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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Vigilantes, less-lethal munitions, and a bananas ID theft case.

Daily News Stuff 24 April 2026

Begun The Drone Wars Have Edition Top Story The French government agency that manages national IDs, passports, and immigration documents was hacked because of course it was. (Tech Crunch) You can't...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-24-26

I am a bit late today because I had a rush assignment to take care of. But now that it has been taken care of, I present for your enjoyment today’s edition of Pook-Emu Bee links (note that “we” wil...

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 24] - Night Shift

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 24]Day Twenty-Four We’ve made it to the final Friday of National/Global Poetry Writing Month 2026, everyone! Today’s featured participant is Poem Dive, where you’ll find a rat...

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “Resolute Raccoon” brings GNOME 50, Wayland by default, and NVIDIA CUDA

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “Resolute Raccoon” arrives powered by the Linux 7.0 kernel, providing the baseline for improved hardware support and performance. Incorporating GNOME 50, the release also finalizes...

Buddhist priest arrested for using health insurance card he found on the street

Priest enlightened himself of the burdens incurred when paying for insurance. I think most of us view Buddhist priests as centered people who aren’t swayed by the materialistic temptations that cau...

Weekly Notes 17/2026

NMG 2026 results are out. If you are a grantee, congratulations. This is the 9th edition of 2026 and the biggest both in terms of total grant and the number of grantees. Initial emails have been se...

Veluwe Wander Trail part 22

Hiked part 22/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 17.7 kilometres from Hoog Soeren to Garderen. Left Hoog Soeren past thatched farms and a small chapel, then crossed the golf course into beech and pine ...

Exceptional Roman Calibration Plate Found in the Czech Republic Used in the Manufacture of Chainmail for Legionaries

The team of specialists from the Olomouc Archaeological Center has completed rescue work on a 1.2-kilometer section of the future high-speed line between Nezamyslice and Kojetín, within the Brno–Př...

Russia Struggling to Compete in Rare Earths

Anna J. Davis

Selling Sicily

Pope Urban IV's first move to try to curtail Manfred of Sicily's imperial ambitions was to excommunicate him. This was Manfred's third excommunication, and clearly he was not bothered.Manfred had m...

Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes.

Self-hosted Pinchflat will download YouTube videos or playlists into Jellyfin

“Pinchflat can technically download individual videos, but its strength lies in archiving entire channels and playlists at a time. For starters, Pinchflat lets me add channel and playlist URLs as s...

What I learned from my students

Hope for the future

It's OK to Use Coding Assistance Tools To Revive The Projects You Never Were Going To Finish

I tried to use Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to implement a connector between Youtube Music and opensubsonic. The end result was a fairly short amount of time to get a working project.

Hallucinations

I slept all day yesterday, went to bed at 9 PM, and have gone through most of the day still tired. What can I say? I'm a sleepy guy. Anyway, things are feeling a bit dull today. I don't have a whol...

Husband and Wife

No Facts, No Problem! — See Also

Fifth Circuit's Stuart Kyle Duncan Shows You Can Go Far Without Doing The Reading: Also, the Establishment Clause doesn't matter anymore. Keeping It Real About Real Estate Law: These schools should...

Sabbatical #11: Queenstown

A travel journal from my visit to Queenstown, New Zealand.

Finger Lickin’ Obvious

Read Finger Lickin’ Obvious Customer: "What you got besides chicken?" Me: "We're a chicken restaurant, sir. Our menu is small but high quality." Customer: "And what precisely are people who don't w...