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The Foundling Fathers Playlist

Meg Elison

My coming-of-age American mythos satire is out, and I have curated a playlist to accompany it for your listening pleasure. Most of the songs are about who we are and where we come from, and what a pain in the ass that all is. Some of these songs are about the unbearable weight of history, both...

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Why is direct democracy still signed on paper?

Mert Bulan

A couple of years ago, I was taking a walk in Stadtpark when I saw a group of people holding clipboards and pens. They were talking to people who were sitting or walking around the park. Later, I learned that they were collecting signatures for a popular initiative (Volksinitiative).At that time,...

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Sunday.

Joe Crawford

First thing firstly: I went to OB this morning. It was uneventful. Chilly. Wonderful after several days of not being in the ocean. I was in Northern Virginia / Washington D.C. Instagram used to be where I’d post trip photos. As the platform has worsened, I do it less. That obliges me to post here...

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!@! Movies: The Rainmaker (1997)

andrei

A Memphis law school graduate battles an insurance giant. Strong legal drama about a young lawyer that fights an army of layers representing an insurance corporation. Under the direction of the great Francis Ford Coppola, the movie shows strong performances from a lot of great actors, and keeps...

Father’s day project

Adam Young

Getting a little more organized in my workshop. My pain point was boxes of nails or screws falling off shelves. And, of course, I wanted an excuse to use the laser cutter. I took a lesson from Minecrafters and put an instance of what was inside the box on the front id the box.

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C++ Insights new lambda transformation

Andreas Fertig

Last week I pushed an updated lambda transformation for C++ Insights. Here is a little background on the change. Since I first published C++ Insights when you transformed a lambda like the following: 1 2 3 4 5 6int main() { int val{4}; auto lamb = [&] { return val; }; } The result …

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Three weeks · One split

Ad Astra Computing Inc

Third consecutive weekly run. Gemma 57.2%, mistral 64.6% and gpt-oss 72.7% reduce under the compiled prompt; llama-4-scout stays flat at 1.6%. qwen3 swings back to -7.0% after +7.1% the week before, straddling zero across three runs (-3.4, +7.1, -7.0). The reducing band and the llama trade hold;...

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"Ghostly Killer" / "Death on Display"

Mr. Karswell

Gale forces are still blowin' strong here at THOIA, as we re-enter Earth's atmosphere, leaving behind Gale Allen and her space-age Girl Squadron (see our previous post HERE), thus, landing once more back on solid, blood-soaked soil to find not one, but TWO great, horror-tinged, Gail Ford murder...

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Solstice!

Aegir.org

Summer! It's warm, everything is full of life and flowers are in full bloom.

Adventures in Open-Source: the lit profraw race

abm-77

IntroThis is the start of an ongoing mini-series where I document contributions I make to open source projects. These aren't tutorials; I won't be teaching background theory. Instead, I want to walk through the process: how I identified the issue, designed a fix, and went through code review....

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There Are Four Lights

4q

What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing cheap shorts and an old T-shirt. He has just changed out of khakis, a white button-up shirt, pink socks, and tan dress shoes. How does Dave feel today? Dave is happy and stuffed. What are the factors affecting Dave's mood? Dave enjoyed a gastronomically...

Three Months of Crunchyroll: Part 1

artix

You'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise, given the corpus of games that I generally play, but I am very much NOT an anime person. A lot of stuff inspired by anime, yes, but broadly speaking, my position has always been that if I'm going to experience this kind of stuff, I would rather play it...

!@! Movies: The Firm (1993)

andrei

A law school graduate uncovers a sinister secret about the Memphis firm that made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Another great thriller set in the legal world based on a novel by John Grisham, this time starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Gene Hackman (among others) that will keep you...

Spring 2026

autumnwright

A collection of seasonal excerpts from the commonplaceEssays, blogs, and other prose: No as a Noticeboard, Sara Ahmed A no to an institution can be expressed through the withdrawal of labour from it. When you leave because of a complaint, you don’t just leave the problem behind. You leave a...

Life Update 6/21/26

AY

Definitely been a hell of a year, and I am happy to say I can finally walk and sit again. The main recovery from this part of the saga has been due to being able to stay with H and his family and all the help they have been giving me. Through physical therapy and all the rest of the shit you can...

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British Army Training Grenades

TAB

A few weeks ago I visited my friends at the Vickers Machine Gun Collection & Research Association and had a look at a variety of items you might not immediately expect to be part of their collection. The VMGCRA, however, has an extensive collection of all sorts of items and an incredible...

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The AirPods Effect (Markham Heid)

Alexandre Storelli

(…) During the pre-smartphone era of iPods and other portable music devices, a small study of college students found that those who were heavy users of headphones experienced higher levels of social isolation and loneliness.More than 15 years later, in 2021, a survey conducted by the audio...

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Don’t believe everything you think

theMan

While reading Pema Chödrön’s Another Kind of Freedom this morning, I smiled when I read, “Don’t believe everything you think.” What a good way to make light of the thoughts that pop in and out of our mind. It’s the longest day of the year. The chicks are growing up fast. On their way to...

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Choke Baluns for F6KOP

Fred C (W6BSD)

Info This article was also posted in French on my club's website F6KOP The objective of a choke balun is to reduce RF current flowing on the outside of the coaxial cable, thereby improving the symmetry of the radiation pattern and suppressing radio-frequency interference (RFI). The target values...

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Weeknotes: Dirty Window — Week 25, 2026

alex

Most of my time this week went into goal-setting and on learning Japanese. On goal-setting: This was both attending training, and writing/reviewing goals for my department. Nearly there. On learning Japanese: I have been trying new tools and routine to see what works well, did orientation for my...

Die philosophische Geste

inga-h

Ein Versuch, die philosophische Geste als strukturelle Form des Eintritts ins Denken zu beschreiben.

Roger Waters & Mona Miari: Comfortably Numb Re-Imagined

abagond

Remarks: Aged British rocker Roger Waters of Pink Floyd and Palestinian singer Mona Miari reimagine “Comfortably Numb” from Pink Floyd’s album “The Wall” (1979). They flip a song of personal despair into one of hope for Gaza, which plays itself in the video in all of its bombed-out, betented...

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