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"Where Science Meets Storytelling: Twelve Years of the Science Blogs Web Archive" an der Library of Congress:
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/12/where-science-meets-storytelling-twelve-years-of-the-scienc…

Amazon Threat Intelligence observed sustained targeting of global infrastructure between 2021-2025, with particular focus on the energy sector, by Russian state-sponsored threat actors.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/

Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructure | Amazon Web Services
As we conclude 2025, Amazon Threat Intelligence is sharing insights about a years-long Russian state-sponsored campaign that represents a significant evolution in critical infrastructure targeting: a tactical pivot where what appear to be misconfigured customer network edge devices became the primary initial access vector, while vulnerability exploitation activity declined. This tactical adaptation enables the same […]

from my link log —
The Euclid-Mullin sequence of prime numbers.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/a-curious-sequence-of-prime-numbers/
saved 2019-05-26

A Curious Sequence of Prime Numbers
Euclid’s proof of the infinitude of primes opens the door to some interesting questions

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

This new #OCR feature in #KDE is fantastic! 🎉 Sadly it's only for Spectacle for now but having OCR as a library is on the road map and I hope it gets added to Gwenview next. The built-in OCR in macOS Preview is so useful that I wondered why KDE still doesn't have it natively yet.

“I no longer wish to represent a company that coddles a man so seemingly void of compassion as he marches our country towards autocracy”
Mick Foley cuts ties with WWE, citing Donald Trump's comments on Rob Reiner
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5651850-foley-quits-wwe-trump-ties/

Brian Glenn says he's engaged to Marjorie Taylor Greene (Max Rego/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5650473-marjorie-taylor-greene-engagement/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p129#a251215p129

The #ArtemisII roll-out is scheduled to begin at 12:00 UTC today (Saturday) and will last 8 to 12 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrVnsO_rdew = webcast, https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-press-kit/ = mission press kit, https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/01/16/artemis-ii-moon-rocket-ready-for-big-move/ = the finished stack, ready to roll.

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Mick Foley cuts ties with WWE, says Trump's Reiner comments 'final straw' (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5651850-foley-quits-wwe-trump-ties/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p144#a251216p144

Substack wird zum „All in One“-Marketingtool
Substack ist als „Creator-based Platform“ tief in der Szene verankert und vereint gleichermaßen Social-Media-Aspekte sowie auch Publishing-Funktionalitäten. Es ist quasi eine Neuerfindung von Blogs, Newslettern, der Plattform X und einer Prise Linkedin, meint Markus Caspari in: Digitales Marketing: Die Top-Ten-Trends für das Jahr 2026, #FAZ #2026

Memory in the Meme
We live in an age of disposable context. We scroll through the infinite ribbon of the glass screen, pausing only for a microsecond to register a flicker of recognition before sliding our thumb upward, condemning the moment to the digital abyss. We have been trained by the Technocrats, those right-brained architects of our algorithmic prisons, to view this behavior as consumption.

Memory in the Meme | David Boles, Blogs
We live in an age of disposable context. We scroll through the infinite ribbon of the glass screen, pausing only for a microsecond to register a flicker of recognition before sliding our thumb upwa…

"Le cas du député Emmanuel Pellerin révèle les contradictions entre le discours politique intransigeant Š l’égard de la consommation de drogues et la réalité de la réponse judiciaire quand un élu est mis cause pour de tels faits" résume le tribunal dans son jugement, en indiquant que ces révélations portent pleinement sur un « sujet d’intérêt général ».
C'est compliqué, apparemment, pour un avocat-député de comprendre cette notion d'intérêt général.

Cocaïne en politique : l’ex-député Pellerin condamné pour procédure abusive contre Mediapart
Le tribunal de Paris a relaxé Mediapart du procès en diffamation que lui avait intenté l’ancien élu Renaissance Emmanuel Pellerin. Il a même condamné l’ex-député, avocat de profession, au paiement de dommages et intérêts.

Wie das also aussieht, wenn Profis Fahrradfotos machen:
https://www.rouleur.cc/blogs/desire-journal/the-best-cycling-photography
Vielleicht sucht ihr ja noch Tipps für ein

Auf den Spuren des Heidenmissionars Paulus Paulus ist der bekannteste Missionar des Christentums. Er ist weit gereist, um die Botschaft von Jesus allen Menschen weiterzugeben. Weil er so viele Briefe geschrieben hat, die die Gemeinden aufbewahrt haben, wissen wir viel von ihm. Außerdem berichtet die Apostelgeschichte ausführlich über seine Reisen. Aufgabe des Tages Löse mindestens Level 1 des P@ul Vollständiger Beitrag:

Ich folge im Fediverse momentan mehr Accounts als ich lesen kann. Und ich könnte noch weit mehr folgen.
Damit ist das Fediverse groß genug um für mich zu funktionieren. Natürlich ist schön, wenn mehr Freunde und Bekannte hier sind, damit ich mitbekomme, was sie so schreiben.¹
Und ich freu mich auch, wenn ich bestimmten Organisationen oder Instoitutionen hier folgen kann – aber nur, wenn sie auch interagieren, andernfalls bevorzuge ich RSS.²
Da ich kontrolliere, was in meine…

Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

The #Crew11 has left the ISS, for a splash-down at 8:41 UTC: webcast on https://www.youtube.com/live/qRVoblm2Nxw from 7:15 UTC, timeline in https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-provide-live-coverage-of-crew-11-return-splashdown/ and updates on https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/01/14/dragon-undocks-from-station-heads-for-splashdown/

The EleMenTs Series Is Complete: A Young Adult Fantasy Trilogy
Twenty years ago, I began imagining a story about three disabled teenage girls who discover they possess elemental powers. The idea stayed with me, growing and changing as I grew and changed, waiting for the right moment to be told. That moment has arrived. The EleMenTs Series is complete, and all three novels are now available.

The EleMenTs Series Is Complete: A Young Adult Fantasy Trilogy | David Boles, Blogs
Twenty years ago, I began imagining a story about three disabled teenage girls who discover they possess elemental powers. The idea stayed with me, growing and changing as I grew and changed, waiti…

@… @… we need to go back to self hosted blogs and get rid of making money with it. That was peak

Thank you @etherdiver.bsky.social for your "Other People's Music" blogs that helps me find great new-to-me music!
https://blog.bmann.ca/3m6pzjjct722k

#amateur or
#hamradio #blogs
https://mastodon.radio/@k8vsy…

This is true. Just—AI enables the production of slop in far greater quantities and much faster and with frightening consistency.
When ChatGPT first came out, many of us saw that one could produce perfectly mediocre, standardised, and shallow screenplays with it. Problem is: long before ChatGPT was a gleam in Altman’s eye, there were Movies of the Week. Based on mediocre, standardised, and shallow screenplays—albeit written by humans.
And yes, I do think that last bit makes a diff…

Hi, #Anarchism! 🚩🏴
I want to grow my RSS feed and get more variety in what I read. What sources do you all check out regularly? That could be news outlets, journalists, organizations, unions, blogs, or individual creators.
Please share your favorite anarchist, socialist, or syndicalist-leaning websites in the comments. I’d really like to see what everyone else is reading and may…

The link leads to a video. Generally speaking I prefer to read rather than watch - but this is an exception
"While the early web promised connection and creativity, today’s internet is increasingly fragmented, paywalled, and dominated by a few powerful platforms.
“The truth is paywalled, and the lies are free”

AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless, only with servers!
Would like to see some app scenarios with detailed cost breakdown.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-aws-lambda-managed-instances-serverless-si…

Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility | Amazon Web Services
Run Lambda functions on EC2 compute while maintaining serverless simplicity—enabling access to specialized hardware and cost optimizations through EC2 pricing models, with AWS handling all infrastructure management.

En quête de flux RSS ? L'Atlas des flux est un annuaire francophone, régulièrement mis Š jour.
https://atlasflux.saynete.net/
Les mises Š jour peuvent être suivies via un flux dédié ainsi que via le Fediverse.

Reading along to https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/ and this quote really resonated:
“Is it any surprise that such a person later would find the most minuscule kind of opposition as an all-out attack on his self-…

Oh, would you look at that? iBM has removed Ginni’s fawning open letter to Donald Trump after his election win.
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/policy/ginni_romettys_letter_to_the_president_elect
This from the company that, when asked about its compl…

"This is not some grand heel turn, or some brainwashing that DHH suffered. This is straight up a midlife crisis turned fash speedrun."
(Original title: Jordan Petridis: DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis)
https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/…

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Writing a blog post that the meat of which just POURED out in a draft. It's gonna take a bit of research and editing, but the bones are definitely there.
It's gonna be a fun one.
#blogs #blogging #writing

Microsoft says it supports the OpenAI board moving to form a public benefit corporation and recapitalization, and now holds a ~$135B OpenAI Group PBC investment (Microsoft)
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/10/28/the-next-chapter-of-the-m…

The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership - The Official Microsoft Blog
Since 2019, Microsoft and OpenAI have shared a vision to advance artificial intelligence responsibly and make its benefits broadly accessible. What began as an investment in a research organization has grown into one of the most successful partnerships in our industry. As we enter the next phase of this partnership, we’ve signed a new definitive...

All live feeds for the return of #Crew11 today have already been set up: https://www.youtube.com/live/X0398ExPsK8 and https://www.youtube.com/live/IakRgsTYUDY and https://www.youtube.com/live/qRVoblm2Nxw - and see https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-provide-live-coverage-of-crew-11-return-splashdown/ for a refined timeline and https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/ for updates.

Ahahaha. Ich habe die Logfiles unseres NGINX-Proxy-Managers jetzt mal Matomo zum Fraß vorgeworfen, um zu sehen, ob es ungewöhnliche Zugriffsmuster gibt.
Und, ja, ich weiß, das Bild ist verzerrt, weil ich bei meinen Blogs Botzugriffe ausfiltere und beim Heimnetz eben bewusst nicht …
Aber es gibt eben mehr Zugriffe auf meine nicht-öffentlichen, selbstgehosteten und rein privat genutzten Dienste, als auf alle meine Blogs und Webangebote zusammen. 😭

Nach zwei Doppelstunden sind die #Octostudio Projekte meiner Schüler:innen fertig und können hier https://blogs.rpi-virtuell.de/relidigita…

„Nachdem die Preisträger*innen des Bundeskunstpreises bekannt gegeben worden waren, hatten rechte Blogs herausbekommen, dass es sich bei Hanna S., die in München vor Gericht stand, und der Preisträgerin Hanna Schiller um dieselbe Person handelt. Es folgte eine mediale Kampagne gegen die Auszeichnung, die bei neonazistischen Influencern begann und in Berichten der »Bild«-Zeitung endete.“
Hanna Schiller – Bundeskunstpreis­verleihung: »Wo ist Hannas Arbeit?« | nd-aktuell.de

Nice piece on 'Prototyping semantic search for case law' by PhD student Caitlin Wilson working with the National Archives: 'a user searching for 'divorce' may be shown legal alternatives like '[decree] nisi,' or searching for 'compensation' will suggest terms like 'damages,' or 'reparation''

Prototyping semantic search for case law
PhD student Caitlin Wilson showcases the latest results from her research into an accessible search function for The National Archives' Find Case Law service.

I have missed that bridge.gy can federate websites as well. That really looks neat and useful…
https://fed.brid.gy/docs#fediverse-get-started

Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

Arm Angles in American Sign Language: The Textbook That Teaches What Other Textbooks Ignore
Watch any native signer and then watch an intermediate student. The difference is not in the handshapes. It is not in the facial expressions, though those matter. The difference lives in the arms. The native signer's shoulders engage when emphasis requires it. The elbows extend and contract with meaning. The signing space expands for formal address and contracts for intimacy.…

Arm Angles in American Sign Language: The Textbook That Teaches What Other Textbooks Ignore | David Boles, Blogs
Watch any native signer and then watch an intermediate student. The difference is not in the handshapes. It is not in the facial expressions, though those matter. The difference lives in the arms. …

For file explorer how about looking at the code and remove the bloat. You are treating the symptom and not the cause!
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/11/21/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-bui…

NASA’s #Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has also achieved its target orbit, positioning the spacecraft to capture the first repeated observations of the ultraviolet glow from Earth’s outer atmosphere, the geocorona: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/carruthers-geocorona-observatory/2026/01/12/nasas-carruthers-geocorona-observatory-reaches-target-orbit/ - the achievement was confirmed following its third and final orbital maneuver, a 2-minute thruster fire, on Jan. 8; the spacecraft has now entered its intended halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, a position of gravitational balance approximately 1 million miles from Earth.

🎅 🌲 💫
Weihnachtlich erstrahlen Gassen
Auf zum Einkauf hasten Massen
Drinnen leuchten Kerzen hell
Nur Systemadministratoren
Lauschen bang dem Netz-Rumoren
Horch! Es naht #React2Shell!

China-nexus cyber threat groups rapidly exploit React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182) | Amazon Web Services
Within hours of the public disclosure of CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell) on December 3, 2025, Amazon threat intelligence teams observed active exploitation attempts by multiple China state-nexus threat groups, including Earth Lamia and Jackpot Panda. This critical vulnerability in React Server Components has a maximum Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score of 10.0 and affects React versions […]

Sure, you might be tempted by December’s worldly allure of Advent of Code, but…
Do you know what else starts today?
#shortbread season.
https://seancoates.com/blogs/shortbread

from my link log —
One jobserver to rule them all: controlling parallelism across many concurrent builds.
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2025/11/30/one-jobserver-to-rule-them-all/
saved 2025-12-01

One jobserver to rule them all
A common problem with running Gentoo builds is concurrency. Many packages include extensive build steps that are either fully serial, or cannot fully utilize the available CPU threads throughout. T…

Haymarket Books has ebooks on sale for $2 until Nov. 7. Some of my favorite books published by them are:
Abolish Rent: on the potential of tenant organizing
Let This Radicalize You: a guide to activism over the long haul
No Cop City, No Cop World: lessons from Atlanta's Cop City fight
Perfect Victims: unpacks anti-Palestinian narratives you may not realize you've internalized

Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe that collective study plays a crucial role in sustaining engaged, effective, and durable left-wing organizations and communities. To that end, we aim to make our books accessible to anyone who might find them valuable. Until Friday, November 7th, ALL Haymarket ebooks are 80% Off. That means …

Since I was following too many people anyway, I decided to unfollow everybody
- on Threads
- on Bluesky (via the bridge)
I'll miss some of them, and for others I'll follow their blogs via RSS.

So they're saying fuck you to OpenAI? Fascinating. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/18/microsoft-nvidia-and-anthropic-announce-strategic-partnerships/

Love it when I start writing a brief post to blab out here, and it starts becoming a list of ideas, and I quickly realize a blog post needs to happen 🔥
#writing #blogs #blogging

Hey Now! Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 16 (2025): Buy Now!
Hey, there! Welp, it's that time of the year again -- yes, time for us to ask for the indulgence of your continued, kind, support for this blog by buying our eBook -- Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 16 (2025) -- to show your support so we may continue to publish this blog without advertising while still being able to cover our yearly, ongoing, online publication costs…

Hey Now! Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 16 (2025): Buy Now! | David Boles, Blogs
Hey, there! Welp, it’s that time of the year again — yes, time for us to ask for the indulgence of your continued, kind, support for this blog by buying our eBook — Best of David …

«[…] there is a choice to be made. We ought at least to ask if universities exist to sort and qualify, or to form and transform. AI forces the question.»
The end of pretend – AI and the case for universities of formation https://wonkhe.com/blogs/the-end-of-pr

The end of pretend – AI and the case for universities of formation
Jim Dickinson reflects on the end of scarcity, the rise of AI, and the challenge to a system of higher education built on pretence, performance and proxies Jim Dickinson reflects on the end of scarcity, the rise of AI, and the challenge to a system of higher education built on pretence, performance and proxies

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

What You’ll Miss When It’s Gone #PBS

What You’ll Miss When It’s Gone
When the billion dollars allotted to public media was yanked back, some people may have assumed the end of the CPB was inevitable, if they thought about it at all. Perhaps that’s because the CPB’s primary and most visible job was to be the conduit for the $1.60 per year each U.S. taxpayer was contributing to PBS, NPR and their member stations around the country. 

I love that Nic Chan explicitly excludes Substack newsletters from her list:
https://www.nicchan.me/blog/newsletters-that-regularly-hit-my-inbox/
Same reason why I generally feel web folks on Twitter aren’t worth my time. And if they also claim to care ab…

Are there any blogs that publish on a regular basis (monthly) ranked list of metal albums? /cc @…

Anthropic commits to buy $30B in Azure capacity in a new deal with Microsoft and Nvidia, which commit to invest up to $5B and $10B, respectively, in Anthropic (Microsoft)
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/18/microsoft-nvidia-…

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announce strategic partnerships - The Official Microsoft Blog
Anthropic to scale Claude on Azure Anthropic to adopt NVIDIA architecture NVIDIA and Microsoft to invest in Anthropic Today Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announced new strategic partnerships. Anthropic is scaling its rapidly-growing Claude AI model on Microsoft Azure, powered by NVIDIA, which will broaden access to Claude and provide Azure enterprise customers with expanded model choice and new capabilities. Anthropic...

Unser letzter USA-Urlaub liegt schon ein paar Monate zurück, aber endlich habe ich es geschafft, auch den dritten und letzten Blogartikel zu schreiben. Es ist wirklich schön, beim Schreiben die Erinnerungen wieder aufleben zu lassen. Es war eine fantastische Reise voller Erlebnisse und Abenteuer!
https://www.

Rocky Mountains und Denver
Im letzen Teil des Blogs Roadtrip durch die Rocky Mountains in den USA raften wir im Colorado River, machen eine Mountainbiketour und besichtigen Denver

Godzilla Day is coming up on November 3, and knowing this in advance gives me time to maybe tidy up the collection to get a good shot by then. We'll see 😂
https://godzilla.com/blogs/news/how-to-celebrate-godzilla-day-2025

How to Celebrate Godzilla Day 2025
More than seven decades after producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, director Ishirō Honda, and special effects master Eiji Tsuburaya first unleashed Godzilla in Japanese theaters on November 3, 1954, the King of the Monsters remains a beloved symbol of imagination and cinematic innovation. Now, after a landmark 70th anniversary ye

The Weight of the Digital Attic
Sorting through a box of family photos in Nebraska last year, the physical weight of them stopped me. It wasn't just the heavy cardboard. It was the specific gravity of each print. I held a single, fading photograph of folks I did not know, captured on their wedding day. Just one. It wasn't one of twenty-seven burst-mode variations kept "just in case."

The Weight of the Digital Attic | David Boles, Blogs
Sorting through a box of family photos in Nebraska last year, the physical weight of them stopped me. It wasn’t just the heavy cardboard. It was the specific gravity of each print. I held a s…

NASA has just provided the timeline for the return of #Crew11: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/01/09/nasa-spacex-set-target-date-for-crew-11s-return-to-earth/ - Wednesday, Jan. 14, 20:30 UTC Hatch closing, 22:00 Undocking, Thursday, Jan. 15, 7:50 Deorbit burn, 8:40 UTC Splashdown.

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Times Square will mark America’s 250th with special July ball drop
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5663592-times-square-ball-new-years-americas-250th-2026/

Kiss's Gene Simmons to testify on American Music Fairness Act (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5630940-music-fairness-act-hearing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p164#a251202p164

Call for HEI Partners/Academic Supervisors to supervise a PhD with BL European collections curators on 'Yugoslav socialism, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Global South' - includes support from us in @…

Yugoslav socialism, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Global South
Learn how Yugoslavia forged a unique path between East and West.

Welche Blogs, Newsletter und Stimmen prägen meine tägliche Lektüre – und warum Social Media dabei kaum noch eine Rolle spielt. Ein persönlicher Blick auf meine Informationsquellen 2025, – und auf die Frage, ob mir KI-Agenten künftig helfen oder nur vorfiltern. #MeineNews2025

Nicht nur Blogperlen 2025: Was, wen und warum ich lese
Welche Blogs, Newsletter und Stimmen prägen meine tägliche Lektüre – und warum Social Media dabei kaum noch eine Rolle spielt. Ein persönlicher Blick auf meine Informationsquellen 2025, – und auf d…

In a few minutes NASA will host a live news conference at 22:00 UTC from the agency’s headquarters in Washington to discuss the International Space Station and its crew: #ISS crew member.

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Unser Luanti Video ist fertig Die Schülerinnen und Schüler der Reli digital AG haben sich große Mühe gegeben, endlich ist das Video – rechtzeitig vor Weihnachten – fertig. Viel Spaß beim Anschauen! Auf Peertube: Auf Youtube: Zur Anleitung: Wir bauen die Bibelgeschichte mit den Königen aus dem Morgenland in Luanti Allgemeine Anleitung: https:…

The Kinship of Strangers: When DNA Reveals What Identity Cannot Accept
Some truths arrive uninvited. They come in the mail, in the form of a cardboard box containing a plastic tube, a prepaid envelope, and instructions for depositing saliva. Six weeks later, they return as a percentage breakdown, a haplogroup designation, a list of genetic relatives you never knew existed. The Kinship of Strangers, the third novel in the Fractional Fiction series…

The Kinship of Strangers: When DNA Reveals What Identity Cannot Accept | David Boles, Blogs
Some truths arrive uninvited. They come in the mail, in the form of a cardboard box containing a plastic tube, a prepaid envelope, and instructions for depositing saliva. Six weeks later, they retu…

from my link log —
Securing network time.
https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/blogs/securing-network-time/
saved 2019-05-08 https://

Going into 2026 with only 7 potential blog post ideas sitting as drafts. Not bad. Might be a record 🤯
#blogs #blogging #writing

Trumps host trick-or-treaters for Halloween at the White House (Brett Samuels/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5582286-trump-halloween-white-house/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p125#a251030p125

The Page Isn’t Dead, Your Attention Is Under Siege
Every few years we are invited to attend the same funeral. Someone declares that nobody reads anymore, that the printed page is finished, that books are an aging technology destined to become a museum object while the living culture migrates to earbuds and short video. It is a tempting story because it flatters our sense that we are witnessing a clean break with the past, a decisive turn of the wheel.

The Page Isn’t Dead, Your Attention Is Under Siege | David Boles, Blogs
Every few years we are invited to attend the same funeral. Someone declares that nobody reads anymore, that the printed page is finished, that books are an aging technology destined to become a mus…

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Simultaneously NASA and ESA have published new spacecraft images of #3IATLAS, https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatlas/2025/12/04/nasas-hubble-space-telescope-revisits-interstellar-comet/ from the Hubble Space Telescope on 30 November (just the inner coma with a central condensation) and https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/12/Comet_3I_ATLAS_shows_activity_in_Juice_navigation_camera_teaser from Juice's NavCam on 2 November with an early sighting of the plasma tail - more contributions to understanding the behavior of the interstellar visitor.

Jamie Lee Curtis: Charlie Kirk comments were a 'mistranslation' (Teddy Grant/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5577677-jamie-lee-curtis-charlie-kirk-comments/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p121#a251029p121

The Replicated Man: AI and the Ghost in the Archive
I finally did it. I committed the act of digital suicide. It was a gesture of clinical curiosity and personal dread. I took twenty years of archives, every Boles Blogs entry, every "Best of" compilation, the discarded drafts, the love letters to lost eras, and I fed the entire body of work into the AI maw. My digital soul, offered up for digestion and analysis...

The Replicated Man: AI and the Ghost in the Archive | David Boles, Blogs
I finally did it. I committed the act of digital suicide. It was a gesture of clinical curiosity and personal dread. I took twenty years of archives, every Boles Blogs entry, every “Best of&#…

1000–10,000 M⊙ #PrimordialStars Created the Nitrogen Excess in GS 3073 at z = 5.55: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1a63 -> Astronomers find first direct evidence of “Monster Stars” from the cosmic dawn: https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/astronomers-find-first-direct-evidence-of-monster-stars-from-the-cosmic-dawn - using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic primordial stars that were among the first to form after the Big Bang.

The Inheritance: When the Body Remembers What the Mind Cannot
Some secrets do not stay buried. They write themselves into blood and bone. They pass from grandmother to mother to daughter through mechanisms we are only beginning to understand. The Inheritance, the second novel in the Fractional Fiction series, asks what happens when a scientist trained to study transgenerational trauma in laboratory mice discovers that the patterns she has been mapping exist in her own…

The Inheritance: When the Body Remembers What the Mind Cannot | David Boles, Blogs
Some secrets do not stay buried. They write themselves into blood and bone. They pass from grandmother to mother to daughter through mechanisms we are only beginning to understand. The Inheritance,…

Trump pardons Gobble and Waddle, jokes that Biden's turkey pardons are invalid because of autopen (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5621963-trump-turkey-pardon-chuck-and-nancy-biden/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p107#a251125p107

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Stop Paying Rent on Your Own Words!
Stop paying rent on your own words. For decades, writers were taught that “real” authors have representation, an agent, sometimes even a manager, as if legitimacy were a credential issued by an industry gatekeeper. That belief was formed in an older media economy: fewer publishers, fewer channels, slower production cycles, and a cultural aura around scarcity. In 2026, the belief is not merely old fashioned.

Stop Paying Rent on Your Own Words! | David Boles, Blogs
Stop paying rent on your own words. For decades, writers were taught that “real” authors have representation, an agent, sometimes even a manager, as if legitimacy were a credential issued by an ind…

While the #Soyuz docking - https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/11/27/three-new-crew-members-aboard-soyuz-dock-to-station/ - came even slightly ahead of time, the ESA presser is now already delayed by 50 minutes.

Jeff Daniels on Trump AI feces video: 'Would Lincoln have done that?' (Judy Kurtz/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5566914-jeff-daniels-trump-ai-feces-video-no-kings/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p45#a251022p45

A NASA mission that studied the interior of hurricanes collected its final data on Nov. 12, as the last two CubeSats in its fleet were powered down prior to re-entering Earth’s atmosphere: #TROPICS (Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats) mission originally consisted of four identical, milk carton-sized satellites that launched in May 2023.

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

The Dying Grove: A Novel Born from the Collision of Joyce and Mycorrhiza
Some books are written. Others are grown. "The Dying Grove" belongs to the second category, and that distinction is not metaphor but method. This novel, the first in a new series called Fractional Fiction, emerged from an experiment in literary hybridization: what happens when you take the formal architecture of modernist masters and seed it with contemporary scientific research? The result is…

The Dying Grove: A Novel Born from the Collision of Joyce and Mycorrhiza | David Boles, Blogs
Some books are written. Others are grown. “The Dying Grove” belongs to the second category, and that distinction is not metaphor but method. This novel, the first in a new series called…

Nicki Minaj makes surprise appearance at Turning Point conference (Tara Suter/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5659269-nicki-minaj-trump-newsom-turning-point-usa/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251221/p60#a251221p60

The Curated Self as the New Delusion
There is a specific, modern anxiety that is difficult to name. It is not the dread of a specific event, but a low-grade, constant hum of disconnection. It’s the feeling of living in a world that is eerily frictionless, a world that reflects your own thoughts back at you with placid, unwavering agreement. It is the anxiety of a consensus of one; the quiet, digital loneliness of being the only person in your own universe.

The Curated Self as the New Delusion | David Boles, Blogs
There is a specific, modern anxiety that is difficult to name. It is not the dread of a specific event, but a low-grade, constant hum of disconnection. It’s the feeling of living in a world that is…

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

UFC fighter bucks Trump White House event over Epstein controversy: 'I'm good, dude' (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5658459-sean-strictland-ufc-fighter-white-house-epstein-files/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p47#a251220p47

In 2014, NASA awarded a Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract to Boeing to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station with its #Starliner spacecraft; as part of its contract, Boeing was awarded up to six crewed flights to the orbital complex - after a thorough evaluation, the definitive order has been adjusted to four missions, with the remaining two available as options: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/11/24/nasa-boeing-modify-commercial-crew-contract/. The next Starliner flight, known as Starliner-1, will be used by NASA to deliver necessary cargo to the orbital laboratory and allow in-flight validation of the system upgrades implemented following the Crew Flight Test mission last year - NASA and Boeing are targeting no earlier than April 2026 to fly the uncrewed Starliner-1 pending completion of rigorous test, certification, and mission readiness activities.

The Application of Imagination: Where Thought Becomes Matter
Imagination without application remains a private theater, brilliant perhaps, but ultimately sterile. The history of human achievement suggests that genius resides not in the capacity to imagine alone, but in the peculiar ability to transform mental constructs into material reality. This transformation requires something more demanding than pure creativity: it requires the discipline to translate vision into…

The Application of Imagination: Where Thought Becomes Matter | David Boles, Blogs
Imagination without application remains a private theater, brilliant perhaps, but ultimately sterile. The history of human achievement suggests that genius resides not in the capacity to imagine al…

Trump announces 'Patriot Games,' with 2 high school athletes from each state (Brett Samuels/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5655553-trump-patriot-games-2026/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p2#a251219p2

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

There is also a #PUNCH video showing only #comet #Lemmon and its tails in https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/2025/12/19/nasas-punch-spies-comet-lemmon/ - unfortunately too faint so much tail structure gets lost which can be glimpsed in the full video. But the data are there, waiting for someone to process them for science.

TEMPO at Night: #ALAN

The Wound Remains Faithful: A Tragedy of Nora
It has taken me more than fifty years to write this book. That sentence appears in the author's note, but it deserves to open this introduction because it explains everything that follows. The Wound Remains Faithful is not a thriller. It is not a mystery. It does not offer the satisfaction of solved cases or the comfort of justice delivered. It…

The Wound Remains Faithful: A Tragedy of Nora | David Boles, Blogs
It has taken me more than fifty years to write this book. That sentence appears in the author’s note, but it deserves to open this introduction because it explains everything that follows. Th…