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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIa: Mobilization without Administration

This is the second part (I, IIa) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. While I hope t...

Daily News Stuff 12 June 2026

202 Flows Edition Top Story It's been an entire day since there was a critical Microsoft vulnerability so here we are again. (The Register) It's BitLocker again this time, which not many people car...

Weekly Notes 24/2026

I am at IITM/Chennai for Paradox. I have been here since 2022, since the first Paradox. The fest and the crowd have grown bigger. I came by car with friends A&S. We took Old Madras Road and stopped...

New Japanese overnight train coming to connect Tokyo with Tohoku in sleep-travel style

Luna Azul can take you from Tokyo to Akita or Aomori while you snooze. The Shinkansen is usually the fastest way to get from Point A to Point B when traveling within Japan. Since the stations tend ...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-12-26

I have an assignment I need to finish today. But I will not let that stop me from capping off the work-week with one more edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. Pook-Emu Bee will be off tomorrow for Newsle...

Coinbase for Agents can manage trading, payments, and execute workflows on your behalf

Coinbase has introduced Coinbase for Agents, enabling users to connect AI agents directly to their Coinbase accounts for trading, payments, and other financial tasks. These agents operate within st...

ISPP’s Expanding Operational Geography in Pakistan

Rahim Nasar

📝 2026-06-12 16:59

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CSS-Only Footnote Tooltips in Hugo

The blog now shows the text of a footnote when you hover over its citation number, so you can read a reference without jumping to the bottom of the page and back.1 It involves one Hugo partial and ...

2,000-Year-Old Grape Seeds in a 32-Meter-Deep Etruscan Well Reveal Surprises About Modern Wine

The history of wine in one of Italy’s most emblematic regions has just been rewritten thanks to genetics. An international team of scientists has sequenced the DNA of two-thousand-year-old grape se...

The Sun and Moon Allegory

Pope Innocent III was determined to assert papal authority over every area possible. He made sure that kings, although they had their "local" political power, were still under the spiritual authori...

PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget

PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget I am a big fan of bubbles.town, a relatively new website to make it easier to discover the indieweb of personal blogs. Sounds familiar? I run indieblog.page where the...

Mundanity

Your browser does not support the video tag. Last night while falling asleep, I was reflecting on the last ten years or so of my life, as one does. Looking back into the past, despite my attempts t...

Plate Flip

Boutique Firm Matches The Susman Scale — See Also

Holwell Shuster & Goldberg Pay Their Associates Handsomely: Associates are starting at $240,000! Where Are The Rest Of You!: Biglaw firms should be matching the new market salaries. Where are they?...

Afghan–Pakistani Conflict Not Stopping ‘Kabul Corridor’ Construction

Nargiza Umarova

Doctor Who: Into the Wilderness!

Eighteen months is too long to wait… but it looks like we’ll have to wait even longer than that. After previously announcing that Doctor Who would return with a Christmas special in 2026 – a bit ov...

Tipped To Be A Bad Day, Part 3

Read Tipped To Be A Bad Day, Part 3 Customer: "Can I use a discount?" Me: "Do you have a coupon or a gift card?" Customer: *Completely straight-faced without a hint of irony.* "No, no, I meant the ...

Repairing a Pair of Voodoo 2 GPUs for some SLI Action

Recently [Bits und Bolts] stumbled over a pair of Dragon 3000 branded 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards in his unfixed cards pile, and decided that the best course of action was …read more

Turning a Blog Into a Book

Wouter Groeneveld published a blog post on his blog, Brain Baking, titled The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book. I have thought about creating a book from the millions of words I have pu...