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1.623 words Americans are routinely called upon to reckon with the darkest chapters of their history. The institution of slavery. Jim Crow laws. and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two: these are subjects of documentaries. school curricula. museum exhibitions. and public apology. That reckoning. however uncomfortable. is broadly accepted as necessary. Yet (…)
I am on the road and am way behind on posts—I have a 3.500 word article on deriving Oughts from Is’s in the works—so in the spirit of summer. where I am assured temperatures will at last crack 70. maybe even this weekend. in Michigan [though I usually don’t give weight to such rumors]. here is a classic post on marbles which originally ran
I am on the road and am way behind on posts—I have a 3.500 word article on deriving Oughts from Is’s in the works—so in the spirit of summer. where…
5.806 words “Eugenics strengthens the sense of social duty… It promotes a far-sighted philanthropy. the acceptance of parentage as a serious responsibility. and a higher conception of patriotism.” —Francis Galton Part 3 available here. Endgames’ vitriol against eugenics is not entirely homegrown of course. To give but one pertinent example. one of the three main (…)
With the world's oil and gas market changing. energy security is now at the forefront of most countries' priorities.
With more in-state refinery closures eminent. California Ports are incapable of importing the large volumes of transportation fuels demanded by the 4th largest economy in the world.
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I'm extremely fed up with Safelite. the windshield replacement people. at present.I called them last week to replace my vehicle's windshield after a large crack developed.  They handled the initial appointment. insurance issues. etc. without difficulty.  However. when the technician arrived at our home to do the installation. we noticed immediately that the replacement windshield was much. much thinner glass than the factory original.  I qu....
People say 'Andy' Burnham Great Britain's next PM will be another Starmer but this is not true. Nobody resembles anyone else.Nobody thought Mrs Thatcher would be any good when she became Conservative leader or PM but she was.Mr Burnham is a human being and makes jokes and read English at Cambridge.It's incredibly important that he has read good books. You don't need to read English or go to Cambridge to do that but I bet KS hasn't. Corbyn c..
ADMX Viewer - www.dsebastien.net - 4 weeks ago - eng
ADMX Viewer is a small web app I built to browse, search, and configure Windows Group Policy templates without fighting the built-in tooling. You point it at a folder of ADMX files, pick a language, navigate the policies, flip the settings you care about, and export them as `.reg` files, PowerShell
GLM-5.2 - www.dsebastien.net - 4 weeks ago - eng
GLM-5.2 is Z.ai's) flagship open-weight LLM), released as full open weights on June 16, 2026 (coding subscribers got access on June 13). It is the successor to GLM-5.1 and, at release, the leading open-weight model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. The headline change is a jump from a 2
Vercel Eve - www.dsebastien.net - 4 weeks ago - eng
Vercel Eve is an open-source TypeScript framework for building, running, and scaling durable agents, launched in public preview on June 17, 2026. The premise: every team kept rebuilding the same plumbing (sessions, sandboxing, channels, approvals) before their agent could do anything useful. Eve pro
Odysseus is a self-hosted AI workspace that puts chat, autonomous agents, research, documents, email, notes, calendar, and local model serving behind one local-first interface, with no telemetry. Python + JavaScript, AGPL-3.0-or-later.
Vercel Open Agents is an open-source, fork-able reference app for running coding agents that live in the cloud and keep working after you close the tab. Built on Vercel's own stack. MIT.
Ponytail is an open-source (MIT License) AI-agent plugin/skill that enforces minimalist code generation, "He says nothing. He writes one line. It works." It counters the tendency of coding agents to over-engineer (extra dependencies, boilerplate, building when something already exists) by injecting
Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) is an open, draft specification (Apache 2.0 License) for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI capabilities across the web. It's a collaborative effort, not one vendor's project: contributors come from Google, Microsoft, Hugging Face, GoDaddy and others. It answe
Code Mode is a pattern for using MCP) tools where, instead of exposing each tool directly to the model as a callable function, you give the model a typed API (TypeScript or Python) and ask it to write code that calls those tools. The code runs in a sandbox, and only the final result comes back to th
A coding agent harness designed to avoid provider lock-in has become the platform that providers and tools organize around.
For Bruce: That's a common French expression. It means. 'The more it's ethically modified. the more of a meme it is.'
I realized that it was necessary … to demolish everything completely.” Rene Descartes asserts in his 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy “…  and start again right from the foundations.” Ultimately. Descartes affirms the certainty of his own mind against the ephemera of nature and his own body. He trusts his thinking mind. but doubts his… The post The Cartesian Universe and the End of Common Sense appeared first on VoegelinView.
The state hands the old a weekly cheque and calls it kindness. It buys just enough to survive alone in a quiet house. then leaves the funeral and the probate to your children. There is a larger answer: owned capital. mutual societies you vest into for years. and an old age among people who know you.
Last evening’s post on ethnicity began by looking at a TV show and movie. one from England. one from the US. What I did not mention though was that the Miss Marple series was coproduced by the 7 Network in Australia. Stop watching. Keep watching.All right. let’s say a film in Arabic came on the box. with the strangled caterwauling of a man having a vasectomy without an anaesthetic. just as Birmingham must be experiencing right now. For adde....
Congratulations to Kevin Buchanan , our latest Beacon Award recipient, a peer-nominated honor that celebrates the people who bring our values to life and light the way for others to follow.  Kevin, Principal Engineer, has been an 8th Light for over 12 years. A long-time favorite of our clients and his peers, he has a reputation for raising the bar on whatever he touches, and those who work alongside him come away sharper and stronger for ....
No title - markjgsmith.com - 4 weeks ago - eng
No title - markjgsmith.com - 4 weeks ago - eng
This video is available on Rumble. Bitchute. Odysee. Telegram. and X. Last weekend. we celebrated our newest national holiday. with brawls and fisticuffs. and the rattle of gunfire. But Juneteenth is a lot more than that. It is an annual reminder that blacks don’t really see themselves as “Americans.” Yes. there was violence. but that’s...
AI agents introduce security risk through the actions they take, not just the code they produce. Learn how agent behavior governance helps teams observe, steer, and block risky actions in real time.
AI coding agents are adding a new layer to the software supply chain. Learn what Snyk found in nearly 10,000 developer environments and how to secure the tools, instructions, and permissions behind agentic development.
Announcing Snyk Agentic Development Security, a new Evo solution that helps organizations securely adopt AI-driven development with visibility, governance, and control.
A forgotten credential at vendor Klue let attackers reach customers' Salesforce data. How modern SaaS breaches cascade, and the keys you should audit.
Alex Jones discussed how Israeli military and intelligence operatives are calling for another 9/11-style false flag event to get the American public back behind their wars. https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/2068906463360061482 https://rumble.com/v7bn6e4-israeli-military-and-intelligence-operatives-are-now-calling-for-a-new-911.html.e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_ucp_v https://rumble.com/v7bn6e4-israeli-military-and-intelligence-operatives-are-now..
This is chapter 69. under the traditional chapter numbering. The thing that struck me the most. was how one of the Watchers taught the people “the smitings of the embryo in the womb. that it may pass away.” (Chapter 69) 1 And after this judgement they shall terrify and make them to tremble because they (…)
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