Doing some maintenance. -steele
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Tuesday, 8 September 2026
quote [ Nearly a century before the Vietnam War, the United States undertook one of its first military interventions in East Asia. It was not a full-scale campaign, and it lasted only a single day. Its opponent was not a modern army but the indigenous Paiwan people of southern Taiwan. ]
But they don't like that much cause it's called Formosa
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Monday, 7 September 2026
quote [ the three drivers of demand of electricity in the world - first one air conditioning, second one data centers, third one EV's ]
Various issues when considering energy from a European perspective.
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quote [ The Meadow Event Park in Doswell, Virginia, lies on a few hundred acres of flat land abutted by farms and an amusement park called Kings Dominion. It’s the kind of place where animals and vegetables get sorted out. ]
Unleashing the dogs would be ideal
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Sunday, 6 September 2026
quote [ Devotion to a Florida home ]
They'll send us away to a little home in Florida
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Saturday, 5 September 2026
quote [ ACM SIGGRAPH:Statement by Ed Catmul regarding the Hand and Face a... ]
One person's kink is another person's PRON.
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quote [ He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight? ]
I ain't Mr. T, nah, I never pity fools
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Friday, 4 September 2026
quote [ What I found at Knossos was less Bronze Age palace, more one man's very confident guess ]
And I said we’re gonna find some bitches up at Knossos
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quote [ Thought travel over game. ]
It's more a digital travel explorer, over a video game; what do you think?
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Thursday, 3 September 2026
quote [ The summer of 2013 will remain the moment we finally realized how broken the Internet was ]
Because it came up in the chat: See the linked appendix section for how Firefox or other systems rely on service calls for "Safe Browsing" features that are usually on by default.
Quote is from the project homepage, which aged badly. Interestingly, their main concern (for a more open internet) seemed not the infrastructure in itself but privacy concerns. Thumb is New South Wales Museum via commons.flickr.com again.
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quote [ a clear biological reason why older brains start blending memories together remains an open question. ]
The paper is available online but the article does a good job of summarizing it, safe for the ugly AI infographic.
thumb is Congress Library via commons.flickr.com
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