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The rise and fall of Talleyrand's C.I. Capps Foundry

Long before advanced manufacturing defined Jacksonville’s economy, one company helped lay its foundation, one casting at a time. The C.I. Capps Company grew from a small foundry into a cornerstone ...

Training a Transformer with 1970s-era Technology

Although generative language models have found little widespread, profitable adoption outside of putting artists out of work and giving tech companies an easy scapegoat for cutting staff, their the...

What's new around R74n? ProtoCog, Census, and More!

Train your own pseudo-baby to speak; Make your voice heard; Try our minigames.

🌰 what is your unicorn hair

But if Mandy was a fairy, why was Mother dead? “You’re not a fairy.” “Why not?” “If you were, you would have saved her.” “Oh, sweetie, I would have if I could. If she’d left the [unicorn] hair in m...

Jazz School No-No

Divine Liturgy was pretty good yesterday, thanks for asking. Even though it's only been about 48 hours since my last entry, it feels like it's been much longer. It really has gotten to a point wher...

How to keep a draft alive between writing sessions

A draft survives time away when it preserves enough orientation for the next session to resume the work instead of reconstructing it from scratch.

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A Poké Ball for My Son's Birthday

This was the easiest cake request so far. So much easier than a Mario cake, a Rapunzel cake, an Ariel cake, a penguin cake, or an elephant.

Birthdays Come And Go, But Billable Hours Are Forever — See Generally

Biglaw Partner Drops Future Therapy Fodder: Asked how she juggles being a working mom, a newly minted partner offered a refreshingly horrifying answer: sometimes you miss your own kid's birthday pa...

Will Not Read The Menu Or The Room

Read Will Not Read The Menu Or The Room Customer: "What's on the menu?!" Me: *Pointing to the menu in front of him.* "It's all there." Customer: "I shouldn't have to read the menu!" Read Will Not R...

Hackaday Links: March 29, 2026

Whether it’s a new couch or a rare piece of hardware picked up on eBay, we all know what it feels like to eagerly await a delivery truck. But the …read more

Weekly Robotics #354

As you will see in the sponsored feature, at Foxglove, we are organizing another Actuate conference in SF this year. I'm really looking forward to attending it. The lineup is already very good. If ...

“What if the [AI] bubble bursts?”

I had wondered before what would happen if the AI bubble bursts, or if the current AI-obsessive moment passes. In my mind, I assumed that companies like OpenAI and Anthropic would be in particular ...

Daily News Stuff 29 March 2026

Spin Gauge Edition Top Story DDR5 RAM prices have dipped slightly following Google's TurboQuant announcement that allows AI models to run in a fraction of the amount of memory. (Notebook Check) Whi...

Japan now sells…sake made with moth poop?!?

Moth poo and cherry blossom leaves are the secret ingredients in Secret Spring.  We’ve seen a lot of weird tipples in our time, but a new release from Haccoba Craft Sake Brewery in Fukushima Prefec...

Plinko

Download PDF There is a man named Plinko who used to work as a clown on kids' night at a Ground Round restaurant in Jackson, Michigan. He was in his late forties or early fifties. His mother died o...

Easy way South Africans can find fuel stations with the cheapest diesel

“Unlike petrol prices, retail diesel prices are unregulated in South Africa. Only the wholesale price at which suppliers may sell to stations is fixed by the government.” I thought both diesel and ...

Former Fox Anchor Andrea Tantaros's Court Filings Contained Inaccurate Citations; Court Suspects AI Hallucinations

Tantaros is representing herself in a lawsuit against Fox and, among others, ex-Senator Scott Brown, alleging sexual harassment and other claims.

Lichtschachtbäume

In Witten wachsen in einem Kellerfensterlichtschacht zwei kleine Bäume.

Weeknotes 2026-03-29 Palm Sunday

Today is Palm Sunday. The month is ending! The World Iran conflict is still ongoing. Trump claims they offered to make him Supreme Leader WTH. The world still has no idea where this is all going, a...