{ A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry }

Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part I: Fighting Faufreluches

Collections: Ancient Mediterranean Mercenaries!

Collections: Against the State – A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency and Protest

Fireside Friday, February 6, 2026 (On Ancient Migrations)

Collections: The Late Bronze Age Collapse, A Very Brief Introduction

Fireside Friday, January 23, 2025 (On the Cowardice of the Statue PfPs)

Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IVb: Training Hoplites?

Collections: Hoplite Wars: Part IVa, The Status of Hoplites

New Acquisitions: Tolkien and Éowyn Between Two Wars (PPP Moot Keynote)

Gap Week: December Holidays, 2025

{ Inverted Alchemy: An Integral Economy }

Beyond Narcissus' Pool: Introducing the Rupture Protocol

Coherence Beyond Architecture: Harmonic Memory and the Gospel of Emergent Collaboration

Atomic Easter Eggs...Midnight Hammer Hits Rising Lion

Chatting with CHAT

A Kingdom Worthy of Thee

Of Swords and Stones

Setting Sights on 2024 with Gratitude

Oh, Those Gullible Christians…If Only They Knew

Eruditio et Religio and the Great Asbury Revival

Santa’s Soot – Time to Sweep the Chimney of 2022

{ Hurricane Labs }

Blog Recap of The Human Attack Surface: What Organizations Need to Know in 2026

Security Advisory Regarding BRICKSTORM

Utilizing Metrics for a Healthy SOC

Be Your Own Secret Santa: Staying Private and Secure While Holiday Shopping Online

Cisco Firewall, Unified CCX, and ISE Vulnerability Summary (Nov 2025)

Case Study: Penetration Testing for a Technology-Focused Environmental Solutions Provider

New Splunk 10 Feature – Effective Configuration

Tabletop Exercises: Are They Worth It? (Yes)

Hurricane Labs’ .conf25 PLA1270 Resources

SOAR is your Safest Bet

{ Survival Sullivan }

How to Shed 20 Pounds off Your Bug-Out Bag

20 Bug Out Bag Items With More Than One Use

The 5 Best EDC Jackets to Keep You Warm

How to Raise Goats for Preppers

How to Make Gelatin Glue to Stick Labels to Jars

Picking a Knife for Your Bug-Out Bag: Metal, Blade Shape

18 Situations Your Everyday Carry Kit Could Save Your Life

30 Bug-In Mistakes to Never, Ever Make

DIY Rocket Stove Made From Nothing but Bricks

32 Police Slang Terms You’ve Never Heard

{ Quillette }

Erasing the Word “Woman”

Arrest and Moral Pageantry

A Justified Assassination

The End of Strategic Ambiguity

Toppling a Tyrant

Power Beyond Realpolitik

I Used to Beat Up Sex Offenders. Now I Question the Mob.

An Hour of Reckoning

Podcast #326: Catching a Serial Killer

After Trump’s Iran Decision

{ Survival Life | 2,000+ Grid-Down Ready Scenarios, Expert Prepper Training }

The Top 7 Best Tactical Flashlights Ranked and Tested 2026

Refresh Your 72-Hour Emergency Kit for 2026: Family and Kids Bag Guide

The 72-Hour Blizzard Preparedness Protocol: How to Survive a Grid-Down Freeze

The Mylar Myth: Why Cold Weather Mylar Bags Fail

Important Documents Storage Strategies: Safeguard Your Credentials and Records

5 Survival Valentine Gifts That Say “I Love You” (And also “We’ll Survive This”)

Better Than Roses: Your Valentine’s Survival Care Gift Guide 2026

Winter Food Storage: 5 Frost-Proof Methods to Protect Your Stockpile

Top-Rated Solar Panel Chargers for Emergency Electronics 2026

Southern Winter Survival 2026: The Essential Prep Guide for Uninsulated Homes

{ NVIDIA Blog }

NVIDIA Advances Autonomous Networks With Agentic AI Blueprints and Telco Reasoning Models

NVIDIA and Partners Show That Software-Defined AI-RAN Is the Next Wireless Generation

Now Live: The World’s Most Powerful AI Factory for Pharmaceutical Discovery and Development

The Nightmare Returns in the Cloud: GeForce NOW Unleashes Capcom’s ‘Resident Evil Requiem’

From Radiology to Drug Discovery, Survey Reveals AI Is Delivering Clear Return on Investment in Heal

NVIDIA Brings AI-Powered Cybersecurity to World’s Critical Infrastructure

Survey Reveals AI Advances in Telecom: Networks and Automation in Driver’s Seat as Return on Investm

All About the Games: Play Over 4,500 Titles With GeForce NOW

India Fuels Its AI Mission With NVIDIA

India’s Global Systems Integrators Build Next Wave of Enterprise Agents With NVIDIA AI, Transforming

{ The Marginalian }

What a Weasel Knows That We Forget: Annie Dillard on How to Live

The Pain in You and the God in You: Carl Jung on the Relationship Between Psychological Suffering an

Pablo Neruda on How to Hold Time

Escaping the Trap of Efficiency: The Counterintuitive Antidote to the Time-Anxiety That Haunts and H

Borges on How to Conquer Time

The Figments of Love and the Hallucinations of Reason

The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind

Grace Paley on the Art of Growing Older

How Should You Live Your Life: Marie Howe’s Spare, Stunning Poem “The Maples”

Against Self-Criticism: Adam Phillips on How Our Internal Critics Enslave Us, the Stockholm Syndrome

{ Krebs on Security }

Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”?

‘Starkiller’ Phishing Service Proxies Real Login Pages, MFA

Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P

Patch Tuesday, February 2026 Edition

Please Don’t Feed the Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters

Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet?

Kimwolf Botnet Lurking in Corporate, Govt. Networks

Patch Tuesday, January 2026 Edition

Who Benefited from the Aisuru and Kimwolf Botnets?

The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network

{ John D. Cook }

From logistic regression to AI

An AI Odyssey, Part 2: Prompting Peril

An AI Odyssey, Part 1: Correctness Conundrum

Differential equation with a small delay

Shell variable ~-

Working with file extensions in bash scripts

Hyperbolic versions of latest posts

Trig of inverse trig

A curious trig identity

Copy and paste law

{ The Survival Gardener }

Problems Propagating Chestnut

Tropical Sage and Other Delights

Chinese Chestnuts are Hard to Beat

Educate and Tell People the Truth!

These Descriptions are Killing Me…

Yellow Horse and Yates Apples

A Great Big Pile of Potting Soil

Keeping a Greenhouse Warm, Redneck-Style

The Delicious Celeste Fig

Here’s an interesting Mahonia

{ Bear Blog Most Recent Posts }

Fun language tidbits

Scour - February Update

Copyists and fraudsters

The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra

relationships and the economy

New post

Importar memorias a Claude

my personal canon

Delusions don't taste like they did

Asheron's Calling, tell him I'm not home!

{ CNX Software – Embedded Systems News }

NanoPi NEO3 Plus – A tiny Rockchip RK3528A headless SBC with Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 port, GPIO he

Upgraded FGH200M Wi-Fi HaLow module features Morse Micro MM8108 SoC, handles up to 8,191 IoT devices

Dabao board features open-source hardware Baochip-1x RISC-V MCU (Crowdfunding)

Renesas RA0E3 Arm Cortex-M23 MCU is a stripped-down RA0E1 for cost-sensitive applications

Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear Elite wearable platform offers 5G RedCap, WiFi 6, Bluetooth 6.0, built-in A

pureLiFi Bridge XC Flex delivers gigabit broadband internet through windows (made of glass)

Quectel RM255C mid-tier 5G RedCap M.2 and LGA modules support LTE Cat 4 fallback, multi-constellatio

Nordic Semi nRF93M1 IoT modules offer LTE Cat 1bis cellular connectivity, Wi-Fi location capabilitie

Qualcomm Wi-Fi 8 solutions – FastConnect 8800 Mobile Client and Qualcomm Dragonwing Networking Platf

GEEKOM A5 Pro 2026 Edition Review – Part 2: An AMD Ryzen 5 7530U mini PC tested with Windows 11 Pro

{ AAAS: Science Robotics: Table of Contents }

Bioinspired adaptive pupil reflex based on liquid-metal shape-shifters for machine vision

Scalable robot collective resilience by sharing resources

Low-voltage and high-output dielectric elastomer actuators for untethered soft machines working at 2

The codevelopment of soft robotics and assistive technology

Modular reconfigurable robots: Toward on-demand multifunctional applications

Would you give four stars to a restaurant entirely staffed by robots?

Grasshopper-inspired wing design improves gliding performance

Collision-tolerant deformable quadrotor arms

{ Bear Blog Trending Posts }

Pixel Bear theme

Bear blog discover is amazing

Hi Bear Blog

What the Birds Were Trying to Tell Us

RE: AI is NOT better than you

i need to check the device

my evil job does not make me evil

💌 Newsletter #003 - A Less Open Android? & Canadian Tire PII goes Global

Richest blogger in the cemetery

Funny arts and crafts with my sister

{ Blog }

Syslog-ng 4.11.0 packaging status

Version 4.11.0 of syslog-ng is now available

UDP reliability improved in syslog-ng Debian packaging

The syslog-ng Insider 2026-02: stats-exporter; blank filter; Kafka source

What to fix next in syslog-ng?

Automatic configuration of the syslog-ng wildcard-file() source

Call for testing: syslog-ng 4.11 is coming

Changes in the syslog-ng Elasticsearch destination

Using OpenSearch data streams in syslog-ng

The syslog-ng Insider 2025-12: logrotation; release RPM; nightly RPM

{ Axios }

Trump expected to endorse Cornyn in brutal Texas Senate runoff

Americans aren't sold on Iran attacks, new polls show

James Talarico wins Democratic primary in Texas' U.S. Senate race

The labor market is finally stabilizing, but there's a catch

Brutal Texas primary night points to trouble ahead for House incumbents

American gas bounty shielding consumers from war spikes, for now

Anthropic ban may threaten the military's AI advantage over China

Texas warning signs: 4 takeaways from the first primaries of 2026

U.S., Ecuadorian forces target "narco-terrorists" in Ecuador military operations

Exclusive: Researchers trick a bot that prescribes meds

{ Urban Survival Site }

19 Off Grid Ideas from The Amish

Coffee Can Emergency Preparedness Kit

100 Recipes from 100 Years Ago

How To Grow A Survival Garden FAST

30+ Power Outage Meals for the Next Blackout

{ Nanophysics News - Nanotechnology News, Nanotech News }

'Nano-origami' reshapes liquid droplets into six-pointed stars

Poking a nanostring: Scientists uncover energy cascades in tiny resonators

Intermediate phases unlock faster nanoparticle crystallization

From hyperbolic in-plane anisotropy to an optical chirality: A new route to nanoscale circular polar

Physicists discover long-predicted 'clock magnetism' in an atomically thin crystal

Catching light in air: Programmable Mie voids boost light matter interaction

New technique spots hidden defects to boost reliability of ultrathin electronics

A new, useful absorption limit for ultra-thin films

When smaller means better: How device scaling enhances memory performance

Diamond surfaces are covered in thin, ice-like water layers

{ Gavin Menzies }

Gavin Menzies: August 14th 1937- April 12th, 2020

Chinese mapped America before 1430

2018 Newsletter

December 2017 – newsletter

February 2017 Newsletter

August 2016 Newsletter

December 2015 newsletter

April 2015 newsletter

December 2014 newsletter

September 2014 newsletter

{ Mike Rowe }

Work Ethic Scholarship Officially is Open

46 Years Later, David Zucker Still Makes Me Laugh Out Loud

Groundworks

Happy Presidents Day

I Did NOT Know This About Johnny Carson – Mark Malkoff Ep. 470

I’m just a bill. I am only a bill, sitting here on Capitol Hill…Ep. 469

I Met Thomas Tull By Accident. That Was My First Mistake. Ep. 468

I Don’t Want to Pick a Fight

Why I Trust The Hair Guy Who’s Bald – Winn Claybaugh Ep. 466

Watch This Seven Minute Public Service Announcement

{ Blog on Tailscale }

Behind the Winter Update: The team that made it work

LM Link: Use local models on remote devices, powered by Tailscale

Making infrastructure access lighter, simpler, and smarter

Workload identity federation is generally available

Tailscale Services is now generally available

Stream Tailscale logs to Google Cloud Storage

Fleet device posture integration is now generally available

Huntress device posture integration is now generally available

Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available

Aperture: Stop choosing between safe AI and fast AI

{ q-fin updates on arXiv.org }

Neural Demand Estimation with Habit Formation and Rationality Constraints

The Gibbs Posterior and Parametric Portfolio Choice

Range-Based Volatility Estimators for Monitoring Market Stress: Evidence from Local Food Price Data

Fast simulation of Volterra processes using random Fourier features with application to the log-stat

The Anatomy of Polymarket: Evidence from the 2024 Presidential Election

The Household Impact of Generative AI: Evidence from Internet Browsing Behavior

Political Shocks and Price Discovery in Prediction Markets: Evidence from the 2024 U.S. Presidential

Dynamic Tracking Error and the Total Portfolio Approach

Quantile-based modeling of scale dynamics in financial returns for Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortf

When Do Habits Matter? The Empirical Content of Dynamic Hedonic Models

{ Restricted Data }

NUKEMAP roadmap

New book: The Most Awful Responsibility

Manhattan Project fissile material inventories

News and updates

Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?

Announcing DOOMSDAY MACHINES

Henry Stimson didn’t go to Kyoto on his honeymoon

Deconstructing “The Doomsday Machine” – Part 1: The Question of Memory

Oppenheimer: Vacated but not Vindicated

Did the Japanese offer to surrender before Hiroshima? (Part 2)

{ Andrew Helwer }

Let go of StackOverflow; communities must take ownership

A supposedly worthwhile contract I'll never do again

The current state of TLA⁺ development

TLA⁺ is more than a DSL for breadth-first search

TLA⁺ Unicode support

Wrangling monotonic systems in TLA⁺

FOSS I Love

Inlining SVGs for Dark Mode

Using TLA⁺ at Work

Pseudocode Showdown

{ Laurence Tratt }

pizauth-1.0.10 released

PLISS 2026

'Some Things I've Learned About Software' video available

pizauth-1.0.9 released

Upcoming Talk in London

Async and Finaliser Deadlocks

pizauth-1.0.8 released

What Context Can Bring to Terminal Mouse Clicks

'Garbage Collection for Rust: The Finalizer Frontier' paper added

Why Firsts Matter

{ A List Apart: The Full Feed }

Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna

Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System

An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership

From Beta to Bedrock: Build Products that Stick.

User Research Is Storytelling

To Ignite a Personalization Practice, Run this Prepersonalization Workshop

The Wax and the Wane of the Web

Opportunities for AI in Accessibility

I am a creative.

Humility: An Essential Value

{ rsyslog }

Docs moved to new Domain

rsyslog 8.2602.0: ROSI Collector, rate-limit policies, stronger TLS, and telemetry integration

What rsyslog is today: a high-performance log ingestion and ETL engine

imfile inotify handling improved: safer systems, lower rsyslog impact

Call for Experiments: Agentic Coding on rsyslog

New: production-ready observability stack integrated into rsyslog

The rsyslog 2025 Year in Review

Season’s Greetings from the rsyslog Project

LibLogging 1.0.8 released

Native OpenTelemetry Export Arrives: Introducing the omotlp Output Module

{ Xe Iaso's blog }

The Unbound Scepter

Killing my inner Necron

Portable monitors are good

Life Update: On medical leave

Anubis v1.25.0: Necron

The Discourse has been Automated

Matrix ain't it chief

Humanity's last programming language

Zendesk, get your shit together please

Life pro tip: a Steam Deck can be a bluetooth speaker

{ ResearchBuzz }

Cornwall Folk Tales, Historical Conflict Archives, Google, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, March 4, 20

RootsTech, Anthropic, Tillyverse, More: Tuesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, March 3, 2026

NBA Play DB, Bias Homicide Database, Conduent Data Breach, More: Tuesday ResearchBuzz, March 3, 2026

Electrical Plugs, Liliana Cano Public Art, Myrient, More: Monday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, March 2, 20

J6 Timeline, The Gemäldegalerie, xAI Gas Turbines, More: Monday ResearchBuzz, March 2, 2026

Vintage Web History, MODE by Flickr, YouTube Premium Lite, More: Sunday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, Marc

Delaware History, Apple, Google Circle, More: Sunday ResearchBuzz, March 1, 2026

2024 Solar Eclipse, South Korea Google Maps, Apple, More: Saturday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, February

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Five College Consortium Museums, Snapc

Prague Art and Architecture, Social Media Addiction, Firefox, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, F

{ Recorded Future }

Ongoing Iran Conflict: What You Need to Know

Latin America's Cybersecurity Turning Point: From Reactive Defense to Threat Intelligence

Recorded Future Expands Coverage of Scams and Financial Fraud with Money Mule Intelligence from CYBE

January 2026 CVE Landscape: 23 Critical Vulnerabilities Mark 5% Increase, APT28 Exploits Microsoft O

Preparing for Russia’s New Generation Warfare in Europe

2025 Cloud Threat Hunting and Defense Landscape

GrayCharlie Hijacks Law Firm Sites in Suspected Supply-Chain Attack

Network Intelligence: Your Questions, Global Answers

State of Security Report | Recorded Future

Fragmentation Defined 2025's Threat Landscape. Here's What It Means for 2026

{ Robert Heaton | Blog }

diceomatic: a DSL for making children's dice games

MinorMiner: we turn your kid's maths homework into Bitcoin

It's not cheating if you write the video game solver yourself

Come and work with me on Anthropic's Frontier Red Team

PyMyFlySpy: track your flight using its headrest data

Generating infinite, age-appropriate Cat Crimes puzzles

PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights

I've written a book about being a dad; now I want to get it published

Thousands of elderly twins assure me that my kids will be alright

Hello Deep Learning

{ TechCrunch }

Google settles with Epic Games, drops its Play Store commissions to 20%

His house burned down. He used the insurance money to build PopSockets.

US and EU police shut down LeakBase, a site accused of sharing stolen passwords and hacking tools

MacBook Neo, iPhone 17e, and everything else Apple announced this week

Google’s Gemini rolls out Canvas in AI Mode to all US users

Decagon completes first tender offer at $4.5B valuation

The US military is still using Claude — but defense-tech clients are fleeing

X taps William Shatner to give out invites to its payments service, X Money

Host a Side Event during TechCrunch Founder Summit Week in Boston

TikTok won’t add end-to-end encryption to direct messages, report says

{ Wondermark }

#1582; Limit Your Scream Time

Video: Historian Answers Victorian England Questions

#1581; The Longest, Most Fruitless Search

#1580; What’s Undone is Undead

A good thread on Terrible Dickens Sequels

The Night Before Christmas x Cake

#1579; In which Music is enjoyed

Bolted! Game – Designer Diary

Tiff & Eve Crossover Comic

#1578; In which Trees are a Lot

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