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Gross Human Constants

Man, rationality is such a meme. I think rationality is important when you have something tangible you're dealing with, like a problem at work or figuring out what you need to say; but when it's ju...

PACE Establishes Platform for Russian Opposition Delegation

Vadim Shtepa

First The Partners, Then The Associates — See Also

Paul, Weiss Associates Are Being Shown The Door: Looks a lot like the first firm to fold to Trump is doing stealth layoffs. At Least McDermott Was Honest About It: The firm confirms suspected layof...

Hantavirus: Situation update and getting nerdy

A recording from Katelyn Jetelina's live video

A 1947 Radio Gets A Face Lift

We’ve all done it. We spy an old radio at a garage sale or resale shop. We know someone should bring it back to life, but it looks like a …read more

Going Through This Maize Makes You Feel Blue

Read Going Through This Maize Makes You Feel Blue Customer: "Why do you put dye into your tortilla chips?" Me: "We don't. They're made from blue corn." Customer: "I don't appreciate being lied to."...

Court Dismisses Matt Taibbi's Defamation Lawsuit Over "Owned: How Tech Billionaires Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left"

From Taibbi v. Higgins, decided yesterday by Judge George Daniels (S.D.N.Y.): This action centers around Owned: How Tech Billionaires Bought… The post Court Dismisses Matt Taibbi's Defamation Lawsu...

Rollenspielszenen: Bassbombe

Auf uns soll ein false-flag-Anschlag verübt werden. Mit einer Bombe. Aber wo genau ist die Bombe?

Daily News Stuff 6 May 2026

Overweight Bin Edition Tech News The latest version of Google Chrome has a neat new feature: It installs a 4GB local AI model on your computer without asking or even telling you. (That Privacy Guy)...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-06-26

I missed publishing daily Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday due to a work deadline. But we are back today with nine new links from around the world wide web. 1. Famed Atheist Richard Dawkins — Author of...

Does the Fukuryumon Chinese restaurant in Koenji offer the best lunch deal in Tokyo?

The main dishes are already cheap to begin with–but the unlimited free side dishes could even be a meal by themselves! Our Japanese-language reporter/resident musician Seiji Nakazawa has always lov...

Findings at Nuraghe Barru Reveal That Bronze Age Towers in Sardinia Functioned as Cult Centers in the Iron Age

The Nuraghe Barru complex is set atop a sparsely vegetated hill in the south-central area of Sardinia. From this commanding position, the stone structure, originally erected over 3,200 years ago du...

Revisiting Trademarks

Recently a saw an article come across my feed that Notepad++ was now available on MacOS. Turns out that was partially true. TL;DR; Trademarks are incredibly important to the success of open source ...

Google brings Multi-Token Prediction drafters to Gemma 4: 3x speedup without quality loss

One month after the introduction of Gemma 4, Google is now releasing Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters for the Gemma 4 model family. These drafters use a specialized speculative decoding archit...

Second Baron's War Ends

Simon de Montfort was in control of London in April 1264. Northampton was under siege by supporters of King Henry, and Simon assembled his army to stop the royalists, but he was too late. Simon the...

My Inital Thoughts On Thunderbird Pro

Yesterday I received an email from the Thunderbird team inviting me to join a preview of their new hosted email service, Thunderbird Pro. I love email, so was very keep to sign up and test it out. ...

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Ways To Prioritize DNS Over mDNS On Macbooks With .local Domains

Notes on how mDNS is prioritized on the .local top-level domain.

Should You Be Worried About Copy Fail Linux Exploitation?

It's been patched, but cloud and container users should update sooner than later.

Who Knows That You Blog

Kev Quirk wrote a post about who knows that you blog (as a response to Forking Mad on the same topic). Kev writes: I'm similar to David and Alex - I'm not forthcoming with the fact that I have a bl...