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Weeknotes 2026-07-19

The World Iran: it looks like the interim peace agreement is completely done and Iran and the US are at full hostilities again. PH: The VP's impeachment trial continues to be boring and full of tec...

The Light

Tell the demons to go fuck themselves by living anyway. Every day is a small, but beautiful act of resistance. Divine Liturgy was great by the way, thanks for asking. I'm writing here this evening ...

Gingerbread President 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXXIX

Trump's Harmful and Unjust New Restrictions on Foreign Students

They are likely to damage the US economy and deny many people valuable educational opportunities for no good reason.

Land Of The No Free Time

Read Land Of The No Free Time Customer: "It was a great game. Why didn't you watch it?" Me: "I was working." Customer: "But it was a Saturday!" Me: "And today is Sunday, and I'm still working." Cus...

Your AI Ham Radio Buddy

AI chatbots are everywhere these days, and they seem to “know” about everything. But while that is a strength, it can sometimes be a weakness because it isn’t laser-focused on …read more

The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps

Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory We're going to get to in a long and roundabout way. First I want to talk about the game of Nim. Nim Nim is a very simple game for two players. There...

Self-Hosted Dynamic DNS

A guide to setting up a DDNS server with support for nsupdate.

Marskramer Path part 08

Hiked part 8/20 of the Marskramer Path, 17.92 kilometres from Deventer to Klarenbeek. Along the IJsselkade in Deventer you will see the fast-flowing river IJssel, after which the stage runs over th...

Tokyo’s viral 90-yen cafe pop-up returns to Harajuku with yogurt coffee

Enjoy 45 unique drinks at budget prices. When people hear the word “Harajuku”, anyone who has taken a walk around the neighborhood would picture the colorful fashion subcultures, packed streets, an...

Xi’s Leninist Selectocracy has Cemented Party Dictatorship

Filip Jirouš & Ralph Weber

Blood Recipes

We talked yesterday about preparing and preserving blood for culinary use, now let's look at some more specific uses in medieval cuisine. Today we actually make som e recipes using blood. (For the ...

First Textile Fragment from the Iron Age Found at the Submerged Site of the Gran Carro of Bolsena After Sixty Years of Searching

The waters of Lake Bolsena, in the Italian province of Viterbo, continue to yield unprecedented evidence of protohistoric life in southern Etruria. The team led by the Underwater Archaeology Servic...

Why Bevel Is a Way Better iOS App for the Fitbit Air Than Google Health

“The Fitbit Air is a really nice wearable—it’s thin, unobtrusive, cheap. But its app, Google Health, has problems. It gives you paragraphs of AI-generated text multiple times a day as long as you h...

Apple Music and Apple One subscription prices rise due to licensing costs

Apple has raised Apple Music subscription prices in the United States and several other countries, citing rising music licensing costs. The Individual plan now costs $11.99 per month, up by $1, whi...

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IVa: Leadership

This is the fourth part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized. We’ve talked about how armies a...

Become More Productive With These GNOME Extensions

Here's my recommended list of GNOME extensions that might help you focus more on work and be (more) productive.

Daily News Stuff 18 July 2026

Accidental Umpires Edition Top Story AWS is experiencing a wee spot of bother with its billing system. (The Register) Speculation is that it's a unit conversion error in the cost estimation tool, b...

Back to coffee

I gave up coffee because I started losing my sight. I was getting visual migraines, auras that would creep in until I stopped seeing out of one eye for several minutes. It was terrifying the first ...

DOJ Remains Dullest Tools In The Shed — See Also

The DOJ Gabs About Its Biglaw Subpoenas: I don't think it'll work out the way they planned it in their head. House Oversight Caught With Their Pants Down: Alan "Underpants" Dershowitz cancels Monda...