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 just finished creating and publishing a new version of The Newsletter Leaf Journal Sign-Up page on The New Leaf Journal. It had been a long time since I last changed the page. I improved the structure of the page, beginning by listing different ways people can subscribe to or otherwise follow our Saturday...
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 Resource, January 21 2026). This sounds like a sound policy to me. Even were I to set...
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 that I would have published the review well before mid-January. Alas,...
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 Russian republics. Thus, I learned that only languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet...
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. Regular readers will now that while I think there are some potentially good use-cases...
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, documented by the Post, was before I opened the article. I happened to see it yesterday...
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 Tale for Christmas instead of Valentine’s Day in 2022). I settled on Christmas...
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 last week (I fixed with a “downgrade”). I decided that I did not want to...
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 do appreciate spending Christmas Eve at home instead of at NYU Langone in...
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 by Renee Straker for The Weather Channel. In that article, I learned a bonus...
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