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Donald Trump sued his niece Mary Trump, The New York Times, several journalists and ABC in September 2021.
The original complaint alleged the defendants engaged in an “insidious plot” that was “motivated by a personal vendetta and their desire to gain fame.”
Trump’s lawyers argued that the group of journalists from The New York Times “relentlessly sought out” his niece to persuade her to “smuggle” records to the newspaper.
A New York Supreme Court justice dismissedthe laws…

Trump Settles $100 Million Lawsuit Against His Niece
President Trump sued Mary Trump in 2021 for sharing his confidential financial documents with a group of reporters from The New York Times.

Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/star-google-ai-researcher-shazeer-j…

Star Google AI Researcher Shazeer Joins OpenAI
Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told some staff Wednesday. Shazeer, who left Google in 2021 to cofound a chatbot startup, Character.AI, rejoined Google’s AI team DeepMind in 2024 as part of a $2.7 billion ...

from my link log —
PostgreSQL text search: balancing query time and relevancy.
https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/postgres-text-search-balancing-query-time-and-relevancy/
saved 2021-10-21

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
R.E.M.:
🎵 It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
#REM
https://godisinthetvzine.bandcamp.com/track/it-s-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine-2021-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/2oSpQ7QtIKTNFfA08Cy0ku

from my link log —
Let's Encrypt prepared to issue 200 million certificates in 24 hours.
https://letsencrypt.org/2021/02/10/200m-certs-24hrs.html
saved 2021-02-10

Preparing to Issue 200 Million Certificates in 24 Hours
On a normal day Let’s Encrypt issues nearly two million certificates. When we think about what essential infrastructure for the Internet needs to be prepared for though, we’re not thinking about normal days. We want to be prepared to respond as best we can to the most difficult situations that might arise. In some of the worst scenarios, we might want to re-issue all of our certificates in a 24 hour period in order to avoid widespread disruptions. That means being prepared to issue 200 mill…

I updated my guide on how to deploy self-hosted #Discourse. The configuration of the internal nginx (inside the container) recently changed (for the better) in a way that affected my previous advice.
I seem to have been maintaining this guide for over five years now; I started in June 2021. 79 edits so far, most of which have been mine.

@…
Auf der Übersicht auf der Website piratenpartei.de werden mir Informationen zur Bundestagswahl 2021 und zur Europawahl 2019 angeboten. Aber nicht zu den letzten Wahlen. Ist die Website nicht aktuell oder wird bei mir etwas falsch angezeigt?

France to send its last captive orcas to marine park, not sanctuary https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/france-to-send-its-last-captive-orcas-to-marine-park-not-sanctuary/

France to send its last captive orcas to marine park, not sanctuary
The French government recently announced it has greenlit a plan to send its last captive cetaceans — two orcas and 12 dolphins — to zoos and entertainment parks in Spain. These cetaceans live in the Marineland Antibes park on the French Riviera, which closed in 2025. In 2021, France passed a law banning the breeding […]

Days before Trump left office in 2021, the State Department broke ground on an $850 million construction project at its aging embassy in New Delhi.
By last fall, alongside work on smaller buildings, crews had dug a 200-foot-long pit for the project’s centerpiece:
a sleek edifice of glass and stone that was supposed to make the biggest U.S. mission in South Asia more “secure and resilient.”
In recent months, without public announcement, the U.S. government canceled that buil…

How Sergio Gor Is Transforming the Role of U.S. Ambassador in the Trump Era
From his post in New Delhi, Mr. Gor has become a force in U.S. foreign policy, chasing business deals and stunning diplomats by reversing a long-planned embassy building project.

GuMo Masto! I had a fantastic dinner with most of the people working on TelemetryDeck yesterday, but now I’m tired and wish to sleep longer.
Alas, I have already set up meetings, fool that I am.

"Eine wichtige Rolle dabei spielt die Initiative 706. Sie geht auf ein Jugendzentrum im Pekinger Universitätsviertel zurück und hat mittlerweile einige Ableger in Europa. Xiyu ist seit elf Jahren in Deutschland und hat die Gruppe in Berlin 2021 mitgegründet. Der Name leitet sich von der Hausnummer des Zentrums in Peking ab. Das 2012 gegründete Hostel dort entwickelte sich über die Jahre zum Ort des Austauschs für Studierende und Denker, um gesellschaftliche Themen zu diskutieren."

Quantic Dream: Streik soll „Star Wars Eclipse“ und 115 Stellen retten
Beim Studio Quantic Dream sind 115 Stellen bedroht. Die Belegschaft streikt, um das seit 2021 angekündigte „Star Wars Eclipse“ zu retten.

Quantic Dream: Streik soll „Star Wars Eclipse“ und 115 Stellen retten
Beim Studio Quantic Dream sind 115 Stellen bedroht. Die Belegschaft streikt, um das seit 2021 angekündigte „Star Wars Eclipse“ zu retten.

from my link log —
Faster inverse BWT.
http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2021/03/faster-inverse-bwt.html
saved 2021-03-12 https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Bardo Pond:
🎵 Sentence
#BardoPond
https://bardopondmusic.bandcamp.com/track/sentence-2021-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/3JLzne7Jdbkro8XoJFbwXz

Génocide au Rwanda : la commission Duclert conclut Š une faillite militaire et politique de la France de 1990 Š 1994
https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2021/03/26/rw…

Génocide au Rwanda : la commission Duclert conclut à une faillite militaire et politique de la France de 1990 à 1994
Le groupe de chercheurs sur le Rwanda, réuni par Emmanuel Macron pour étudier le rôle de la France, a remis son rapport au président le 26 mars. Il conclut à « un ensemble de responsabilités, lourdes et accablantes », au sein de l’Etat français. Mais il écarte l’idée d’une complicité de génocide.

Raiders Sign Former Michigan Standout in Free Agency https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/cameron-mcgrone-free-agent-signing/

My main wish for WWDC is that I won’t need 3 taps to get from opening Music.app to my Library

Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $8.5B and a net loss of $266M following a 2025 Korean customer data breach, its largest loss since Q4 2021 (The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10731616

Coupang swings to net loss in Q1 amid fallout from data breach - The Korea Herald
US-listed e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. said Wednesday it swung to a net loss in the first quarter amid fallout from a massive customer data breach in South Kor

Wie 2021 bei LLMs: Google-Forscher über die Zukunft der Weltmodelle
Im Interview sprechen Googles Genie-Forscher über Echtzeit-Simulation, die Integration von Street View und warum Roboter ein Weltmodell benötigen.

Wie 2021 bei LLMs: Google-Forscher über die Zukunft der Weltmodelle
Im Interview sprechen Googles Genie-Forscher über Echtzeit-Simulation, die Integration von Street View und warum Roboter ein Weltmodell benötigen.

Cowboys have 2 rookies who could win DYOTY https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-have-2-rookies-who-could-win-dyoty

from my link log —
Support for IPv6 link local addresses in browsers.
https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/ipv6-link-local-support-in-browsers/
saved 2021-11-18

Capitol rioters clamor for payouts from Trump’s new #AntiWeaponizationFund despite backlash.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-capit

Capitol rioters clamor for payouts from Trump's 'anti-weaponization' fund
Many of the convicted rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are clamoring for payouts from the nearly $1.8 billion settlement that the Trump administration has set up for people claiming to be victims of a weaponized government. Whether they'll be eligible for any money remains an open question. The political and legal backlash to the administration's move hasn't dimmed the celebratory response from Capitol rioters. Some are staking claims to the money even though the government hasn…

Pentagon hires convicted Jan. 6 rioter for sensitive counterterrorism job
A convicted Jan. 6 rioter who later said that he regretted his participation in the U.S. Capitol attack
has been hired by the Trump administration to work inside a Pentagon office that manages highly classified military operations,
according to four people familiar with the matter.

The appointment of Elias Irizarry,
who was 19 at the time of the riot in 2021,
to a post in the Defens…

Pentagon hires convicted Jan. 6 rioter for sensitive counterterrorism job
The Trump administration’s appointment of Elias Irizarry, who was 19 at the time of the Capitol attack, has alarmed some in the Defense Department.

#LB "Lennon would play Gollum, Paul McCartney would play Frodo, George Harrison would be Gandalf and Ringo Starr would play Sam." Imagina a bizarrice que teria sido um Senhor dos Anéis com os Beatles rs.
https://…

from my link log —
Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC.
https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2019/01/notes-from-1984-trip-to-xerox-parc.html
saved 2021-09-05

from my link log —
Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible.
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/11/18/vulnerabilities-show-why-starttls-should-be-avoided-if-possible/
saved 2021-11-18

Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: Study finds more than 40 STARTTLS-related security flaws in many different software products, both client-side and server-side.

from my link log —
Behavior inheritance in Rust.
https://abadcafe.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/behavior-inheritance-in-rust/
saved 2021-06-11

Behavior inheritance in Rust
There is a common adage in Rust community that “Rust prefers composition over inheritance”. There is no inheritance support in common OO sense in Rust. You can achieve some OOP paradigm…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Midlake:
🎵 Roscoe
#Midlake
https://mommusic4.bandcamp.com/track/midlake-roscoe-mom-2021-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/01qJhVPCHFFR6wJ5ptyw17

Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from $16.7B in 2021 to $2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/edtech-funding-collapse-k12-startups…

The global edtech boom is fading as investors look elsewhere
Venture capital is moving away from K-12 edtech worldwide as investors prioritize AI tools and workforce training with clearer returns.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Harry Nilsson:
🎵 Gotta Get Up
#HarryNilsson
https://mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/track/single-gotta-get-up-cover-harry-nilsson-marianne-dissard-lunatraktors-2021
https://open.spotify.com/track/6fvIzrJ6boUDFF19fH4S2s

from my link log —
Fontemon: the world’s first video game in a font!
https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html
saved 2021-03-19 https://dotat.at/:/E…

from my link log —
How we knew space is a vacuum.
https://sky-lights.org/2021/06/14/qa-how-we-knew-space-was-a-vacuum/
saved 2023-03-12

from my link log —
Async Rust: futures, tasks, wakers; oh my!
https://msarmi9.github.io/posts/async-rust/
saved 2021-06-22 https://d…

from my link log —
A tour of safe tracing GC designs in Rust.
http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2021/04/05/a-tour-of-safe-tracing-gc-designs-in-rust/
saved 2021-06-19

from my link log —
Foreign Data Wrappers for migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
https://www.migops.com/blog/2021/02/15/role-of-foreign-data-wrappers-in-migrations-to-postgresql/
saved 2021-04-06

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from my link log —
What SRE is not.
https://blog.relyabilit.ie/what-sre-is-not/
saved 2021-11-29 https://dotat.at/:/T0UG8.html

What SRE is not
We used to have a difficulty in our community - thankfully less prevalent now - with rootless questions of identity. Of course, it's not wrong to ask who we are, what we're here for, and what should we be doing: every profession benefits from regular reflection. But too much of

from my link log —
The longest train journey in the EU.
https://jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-journey-in-the-eu/
saved 2026-04-25 https://

The longest train journey in the EU
Anyone who has been following my work for a while knows I have long had a rather abstract discussion about the definition of the World's Longest Train Journey. I started calculating this back in 2021, after an incorrect map on Reddit went viral, and have updated my thoughts about it

from my link log —
Google Chrome reduces its root DNS traffic.
https://blog.verisign.com/domain-names/chromiums-reduction-of-root-dns-traffic/
saved 2021-01-07

Chromium’s Reduction of Root DNS Traffic - Verisign Blog
As we begin a new year, it is important to look back and reflect on our accomplishments and how we can continue to improve. A significant positive the DNS