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All the morning at the office. At noon with my wife and Pall to my father’s to dinner, where Dr. Thos. Pepys and my coz Snow and Joyce Norton. After dinner came The. Turner, and so I home with her to her mother, good woman, whom I had not seen through my great neglect this half year, but she would not be angry with me. Here I staid all the …

Singapore Airlines knows what it’s doing. No airline is perfect, but Singapore earns its status as a fan favorite for frequent fliers. Flying one of their long-haul premium cabins has been one of my AvGeek dreams for a while. So when I snagged a lucky award ticket during a trip to Asia/Australia — and on the A380, no less — I was EXCITED. I’m not going to bury the lede. …

Justin Garcia, Dan Sullivan, Jay Cridlin, and Olivia George, Tampa Bay Times: Tampa media consultant Tim Burke was charged Thursday with 14 federal crimes related to alleged computer hacks at Fox News. […] According to the indictment, Burke and an unnamed person used “compromised credentials” to access and save protected commercial broadcast video streams, then disseminate specific clips after taking steps to mask where they came from and how they …

Paraphrasing the Soul Sonic Force and sorting through today`s releases for tunes that could have graced Alfredo Fiorito & Leo Mas’ Amnesia dance-floor… Jan Gleichmar, aka Disrupt`s dusts off 2 tracks from his archives for a fresh 45 of “digital laptop reggae”. Drops like only he can do, they`re prefect additions to his Leipzig label Jahtari`s Lo-Fi aesthetic. Arcade Addict dates from 2006, and is cover of the Prince Jazzbo-produced …

How to not get secrets in your bash history

Let ℤ² be the lattice of points in the plane with integer coordinates. You could think of these points as being the centers of the squares in a chessboard extending to infinity in every direction. Cantor tells us that the points in ℤ² are countable. What’s more surprising is that you could count the points using a knight’s move. If you place a knight at the origin, there is a …

Disappointing to hear about these pullbacks from the financial behemoths, but… at the very least they’re “shifting from pressuring companies on climate disclosures to pushing them to actively reduce greenhouse gas emissions”?

For the first time in 50 years, a US spacecraft has landed on the moon. Houston-based Intuitive Machines landed its Odysseus craft in the Malapert A crater, about 300 kilometers from the moon’s south pole. Historic for a number of reasons, it’s the first of many new moon landings that we can expect in the next year, leading up to NASA’s manned moon mission in 2025-2026, where humans may actually …

Following an FBI raid of his home last year, the freelance journalist Tim Burke has been arrested and indicted in connection with an investigation into leaks of unaired footage from Fox News. The raid raised questions about whether Burke was being investigated for First Amendment-protected journalistic activities, and EFF joined a letter calling on the Justice Department to explain whether and how it believed Burke had actually engaged in wrongdoing. …

Alexander Saeedy and Alexandra Bruell at the Wall Street Journal, via Apple News: Vice Media said it would stop publishing content on its flagship website and plans to cut hundreds of jobs, following a failed effort by owner Fortress Investment Group to sell the embattled digital publisher and its brands. The moves were laid out in an internal memo from Chief Executive Bruce Dixon, a copy of which was reviewed …

After a hard two weeks to start the South Island, I took a break in the small town of St Arnaud. I slept in a bit, then wandered over to the general store to get breakfast. Finding that they didn’t serve breakfast until 9, I instead got part of my resupply that I knew I’d need, and which I could carry without needing a bag. I returned to the store …

Since the last outpouring when I was all about the new locos I've made a slight detour and they've got no further really. They need priming and the weather has been foul so a trip to the cold damp garage for a visit from a rattle can; they have been for a bath in the ultrasonic cleaner along with a sneaky addition. That terribly nice chap at Fourdees has added …

There are eight people buried in the private grave of Joseph Bonomi in Brompton Cemetery, five of his children, his wife and his mother-in-law. The first four of his children predeceased him, all dying within one harrowing week in April 1852; the eldest still hadn’t reached their sixth birthday and the youngest was, at just eight months, still an infant. The epitaph on the rather simple Grade II listed headstone …

I love these signs: "Shear and Tan are Narcs", "No Killer Robots in SF". Prop. E foes demonstrate outside Y Combinator HQ: Proposition E will reduce police accountability, make San Francisco less safe and disproportionately affect communities of color. [...] "We're here today to tell tech CEOs who think they own San Francisco that we need more transparency not less," said former police commissioner Angela Chan. [...] The measure, which …