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The Positive Case for Good Tech

A blog post against defining the indie web by its enemies prompted me to make the positive case for making the positive case for good and humane tech.

New Beginnings After Nearly 20 Years — See Also

Lowenstein Sandler Gets A New Managing Partner: This should provide more bandwidth for leadership and management of the firm. Kathryn Ruemmler Resigns From Position At Goldman Sachs: That didn't ta...

Collections: Against the State – A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency and Protest

This week, continuing in the vein of some of our previous strategy and military theory primers, I wanted to off a basic 101-level survey of the strategic theory behind efforts, in a sense, directed...

Harvey Opens Brick-And-Mortar Shop In Dallas

Just a short walk (or drive) away! The post Harvey Opens Brick-And-Mortar Shop In Dallas appeared first on Above the Law.

“Grounds” For Termination

Read “Grounds” For Termination Midway through the day, we were in the break room. She gestures at two large full bags of Starbucks beans next to the coffee maker and asks everyone in there: New Hir...

Mr. Wonderful v. BitBoy Crypto: Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary Awarded $2.8M in Defamation Suit

Defendant has apparently "informed his psychiatrist ... that he believes he is dead and in a waiting room for Hell."

Kleines Kunstprojekt: PeerPressure

Ich habe ein kleines Kunstprojekt mit einem zellulären Automaten gemacht.

Daily News Stuff 13 February 2026

Flurbday The Florteenth Edition Top Story 30% of Microsoft's code is written by AI. (Times of India) And 40% of its bugs. In entirely unrelated news, Microsoft recently introduced a critical securi...

Elderly Japan man arrested for stealing toilet, using it in his home for three months

Veteran contractor becomes senior thief. A lot has been said about the reasons for Japan’s low crime rate. Some people point to Confucian philosophy, while others look for more modern factors such ...

Weekly Notes 07/2026

It was a busy week. I think it will be until the end of March, till we start our vacation. I managed to workout (P.T.) twice and play once this week. Time spent on reading, media consumption, and p...

Session's Co-Founder Thinks You Don't Need to Ditch WhatsApp Completely

Kee Jefferys on why privacy messaging should be an option, not a replacement.

zettelkasten, flac, and reading

reviewing things i said out loud earlier

Why Your Next Migration Shouldn't Be a Host-Based Slog: Hitachi's Storage Hack Changes the Game

Hitachi's storage offload slashes VM migration to OpenShift Virtualization from months to days, dodging duplicate infra costs and risks in the rush to modernize

Three Minutes Of Hate

There’s a semi-accidental “silly things I hate” blog challenge making the rounds lately. So far I’ve seen Andrea, Sara, Kev, Manu, Pete, and David pick up the gauntlet. My problem is that I don’t r...

Curiosity, some intuition

I figure I’ll publish this long post in a couple parts, over today and tomorrow or perhaps the day after (as tomorrow is going to be a busy day). In today’s post I plan to go over curiosity and the...

Analog Photography Assistant - 1.2.0

Home Screen Light Meter Analog Photography Assistant (APA) is a free, ad-free, privacy-first android app for film photographers. I have just released v1.2.0 which introduces a Depth of Field Calcul...

Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

Judge Preliminarily Blocks Military Disciplinary Measures Against Senator (and Retired Navy Captain) Mark Kelly

An excerpt from Judge Richard Leon's long (and exclamation-point-filled) opinion today in Kelly v. Hegseth (D.D.C.): United States Senator Mark… The post Judge Preliminarily Blocks Military Discipl...

A Song Of ICE And Firing

Good news! The Trump-DOJ is hiring. The post A Song Of ICE And Firing appeared first on Above the Law.

The Dog Returns, The Worker Doesn’t

Read The Dog Returns, The Worker Doesn’t Me: "So to be clear, the dog is fine, your girlfriend is fine, you’re fine, and you can’t come in because… you’re emotionally tired?" Employee: "It was very...