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Mar 12, 2026 from Darek Kay

Sabbatical #07: Waitomo

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

Mar 12, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 12 March 2026

Automatic Programming Edition Top Story Pioneer has been overwhelmed with orders for its $2300 flagship Blu-Ray recorder now that competitors have stopped competing. (Tom's Hardware) I already have...

Mar 12, 2026 from Above the Law

Opus 2 Steps Up Its AI Game With Acquisition Of A Legal Tech Startup

[Sponsored] With the addition of Uncover’s technology, the litigation software is delivering rapid innovation. The post Opus 2 Steps Up Its AI Game With Acquisition Of A Legal Tech Startup appeared...

Mar 12, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Every Japanese pro baseball team to play with Mario question block bases once this year

Players should get power-ups each time they pass one, too. Last autumn saw the 40th Anniversary of everyone’s favorite plumber who was transported into a world of mushrooms and turtles. Yes, Super ...

Mar 12, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Will Take Your Two Cents, But We Don’t Want To Hear Your Two Cents

Read Will Take Your Two Cents, But We Don’t Want To Hear Your Two Cents Customer: "You gotta count it out so slowly?!" Me: "I'm just checking, sir." Customer: "You don't trust me?" Read Will Take Y...

Mar 12, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Amalric and the Assassins

In 1173 King of Jerusalem Amalric I made an alliance with the Order of Assassins. They were a sect of Shi'ite Islam whose goals were political as well as religious: they went after the Abbasid Cali...

Mar 12, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Beijing Revives Asian Values in Regional Push

Arran Hope

Mar 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Astronomers witness a planetary collision for the first time, 11,000 light-years from Earth

Anastasios Tzanidakis was reviewing archival telescope data from 2020 when he came across a seemingly unremarkable star that was behaving in an extraordinarily strange way. The object in question, ...

Mar 12, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Today in Supreme Court History: March 12, 1889

3/12/1889: Justice John Campbell dies.   The post Today in Supreme Court History: March 12, 1889 appeared first on Reason.com.

Mar 12, 2026 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Autoresearch

Leaving the autoresearch loop going, the LLM was able to make 7.8% progress on the distillation task. I saw Andrej Karpathy’s Autoresearch results the other day and decided to give it a shot on a r...

Mar 12, 2026 from Benny Powers: Web Developer

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Mar 11, 2026 from The Autodidacts

The butterfly effect of revenge bedtime procrastination

Wasting time isn't bad because it wastes time

Mar 11, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Way Off Target

Read Way Off Target Me: "Ma'am, you're trying to return clothes you purchased at Target." Customer: "So?" Me: "This isn't Target." Customer: "So?" Read Way Off Target

Mar 11, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz

Credit Feed 7: Tigers, Sharks, Cobras, Men in Tights, Robots, Aliens

A review for the Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 1, a collection of shooting games, for the Nintendo Switch

Mar 11, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz

Credit Feed 7: Tigers, Sharks, Cobras, Men in Tights, Robots, Aliens

A review for the Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 1, a collection of shooting games, for the Nintendo Switch

Mar 11, 2026 from Above the Law

The Reality Of Courtroom Questioning Is Usually Less Dramatic

But it makes for a great movie. The post The Reality Of Courtroom Questioning Is Usually Less Dramatic appeared first on Above the Law.

Mar 11, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

The Ninth Circuit's En Banc Shadow Docket

Why can lower courts issue unexplained rulings on the emergency docket, but not SCOTUS?

Mar 11, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Blogstatistiken: Anzahl Posts pro Jahr / Monat

Ein paar Graphen über die Anzahl der Blogposts pro Jahr.

Mar 11, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software

Is MySQL Due for a Renaissance?

Back at the turn of the century, open source was experiencing widespread adoption along with the growth of the Internet. The acronym LAMP was used a lot, meaning Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. The f...

Mar 11, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 11 March 2026

Slop Is As Slop Does Top Story Amazon has called an all-hands meeting of its engineering team to ask them to please stop destroying the company's site with AI slop. (Tom's Hardware) The term "blast...