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I didn't know I needed an inclinometer

An ad showed me a tool I'd never seen or searched for, but I instantly wanted. A small reminder that They know my interests disturbingly well.

I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots

I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thing." And this should be all you need to know. I don’t care if you call it AI, LLM...

Fault Taunting

Goodbye SourceHut

Back in August, SourceHut wrote about their terms of service regarding LLMs. I was behind on my RSS-reading, so I didn’t learn until last week that this was the new stance. The new terms of service...

Will It Matter That ABA Council Repealed The DEI Standard?

Law schools will still voluntarily follow the standard, and the Department of Education will still remove the ABA's accrediting authority

Is This *The* Worst In-House Job? — See Also

In-House Counsel Woes: Imagine being Jurassic Park's general counsel. They Left Biglaw To Build Something New. Now They're Paying For It: In the best possible way. It's Never Too Soon To Start Work...

Anti-Doomscroll Tamagotchi Only Lives if You Do

The odds are, you have a device deliberately designed to be addictive in your pocket or on the table next to you if you aren’t staring at it right now– …read more

A Slick Way To Lose Your Warranty, Part 2

Read A Slick Way To Lose Your Warranty, Part 2 Customer: "Where's the vegetable oil?" Me: "I'm heading to that aisle now, so I'll show you." I bring him to the oil aisle and show him all the vegeta...

Rosoboronexport’s International Arms Sales Status Uncertain

John C. K. Daly

Big Finish, Bigger Scarf – The Fourth Doctor Audios, Part 2

Once upon a time in the 1970s, Tom Baker had picked up the Doctor Who baton from Jon Pertwee and made it well and truly his own – an impressive feat given Pertwee’s longevity and popularity in the ...

Brother: Pluszeichen in der Email-Adresse

Der Druckerhersteller Brother erlaubt in seinem Onlineshop keine Pluszeichen in Email-Adressen.

Charles Barkley on Scottie Pippen’s Aborted 2007 NBA Comeback

I remembered Charles Barkley having a humorous reaction on a 2007 episode of Inside the NBA when confronted with news that Scottie Pippen was planning a comeback. I decided to find more information...

Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan

New designs give us an insight into Japan’s prefectural flowers and regional gems. Travel in Japan is always an exciting journey of discovery, especially when there are 47 prefectures, each with th...

FreeCORE is What Your TrueNAS CORE Box Should Have

This independent fork carries FreeBSD, OpenZFS, and jails forward for users who never wanted Linux.

DaVinci Resolve 21.1 changes scripting and editing tools

DaVinci Resolve 21.1 expands Cut and Edit workflows with inspector presets, a new compare-timeline workflow, richer presentation markers and more multicam shortcuts. Fusion adds Krokodove-based sha...

This Medieval Castle Had More Than 40 Subterranean Ovens — And Bread Wasn’t the Only Thing Baked There

At the foot of Mount Aragatsotn, in the Armenian highlands, sits the site of Aruch — a castle that was never just a castle. Between the 12th and 13th centuries, it housed a high-status residence, c...

I discovered KDE’s hidden superpowers after installing these 3 open-source utilities

“If you’ve been in the Linux space for a while, you know just how customisable KDE Plasma can be. However, a lot of us only limit that customisation to picking the theme or moving the panel. What s...

Describing the Plague

There were several people writing during the time of the Justinian Plague (540s CE). One was Evagrius Scholasticus (c.536 - 594), a lawyer born in Syria who wrote an enormous history of the Church....

The Ties that Bind: Central Asian Ikat (ca. 19th century)

Vibrant textiles from the dazzling Timurid metropolis of Bukhara.

Google Decided to Index My Blog Again

No one, not even Google, knows when a site is indexed or not. Thankfully there are other search engines out there.