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Bucky Irving’s Theatrics Spur Robust Rushing Attack Against Cowboys https://www.buccaneers.com/news/bucky-irving-theatrics-spur-robust-rushing-attack-against-cowboys-week-5-tnf

Philippines: Revised Guidelines Threaten Indigenous Rights
New Rules Would Deny Communities’ Free, Prior, and Informed Consent
From Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/08/04/philippines-revised-guidelines-threaten-indigen…

Nitter, the open source front-end for reading X Posts without signing up for an account,
is not going anywhere yet.
Weeks after X Corp's lawyers showed up demanding a permanent shutdown,
Hthe project's GitHub repository has come out of read-only mode
with an updated README that says:
UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue.
More details will be announced soon.
Now, the repository and the homepage carry the same messa…

Elom Musk's X Tried to Kill Nitter. The Project Just Said It’s Coming Back
Two weeks after X Corp's legal letter forced the project offline, Nitter says it will continue.

Former 60 Minutes managing editor Guy Campanile says he and his fired colleagues "refused to be accomplices in the destruction" of the news program (JD Knapp/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv/60-minutes-fired-edit…

Former ‘60 Minutes’ Managing Editor Says Fired Staffers ‘Refused to Be Accomplices’ in CBS Series’ ‘Destruction’
Former "60 Minutes" managing editor Guy Campanile has broken his silence following his May exit from the CBS newsmagazine.

I've written a wee blog post about the parlous state of #LocalDemocracy in #Scotland. I've also written to the Dear Leader, John #Swinney, in a slightly more diplomatic tone.

Of size, and governance, revisited
Malta has sixty eight local government regions; Luxembourg one hundred and two; Iceland sixty one; Norway, with a population comparable to our own, three hundred and seventy two. The average number of inhabitants of a municipality across the whole of the EU is 22,455. Thus the average Scottish local authority has more than six times the population of the average European equivalent, and more than one hundred times the population of one in Czechia. Czechia is not really an outlier; France, with …

on my blog!
https://dotat.at/@/2026-08-09-rata-die.html
Counting the days, revisited
a retread of an old blog post about date calculations, with some neat new tricks i mostly learned from Ben Joffe

On Spacetherm Aerogel Thermal Insulation - Learn about the highest-performing robust wall insulation for where space is at a premium: small homes in expensive cities. #aerogel #IWI #insulation -

On Spacetherm Aerogel Thermal Insulation
Learn about the highest-performing robust wall insulation for where space is at a premium: small homes in expensive cities. #aerogel #IWI #insulation

from my link log —
A revised Haskell 2010 language report.
https://blog.haskell.org/revised-haskell-2010-report/
saved 2026-08-04 https://

A Revised Haskell 2010 Language Report | The Haskell Programming Language's blog

Pentagon strips security clearance from former Air Force secretary
The Trump administration has revoked the security clearance of Frank Kendall,
who served as Air Force secretary under President Joe Biden,
accusing him of disclosing classified information about Air Force One to the media.

Kendall has recently been quoted in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal,
in stories scrutinizing the security features of the Boeing 747 gifted by Qatar,
the …

Pentagon strips security clearance from former Air Force secretary
Frank Kendall said he is considering his legal options after the Defense Department accused him of disclosing classified information about Air Force One.

Two months after the Senate confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz
as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
her office has moved to allocate new funds for a controversial clinical trial of the hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau,
which was previously suspended.
Researchers revised the study protocol in January, amid an international uproar over medical ethics.
While it is not clear how much Schwartz was involved in, or knew about, the budge…

CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study