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Since I got suspended (zero-tolerance) from Warframe for inappropriate (TransRights) language in region chat, I went ahead and grabbed Stardew Valley on Steam while it was on sale instead. I’ll pick it up on GOG later, don’t worry.
I mainly got it so I have something to play when I’m bored. Warframe used to fill that spot for me and now it can’t, so I’ll just get myself to play Stardew on my desktop and laptop running Secureblue, and in the future on a Steam Deck instead.
The rea…

We continue to look at Wednesday’s contentious hearing of the House Judiciary Committee,
we spoke with Vermont Congressmember Becca Balint,
who walked out after Attorney General Pam Bondi accused her of supporting antisemitism.
Balint, who is Jewish and whose grandfather died in the Holocaust, had just asked Bondi to meet with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein
— a demand that Bondi repeatedly ignored during the hearing.
“It was just heartbreaking to watch the attorne…

“I Was Just So Disgusted”: Jewish Rep. Balint Walks Out of Hearing After Bondi Calls Her Antisemitic
As we continue to look at Wednesday’s contentious hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, we speak with Vermont Congressmember Becca Balint, who walked out after Attorney General Pam Bondi accused her of supporting antisemitism. Balint, who is Jewish and whose grandfather died in the Holocaust, had just asked Bondi to meet with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein — a demand that Bondi repeatedly ignored during the hearing. “It was just heartbreaking to watch the attorney general act in this wa…

❝Sites of memory increasingly fail to reach new generations. Visitors learn facts, dates, perpetrators. But knowledge of past crimes does not automatically prevent future ones. Many institutions still teach a reassuring lesson: there were evil people once, they were defeated, we are different. Evil is placed safely in the past. The visitor leaves morally intact.❞

I always liked the quote "and Magda
Goebbels made a great strudel" and have used it in conversation. (Although a strong contender for it's replacement in my vernacular is "But the Dow is over 50,000")
Great tweet from NickyFrank30 over on the site formerly known as Twitter - although he seems to have locked down his X account and deleted tweets like so many folks have.
(although you can apparently find him at substack

Holiday seasons are so full of family drama. On this day in 1066, my 24th great-grandfather, having invaded from Normandy and slain my my 27 great-grandfather, was planning his Christmas Day coronation at Westminster Abbey.
We know how that turned out: when William was cheered, soldiers outside thought it was a riot and set fire to nearby Saxon homes.
And a very merry Christmas to you, too.

Hidden on page 1692 of his great-grandfather Siegfried’s unpublished memoir, the writer Joe Dunthorne discovers a confession. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002c4x0 A tragic family story but an example of retelling for the next generation. Available globally as 'The History Podcast'

BBC Radio 4 - The History Podcast, Half-Life, 1. Daughter of Radium
Hidden on page 1692 of his great-grandfather's memoir, Joe Dunthorne finds a confession.

This explains something.
My father's side of the family are notably understated in their spoken opinions, a trait I inherited. It's not just English stoicism—my grandfather on that side was born in England, and my grandmother came from the South Downs, then a very English part of QLD—but even more so. A couple of generations farther back, though, the male line crossed the sea from #Germany

Dave Farber - Grandfather of the Internet - is reported to have died.
I was never his student, but I learned my way of thinking about networks, as distributed systems rather than collections of connected machines, from his early DCS work (via my friend and Farber student, Frank Heinrich.)
I had the good luck to interact with Farber many times. I have several hours of unpublished video in which we discussed the history of the internet (and other matters) - I remember that day: We…

Sad to hear the news that Dave Farber has died. I’ve been a long time subscriber to his Interesting People list. RIP to “the grandfather of the internet”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/11/japan/david-harber-obituary-internet/

Pioneering computer scientist and Keio professor dies at 91
David J. Farber was a central figure in the development of early research networks that evolved into today’s internet.

TIL Matthew Broderick, actor from "Glory" discovered to his surprise, his great grandfather fought at Gettysburg in the Civil War.
▶️ Matthew Broderick, Spike Lee and Susan Sarandon's ancestry! | S1 | Who Do You Think You Are
https://youtube.com/watch?v=V7G-mQ_SO4

Seahawks Spoil Philip Rivers’s Return With Dramatic Victory Over Colts https://www.nytimes.com/video/sports/football/100000010587398/seahawks-spoil-philip-riverss-return-with-dramatic-victory-over-colts.html

(YouTube, 2015) Bionic eye implant helps blind man see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPsBy8tzceM Argus II retinal implant
(YouTube, 2016) Bionic eye allows grandfather to see again <…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Naseer Shamma:
🎵 La Sabiduría de mi Abuelo (My Grandfather's Wisdom)
#NaseerShamma
https://open.spotify.com/track/6PBDCi2jHEFoHTCwECEJ0z