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Colour Hunting: The hot new street photography trend changing how we see Japan

Some might say you haven’t truly seen Japan if you haven’t colour hunted.   Recently, an activity called “colour hunting” has been gaining popularity in Japan. Simply put, it involves choosing a co...

Beijing’s Regional Studies Push Risks Campaign-Style Overreach

Yaqi Li

Pope Alexander III

A man born in Siena c.1100 named Roland grew up to make significant changes to the Roman Catholic Church. His name was Roland, and he studied theology at (probably) Bologna, according to Robert de ...

A 60-Year Measure of Mattering

We encounter charts, graphics, and statistics, and rather than interrogating them, we fold them into what we already believe, rarely stopping to ask what's actually being measured, or whether the o...

Greek Acropolises, Neither Democratic Refuges nor Residences of Prehistoric Kings: A Study Questions Their Origin and Function

No one who has visited Athens forgets the image of the Acropolis crowning the city with its gleaming marbles. However, a new academic study has just overturned decades of misinterpretations about w...

Extrepo in Debian

The Single Biggest Reason Why ProtonMail is Killing My Productivity

6 years of ditching Gmail and I still miss that tiny but handy feature.

Weeknotes 2026-06-07

It's the last day of May! The World PAGASA has declared the start of the rainy season! A welcome respite from the heat. Iran crisis still unresolved. Negotiations have fallen apart as Israel and Le...

Win/Lose

Right now, I'm at the airport waiting on my flight back home to take off. This weekend was wonderful, and the whole wedding was beautiful—intimate, efficient, low-key. My buddy was fielding some id...

Pi Pico Demos, Therefore It Is

A good demo, like [Linus Akesson]’s Sum Ergo Demonstrato, looks like magic to the average hacker. To normies who don’t know the limitations of the RP2350, they don’t see the …read more

Not So Closed Minded, Part 54

Read Not So Closed Minded, Part 54 It was my last night as a shift supervisor (and last night period). A customer walks in at 9:58 PM. Me: "Excuse me, just to let you know that we're closing in two...

Doctor Who: The Sonic Salvaging of the Sixth, Part 11

It’s time once again to revisit the Sixth Doctor’s Big Finish audio adventures. Last time, we took a little side trek to check out the first season of The Lost Stories, in which Colin Baker and Nic...

High SRS replacement 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXXIII

Leafy Intro Welcome to the 283rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal ("NLJ") and its short-form wr...

The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence

Recently, the Vatican and Anthropic have shown a united front on artificial intelligence. But are they actually aligned? The post The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence appeared first on P...

Connection & Digital Minimalism

How do you stay connected while practicing digital minimalism, and how did you make the switch?

Daily News Stuff 6 June 2026

Sleb Edition Top Story SpaceX just launched 50 more Starlink satellites into orbit in a single day, using a pair of its trusty Falcon 9 boosters from facilities at Cape Canaveral and Vandenburg. (S...

📝 2026-06-06 18:02

Been doing some work on the website to bring back post types on the site properly (something I haven't had since switching from Kirby). I now have articles, links, notes and books, all on the homep...

Gordon-Darby Prepares to Renew Effort to Commandeer New Hampshire in Order to Maintain Emissions Testing Contract

Since it lost its first case on technical procedural grounds, the company plans to try again.

Eric the Memorable

After Niels, the fourth and last of the sons of Sweyn II to become kings of Denmark, died, the throne passed to the next generation; in this case to Eric II "the Memorable," son of Eric the Evergoo...

Ghibli’s No Face continues to demonstrate his generous character growth by dispensing soy sauce

Can you please pass the soy sauce, No Face? Explicit exposition has never really been Studio Ghibli’s thing, but even by their standards, No Face’s character arc is an impressive case. Without sayi...