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I cleaned out a closet this past week with the vague thought that I might have an old CCD sensor point-and-shoot camera. It turns out that I have TWO, both Nikon CoolPix: a P5100 and P7100. The former doesn’t seem to have a battery, but...
X.AI – the company was-trillionaireElon Musk built in 2025 by smashing together X (the former Twitter) and xAI, which he founded in 2023 – is suing the state of Minnesota, claiming that its new law banning access to nudification...
In Virtue Hoarders, Catherine Liu’s polemic against the professional managerial class, she calls attention to how Obama talked about reading in the waning days of his presidency. In his farewell address on January 10, 2017, he said:...
Virtue Hoarders by Catherine Liu (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) Catherine Liu argues that the professional managerial class (PMC) are marked by their use of meritocracy, philanthropy, and virtue signaling to promote the core...
And I say this to you, despite the craziness of all the things around me . . . the morning is perfect.Nothing is pressing and nothing is weighing too heavy at the moment.The day is young and fresh, as if to just be born or perhaps I...
DC's Hawkgirl Summer Cover Date: September 2026 / Release Date: July 26, 2026Script Meghan FitzmartinArt: Meghan HetrickColorist: Nick Filardi Letterer: Travis LanhamEditing: Andrew MarinoCover: Guillem MarchHawkgirl (Kendra Saunders)...
John Wyver writes: When the BBC television service at Alexandra Palace began operations officially on 2 November 1936, it was fitted out with four Emitron electronic cameras supplied by the recently-established joint venture company...
On July 21st OpenAI published this piece about how they and Hugging Face partnered to address a security incident during model evaluation. Like many people, I was shocked by the news of how agents at OpenAI broke out of their secure...
And in a follow-up to yesterday’s post on the ‘Minutemen’ of the old 328th, here is a second piece from the TEC4 William Faucett collection: the Grapevine unit newspaper of the 26th (Yankee) Infantry Division from October 1945, which...
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” - Leonard BernsteinHello friends! It always seems like Friday sneaks up on me before I’ve done what I wanted to do for the week. Here are today’s photo...
Last week, the Canadian-led Operation Latitude and the U.S. Coast Guard-led Operation Frontier Sentinel overlapped in what was termed Operation Tundra Merlin in the Bering Sea. It saw the U.S. Coast Guard Cutters Storis (WAGB 21), Fir...
Some 70 years ago this month, in July 1956, the UGM-27 Polaris SLBM was spitballed at a symposium, starting a compressed four-year development cycle overseen by RADM William “Red” Raborn for the Navy’s side of it, and Kluge, the lucky...
Today’s Substack is for the estimated fourteen people out there who have not seen The Odyssey. If you’re one of them, I’m sure you have your reasons. Maybe you’re just now emerging from a coma. (Congratulations! Although you picked a bad...
We released Agnes this morning back at the same place we found her. Her wounds were healing nicely and it was clear she wanted to leave as she has been trying to squeeze through the bars in the dog crate we have her in. I don’t think she...
NASA has released a new 3D model of the Earth’s gravitational field. “The geoid is an equipotential surface that can be thought of as the shape an ocean surface would take due to the Earth’s… More