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Exploring Kittens With Kitty Terminal Emulator

Kitty terminal's functionality can be enhanced with kittens. You can create your own or use the default ones.

Does public health *need* MAHA?

It’s a little more complicated than that

Blur, Brutal Legend, C&C Red Alert 3: Linux Does What Nintendon't

The most valuable thing you can do for the longevity of a device is install linux on it. I’m not just talking personal longevity, I’m also talking about the weird and wonderful ways you can keep a ...

Why Is Journaling So Powerful? 9 Prompts That Change How You Think

Journaling has survived every productivity fad of the last two centuries for a simple reason. It works, and it works on almost everything, from tangled emotions and foggy decisions to creativity bl...

O2A2 2026 Visual Novel Review Project (Part 2/2)

Part two of my O2A2 2026 short visual novel review project...

How to Read a Book

Or, what forty years of reading did not teach me.

Liberating a PlayStation 5

Photo by Kamil Switalski I’ve previously discussed how I modified my PlayStation 4 to give me control over the hardware I own. Sony has been increasingly anti-consumer. Not to be undone, Microsoft ...

Gun and Sword

Having a gun isn't about who you shoot. I woke up this morning feeling not quite depressed anymore, glory to God. This whole week has been a bit of a slog, but I'm glad to be coming out of it at a ...

Pizza Time

Unfinished; posting anyway. Pizza and 2+1 offers go together like Apache Airflow and data engineering: Nobody knows why, but it is a thing. The premise is deceptively simple: Buy three pizzas and g...

Main Span

July 2026

It’s now just two more days until I go back to work after a fantastic three-week summer vacation. I want at least three more! Anyway, it’s the end of the month, this is what happened! From the blog...

Todd Blanche Is In Trouble — See Also

Todd Blanche Still Won't Write Down The Promises He Swore To: It's getting weird, tbh. Fifth Amendment Right Against... What?: Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment even though his pardon should make s...

Drawl The Line

Read Drawl The Line Customer: "A ticket to Washington, DC." Ticket Booth Worker: "All right, one ticket to 'Warshington'." Customer: "There ain't no 'R' in Washington." Read Drawl The Line

Rebuilding an Obsolete IC to Save a Betacam SP Tapedeck

Betacam is not the Betamax you may have had at home– it was a professional format that lived on into the 21st century, in the “SP” form. In many places, …read more

Vučić Uses Brezhnevian Playbook on Politics of Conditional Sovereignty

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Bilddateiformate und Bildkompression

Eine kleine Einführung, welche Bildformate man verwenden für was verwenden sollte und warum.

Frontier Panic

As artificial intelligence has advanced, it has taken the place of climate change as the main perceived threat to our planet. The post Frontier Panic appeared first on Palladium.

New NYU Brennan Center Article on "Using State Constitutions to Combat Exclusionary Zoning"

It explains how to better use both existing state constitutional provisions, and constitutional amendments. Based on a longer academic article, coauthored with Joshua Braver.

xAI introduces Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 with major accuracy and conversational gains

xAI has unveiled Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0, its latest voice AI model focused on delivering enhanced transcription accuracy and smarter conversational ability. This release introduces a significant...

Daily News Stuff 30 July 2026

Arthrosclerotic Edition Top Story The United States government just banned Roombas. (The Verge) Well, it didn't, and wouldn't have at all if it hadn't previously blocked the acquisition of US compa...