Ea-nāṣir's ghost has a long reach.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/mitsubishi-halts-metal-trading-china-after-suspected-copper-fraud-2025-01-14/

Going to try making air sous-vide carrots with lunch today. If I don't come back avenge my death. (It was me in the kitchen with the undercooked food.)

I don't know what to tell you, friends, other than if you live in Taliban country, you're going to get Sharia. If you live in Iowa, same deal.

https://www.thegazette.com/state-government/committee-members-we-didnt-recommend-science-standards-omitting-climate-change-evolution/

I don't know if it's just psychological but I made bacon and eggs on the induction stove today and they tasted better than usual.

There's now either 2 people in the world who are violently opposed to anti-aliased fonts or the ion guy became a 9front user.

I knew January 20 was going to be bad I just didn't know it was going to be the weather.

Once a year I find something to write an extremely short blog post about, which could probably fit in a post here, but I need notes somewhere I can find them.

This time it's about cool C compiler options that show you stuff that isn't used in any way - data and functions which aren't static.

https://ftrv.se/23

Reading about the crash in Washington Post subscriptions/viewership since 2021. I am wondering if it's more related to when they login-walled everything.

I can't be the only person who refuses to give up an email address these days on general principles.

I can't tell if the Monsterdon people are having a good time or a bad time now. It reminds me of judging the Biden vs Trump debate by the type of feedback people were posting, without having participated directly myself.

I don't know what put me in mind to think of this game I used to play with my father back in the early 1980s, but here we are.