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I mentioned earlier that for anyone going along with the ruse that Lake Ontario is now named Lake America, the HOMES mnemonic no longer holds, the only two valid words in English with the new five letters are hames and shame, and that hames is rather too obscure.

But it’s not so obscure in Ireland, where they use it in an idiom: to make a hames of something is to make a mess of it. With that in mind, it’s hard to say which is more apt for this embarrassment, hames or shame.

(The other longstanding Great Lakes mnemonic is the phrase “Super Man Helps Every One”, which I don’t love because neither Superman nor everyone ought to be treated as two words, but it does have the advantage of sorting the lakes geographically from west to east.)

The longtime far-right operator and troll, a UK citizen, is being held in a detention center about 200 miles from New Orleans.

TL;DR: Catching up on a sprawling few weeks of infrastructure rebuilding—from porting C64 BASIC maze generators for the blog to rewriting my RSS feed reader in pure-Go SQLite—along with building a Fediverse ActivityPub bot in a day, resuming my Persona 5 Royal save on a jail...

After chomping on the bit for literally years, we finally got to drive – and I mean really drive – the Porsche Cayenne Electric, and it was everything we’d hoped for, and more. Porsche flew us out to Aspen, Colorado, and gave us a 250-ish-mile mountain road (and off-road) course to devour with their flagship SUV. The $163K monster did not disappoint in acceleration, air-supported suspension comfort, and even fast charging. But, there, as always, are some caveats beyond the huge price tag…

The FDA has upgraded a recall of pistachio butter to the highest risk level, indicating a reasonable chance of "serious adverse health consequences or death" from salmonella contamination.

“The Trump administration told the Supreme Court two weeks ago that construction of a new White House East Wing was ‘65% finished,’ part of its argument that the work was too far along for the court to halt,” the Washington Post reports. “But by the White House’s own standard for measuring the project’s progress, established […]

Autopsy Shows Man Killed by National Guard in Memphis Was Shot in Back.

A running list of restaurants that have recently closed in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.

So far, many of the projects in the ATProtocol ecosystem have focused on bringing parity—making projects that replicate our existing tools and platforms, but with the affordances of the protocol instead. That's cool and we need to do that, but I think we can go much farther, and take this opportunity to challenge some of the biggest assumptions of what the modern internet is for, who builds it, and how we interact with it.

This talk is in conversation with several of the talks from last year, and in I'll argue that we'll never get away from skeuomorphism until we've fundamentally changed the definition of what "the social internet" means in the first place.

Galicia, August 2026.

From the video Great conditions, very little time.

A new documentary implicates the tales Minnesotans have told about the boy’s disappearance for 37 years.

As we do every Friday, we're turning Racket over to you, the readers.

• Draft created: Aug 28, 2026 18:28 (UTC).

“A top pollster for President Donald Trump is pushing back on recent public polling showing Republican Mike Rogers trailing progressive Abdul El-Sayed in the marquee Michigan Senate race,” Politico reports. “Tony Fabrizio, who is conducting polling for Rogers, says the polls released this month are over-sampling Democratic-leaning voters, specifically college-educated and Black voters, according to […]

“The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow the U.S. military to fully enforce its ban on transgender service members, setting up the latest test of the administration’s policy priorities in front of the court,” the New York Times reports. “The justices are expected to consider whether to review the legality of the […]

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Trump's attempt to derail the midterm election by restricting mail-in voting. Judge blocks rule implementing Trump plan to restrict mail-in voting: A federal judge on Thursday blocked the U.S. Postal Service from implementing core p...

The story behind why one lawmaker is pushing so hard for it is as heartbreaking as it is urgent. Continue reading…

A new study named the "worst places to live" in New York State, "according to data." Upstate New York appears on the list. Continue reading…