The Commerce Commission will investigate deregulating PSTN interconnection. Ventia plan to grow beyond telecoms with datacentre builds. One NZ builds 29 new cell sites

I've only managed 37 minutes of recording today. I'd practiced the guitar part earlier on; it's very hard because it involves hammering-on with my left pinky which is double-jointed, and I have to…

The legendary Molly Stark was married to a Revolutionary War general whose truncated quote gave rise to a state motto. tag front Her furniture inspired a whole collection; this tag for the inspired…

I'm seeing a lot of political actors and commentators advocating for hardball strategies right now, while lamenting that what they are advocating for isn't ideal. Here's Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI),…

ZenLake OS 26.04 is now available based on Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute Raccoon). ZenLake is a remix of Debian/Ubuntu LTS with GNOME desktop that is configured to be user-friendly. It is minimal and…

vLLM has very slow time to first token (TTFT). On AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 it can take even 10 minutes depending on exact settings and model size. To make my user experience of using those things myself…

A month or so after returning from our Norwegian adventure, and its heavy seas, I realised that I hadn't written much about Ambience , the cruise ship we sailed on, or the cruise line, Ambassador,…

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Mad Cave Studios Brings A Powerful New Anthology Amplifying Indigenous Voices, Storytelling, and Advocacy, Rooted in Direct Support for Native-Led Organizations A powerful new anthology brings…

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Just for a little while, under the sunny breeze, I want to crawl back to earth, To the warmth of the decomposing leaves; I want to be buried in the comforting brown, And fall asleep to the endless…

Athletes have rest built into their training. Teachers don’t. Here’s why recovery isn’t optional — and what it actually looks like later in the year.

What Railway History Can Teach Us About the Current Bubble

What's the line in the sand on U.S. government debt? The post A Government Debt Crisis? appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...

With the exception of my pre-internet elementary school days, I've never been an avid reader. Not that I didn't read at all, but it never was a "real hobby", let alone a habit. 2 years ago, something…

Band:Jungle Rot Country:USA Genre:Death Metal Year:2026 Buy the original! Download

(The original article I wrote compared the current system to Nazi concentration camps. It was pointed out to me that this was an incorrect analogy so I've changed the article to compare the current…

How I used Symphony, OpenClaw, Codex, a home server, Telegram Web QA, and a Windows GPU worker to revive Voicy as an agent-driven maintenance loop.

Omarchy is an amazing distro for “computer dads” like me, and if you’re a computer dad, I’d highly recommend giving Omarchy a try. What, you might be wondering, is a computer dad? A computer dad is a…

In the defense of deceased authors, whose name and works are used to support postmodern ideologies. Introduction Recently, I was listening to an interview given by Hermione Lee in 2014, in which she…

Go all the way down the streetAnd turn left when you get to heaven.If the gate is open, just go right in.If the gate is closed, you’re on your own.Rustle the rain and rustle the wind.Write…

Band:Darkthrone Country:Norway Genre:Black/Doom/Heavy/Speed Metal Year:2026 Buy the original! Download

Overdose deaths, homicides, and traffic fatalities are falling sharply, suggesting America may be seeing one of its most important public-health reversals in years.

The 95 GeV bump is suspiciously close to the mass of the Z boson plus the mass of the b-quark. The 152 GeV bump is close to the mass of two W bosons reduced by the mass of two b-quarks. The…

7OOP3D Live! 20 Year Mixterversary 20 Years. Countless Remixes. We’re celebrating 7OOP3D’s two-decade legacy on ccMixter with a remix party centered around their upcoming EP, Broken Rites . <br…

Okay, I've been meaning to talk about books and games and things I've been into for ages and I keep putting it off. If I can keep up with it better I'll try to go a bit more in depth with my…

Listen,,, being a dad rules in so many ways but recently I've been able to revel in one of the Ultimate Forms: watching my kid Participate in The Arts. She's been a part of a little choir that meets…

GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it might be self-inflicted.

I’m going on tour next month (Portland and SF) and then a bunch of other places around the world in the early fall. Come see me talking Stoicism—grab tickets here. I hated writing essays in high…

My Heart is a Chainsaw is the first in a trilogy of horror novels by Stephen Graham Jones. As I mentioned in my earlier review of his book&nbsp;The Only Good Indians there is a strong tradition of…

Im Jahr 2002 hat der Chef von Amazon allen Mitarbeitenden ein berühmtes Memo geschrieben, welches als “The Jeff Bezos API Mandate” in die Geschichte Eingang fand. Kernaussage: All teams will…

I went down the Japanese knife rabbit hole over Christmas. Getting into something new can feel quite overwhelming, especially for me. I tend to skip the Dunning-Kruger effect and immediately notice…

So I went and deployed six AI agents to Slack last week. Gave each one a title like they were actual employees. I didn&#8217;t do it to be cute. I did it because I was drowning. Right now I&#8217;ve…

The world won't be the same without Tony Stella in it, but his spirit, integrity, and passionate love of movies lives on in the work he left behind.

I recently bought a new watch. It's the Casio MQ24-9B. I got it for ~20€. Here are some picture of it: I didn't expect much from the watch. It's extremely simple, and it only really does one thing,…

Innocent people confess to crimes they never committed. It sounds extreme, but it is a real and documented problem. Photography Book Spotlight

AI is fantastic for extending thinking. The trouble is that the people crossing the line from extension to substitution cannot tell, from the inside, that they have. Including, possibly, the person…

In the 2026 World Happiness Report, all but one Latin American country scores above what income predicts. East Asia shows the opposite pattern.

Modern agent harnesses make work durable across restarts, devices, background jobs, and sub-agents. That durability is a runtime property, not a governance property. A session answers where the agent…

Note: Experimenting with quick writeups as I play around with LLMs using my homegrown agentic workflow system. Today’s idea (and the workflow system itself) both came from a dream of building a…

A friend asked if I was familiar with the crawfish enchiladas offered at Ninfa’s in Waco. While I had never had them, I looked at the restaurant’s online menu, and... Source

John Roberts issues warning on Supreme Court overruling precedent Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts said at a Wednesday judicial conference that the Supreme Court must be cautious about…

So, I was talking to my wife about trying to blog again, and her assessment was pretty blunt: “Blogging is dead.” I can’t say I disagree. Even at the outset of the reboot, I wondered whether the…

On of the first programs I ever ran on a computer was a text adventure game, also known as Interactive Fiction. I think the first one I played was Adventureland by Scott Adams, which was based on the…

Jesus Christ and the Antichrist will be facing off this upcoming January with Dark Horse Comics' next installment in the Millarworld Library. The American Jesus Library Edition will feature all three…

yotsuba&!, kiyohiko azuma whenever i talk about my grandmothers, i feel like i always talk about them with a heavy heart, but it isn’t always so sad and so heavy. sometimes, when it’s funny and…

Gisele Pelicot, the Girl Guide we all need, is about to be framed and sent to FaB (Fringe Arts Bath) to be exhibited there. Many thanks to @chloesavageartist and <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n…

“It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope."