheapest on the market, often packing a surprising level of sophistication in …read more

Lost In Orbit

Read Lost In Orbit Customer: "I want some 'Around the Sun' dog food." Me: "I haven't heard of that brand." Customer: "What?! I get it here all the time! Get someone for me who knows what they're ta...

Russia Deepens Role in Brazil’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Sergey Sukhankin