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Ischia is Burning: The Novel I Have Been Writing for Thirty-Six Years
Most books are written. A few are excavated. Ischia is Burning is a book I excavated from a steel filing cabinet in a Manhattan apartment, where it had been sitting for more than three decades inside a folder marked Ischia, in the form of a screenplay I wrote at twenty-five years old in the second year of an MFA program at Columbia.

Ischia is Burning: The Novel I Have Been Writing for Thirty-Six Years | David Boles, Blogs
Most books are written. A few are excavated. Ischia is Burning is a book I excavated from a steel filing cabinet in a Manhattan apartment, where it had been sitting for more than three decades insi…

What *should* a floppy drives read data look like (5.25" single density, BBC DFS) ?
Both my Model B and a greaseweazel are failing to read the two disks I've tried at all at the moment; does this stream (off pin 34 on the interface) look sane? I don't currently have a known-good one to reference.
#retrocomputing

Some high-profile publications have migrated from Substack to rivals like Ghost and Beehiiv citing Substack's high fees and increased focus on social features (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax
Substack writers are getting tired of the platform’s pricing model and limited customization features, bringing them to rivals like Beehiiv and Ghost.

California is forecast to be on the western flank of a broad area of high pressure over the interior West this weekend into early next week.
Winds high in the atmosphere flowing clockwise around the high-pressure system will draw humid, subtropical air from the south toward California and push it as far north as eastern Oregon and Washington.
For California, the monsoon is only an occasional presence, but when winds do align, it can trigger thunderstorms statewide.
Lightning…

Cowboys Receive Lofty Offseason Grade After ‘Disastrous’ Trade https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/loft-offseason-grade-free-agency-draft/

Got tired of forgetting to update #ClaudeCode and seeing it needs an update on launch.
Installed via #HomeBrew on my Mac, I wrote the following zsh function in my ~/.zshrc:
claude() {
local outdated
outdated=$(command brew outdated --greedy --quiet claude-code 2>/dev/null)

😵‍💫 UK has wealthy Europe’s ‘third-highest’ rate of young adults not in work or study
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/apr/28/uk-has-wealthy-europes-third-highest-rate-of-18-to-24-year-olds-not-in-work-o…

UK has wealthy Europe’s ‘third-highest’ rate of young adults not in work or study
Resolution Foundation report says ‘crisis’ stems from rising ill-health and a failing system of benefits and job support

Raiders sign veteran receiver who was once 2nd on Broncos in TD catches https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/06/10/raiders-sign-former-broncos-receiver-brandon-johnson-m…

Colts release CB Kenny Moore II after failing to find trade https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-release-cb-kenny-moore-ii-after-failing-to-find-trade

The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived in Britain for the first time in nearly 1,000 years following a secret journey from France.
The priceless 70-metre-long medieval artwork depicting the Norman conquest of England
was discreetly delivered to the British Museum in London in a high-security operation overnight on Friday.
Crafted from wool thread stitched onto linen, the tapestry accurately depicts the intertwined – sometimes bloody – histories of Britain and France, and is symboli…

Bayeux Tapestry smuggled into Britain for first visit in 1,000 years
The loan of the artwork is seen as symbolic of French-British relations as London works to mend ties post-Brexit.