Pwnallthethings

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Just thinking out loud.

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

From a Reddit forum, a photo of a can of coconut milk with a blue label, papyrus text and a flip-top, on a sidewalk.  It seems to hover because there's no visible shadow.  The pavement is sort of unevenly colored, with bright spots, and the grass along it is green and lush.

Whoa. ATRC is one of those super esoteric things in natsec law that gets mentioned once in class as a "btw we also have this; this is how it's structured; it has never been used even once since it was established in 1996. But it's still technically there" things

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEWS: The Trump administration has activated a secretive and never-before-used legal process to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be “alien terrorists” or their immediate family members. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Solar's sharp rise continues. As of April 2026, global solar capacity now exceeds 3 terawatt. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months

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Said it for a while now, but Microsoft is a platforms company whose various platforms are money-printing machines, and it increasingly just does not pay attention to them, to the point that it barely understands why they were successful, and stewards them badly. This is another example of it

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: Several Xbox studios, including Compulsion, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, are negotiating with Xbox as they try to avoid closure. Some or all could spin off. Lots still in flux as many studios remain unsure about what's happening. Here's the latest: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you remember how the world reacted to the Notre Dame catching on fire in Paris - the Lavra site is not only older, but also more significant in Ukrainian (and regional) Orthodoxy. The Lavra is an example of Ukrainian Baroque style.