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The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• Mid-March Snow in Brooklyn (2021 and 2026) Mar 12, 2026

  At about 4:00 PM on March 12, 2026, a friend of mine who lines nearby in Brooklyn sent me a message on Delta Chat: it...

• Re; Against Linking to Instagram Mar 12, 2026

  Jatan at Journal J wrote a good blog post back in 2021 against using “bad links” in blog posts. What does he mean by ...

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-12-26 Mar 12, 2026

  I missed publishing a set of Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday due to an assignment. But that does not mean I was not coll...

Above the Law

A Legal Web Site – News, Insights, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts

• AI Legal Research Startup Descrybe Launches ‘Legal Reasoning’ Tool; Says It Outperforms ChatGPT, Claude, And Gemini On Bar Exam Benchmark Mar 12, 2026

  DescrybeLM answered all 200 bar exam questions correctly. The general-purpose models each missed between 13 and 23 qu...

• Costco Member Starts Class Action To Make Sure Customers Get Their Share Of Tariff Refunds Mar 12, 2026

  Gotta fight for those savings! The post Costco Member Starts Class Action To Make Sure Customers Get Their Share Of T...

• Why Wasn’t Biglaw Ready For The Epstein Files ‘Bomb’ To Drop? Mar 12, 2026

  PR professionals say firms had years to prepare for fallout tied to Jeffrey Epstein -- yet some still seemed caught o...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• Living To A Different Beat Than Reality Mar 12, 2026

  Read Living To A Different Beat Than Reality Caller: "I need to book tickets to see [Famous DJ], and they're $300. I ...

• The Mold Has Spread To The Brain Mar 12, 2026

  Read The Mold Has Spread To The Brain Me: "I picked these up, but as you can see, they're not doing very well!" She l...

• Never Pick A Fight With An Old Scottish Woman, Part 10 Mar 12, 2026

  Read Never Pick A Fight With An Old Scottish Woman, Part 10 Me: "Our fitting expert is with a client at the moment." ...

Darek Kay

Darek Kay is a professional front-end developer and an accessibility advocate.

• Sabbatical #07: Waitomo Mar 12, 2026

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

• Sabbatical #06: Tongariro National Park Mar 10, 2026

  A travel journal from my visit to Tongariro National Park, New Zealand.

• Sabbatical #05: Rotorua Lakes Mar 03, 2026

  A travel journal from my visit to Rotorua Lakes, New Zealand.

The New Leaf Journal

Where the leaves are perennially virid

• The New York/California Post “Metro Section” RSS Feed Mar 12, 2026

  The New York Post Metro secution RSS feed now includes California Post articles. This was not concerning until I saw ...

• The Steak Debate: Quips and a Life Well-Done Mar 07, 2026

  I prefer my steak well-done. Not everyone is the same. I share three personal steak-cooking disagreement anecdotes.

• Snowy Statues in Brooklyn (February 2026) Mar 06, 2026

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

Ambient Irony

Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...

• Daily News Stuff 12 March 2026 Mar 12, 2026

  Automatic Programming Edition Top Story Pioneer has been overwhelmed with orders for its $2300 flagship Blu-Ray recor...

• Daily News Stuff 11 March 2026 Mar 11, 2026

  Slop Is As Slop Does Top Story Amazon has called an all-hands meeting of its engineering team to ask them to please s...

• Daily News Stuff 10 March 2026 Mar 10, 2026

  Fish Fingers, Hold The Custard Edition Top Story Anthropic has sued the Pentagon for listing it as a supply chain ris...

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today.

• Giant pipe mysteriously rises up through street in downtown Osaka Mar 12, 2026

  That’s not supposed to be there… If you happened to be passing through Osaka’s Tsurunocho neighborhood on Wednesday m...

• Every Japanese pro baseball team to play with Mario question block bases once this year Mar 12, 2026

  Players should get power-ups each time they pass one, too. Last autumn saw the 40th Anniversary of everyone’s favorit...

• Man in Japan falls into hole with a bear in it Mar 12, 2026

  Sunday morning hike takes a bizarre and terrifying turn. On Sunday morning, a 69-year-old Japanese man was on Iwakami...

The Volokh Conspiracy

Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent | Est. 2002

• Fourth Circuit Publicly Admonishes Lawyer for "Citations to Nonexistent Judicial Opinions" Mar 12, 2026

  From yesterday's decision in In re Nwaubani, from the Fourth Circuit (Judges Marvin Quattlebaum, Allison Rushing, and...

• Three Students' Libel Lawsuit over Columbia "Doxing Truck" Can Go Forward Mar 12, 2026

  The students allege they weren't involved in the Oct. 11, 2023 Columbia student groups' letter that blamed Israel for...

• Today in Supreme Court History: March 12, 1889 Mar 12, 2026

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

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• A massive stellar migration: scientists discover that the Sun and thousands of twin stars left the center of the Milky Way 6 billion years ago Mar 12, 2026

  A team of researchers has obtained conclusive evidence placing the Sun, approximately 4.6 billion years ago, as part ...

• Astronomers witness a planetary collision for the first time, 11,000 light-years from Earth Mar 12, 2026

  Anastasios Tzanidakis was reviewing archival telescope data from 2020 when he came across a seemingly unremarkable st...

• Discovery in Yucatán reveals Maya foundational offerings from 3,000 years ago and their link to fertility and the underworld Mar 12, 2026

  The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) confirmed the discovery of a ritual deposit in the locality...

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• Amalric and the Assassins Mar 12, 2026

  In 1173 King of Jerusalem Amalric I made an alliance with the Order of Assassins. They were a sect of Shi'ite Islam w...

• The 1170 Syrian Earthquake Mar 11, 2026

  On the morning of 29 June 1170, the inhabitants of what are now western Syria, central southern Turkey, and Lebanon w...

• Egypt Again Mar 10, 2026

  January 1169 saw the death of Bertrand of Blancfort, the master of the Templars. Bertrand was not as keen on invading...

The Jamestown Foundation

Jamestown provides primary-source analysis on global developments of strategic importance to the United States and its allies. We primarily cover Russia, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

• Beijing Revives Asian Values in Regional Push Mar 12, 2026

  Arran Hope

• Iran’s Drone Attacks Strain Tensions between Baku and Tehran Mar 12, 2026

  Vasif Huseynov

• Russia Reinforces Ties with Brazil Amid Western Sanctions Mar 12, 2026

  Sergey Sukhankin

Luke Salamone's Blog

A technical blog exploring machine learning, deep learning architectures, data structures, and systems programming with in-depth implementations.

• Autoresearch Mar 12, 2026

  Leaving the autoresearch loop going, the LLM was able to make 7.8% progress on the distillation task. I saw Andrej Ka...

• Distilling Stockfish with One Billion Positions Mar 07, 2026

  TLDR: I extracted fens and stockfish evaluations for 3.9 billion chess positions. I then trained a neural network on ...

• Aesthetic Graph Pruning Feb 20, 2026

  #mapContainer1, #mapContainer2 { color: #000; } #mapContainer1 button, #mapContainer2 button { padding: 10px 14px; bo...

Benny Powers: Web Developer

Benny Powers, Web Developer

• גאולת שאגת הארי Mar 12, 2026

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• גאולה לאדר תשפ"ו Mar 03, 2026

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• GNOME 2.20 but its Web Components Feb 27, 2026

  Just because we could didn't mean that we should

Noahie's Blog

Welcome! This is where you can find my most up-to-date writings.

• Retardmaxxing Mar 12, 2026

  It's been a good day so far, and for that I'm thankful. I would say that I've been focused on that constant internal ...

• Comfort Mar 11, 2026

  I have this fear of a growing complacency among more peaceful days in my life. Things have been going well, and for s...

• Post-Irony Mar 10, 2026

  Just before starting my timer to sprint out this entry, I sat for a moment to try and think of some kind of game plan...

The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out

• The butterfly effect of revenge bedtime procrastination Mar 11, 2026

  Wasting time isn't bad because it wastes time

• My criteria for a good Linux developer laptop Mar 11, 2026

  Well-built, cheap, and fast: I pick all three.

• Some thoughts about backing up, which occurred to me after my laptop abruptly expired Mar 10, 2026

  I had other plans for what to write about, and also plans for the day that didn't involve disassembling my connection...

Bobby Hiltz

An ESL instructor's blog covering technology, education, games, and personal reflections.

• Credit Feed 7: Tigers, Sharks, Cobras, Men in Tights, Robots, Aliens Mar 11, 2026

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

• Cryptic Prediction Mar 02, 2026

  A cryptic prediction regarding The Foundation's recent proclamation regarding a future collaboration

• Meticulously Crafted Feb 11, 2026

  A post about work-life balance and piling wood

Bobby Hiltz

An English teacher in France writing about technology, education, gaming, and guides with an indie web ethos.

• Credit Feed 7: Tigers, Sharks, Cobras, Men in Tights, Robots, Aliens Mar 11, 2026

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

• Cryptic Prediction Mar 02, 2026

  A cryptic prediction regarding The Foundation's recent proclamation regarding a future collaboration

• Meticulously Crafted Feb 11, 2026

  A post about work-life balance and piling wood

BEEW

Banish Expectations Expand Wonder

• Because He Was He, and I Was I Mar 11, 2026

  I quote others only in order the better to express myself. —Michel de Montaigne In 1571, a French nobleman bought a c...

• Dancing on the Head of a Needle Mar 08, 2026

  For roughly seven hundred years, the big theological brains of Western Christendom bent themselves into magnificent l...

• On prayer Mar 06, 2026

  Years ago, an AA sponsor said something to me that bypassed every defense I had against the idea of God. I was in ear...

Stranger Than Usual

• Blogstatistiken: Anzahl Posts pro Jahr / Monat Mar 11, 2026

  Ein paar Graphen über die Anzahl der Blogposts pro Jahr.

• ⍼ Angzarr Azimut ⍼ Mar 11, 2026

  Das Rätsel des Angzarr ist gelöst.

• LISTE DER IMMOBILIENSUCHE FALLEN LASSEN Mar 10, 2026

  Maschinell ins Deutsche übersetzte SQL-Statements.

Adventures in Open Source Software

Recent content on Adventures in Open Source Software

• Is MySQL Due for a Renaissance? Mar 11, 2026

  Back at the turn of the century, open source was experiencing widespread adoption along with the growth of the Intern...

• New Laptop Mar 09, 2026

  It is hard to believe that I’ve been at AWS almost four years, but it turns out that is about the amount of time one ...

• Happy Anniversary: Revisiting the AGPL and CLAs Feb 17, 2026

  The first post I made on this blog was on this date in 2003. Rather than engaging in my usual anniversary navel-gazin...