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Milbank Is Paying Their Associates Even More Money — See Also

More Milbank Money: Up to $25K in special bonuses for associates and counsel. Is any firm willing to match without Cravath's permission? What's Your Sign? This lawyer zodiac breakdown will leave yo...

Microsoft introduces its first cybersecurity AI model at half the cost of competing models

Microsoft has introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first AI model built specifically for cybersecurity. Designed to identify complex vulnerabilities in large codebases, the model works with GPT 5.4 in...

A Hole Lot Of Trouble

Read A Hole Lot Of Trouble Customer: "I need to return this printer! It's very badly made!" I open the box to inspect the printer before I process the return. Me: "Uhm… sir, there's ink everywhere....

Re-Testing an Apollo Guidance Computer Module that Failed Certification Testing

After getting his hands on a rope driver module from the Apollo project era that had a big ‘Scrapped Module’ stamped on it, [Mike Stewart] was naturally left curious as …read more

My New UnPopulist Article on Why "Court-Packing is a Dangerous Gambit Best Avoided"

It responds to a creative court-packing proposal put forward by Andy Craig.

First Mobilization Wave Ongoing as Second Wave Discussion Intensifies

Kassie Corelli

Rollenspielszenen: Vanillekipferl

Die Rettungsmission hat sich etwas verzögert. Wir mussten noch Vanillekipferl backen.

Daily News Stuff 27 July 2026

Oh President Madagascar Edition Top Story Whenever you copy this weird white text on a white background, a little white light lights up white to let you know you've done it. (Futurism) If only it w...

The Good Parliament

1376 was a time of unrest in England under King Edward III. The court was considered corrupt, the wealth gap was increasing, the common people felt oppressed, taxation to support Edward's wars with...

Pikachu and Ditto Pokémon desserts at Baskin-Robbins Japan look AND feel like their inspirations

Ice cream chain famous for its 31 flavors celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise with temptingly tactile treats and a salute to every starter Pokémon. As any etiquette expert know...

Zero to One by Peter Thiel

Why read the book? Peter Thiel explains how to build companies that create new value instead of improving on old ideas. He shows that the best businesses escape competition by solving unique proble...

📝 2026-07-27 17:54: The poor buzzard was still there when I was walking the dogs this morning, so...

The poor buzzard was still there when I was walking the dogs this morning, so clearly something was wrong. Luckily my wife was able to get hold of a local falconer who was able to catch him and hop...

Archaeologists Discover 120 Roman Inscriptions in Spanish Cave that Reveal the Role of Women in the Goddess’s Rituals

The archaeological campaign carried out during May and June 2026 in Cova Dones, located in the Valencian municipality of Millares in southeastern Spain, has completely transformed the previously kn...

FireDragon Browser Swoops in With New Wings

It's been rewritten from scratch to provide some good gains.

What's next?

Plans for the future of this website. To keep this brief, it’s probably best served as a list: Probably won’t write any more long and detailed web dev guides and tutorials Killed the /notes section...

It's Not That the Models Are Slower—The Tasks Have Become Bigger - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #146

Lately, even tasks that I consider relatively simple often take AI several minutes—or sometimes even tens of minutes—to complete. It gave me the impression that as models become more capable, they ...

“Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later

(Previously) Flukes and Breakthroughs In the NBA 2015–16 season, Steph Curry set the all-time single-season record for three-point field goals, 402, completely crushing the old record of 286. Curry...

2026W29

Appaji - Software Engineer — The detail that got me is that you didn’t even need to run anything. Just opening the take-home project in VSCode could fire the payload through a hidden .vscode config...

Forth

Black Chasm

I think the worst kind of writer is not just one who doesn't read, but one who doesn't go out of their way to read good writing. There are many people with blogs or publications who use writing as ...