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I've been having a few different threads of thought over the last 24 hours or so; lots of theses swirling around in my head. I want to try and combine all of them into a single cohesive piece, as i...

Real Journalism Is Back! — See Also

Judge Strikes Down Pentagon's Free Press Squashing Policy: The American public will be better off for it! AI Is Being Trained On Law: But who is training the lawyers? Lateraling good talent can onl...

Justice Gorsuch's Recusal in Glynn Environmental Coalition v. Sea Island Acquisition

One of my favorite hobbies is scanning the Supreme Court's orders list and trying to figure out why a Justice… The post Justice Gorsuch's Recusal in Glynn Environmental Coalition v. Sea Island Acqu...

Send Them South For Winter!

Read Send Them South For Winter! Customer: "Can I keep these indoor plants outside?" Me: "Well, they are tropical plants and we live in Canada, so they would be fine for the summer, but you would n...

OSCE Report Highlights Georgia’s Violence and Political Repression

Beka Chedia

Adding Victor V. Gurbo’s YouTube Channel to NLJ Blogroll

Victor V. Gurbo is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter (see his official website). I have known him for just about 20 years now (we both agree that has been way too long but it is too late now to do...

Daily News Stuff 23 March 2026

Lemon Presbyterian Edition Top Story Elon Musk has announced TeraFab, a Tesla-SpaceX joint venture to bring the various companies' (including xAI and I guess Twitter) chip manufacturing together un...

The Redesign

I talk about rewriting Notex and integrating it more deeply into my website pipeline.

Japan now has a “for foreign tourists only” Mt. Fuji sightseeing train[Video]

Hokusai Special Train made its first run this month. As one of the closest stops to Mt. Fuji, every day trains arrive at Fujinomiya Station in Shizuoka Prefecture carrying not only local residents,...

LibreOffice is Adding a Donation Banner That Might Annoy Some Users

The feature has already been merged into LibreOffice 26.8's development builds.

Crest and sunglasses: this is Mopsus mormon, the spider that doesn’t hunt with webs and practices platonic love

In the tropical rainforests of northern Australia and the islands of New Guinea lives an eight-legged hunter that could pass for a character taken from Greek mythology or, according to some interpr...

Is My App Stuck in Review? - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #128

Last Thursday, a user in my Discord community complained that their app had been submitted to App Store Connect for four or five days but still hadn't entered the review process. While I was enthus...

The Siege of Acre, Part 2

A couple weeks ago I mentioned the events that led to Saladin coming to power in Egypt. From there he had two choices: stay in Egypt and try to bring the entire country under his control, or try to...

Scène de salle d’attente

Scène de salle d’attente Extrait de mon journal du 6 mars, dans la salle d’attente du docteur X. Le couple entre, asphyxiant l’air de l’étroite salle d’attente avec leurs remugles de fumée de cigar...

The Pursuit

Last night, I was reminded of this clip from Slavoj Žižek where he discusses the futility of happiness. To summarize, he says that happiness is an "unethical category" because people think they wan...

Weekly Robotics #353

I'm super overextended the last couple of days, so no proper intro today, let's look into some cool robotics news and projects! This issue is brought to you by our sponsors: Designing the human sid...

# is not always a comment symbol in Bash

`#` starts a comment in Bash, but not always. A small quirk with a clear rule.

Inflation Timeline

What If We’re Just Mad This March? — See Generally

ATL Bracket: Which Of These Ghouls Should Get Disbarred First? There are still a few hours left to vote in our annual March anger bracket. Which Trump lawyer's ethically fraught work most warrants ...

The Bank With Fringe Benefits

Read The Bank With Fringe Benefits Caller: "Yeah, so I got a haircut today, and I don't like it." Me: "I'm sorry, ma'am, but you're calling [Bank]." Caller: "Yeah, I know. I paid for the haircut us...