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Bottles' Founder Has Managed to Run Microsoft 365 on Linux

As of now, he has the desktop app installing and signing in.

Burial During Justinian's Plague, Part 1

Sometimes a disaster strikes a civilization that kills so many so fast that the systems for providing support and burial cannot keep up. Such was the case when the Bubonic Plague came to town. One ...

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Even This Supreme Court Wouldn’t Bail Out The Missouri GOP — See Also

Show Me State Got Shown: The U.S. Supreme Court yet again told Missouri Republicans that they need to stop trying to make their illegal map happen. Say Howdy To The New Biggest Firm In Texas: The r...

Dog Food For Thought

Read Dog Food For Thought Customer: "Do you have any Blue Buffalo brand dog food that has no "pro van" in it? I don't want to change up my dog's diet because it hurts his stomach." I had absolutely...

Creating a Custom Hinge for a Motorbike’s Fuel Access Panel

A fun part of modifying something like a motorbike is that you sometimes have to come up with creative solutions to basic questions, like how you can still access the …read more

Summer Diplomacy Deepens Azerbaijan’s Integration with Central Asia

Roza Bayramli

Geof Stone and I on "The State of Free Speech in 2026" (from the National Constitution Center)

I much enjoyed participating in this, and I expect many of our readers will much enjoy listening to it. The post Geof Stone and I on "The State of Free Speech in 2026" (from the National Constituti...

Apple introduces a redesigned Health app and Apple Watch with continuous Siri AI listening

Alongside the announcement of its new foldable iPhone, Apple has also announced the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, starting at $399 and launching September 18. More notably, the company is prep...

Rant: Java und Spring

Java ist keine schöne Programmiersprache, aber das Spring-Framework macht es um Größenordnungen schlimmer.

The Organization That Remade India

One Hindu nationalist organization remade society from the ground up. Other ambitious projects should learn how they did it. The post The Organization That Remade India appeared first on Palladium.

Complaints with recommendations—a simple facilitation method

A fun way to get people talking about what’s not working in a project & their ideas for what to do about it.

Boston Athletic Association 10k Post Race Report

Though I've done longer races before, this was my first time targeting my training for a 10k distance.

Daily News Stuff 10 September 2026

Stone Soup Without So Much Stone In It Edition Top Story Google is investing $13 billion over two years to construct datacenters in Finland. (Notebook Check) Cheap electricity and free cooling. It'...

Two American women attempt to smuggle US$1 million worth of cannabis into Tokyo for a free trip to Japan

Suspect says she wanted to see Japan, but this was not the way to go about it.  One of the first things any visitor to Japan should know is that the country takes a hard stance against drugs – so m...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-10-26

We went just over one week without daily Pook-Emu Bee links. Sickness (probably mostly allergies) and work intervened. But today I have a window for links. Back and better than ever? 1 | NCAA decla...

Linux Kernel is Getting Ready to Purge 55,00 Lines of Old 32-bit Arm Platform Code

These thirteen patches would delete the deprecated platform code, and the driver cleanup will follow later.

Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (early 19th century)

By manipulating paper flaps, the child could turn Adam into Eve into a mermaid, a lion into a griffin into an eagle — all while learning about the inevitability of death.

Romans Believed Lightning Was Sacred and Buried Them as Offerings to God Summanus: A 1,900-Year-Old Inscription Just Proved It

In a quiet corner of Hadrian’s Villa, wedged between the so-called Amphitheater and a low bench of volcanic tufa rock, sits a marble slab measuring roughly 40 by 35 centimeters (about 16 by 14 inch...

2026-09-10 13:49: The constant outrage on #Mastodon (and maybe other social sites?) for is so tiring.

The constant outrage on #Mastodon (and maybe other social sites?) for [bad thing of the day] is so tiring. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this...