Coming off the heels of Midway and Coral Sea, our book club for Samuel Eliot Morison's The Two-Ocean War, a history of the USN in WWII, heads to the South Pacific for our longest chapter yet, an…

The BBC’s science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh, has an excellent article out today about the British government cutting funding for physics research. Specifically for blue-sky research, the sort of…

A trained secret police is still the secret police.

I am doing a series of blog posts diving into 400 Divisadero Street, a defunct car wash and gas station in San Francisco that they're trying to turn into apartments — and have been for over a decade…

A few days ago I posted about the fact that AMSAT-DL had not received any signals from Tianwen-1 since 2025-12-23. For months, AMSAT-DL had kept listening to the orbiter’s frequency with the 20…

I promoted a tweet on X. they took my $10, approved the creative, showed the green “running” status, and then something strange happened. No delivery. in 24 hours: 39 impressions. 80%…

The New Hampshire team is working with this rendering to create their panel for the America's Tapestry Project This year will mark the 250th anniversary since July 4th, 1776, when the Declaration of…

The dangerous game of choosing a right-hand man.

90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective The cryptocurrency industry super PACs dumped $14.2 million into the Illinois primaries. 90% of that – $12.8 million – was…

A few days ago I dropped a simple, pseudo-anonymous question into r/fragrance: “Which Fragrance Blog: From Pyrgos or Varanis Ridari?” The post was deliberately short and neutral. I wanted unfiltered…

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” F. Scott Fitzgerald Most of the OT…

New measurements from V-Dem show how democracy in the U.S. has regressed over the past decade — and the past year.

مؤخرا نشرت وزارة الثقافة السورية سبعة أناشيد مطروحة للملحنين والمغنين أن يختاروا واحدا منها ويلحنوه ليكون النشيد الوطني السوري القادم، بعد النشيد المغضوب (حماة الديار). فلذا رأيت أن أكتب مقارنة بسيطة…

The March 13 delegated regulation on GPAI model evaluation made abstract obligations enforceable. If your agentic AI calls Claude or GPT through MCP, you are a downstream deployer -- and the…

Two stories erupted in the last twenty-four hours that have to do with antisemitism. One is deeply positive. It's a letter signed by 132 Jewish faculty and staff at UCLA rejecting the Trump…

The following was submitted by a Pirate supporter using the pseudonym “Rustbeard”, debunking the myth of nation-building. This article is apart of the…

I’m on strike right now, along with thousands of other faculty, academic professionals, and staff at Portland Community College (that’s two unions, friends!). It’s a weird feeling. I never…

All but the most dull witted dotard cannot fail to notice that the world is going crazy. It doesn't take a genius to realise that it is primarily the fault of that bizarre specimen currently in…

Entrou em vigor hoje no Brasil a Lei 15.211/2025, também chamada Estatuto Digital da Criança e do Adolescente, ou ECA Digital. Confesso que eu não fazia idéia de que essa lei estava em discussão.…

Proponents of nuclear power, whether politicians or representatives of the nuclear industry, have a long history of claiming that their technology will fix the latest of humanity's problems. Today…

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]On the northern edge of Los Angeles, fresh water spills down two stark concrete chutes perched on the foothills of the San Gabriel…

Glenn Branch is deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit organization that defends the integrity of American science education against ideological interference. He is…

Hi there!🛡️ Security & PrivacyMultiple critical AppArmor vulnerabilities enable kernel exploitation, privilege escalation, memory disclosure affecting Ubuntu, Debian systems.…

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — A revival of The Marc Scaringi Show has announced its return as a video podcast, live-streaming on social media platforms including YouTube, X, and Facebook. The theme of…

See you next week in Brussels? Speaking at the EU Cyber Acts Conference in a panel on EU Digital Identity Wallet certification, sharing the implementer’s perspective from Cleverbase.

On March 10, a nonpartisan Washington think tank called the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget published a report called: “Break Glass: A Plan for the Next Economic Shock.” It…

The uncanny timing and uncomfortable political resonance of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another likely helped the film win the Academy Award for Best Picture on Sunday night. The film was…

Article published via West Point's Modern War Institute here . I was inspired to write this article by a conversation between Lex Fridman, Nathan Lambert, and Sebastian Raschka. In it, the three…

I tend to think I’m pretty smart. Of course, that feeling only really flourishes in the periods between someone asking me what’s going on. “With the election,” at times—sometimes it’s “with the…

I’ve spent years watching the gap between what the Americans with Disabilities Act promises and what it actually delivers in practice. The promise is simple: if you’re a disabled worker…

Post: 17 March 2026New blog post on my website:Rushcliffe Borough Council has confirmed its Council Tax address list as open data

It has been more than 2 weeks now since the war against Iran started, and so far, nothing has gone as planned. Literally nothing. Iran’s counteroffensive capabilities have been underestimated.…

18 people have died so far in Iran's attacks on the Gulf's Arab states. The continuing drone and missile strikes beg the question: is the Persian Gulf safe nowadays? The third week of the war in Iran…

Microsoft introduced Credential Guard in Windows 10 (2015) and Windows Server 2016 to prevent credential harvesting from the LSASS process that was abused for years by threat actors. Microsoft used…

Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania — A letter written by a concerned parent is bringing attention to the need for a school district policy to dictate the use of bathrooms by transgender boys in the…

Today is a symbolic day for people in my country. I feel like something was taken from me. There's no internet like the one that used to exist up to yesterday. Everything can be monitored now. Your…

Regulations are the product of negotiations and agreements. (Guest note by Dr. Sharon Yadin)

Although she didn’t see herself as a “political” artist, González did want viewers of her work to “feel assaulted”. Her paintings have a declarative style – graphic forms in vivid colours that…

Preface. New Zealand and other countries in the southern hemisphere are expected to be safer since they are far from nuclear targets. But they would still experience extreme temperature drops and…

Cincinnati has always tolerated gambling. “Chasing the tiger,” as it used to be known, ebbed and surged in popularity over the years, but placing bets has never faded away. For most of Cincinnati’s…

In an episode of Tank Talks Asia hosted by Manisha Tank, Dr. Parag Khanna discusses how climate adaptation, geopolitical stability, and artificial intelligence are reshaping global livability. He…

Report of a workshop on 'Thinking About the Indian Constitution' facilitated by Dr Gautam Bhatia at The Community Library Project, Delhi, on the 28th of February 2026.

The Framework and What It Actually Proposes In February 2026, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio introduced a ceasefire proposal in Riyadh that would freeze the conflict along existing lines of…

The RBA just raised the cash rate to 4.1%. That is two hikes in two months. The big four banks are tipping a third in May to 4.35%, which would be three consecutive rate rises for the first time…

The controversial mass surveillance of private messages in Europe could soon come to an end. Negotiations between the European Parliament and EU member states regarding the extension of the so-called…

The Riyadh Framework and Its Arithmetic of Sacrifice In February 2026, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled a ceasefire proposal in Riyadh that would essentially freeze the conflict along the…

كل ما يلي، بما فيها الهوامش، هي كلمات الشيخ علي الطنطاوي رحمه الله كانت 1 نشأتنا الأولى في عهد العثمانيين، وكانت لهم أناشيد يلقونها علينا باللسان التركي، إذ لم نكن نفهم معانيها الضخمة إلا بالترجمة،…

AI makes automation trivial. Without productive imperfection, differentiation disappears.

Postmodernism is not the belief that "nothing is real." This is a willful misunderstanding perpetuated by political conservatives, a standard case of right-wing projection and blame-shifting: they…

OK so yesterday I did my taxes which I had been putting off for months because of the insane amount of forms I got in the mail. Last year I had two jobs, collected unemployment and went through four…