Stigler’s law of eponymy: “No scientific discovery is named after its original...
Stigler’s law of eponymy: “No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.” Stigler’s law is itself an example of Stigler’s law.
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The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
The Revolutionary Life of the Black-Owned Bookstore with Char Adams
Char Adams is the author of Black Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore. She chronicles Black-owned bookstores in America – from David Ruggles, all the way to the stores that opened up in 2020 during the Black Lives Matter uprisings.
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Service Outage
Quoting Nicholas Carlini
Previously, when malware developers wanted to go and monetize their exploits, they would do exactly one thing: encrypt every file on a person's computer and request a ransome to decrypt the files. In the future I think this will change.
LLMs allow attackers to instead proce...
Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
Hot on the heels of yesterday's Gemini 3 Pro release comes a new model from OpenAI called GPT-5.1-Codex-Max.
(Remember when GPT-5 was meant to bring in a new era of less confusing model names? That didn't last!)
It's currently only availa...
How I automate my Substack newsletter with content from my blog
I sent out my weekly-ish Substack newsletter this morning and took the opportunity to record a YouTube video demonstrating my process and describing the different components that make it work. There's a lot of digital duct tape involved, taking the content from Django+Heroku...
Contrary to Rumors, Apple Will Continue Broadcasting ‘Friday Night Baseball’
mlb.com/news/mlb-announces-media-rights-deals-with-espn-nbc-netflix
Anthony Castrovince, reporting for MLB.com on the new broadcast rights agreement that will cover the next three seasons of baseball:
Sunday Night Baseball will shift from ESPN, where it aired since
1990, to NBCUniversal, which also secured the rights to Sunday
Leadoff an...
Citation Needed
• Molly White
Issue 97 – This is hardship
While slumping prices have some fearing it’s crypto winter again, Trump looks to Saudia Arabia and American retail crypto investors to fund the development of his next hotel
Cloudflare’s Uptime and Scale
Miguel Arroz, on Mastodon:
Unpopular opinion, apparently: companies like Cloudflare and
Amazon provide very high quality services people and enterprises
actually need, with a level of uptime and security vastly superior
to what most of their customers would achieve on th...
The Librarians
As part of the fascist war on “woke”, tens of thousands of books have been pulled from the shelves of libraries around the country over the past few years. On the front line are the nation’s librarians, “first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment rig...
Apple Announces Finalists for the 2025 App Store Awards
apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/apple-announces-finalists-for-the-2025-app-store-awards/
Apple Newsroom:
Finalists in the Mac App of the Year category provided users with powerful tools to confidently take on new projects:
- Acorn, for being the go-to tool for pro-level photo edits.
- Essayist, for taking the stress out of sourcing and formatting academic papers.
- Under My Roof, for keeping homeowners organized and prepared.
Nice to see Flying Meat’s Acorn — one of my own favorite and most-used apps since 2007, before it even shipped — getting this sort of recognition from Apple. Back in June, Apple featured Acorn in the WWDC keynote, during the preview of Liquid Glass.
Link: apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/apple-announces-finalists-for…
NASA’s Perseverance rover scooped up a rock that might prove there was...
NASA’s Perseverance rover scooped up a rock that might prove there was life on Mars. But the planned return of that sample to Earth is endangered by the Trump regime.
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. “The transit system is one of the greatest tools communities have to combat climate change and reduce emission. You can make a pretty immediate impact.”
“Geothermal is underdeveloped, and its upfront costs can be high, but it’s...
“Geothermal is underdeveloped, and its upfront costs can be high, but it’s always on and, once it’s set up, it is cheap and enduring.” Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal Energy.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince Explains, in Detail, and Apologizes for Yesterday’s Global Outage
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince:
The issue was not caused, directly or indirectly, by a cyber
attack or malicious activity of any kind. Instead, it was
triggered by a change to one of our database systems’ permissions
which caused the database to output multiple entries in...
Rainy Day Jazz Vinyl Set. “Plenty of ballads, blues and heart-warming songs...
Rainy Day Jazz Vinyl Set. “Plenty of ballads, blues and heart-warming songs from Jazz artists across the ages for a cold, and rainy Sunday afternoon.”
Tim Cook Among Attendees of Last Night’s Black-Tie White House Dinner Honoring Journalist-Murdering Tyrant Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia
The New York Times:
The world’s richest man. One of the world’s most famous soccer
players. The president of soccer’s governing body. Dozens of
executives from the finance, tech and energy sectors. These are
some of the guests who attended President Trump’s black-tie din...
Can You Drive West to Lengthen the Sunset?
Two reasons why XKCD’s What If? series is so compelling:
- Even when an answer seems straightforward, the devil is in the details.
- And with respect to the details, Munroe does his due diligence.
In this case, the answer to “what’s the longest possible sunset you can experience while driving, assuming you’re obeying the speed limit and driving on paved roads?” was fairly surprising and exact and the explanation delightful.
Btw, the ending of the video is a callback to an early XKCD comic about angular momentum.