New Restaurant, Celina TX. I’m from a time and place where a date meant dinner and a movie. Dinner was for talking. The movie was, maybe, for holding hands. Afterward you walked and talked a little more, then you took her home, and if you were lucky you got a kiss, and you thought about that kiss the whole drive back. I have no idea how that evening could happen today. The modern restaurant is a polished concrete box with exposed ductwork and no wall between the dining room and the kitchen,…

Bubbles now has Spanish blogs Bubbles has a third edition: [bubbles.town/es](https://bubbles.town/es/). It lists about 220 personal blogs written in Spanish, from Spain and from Latin America, with around 2,700 posts so far. Switch to it with the new ES button in the header. The starting point was [¡Blog!¡Blog!](https://blogblog.es), a directory of personal blogs in Spanish that some of you pointed me to (Thank you!). From there I went through some of the blogrolls of those blogs and a list of…

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links: Read: — Choosing the Right Work Pen, Part 2 — Lamy (Line Variation) — The J. R. Moon Try-Rex pencil (pencil talk) — HOT TECH TIPS for quieter, more analog living (Extra Fine Writing) — The James…

Re: Replies instead of comments Ben Behnke might be running one of the most interesting laboratories on the internet at Bubbles. The goal is to make independent posts from personal blogs more visible. And Ben is constantly making tweaks that bring Bubbles closer to this objective. I was disappointed, though, when he decided to remove comments. You could leave a comment on Bubbles by posting to Mastodon, which seemed like a clever use of the technology. I understand, though, why he removed them.…

In February 2025 I wrote in my notes: "I keep investigating operating systems, and it seems to be my current hobby." That was an understatement. Over the following year I installed something new on my laptop almost every month, and sometimes twice in the same week. Today that laptop runs Alpine Linux, and has done so since February 2026. This post is the story of how I got here. The short version covers two years. The long version starts more than forty years ago, with a rubber keyboard. A…

The breakout issue of 2026 has undoubtedly been data centres, more precisely opposition to data centres. People despise them. In the US midterms, only a single ballot measure (out of 44) on data centres resulted in a favourable outcome for the developers. In exit polls conducted by CBS News, 76% of respondents oppose construction of data centres in their community – and it’s not just Democrats (87% oppose): opposition among Republicans (62% oppose) and independents (78% oppose) is high too.…

The last 48 hours of the Ever-Expanding Jensen Huang Saga have been an absolute delight for me. I am feasting on schadenfreude and everyone I know is sending each other jokes about it all day long. It's great. I want to see the man cry. I cannot get enough of tech CEO humiliation - and the best part is that he is the one tech CEO whose company is actually, meaningfully profiting off of the LLM bubble which is destroying all my friends' careers. I could not have hoped for a better public…

This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI by Ethan Mollick, held November 15, 2026. Most of the group rated the book around three to four stars, noting that broad AI books age quickly even when individual concepts stick. We discuss how early prompt words steer entire threads, mechanistic interpretability experiments with injected concepts, why forcing an AI to be a contrarian backfires, O-ring bottlenecks when drafting speeds up, designing…

We have a damp patch. A plumber came out and said it was the silicone so maybe it’s fixed. OH: “I was like ‘how’re you?’ and she just went on and on and on. Like, I already have a girlfriend, spare me your life’s story”. These two lads went on in this vein for a while saying things I don’t even want to repeat. Amazing to be so close to the two worst men in the world. Last week’s pollen or gunpowder question was answered by a squirrel. I was looking out the window at my neighbour’s boy-cedar.…

Heba Habib, Al Jazeera: Microsoft says it has had only “marginal success” in restoring its most widely used workplace services, more than 12 hours after a global outage knocked out Outlook and disrupted Teams and Copilot for users in 74 countries. This is among the best of the explainers I have found, but it has two problems in common with the others. The first is that it relies on Downdetector for key information, including the “74 countries” figure. But that is not first-party information…

Sir Daniel Fortesque has been brought back from the dead quite a few times over the years, although I suspect even he might be surprised by his latest resurrection. Almost three decades after MediEvil first arrived on the original PlayStation, a small team of developers has managed to bring the 1998 classic to modern computers, complete with improved visuals, widescreen support, modern controller features and the sort of technical improvements that weren't remotely possible on Sony's original…

First impressions are that Kyoto is lively and there’s a lot more jaywalking . The post Wandering in Kyoto appeared first on @Kevuhnn / 📸 / 📚 / 🇨🇦.

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In my last article, I said how I noticed that this blog is being visited by the American Osteopathic College of Radiology, and how I believe that these are just bots faking the referrer field. After another week of glancing at my analytics, I suspect that kagi.com referrer is being abused by bots as well. From around the mid-October, I started to receive much more traffic with the source of kagi.com. The traffic is diverse, and comes from different countries and different devices. However, the…

I upgraded my Debian Bullseye $6.47/month VPS from Bullseye (Debian 11) to Bookworm (Debian 12.15 according to /etc/debian_release contents). It’s a VPS hosted somewhere in the Kansas City metro area, I was prepared for the process to not work, and I’d have to try some difficult recovery method. It worked! Victory is mine! Science triumphs!

Michael Acton, George Hammond, and Demetri Sevastopulo, reporting for the Financial Times: Jensen Huang is considering a comeback as Nvidia’s chief executive, as allies in Silicon Valley pressure the company’s board to reinstate him days after the tech executive resigned over reports he had affairs with a suspected Chinese spy and a subordinate. Huang has discussed with confidantes the possibility of returning, according to multiple people familiar with the matter — even as an independent probe…

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. II, Chapter 24, § 295 (tr. Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway): Therefore with respect to our reading the art of not reading is extremely important. It consists in our not picking up whatever happens to be occupying the greater public at any given time, such as for instance political or literary pamphlets, novels, poems and so on, which currently make a lot of noise and even reach several editions in the first and last years…

It’s no secret that I am not a fan of ‘AI’… Or rather what folks like Sam Altman are selling as AI. What I have realized is that I am actually not anti-AI, I am actually more focused on the real downsides of the hyped-up uses of AI and am against those, rather than the more interesting advances actually being made in the industry and the advances likely to come in the future. We are nowhere near actual intelligence but if you listen to Altman you will hear that AI is here and we should give…

Replies instead of comments 📢 Bubbles aims to help you find interesting posts on small personal blogs, and then to send you over to the original blog to read them. Earlier this month I removed comments, and with them the Hot tab and the two comment feeds. In their place, Bubbles now links blog posts that answer each other. Replies to Bubbles' Fediverse posts showed up under each entry as comments. That gave every listed post a potential comment section, including posts on blogs whose writers…

A white plastic house of rounded shells raised on a single pedestal, among autumn trees. I published the House board this week with four hundred and eight images and one apt quote from Le Corbusier: “A house is a machine for living in.” Like Garment before it, the board doesn’t explain itself. That’s by design — it’s a thing to be looked at and thought about. What follows here are the notes on the back of the sleeve: what I was looking for; what the images turned out to have in common; the…

The rugged landscape of Colorado’s Poudre River Canyon. The post In Poudre River Canyon appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Katherine Rundell’s Why You Should Read Children’s Books leapt towards me in the bookstore yesterday—it’s lovely—and in it, she quotes Frances Spufford in his memoir The Child That Books Built: We cannot be told ‘there once was a prince’ without also being told (on some level and in some part) that it was right that there was a prince. What knits together out of nothing, and yet is solid enough to declare that it is so, recommends itself to us...In this lies the power, and the danger, of…

Everything appears to worsen over time thanks to a combination of factors that, in fact, actively worsen it and our memories of the past that keep getting rosier. There are people who claim the internet is dead today for being filled mostly by bots. There are others who point out that blogging is a ‘dying art form’ and their arguments have merit. Indeed if you look hard enough you will find people who have pointed out how writing is a dying art form too. And knitting. And photography. And…

We remodeled a bathroom, but my wife assigned me the job of building a unique storage unit for the corner. I welded and glued this up from:19th-century wrought iron work on the sides. An old gate I cleaned up, trimmed to size, and welded edges to. The cleaning was a labor. 1-inch square tube and 1/4" x 1.25" strip for the structure and tabs.Clips welded from 1/2-inch angle to position the shelves. Recycled removed oak wood flooring, edge-glued and sanded to make shelves. Some drilling and…

When I woke up this morning I thought about writing about the ongoing drama surrounding Nvidia and its morally and ethically corrupt leader. But, then I quickly saw the news about Microsoft Outlook going down, and with it Teams and Copilot. I soon saw many employees celebrating what effectively became a "snow day for adults" as they literally couldn't do their jobs. Then I started seeing various businesses, ranging from small to medium, saying that their normal support services are…

I hate the concept of banned books. I read Fahrenheit 451 when I was about 10 years old. I was reading a few books a week, just like I do today. My parents let me read anything on their shelves, and I read plenty of stuff way out of my age range. I remember reading James Michener’s The Drifters in the Bronx while visiting my mom’s parents, who both passed away when I was in seventh grade. I find everything about Florida’s House Bill 1467 (2022) to be grotesque. It requires a certified media…

It’s been a long week. I feel like the public knows a lot more about a CEO’s sex life than we all needed to know, don’t you? I know that sex is a juicy topic for gossip, but I think nearly everyone is focused on the wrong thing here. People have called the woman from the first-revealed affair a “honeypot,” and him a sucker for falling for it. Though the spy narrative so far holds no water, everyone has been incredibly naive to think they would somehow not be susceptible to emotional…

The Apache Security team, regarding CVE-2026-119618: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server's mod_http2 in assign_headers() can lead to RCE. This issue affects Apache HTTP Server: from 2.4.55 through 2.4.70. Affected releases of mod_h2 from GitHub: from 2.0.8 through 2.0.42. Apache ranked this "Critical" according to their impact levels, which means it meets the following criteria: A vulnerability rated with a Critical impact…

In 2014 La Salle Education, headed at the time by Mark McCourt, started offering affordable teacher-led Saturday maths conferences. Running at least three times a year for twelve years, including virtual conferences during lockdown, these events had a profound effect on maths education. Hundreds of teachers attended every event and disseminated ideas through the system. Maths education improved