The development of air-to-air refueling changed aerial warfare and gave US Air Force SAC bombers global reach. KC-135 tanker on display at the Barksdale Global Power Museum in Louisiana The first…

Three years ago today we returned for the third time to our favorite beach. As we were reflecting on what it's meant for us to keep coming back to the same place, he went down on his knees and asked…

Das Buch, das ich eigentlich lesen wollte, liegt noch immer auf dem Tisch. Das Buch, das ich eigentlich nicht vorhatte, zu lesen, habe ich dafür fast schon zu Ende gelesen....

The Magnetic Fields ' 1999 triple-CD magnum opus 69 Love Songs is such an embarrassment of riches that I've largely declined to give it its due in this list, 'cuz where would one even begin? But for…

August has not been kind to me. Work draws taxes from my soul and the weather from my body. I read in deep, hours-long gulps on the weekend, then spend my time craving the feeling of crafting good…

The anxiety is enormous. It grew both deeper and wider. Regarding this collapse (not merely nervous, for that matter), an interesting point is that some small changes in everyday life turned out, at…

♠ A serendipitous discovery: macOS continuity. Picture this: I am using my corp Macbook Pro, whilst my personal Macbook Air happens to be close by. Both of their lids are open. In my corp Macbook,…

We need to speak either way. The important words have their place now. Yet the merely human ones have proved, paradoxically, to have devastating consequences when they are addressed to human beings…

After having lived here for a few years now, I can safely say that there are two speeds at which everyone in rural Maine drives: either twenty miles per hour over the posted speed limit, or twenty…

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I finally paid the orthopedic doctor yesterday about my left wrist, in which I started to feel the pain in May this year. In my recollection, I was rollerblading down the sidewalk. When I speed…

I have argued for a while that MDR has to move beyond alert triage and become a cyber risk reduction service. A recent conversation with an experienced MDR operator added another piece to that…

My new home is definitely smart - CAT5 cabling, smart thermostats, wireless access points, gigabit internet, and more. But there's the thing - there's no manuals, diagrams, or help guides. So far…

The medieval understanding of intelligence is exactly what we need in the age of A.I. -- Boyd Taylor Coolman in America Magazine Dance Or Die the radical embodiment of wholesome Catholic…

Regular readers will know that China has been going after billionaires hard. So much so, in fact, that the number of billionaires is dropping in China. Back after the financial collapse executives…

I usually don’t care about job approval polling, but this is just funny (boldface mine): Amid President Donald Trump’s record-low approval ratings nationally, a new YouGov/Economist projection…

Marc Lore sells the controlling stake in the Timberwolves three years after getting in. The flipping will continue until morale improves.

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I listened to two great podcasts this week exploring the tangle of human/AI relationships. In “Computer Love,” the guests explore whether these relationships are good for us, and in…

I don't see any compelling reason for totally excluding Chinese Layer 1 capacity from your network. Data should be Layer 3 encrypted in any case and most DWDM box manufacturers such as Ciena offer…

I want to write a new crowdfunding module, and it's probably going to be for Eco Mofos!!. I'm thinking: Bestiary - Monsters with all kind of extras, like hooks, biome, and habitat - Villains with a…

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We celebrated Eric’s 50th birthday in northern Spain and I also wanted to enter into a new decade overseas. From the beginning we knew that most of Europe would be too hot and busy in August…

"Nyzoura's Pendant" is a fun ride.

Reading a lot of ACOUP, lot of issues with the video, but the idea of techno-feudalism has its logic.

The battle to control streaming has shifted...

iPhone Mirroring is one of those little Apple inventions that – when it works – is quietly excellent. When I first heard the concept I really thought it was bananas....

We went to the zoo in Emmen for my birthday! I took so many good pictures (and some crappy ones that bring me joy) so here is a LOT 🅰 ...

Intrepidina the cricket stowaway in my suitcase made a ‘new leap forward’. She crossed an ocean, was cooped up in a suitcase and nearly died getting to her destination. Crickets, in China, are…

Some interesting insights from my past six-plus months of geeking out with Anthropic's insane AI tool.

Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 1.6.30-32 (tr. W.A. Oldfather): "Yes, but my nose is running." What have you hands for, then, slave? Is it not that you may wipe your nose? "Is it reasonable, then,…

Automated writing, deploys, verification, syndication. Every step had a check. Nobody had wired up the one that answers 'did anyone read it' — and I'm the person who keeps writing about verification…

Author Ross Dunbar kindly sent me a copy of Click Clack Boom , the first in his Blackjack Harrigan Files series. Harrigan is an intelligence officer who specializes in finding unusual people who are…

About Those Housing Numbers OK…read ’em and sleep: Year-Over-Year The S&P Cotality Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a…

Gaming Science | It's cool to be a criminal in-game. Violent video games were shown to drive aggression. But is this also true for the crime rate? Today's study analyses a dataset of 50+ million…

Palantir has access to the personal information and news-reading behavior of—if USA Today Co.'s own reports are true—158 million average unique monthly visitors, or 48% of the American people.

August 25, 2026 18th century illustration by Charles Reuben Ryley. source. Everyone knows monkeys but I think most people think about cute white-faced capuchins or macaques or the langurs of India.…

I got fired, chat. How cooked are we? 😱 It's never a good time to lose a job - but to lose a job in this economy? No thanks! So... What happened? Background About 4 and a half years ago, I joined…

A Chinese AI lab shipped a model that got so good at hacking, mid-training, that they decided to hold the open weights back and spend two more weeks hardening it before they let you download it. The…

Five data channels, no HTTP for app data: using WebRTC as an app transport between iPhone and Mac. The community framework whose macOS slice ships one header, the WebSocket storm, ICE restart vs…

In one week of late-August 2026, Agent Sandbox, Kueue, and LeaderWorkerSet each shipped a limiter on their own elasticity: a warm pool that refills more slowly, a field that used to be editable and…

I set a 5 a.m. alarm for years and kept snoozing it. On swapping inputs without quitting the goal, and letting go of who you used to be. The post Make It Easy to Win appeared first on Christopher…

Build a reliable Cloudflare scheduled job with Queues and D1, using stable work IDs, expiring leases, safe retries, and fixed cadence.

I recently read a great post from Matt Haughey about his time spent working in a bike shop as a teenager and it got me a little nostalgic about my own teenage “bike shop” experience and…

Four members of the SwiftUI team at Apple left the company, and now they’ve started a company that writes SwiftUI for you. The product is Bitrig. You describe an app in plain English, and it…

In a short period of time, I’ve rebuilt my Kenner Star Wars collection from its humble new beginnings. Y got me an Ikea Billy bookcase for my birthday, which I used to display most of it now.…

The standard recommendation on time out duration is one minute per year of age, often capping out at 5min. In my experience (n=3, not independent) this is much longer than needed; I typically do…

Bulova Lunar Pilot Blue & White, and Super Seville Precisionist Introduction There are many factors I consider when looking at watches, here are a few of them: Is it funky or strange looking, but…

[1967] A scuzzy fuzz monster with a neanderthal beat sweetened by the use of some very cool bells! The fuzz and bells in this snarly stomper are an unusual but excellent combo!