The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café Social
Nicholas A. Ferrell
The Emu Café Social is a social-publishing site powered by WordPress. Members will be able to use the site to post about what interests them and discuss their external projects. While the site is conducive to short-to-medium-length posts, it also accommodates longer-form writing. By advertising feeds and user profiles, it will be easy for visitors to follow individual writers or to follow the project as a whole. In general, members of the site can and will post about subjects of interest to them.
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I learned that Ebay updated its terms of service to explicitly prohibit the use of “buy-for-me agents, LLM-driven bots, or any end-to-end flow that attempts to place orders without human review” on site (Liz Morton for Value Added...
I started “playing” (more accurately, reading) a visual novel called Christmas Tina on Christmas. As I explained in an earlier post, I am working on a NLJ review of Christmas Tina. Had you asked me when I started, I would have thought...
From a January 12, 2026 Jamestown Foundation report by Vadim Shtepa: The Karelian language has no official status in Russia because it is written in the Latin alphabet, as only those written in Cyrillic can be official languages of...
Replied to In The Beginning There Was Slop by Jim Nielsen (blog.jim-nielsen.com) You don’t need AI to produce slop because slop isn’t made by AI. It’s made by humans — AI is just the popular tool of choice for making it right now....
I saw the following New York Post headline in my Miniflux feed reader this morning: NYC snow pile carved into ‘crazy’ Snow King sculpture — now it’s a tourist attraction. I was almost certain I knew what the Snow King sculpture,...
I wanted to review a Christmas-themed visual novel on NLJ (having previously reviewed io [Christmas Eve] and Plain Song Christmas Special in 2022 and Christmas Rose in 2024 (with hindsight being 20/20, I should have reviewed A Winter’s...
I ran a full upgrade on my desktop workstation (EndeavourOS, which is based on Arch). One of the upgraded packages was nvidia-open-dkms. After the upgrade was complete, applications were flickering on my desktop. The same thing happened...
Today is Christmas Eve. This brings back a special memory for me. Seven years to the day, I had surgery to remove 8 inches of my colon on this festive day (I was discharged on the Friday the 28th of 2018). While all was well in the end,...
I knew that we had three consecutive Supermoons from October-December (see Newsletter Leaf Journal 253). I did not however remember the date of the recent December “Cold Supermoon” off the top of my head. I found the date in an article...
While reading about iFIXIT’s new FixBot, I learned that IFIXIT has had app difficulties with Apple’s App Store in the past. Back in 2015, IFIXIT “tore down the Apple TV and Siri Remote” that had been sent to it by Apple. IFIXIT, which...
I am a fan of IFIXIT and I have used its guides to make repairs/upgrades to computers and other electronics (still on my to-do list is following its guide to replace the battery in my Google Pixel 6a). IFIXIT has introduced a new AI...
I read an article about the completion of the renovation of the Brooklyn Public Library in Gerritsen Beach. Although I am a life-long resident of Brooklyn (NYC) and can point out Gerritsen Beach on a map, I have never stepped foot in the...
Ryushiki07’s Higurashi: When They Cry is one of the better-known Japanese doujin visual novel (or “sound novel”) series, with the original eight main entries having been released from 2002-2010. On November 25, 2025, Ryushiki07 posted on...
The Republic of Uzbekistan gained independence from the former Soviet Union on September 1, 1991. But according to Eurasianet, the most recent census in Uzbekistan was conducted in 1989. Former Uzbek President Islam Karimov (ruled from...
I had never heard of “Mixue” before reading Tom Whitwell’s 52 things I learned in 2025. To learn about Mixue, I turn to the post cited to by Mr. Whitwell, The story of Mixue by Sam Tang. Mr. Tang explains that Mixue is a fast food chain...