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The Right to Privacy is a brief written by Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren and published in the Harvard Law Review in 1890. It has not been improved upon since, because what it says is so damn obvious and simple: that the…
A winning non-strategy
When I headed to the Bay Area in 1984, years of success and championships followed for the 49ers, the A's, and the Giants.
When I came to Boston in '07, the Patriots went undefeated (except for the Super Bowl), and the Red Sox and Celtics…
And that's the way it is, Friday, December 6, 2025
I try to come up with unique headlines for my daily bloggngs through Wordland. I can't call the day's blog the date, because the blog already puts the date above the headline. So today it would stack like this
Here’s the flyer for the next talk in our salon series here at Indiana University:
Elettra is one of the most interesting, smart, accomplished, caring, and effective people I know. She is also all of those in English, French, Italian, and German. I met her through our overlapping work around…
Emma Smith and Kirill Podoprigora, two of Python's core developers, have opened a discussion about including Rust code in CPython, the reference implementation of the Python programming language. Initially, Rust would only be used for optional extension modules, but they would like to see Rust become a required dependency over…
History is a live show.
Ever notice that? Probably not. Me either. We wait for somebody—or many bodies—to write it down. Or to podcast it.
Remember “What’s on”? Not if you’ve never watch or listen to live news on a schedule. At this point in history, most of us…
Version 3.23.0 of Alpine Linux has been released. Notable changes in this release include an upgrade to version 3.0 of the Alpine Package Keeper (apk), and replacing the linux-edge package with linux-stable:
For years, linux-lts and linux-edge grew apart and developed their own kernel configs, different architectures, etc.
Now…