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Celebrity haunt that made ‘Chinese chicken salad a household name’ to close this summer
Sweet-crunchy, crispy-wonton-laced Chinese chicken salad was most likely created by Madame Sylvia Wu at her Santa Monica restaurant Madame Wu’s Garden,
but a large share of the dish’s popularity across L.A. in the 1980s and ’90s can be credited to Chin Chin.
“Owner and founder Bob Mandler is the man responsible for making Chinese chicken salad a household name in Los Angeles County, …

West Hollywood's Chin Chin will serve its last Chinese chicken salad in July
The West Hollywood restaurant that helped popularize Chinese American cuisine will close in late July after more than 40 years in business.

Had a great, entirely unexpected experience with the State Troopers at a protest today in #Memphis. They showed up and parked nearby; we all figured they were itching for us to violate the new #Tennessee "PEACE Act" law (which restricts protests) so they could jam us up.
Then a MAGA came…

Due to popular demand, we made the web exports easy to download:
https://blog.la-terminal.net/export-to-itch-downloadable-exports-now-available/

Export to Itch: Downloadable Exports Now Available
When we launched Xogot last month, one of our favorite features was giving you the ability to share your game directly to the web with a single tap. No export targets, no hosting setup, no extra configuration. Your game is instantly playable in any modern browser with an easy to

My latest public writing addresses the German Constitutional Protection Office's finding of right-extremism in the AfD party. There is also a German version of my post.
#politics #AfD #Germany

Validating viewpoints by popularity
Response to supporters of Germany's AfD party

Ah, yes, the 62 genders. Including “MALE” and “FRANCE.”
https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.gender.php

Chinese startups and tech giants are racing to create AI agents for both local and global consumers, following the popularity of Butterfly Effect's Manus (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/05/1117958/china-ai-a…

Manus has kick-started an AI agent boom in China
A stampede of contenders and copycats has followed the launch of the general AI agent, but China’s internet restrictions have so far made it easier to cater to overseas users.

Heh, got pitched based on my Quamina open-source GitHub repo on behalf of “Fabinvest” which turns out to be a PE fund owned by Qatari royal Jassim Al-Thani. A polite and restrained pitch, not pushy or scammy.
There’s too much money in the world and its owners are increasingly desperate in their search for a place to invest it. I suppose prospecting popular GitHub repos is less crazy than other things that I see going on.

My latest public writing addresses the German Constitutional Protection Office's finding of right-extremism in the AfD party. There is also a German version of my post.
#politics #AfD #Germany

Validating viewpoints by popularity
Response to supporters of Germany's AfD party

Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to its AI models, including the newest Claude 4 family and the highly popular Claude 3 models (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/windsurf-say…

Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models | TechCrunch
The CEO of Windsurf, a popular AI-assisted coding tool, said Anthropic is limiting its direct access to certain AI models.

The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk of being killed by Intuit’s lobbyists and Donald Trump’s megabill.
Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."