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"Two years later, the same BYTE Magazine asked on its January 1997 cover: “Can Java Replace Windows?” (Spoiler alert 2: it did not, and… seriously?) Reflecting the myopic insanity of the warlords commanding troops from the comfort of their bunkers, Scott McNealy’s interview on page 40 is just a puzzling diatribe against Microsoft PowerPoint instead of an actual argument in favor of Java."

Aftermath Of The Kernel Wars
During the 1980s and 90s, computer companies waged an open war for supremacy. We are witnesses of an age that could be described as post-apocalyptic. The dust has settled for the past 20 years, with a small ignition of hostilities around 2010, between members of the mobile duopoly and some late challengers. But to a large degree, we can say that the Kernel Wars are over, and we are privileged observers of their aftermath. But everyone was surprised to discover the winner emerging from the ashes…

UV-irradiated outflows from low-mass #protostars in Ophiuchus with JWST/MIRI: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2025/11/aa54977-25/aa54977-25.html -> On the trail of ultraviolet radiation in Ophiuchus / Puzzling ultraviolet radiation in the birthplaces of stars: https://portal.umk.pl/en/article/on-the-trail-of-ultraviolet-radiation-in-ophiuchus / https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2025/7

Healthy 18-year-old welder nearly died of anthrax—the 9th such puzzling case - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/01/anthrax-nearly-kills-healthy-18-year-old-welder-amid-puzzling-pattern/

Puzzling Isotonic Odd-Even Staggering of Charge Radii in Deformed Rare Earth Nuclei
Endre Takacs, Hunter Staiger, Steven A. Blundell, Naoki Kimura, Hiroyuki A. Sakaue, Ronald F. Garcia Ruiz, Witold Nazarewicz, Paul-Gerhard Reinhard, Chowdhury A. Faiyaz, Chihiro Suzuki, Dipti, Istv\'an Angeli, Yuri Ralchenko, Izumi Murakami, Daiji Kato, Yuki Nagai, Ryuji Takaoka, Yoshiki Miya, Nobuyuki Nakamura

Puzzling? It is foolish to look for rationality in bigotry. Trump's campaign against immigrants is pure racist brutality staged for the entertainment of stupid people.
https://fortune.com/2026/01/15/trump-immigrant-visa-suspension-th…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayFeature
- The Great Egyptian Music Mystery
Ellie Chan traces the story of a set of unique and puzzling manuscripts. Do they hold the key to the oldest musical culture in the world?
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002m0p8

The hard turn of the liberal established media (NYT, Guardian) against trans existence is puzzling.
The whole anti-trans obsession that has bubbled up in recent years is weird. It almost feels like a concerted project but it’s too big, right?
I mean, there just aren’t that many trans people to be upset about. It’s easy to go for years without knowing that you’ve interacted with a trans person, mostly because it’s a non-issue for most folks. @…

Critique of George Monbiot's recent, and rather puzzling, pieces on food systems
The challenge of food ecomodernism: a puzzle outlined - resilience
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-12-22/the-challenge-of-food-ecomodernism-a…

The challenge of food ecomodernism: a puzzle outlined
Ah well, the urgency of staving off as best I can the disaster capitalism that Philip Loring mentions keeps me going, even if it feels like a dispiriting and unequal battle sometimes. Cheers!

RE: https://aus.social/@dgar/115847702364533560
Puzzling…