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Some people’s clothes have a way of riding up in unfortunate places, in a way that seems almost willful. It’s as if the clothes are sentient, and cloth and wearer are locked in a lifelong battle for supremacy. I know people who can look...
A response to I’m Gay, Not Queer. It Matters. Mr. Vines has written a truly stunning piece published by the ever-affirming New York Times. He reminds us how the queer community dares to remain a broad, undefined, sinful, umbrella...
Disclosure: I am an advisor to Binarly. I recently built the FIPS 140-3 Corpus, a dataset that pulls together the public record of FIPS validations. It combines CMVP certificate records, Security Policies, implementation details,...
A quick disclaimer first: after I'd already bought a physical copy of this game, and then played it for a week and a half, I found out that it actually has a western release (though I don't think it has a physical version), under the...
Given that a big reason for having official state crap in the first place is to call attention to what the state’s adopted as “official,” it’s a little surprising to me that all U.S. state (and territorial) legislatures don’t already...
Kif Leswing and MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC: Apple on Friday sued OpenAI in federal court in Northern California, alleging trade secret theft, saying that the artificial intelligence lab took the iPhone maker’s intellectual property in order...
In the middle of the Artificial Intelligence wars, which has included quite a bit of employee shuffling between AI hungry tech companies seeking to gain an edge, it seems someone might not have been all that intelligent when it comes to...
Power Cat 2026-07-10
“You know how tall all the trees are in Mulligan Wood. You can’t see the tops of some of them from the wagon-road on a clear day. And you know how crooked and queer-looking some of them are. It’s funny, but I’ve always thought of them as...
June 1969. The Soviet Union stuns the world when cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first man to walk on the Moon. The Americans, whose own effort is just a few weeks away, are infuriated. The Soviets plan to surprise them again with a...
I've had this long, long running relationship with bookmarking and read it later services. I'll commit to one, excited about whatever feature set it offers and then, without fail, my list grows and grows and grows and grows. I archive...
Yesterday early in the morning, with the help of Claude, I finally figured out what prevented me from logging into indieweb.org. It was something stupid really, one of those things that most people who register their own domains will...
“I’m going to water the bananas.” My family knows that means I’m going to shower outside using the hose with a watering wand attached and hooked to an old bird feeder stand, placed next to some banana plants. It’s one of my favorite...
‘In Paul Rabinow’s monograph Symbolic Domination (1975) the anthropologist examines the history of a Moroccan village and its dominant lineage descended from a seventeenth century saint Sidi-Lachen. A second book, Reflections on...