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Ken Paxton Sets His Sights On Suing Netflix: Less to do with consumer protections and more with handling Trump's enemies. Davis Polk Is Committed To California: They're looking to build out a full-...

S. Ct. Denies Stay of Virginia Supreme Court's Redistricting Referendum Decision

Today's order is here; the application that was denied is here. The state's argument for a stay, which the Court… The post S. Ct. Denies Stay of Virginia Supreme Court's Redistricting Referendum De...

No PAL, No NTSC, Just LP

Read No PAL, No NTSC, Just LP A young guy comes over holding a vinyl album: Customer: "Is this region specific?" Me: "Region specific? You mean, like region locked?" Read No PAL, No NTSC, Just LP

Adding Capabilities to Inexpensive Solar Modules

Solar power has gotten cheap enough that putting up panels is among the cheapest ways of providing energy. This isn’t just the case for bulk electricity on a power grid, …read more

Google is shrinking free storage from 15GB to 5GB unless you add a verified phone number

Google has reportedly introduced a new policy for free storage on newly created accounts. Some users have reported that newly created accounts now start with only 5GB, instead of the 15GB that was ...

Replacing my ISP router with a UniFi Cloud Gateway Max

So I recently upgraded my home internet to full fibre, after which I also decided to upgrade my router as there were some things I wanted to do with my network that my ISP-provided router wasn't ca...

Daily News Stuff 15 May 2026

Octopole Edition Top Story AMD has announced FSR 4 upscaling support for Radeon RX 6000 and 7000 cards. (Tom's Hardware) A year after it was released for the 9000 series, and eight months after the...

Rubycon

A trip to the Rubycon conference and the east coast of Italy.

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-15-26

After two missed days due to having many work assignments, I return with a new edition of my Pook-Emu Bee links. Of course, there are no Pook-Emu Bee links tomorrow because of the newsletter and Su...

The Transformation of Documents: Repositories Are the New Unit of Knowledge Work

How will documents evolve when AI agents become ubiquitous? In a world of AI agents, does the repository become the source of truth—where humans declare intent, agents turn it into executable artif...

Studio Ghibli’s president is leaving the company. Will it change how they make anime?

Three years after being acquired by Nippon TV, there’s a shakeup at the top levels of Ghibli’s leadership. Between its unparalleled commitment to anime artistry and larger-than-life creative keymen...

Edmund's Second Wife

After returning to England from failed Crusade attempts, Edmund had to deal with some unrest. His father, Henry III, died on 16 November 1271. The succession passed to Edward, who was still returni...

A Physician’s Case Found in Pompeii Among the Remains of a Victim of the A.D. 79 Eruption

More than six decades after the excavation work carried out in the so-called Orto dei Fuggiaschi (Garden of the Fugitives), a new analysis of the materials recovered at the time has succeeded in as...

Weekly Notes 20/2026

We are in Thrissur. We left at around 2 AM and reached by 11 AM, with two breaks. The drive was comfortable. The traffic was friendly this time. Echo is getting old, and Uma is more active now. So ...

Heavy Community Backlash Blocks Fedora's AI Developer Desktop Initiative

Two council members have retracted their approval votes after people raised concerns.

Something deeper than hantavirus

Two weeks ago, my phone started lighting up before I’d had my coffee.

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

Hello! 8 years ago, I wrote excitedly about discovering Tailwind. At that time I really had no idea how to structure my CSS code and given the choice between a pile of complete chaos and Tailwind, ...

Speedrun

Art Therapy

A simple realization I somehow didn't arrive at until just now: this project is self-imposed art therapy. I remember my time in therapeutic spaces—hospitalization programs, treatment centers—and ho...

Just Go Along With It Or Else — See Also

The DOJ's Might Makes Right Biglaw EO Argument Isn't Very Persuasive: They're shaming lower courts for not bowing to presidential authority, legitimate or not. That Did Not Please The Court: Judge ...