The new film This Is How the World Ends is a fine piece of work; the story of two siblings finding each other at a party held at humanity’s end, it is basically On the Beach set at Burning Man....
When it comes to cold cases, crime dramas get a lot wrong. “In reality, you’d never reach the end in nine neat episodes, all wrapped up, with a timeline that moved nicely along, building tension,”...
On Tuesday, protests in the United Kingdom over the murder of an 18-year-old youth in December turned violent, and far-right influence figures in the United States tried to use the incident to claim...
Executive summary: During the period of the fighting, the eight road forces explored and gradually developed a new type of “civil-military interface”. This relationship is rooted in the practice of...
Source: Historical Review, No. 2 of 2026
Performance is a fundamental and general view of political performance and a concrete expression of world view, life vision and values in the conduct of...
Plex is adding new social features to the platform.
As of today, users can make and share “personalized lists on Plex of any movie, show or episode,” the company said in an announcement. Later this...
Open weights are not open source
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I’ve been quantizing Gemma 4 and it’s MTP drafters recently. The next two posts are about how that went. This one is about why it was so much work....
Another NixOS Election Cycle
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And here I thought we’d have a boring election cycle
If you’ve not been following NixOS governance, recently the moderation team decided to all...
As search becomes increasingly dominated by AI summaries and commercial content, people are experimenting and coming up with ways to make the web feel more human like it used to, building everything...
Hello, friends of Isis! I'm writing for a moment of ease, a moment of speed, and a day of joy for you: it's Wednesday, 3 June 2026, to welcome you to your most loyal moment!
I find that people don't...
Hello, everybody. I'm an intern. Easy for a second, happy for 10 minutes. We're going to relax! We're going to relax! Don't confuse me with my brother!
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During the 2000s, Spain was the host country for many Romanian citizens. With the real estate bubble about to burst and a financial crisis looming, the outlook in Spain was still better than that of...
"Police officers of the Department for Combating Economic Crime of the Municipal Police Headquarters in Tarnów detained a resident of the Tarnów district suspected of manufacturing and marketing...
Meteorological summer has begun, ushered in with scorching heat that struck before spring was up. Although western Europe is now mostly free from last week’s heat dome – which shattered temperature...
According to Xinhua, on the morning of 9 December 2025, with the approval of the Supreme People ' s Court, the Second Intermediate People ' s Court of Tianjin City carried out the death penalty...
Do you remember the early 2000s, when Silicon Valley buzzed with idealism and tech bros told us they were going to save the world? “Don’t be evil” was Google’s unofficial motto; it’s 2004 IPO...
Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. On a Dublin street two weeks ago, Yves Sakila died. The 35-year-old, who was of Congolese origin, was pinned down by security guards for almost five minutes after...
Get you addicted to AI. This is literally the goal of Microsoft if we are to believe an internal document revealed by 404 Media. The site has published a strategic document from the multinational...
Just today, 1 June, the 3-year-old, penetrating Internet-life community, with the acquiescence of countless people, has played a revival.
This time, the original domain name tianya.cn was restarted...
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Thirty years ago, my mother-in-law led me, Yaqin and her son, two people, to the Hollin River by train. While Zheng Jia Tong was changing her car, she pulled the last two boiled eggs out of her...