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resisting authoritarianism #8: support local independent businesses
(A series in which I ramble some personal perspective on ICYDAK's "30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Daily Life," because most of this stuff is just default daily...
Cybersecurity Does Not Have a Specialization Problem. It Has a Context Problem
Cybersecurity has a bad habit of mistaking specialization for maturity. A recent piece at The Hacker News got me thinking about something I see more and more often in real...
Oli and Craig sat on the wall outside Burgon’s News, the newsagents at the edge of Gildeen park, eating crisps. “You ever hear the story about the lion slide?” said Craig,...
This is a complicated background to a mishearing posting that has itself turned out to be more complex than I first imagined — a mishearing of the title word in the song...
Update on My Coffee Ridden Framework 13
A week or so ago, I talked about how I might have killed my Framework 13 by dumping a full mug of coffee over it while it was running. In that last post I explained how I'd...
Dilvish, the Damned (Roger Zelazny, 1981)
I really want to get to know and to like Zelazny's works. So, when I found Dilvish in the Little Library, I was excited. So, how was it? Not great, Bob. Not great. Dilvish,...
I checked my emails this morning and saw an alert from Cloudron that New Leaf Journal had become non-responsive. By the time I saw the report, NLJ had recovered. I was a bit...
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Spotify turns 20. To celebrate the...
Bitwarden CLI a fost compromis printr-un atac supply chain
Dacă folosești Bitwarden CLI în vreo automatizare de pe server, ar fi bine să citești ce s-a întâmplat ieri. Versiunea 2026.4.0 a pachetului @bitwarden/cli publicată pe npm a...
Hiked part 21/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 11.2 kilometres from Elspeet to Echoput. Left Elspeet along a quiet lane and walked past an old brick farmhouse dated 1788. The...
Marianne Moore on the There Elements of Persuasive Writing
Several years ago, rummaging through the archives of the Academy of American Poets, I came upon a box labeled “Ballots 1950” — the record of the secret vote by the chancellors...
Apuntes para leer la realidad cubana
Julio CarranzaMe parece importante subrayar que para entender Cuba con objetividad es necesario despojarse de pasiones y prejuicios personales así como de interpretaciones...
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake - Lower Salt River, Arizona When I moved to Arizona (in 1997), I read an interview with an emergency room doctor about rattlesnake bites. He...
Today, I managed to get my first Blackcap on camera. He was buried deep in the bush and was hard to even get a clear shot of his face. I didn't even realise he was mid-song...
Proctoring a High School Exam While in High School
Yesterday, I published an article about my former dreams of being a basketball coach and my unexpected one-game stint as a baseball coach when I was in high school. While it is...
I'm just back from yet another visit to Worthing (see Nigeness passim). This time my reading on the train was Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, which I resolved to read after...
M-Audio/Midiman MIDI Support Drivers 3.4.0 - 2009
Application file: M-Audio_MIDI_USB_3_4_0_OSX.dmg M-Audio MIDI Support 3.4.0 - 2009 Drivers for many M-Audio/Midiman legacy products These drivers were available until recently...
ʕ•ᴥ•ʔノ゙ pinewind: a chill bearblog
pinewind, a blog by kwist, gives us a calm space to enjoy the jots and thoughts of a highly interesting Japan-based hobbyist, enthusiast, and multipotentialite writer. i can't...
Philosophers Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced its latest class of members, and several philosophers are a part of it. They are: Julia Driver, University of Texas at...
April 2026. Alderley Edge. I’m not sure my heart will stand these tense City games, but after a period of letting the lads use my season ticket I thought I’d better see The...