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My Thoughts on the FitBit Air - From Someone Who's Never Used a Fitness Tracker

Since it was just released, there’s been a lot of press and blog posts around the web about the new screenless Google Fitbit Air. I’m here to add a bit to the noise.

RAISES!!! — See Generally

Milbank Shocks The Market: Everyone had settled into the old associate pay scale, when Milbank decided to yet again respond to the rise in the cost of living. Scoreboard: Follow all the matching sa...

Hackaday Links: June 7, 2026

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey isn’t hitting theaters for another month or so, but if you’re already planning your trip to the cineplex, you may want to check out this page …read more

Pair Pressure

Read Pair Pressure Mom is buying some Spiderman shoes for her son, and since he is wearing them and they are sold outside of a box, she takes the shoe with the UPC barcode off and puts it on my bel...

The Criminal Charges Against Judge Ryan Nelson: How Should the Judiciary Respond?

A guest post from Professor Arthur Hellman.

📝 2026-06-07 22:11

Why does everyone in #F1 love #Monaco? It's by far the most BORING race on the calendar. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or...

Hungry Vamps, Daddy!

If I had a vial of blood for every 1980s vampire movie that prominently includes a musical artist who established themselves as an artistically significant performer in the 1970s but hit their peak...

Digital Independence Day Juni 2026: wieder nix

Am heutigen Digital Independence Day habe ich wieder nichts Besonderes gemacht. Dafür im vergangenen Monat immer mal wieder was.

Self-Hosting Adventures (Kenneth Reitz)

I stumbled upon a blog post by Kenneth Reitz on his personal blog via Bubbles. The essay, titled Self-Hosting Adventures, is well-advertised by its headline. While my personal set-up does not have ...

Over 150 Mathematicians Warn Governments Not to “Believe the Hype” About AI

“There is currently a strong commercial incentive on the part of the technology industry to overstate the capabilities of their products,” the declaration reads, advising policymakers to “consult w...

Daily News Stuff 7 June 2026

Mixed Herb Edition Top Story I mentioned before how PCIe switches - at least ones operating faster than PCIe 3.0 - are prohibitively expensive and reserved for enterprise customers except for the o...

Pallet Wood Crafting Table

Pallet Wood Crafting Table One of my favorite YouTube channels is EpicUpCycling. If you don't know it, check it out. Jason builds amazing things out of pallet wood. I'm far from his skill, but he t...

Colour Hunting: The hot new street photography trend changing how we see Japan

Some might say you haven’t truly seen Japan if you haven’t colour hunted.   Recently, an activity called “colour hunting” has been gaining popularity in Japan. Simply put, it involves choosing a co...

Beijing’s Regional Studies Push Risks Campaign-Style Overreach

Yaqi Li

Pope Alexander III

A man born in Siena c.1100 named Roland grew up to make significant changes to the Roman Catholic Church. His name was Roland, and he studied theology at (probably) Bologna, according to Robert de ...

A 60-Year Measure of Mattering

We encounter charts, graphics, and statistics, and rather than interrogating them, we fold them into what we already believe, rarely stopping to ask what's actually being measured, or whether the o...

Greek Acropolises, Neither Democratic Refuges nor Residences of Prehistoric Kings: A Study Questions Their Origin and Function

No one who has visited Athens forgets the image of the Acropolis crowning the city with its gleaming marbles. However, a new academic study has just overturned decades of misinterpretations about w...

Extrepo in Debian

The Single Biggest Reason Why ProtonMail is Killing My Productivity

6 years of ditching Gmail and I still miss that tiny but handy feature.