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Mar 07, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Federal Government Lawyer's Filings Appear to Include "Fabricated Quotations and Misstatements of Case Holdings"

From Magistrate Judge Robert Numbers (E.D.N.C.) Monday in Fivehouse v. U.S. Dep't of Defense; the government's lawyer has been a… The post Federal Government Lawyer's Filings Appear to Include "Fab...

Mar 07, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Fighting for Egypt

In 1163, the young Fatimid caliph of Egypt was al-Adid, who was only 12 and a puppet of several strong nobles and viziers. His current vizier, Shawar, was overthrown by the military commander Dirgh...

Mar 07, 2026 from Kev Quirk

Sunsetting The 512kb Club

All good things must come to an end, and today is that day for one of my projects, the 512kb Club. I started the 512kb Club back in November 2020, so it's been around 5.5 years. It's become a drain...

Mar 07, 2026 from It's FOSS

FRANK OS Turns a Microcontroller Into a Tiny Retro Desktop PC

Based on FreeRTOS, this operating system has a start menu, file manager, and a terminal.

Mar 07, 2026 from The Jaxson

Fleet Landing Riverside seeks DDRB conceptual approval

After a failed attempt to acquire the DCPS Southbank headquarters, Fleet Landing now has plans for a 32-story tower in Brooklyn at 111 Riverside Avenue. The project will seek conceptual approval fr...

Mar 07, 2026 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Distilling Stockfish with One Billion Positions

TLDR: I extracted fens and stockfish evaluations for 3.9 billion chess positions. I then trained a neural network on 1 billion of them. The dataset is released as the Gigafish dataset on Huggingfac...

Mar 07, 2026 from The Autodidacts

Old site, new site bookmarklets

A small utility that’s surprisingly useful during website migrations

Mar 07, 2026 from riz#000000me

weeknotes 10

I had a second (and final) interview for a new job. It's in a different city, a small city I grew up near and went to college (the first time!) in, so it's a weird opportunity that I have. I am tre...

Mar 07, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG

‘This Is Very Common’

The world being what it is, I never did come back to give an update on my adult function report which was requested by Disability Determination Services as part of the application for Supplemental ...

Mar 07, 2026 from Above the Law

The Government Does The Leaking Around Here — See Also

Two Doxing Systems: Apparently the government can dox anyone with no consequences. One Hell Of An Oopsie: The Florida Bar took Lindsey Halligan to task. Until they didn't? Focused On Social Justice...

Mar 07, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Praying For Humanity

These days, I find myself in a relaxing tedium. I'll take that over being manic or depressed every day. For the first time in a long time, things feel predictable. I finally feel like I have some k...

Mar 07, 2026 from unixdigest.com

Stop telling people to sanitize user input

Whether you're dealing with a web application or some other application, all user input should always be considered "hostile" and "dangerous", but you should not just universally sanitize user input.

Mar 06, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Snowy Statues in Brooklyn (February 2026)

The February 2026 snow gets to one side of statues of Christopher Columbus and Robert F. Kennedy near Brooklyn Borough Hall.

Mar 06, 2026 from Above the Law

Mount Sinai Drops Anthem Following Contract Dispute

The dispute reflects broader pressures on payers and providers, with rising costs and administrative inefficiencies driving contentious contract battles and highlighting the need for deeper cost-co...

Mar 06, 2026 from Previous Magazine

Managing Dark Circles and Under-eye Puffiness

Dark circles and under-eye puffiness are a growing concern for most people. If these things are something you’re dealing with, there are several ways for you to manage them. Here’s a look at the ca...

Mar 06, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

California Appeals Court Upholds Trial Court Order That Cited Hallucinated Cases

The nonexistent cases were first introduced by opposing counsel, but the appellant's lawyer didn't spot the error at the trial court, and submitted a proposed order to the trial court that cited th...

Mar 06, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, March 6, 2026

Hey everyone, we have a Fireside this week and then next week we’ll get back to our somewhat silly break discussing the mechanics of warfare in Dune. But I did want to stop to chatter a bit about s...

Mar 06, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 6 March 2026

Pixy In The Server Room With A Brick Of C4 Edition Top Story The Department of War has sunk Anthropic with a torpedo fired from a submarine, the first such incident by a US Navy vessel since World ...

Mar 06, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Weekly Notes 10/2026

Work has been hectic. But I can see the end, which is good, I think. Also, my orthodontic work is coming to an end. I should be free of steel cables in my mouth in three months.

Mar 06, 2026 from BEEW

On prayer

Years ago, an AA sponsor said something to me that bypassed every defense I had against the idea of God. I was in early sobriety, a committed atheist, unable to square the program's spiritual langu...