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My quote tonight was seen on as a thread comment on an article about the people who climbed the empire state building to hang a flag that said, “When the power of love beats the lover of power, the world knows peace.” And I had to...
Lots of news, some sad, about America’s final cruiser class. The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) returned to her homeport at San Diego on 27 June, following 11-months of sustained operations at sea in the...
In the Newsletter this weekAnalysis: Praha - Berlin - København: well at least the carriages can complete the entire journeyBullshit Meter, retrospective: Lisboa-Madrid to be a bit less painfulGood week: Andorra to get a railway (well, a...
One of the most aggressively American images I have seen in a long time. It is beautiful. Official caption: “U.S. National Guardsmen join service members from Croatia and nine other countries for Combat Power in Slunj, Croatia, June 27,...
Everyone talking about coding models fixates on the same number: how fast the thing generates code. This misses the point by a lot. The story isn't about how fast the model writes code I would have written anyway. It's that the model...
With all of this, there’s been plenty of uncertainty and plenty to learn from. Through it all, I feel like I’m learning more about keeping things in perspective and getting marginally better at finding balance. Still, there’s plenty to...
The first book printed in Hebrew with a date on it was printed in Italy and dated 18 February 1475. It was a commentary by Rashi on the Chumash (the first five books of the Bible, the Torah, as distinguished from a Torah scroll, which...
og-image.png (Default OpenGraph preview image for the site.) In the biggest clean-up to this site since back 2020 when I took the photo gallery down and static’d the wiki, I’ve cobbled together a new theme and logo, made a bunch of...
The difference in our perception of people we love is that we assume good intent. Every quirk, every friction — we interpret it charitably. The wider we expand that circle of assumed good intent, the more likely we are to find community...
Tomorrow is July 4, 2026, and if you’re a student of American history, you know what that means: It means I’ll be trying to recover from celebrating my 79th birthday, which is today.But it also means that tomorrow the United States will...
(The painter) makes it his business to extract from fashion whatever element it may contain of poetry within history, to distill the eternal from the transitory." "By ‘modernity’ I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the...
I could pull pretty much any random passage from a Boyle video and strike gold, but this one in particular caught my attention.The first story was told by the Leave campaign, who drove a large red bus around the UK with the words, "We...
A festival. A wedding. A moment. A sudden death. Collective grieving. 3,632km driving on the left. Hiking and empty beaches, a fairy forest, a missing lake monster. Spontaneous car rental. A funeral. 40 degrees. 40 degrees again. Laying...
Welcome to this week's Link Dump, where we wish our fellow Americans a happy 250th birthday!The unveiling of the Victoria Cross.A handy reminder that Robin Hood was no hero.One really freaking long tennis match.The motivations of...
The US Supreme Court’s decision this week in Trump v. Slaughter, giving the US president the power to control supposed-to-be independent agencies set up and funded by Congress, may be as profound internationally as it is domestically. In...