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  I raised a big bag of cockroaches, tics, ants, and other vermin. I put them in a paper bag and left them in your kitchen. I'm sorry to say they've gone rogue and escaped their sandbox, it was totally out of my control. Sorry about your kitchen, I've asked the President for immunity and tax incentives as a solution to this situation. Thank you for your support.

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  A Good Friday. Got COVID and flu vaccines, picked up some upholstered chairs, harvested a few things from the front yard. Tomorrow will be pomegranate chutney and babaganoush. Tonight is very limey guacamole on bbq eel tacos.

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  Today is a big day. The singularity has now arrived. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-announces-singularity The singularity will of course naturally lead to the next stage in this marvelous progression, which is an IPO.

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  Glory to the cockroach people. https://www.npr.org/2026/07/25/g-s1-135483/india-cockroach-movement

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  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org oh well, these things happen. they should learn to live with it. like they learned to live with facists.

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  jfc, I bought a bathroom scale and now I have to install an app.

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  Friend of mine has an old and now broken wordpress site (throws errors on https, only does http). He still has his admin passwords. Is there a one-stop migration (upload the files, choose a template, repoint the dns, go) to something else? Since wordpress jumped the shark, upgrading there doesn't make a lot of sense.

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  Received 20 more kg of pickles, podi, and bar snacks from India. Beginning the process of packaging them up for an American audience. Using simple labels like “hot” and “really hot.”

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  Today’s harvest is small candy-stripe eggplant, purple tomatillo, Thai red chili. Will add several heads of garlic, it all gets oven roasted with some olive oil. Makes a killer cross between a green salsa and babaganoush. Add an avocado for guacamole or just use as is as a salsa.

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  Got the first 20 kilos of bar snacks and spice powders unboxed. 10 kilos of pickles up next, the ladoos and mango jelly are en route.

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  NPR news has a piece on the world's hotdog eating championship and the 7-time champion, so this seems like it is a slow news day.

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  We sued the State of Oregon under the state constitution for their process of delegating distribution of the law (public safety codes) to private parties. Our case was dismissed for lack of standing. We have vigorously appealed. https://law.resource.org/pub/us/code/or/

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  Here's some pieces I wrote for the trade press, mostly from 1990-1992. https://archive.org/details/RT-FM?sort=date&and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22Publications%22

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  On this day, the President's 250th Birthday, we hold this truth to be self-evident: THIS TOO SHALL PASS!

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  A brilliant piece (as always) on copyright, authorship, and AI by my good friend (and co-founder of Servants of Knowledge), Lawrence Liang. https://frontline.thehindu.com/society/ai-authorship-copyright-future-personhood/article71109554.ece/amp/

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  Today’s incoming shipment included this 16 inch wood print of an elephant which I will hang in a room because every room should have an elephant in the room.

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  Wishing a happy mango season to all of you who celebrate.

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  Nice summary of the debate in Congress on the so-called PRO Codes Act. https://legis1.com/news/private-code-ownership-laws-congress-debates-who

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  In the no question is too stupid to ask and forgiving my authorship of a half-dozen books on the subject of Ethernet and its uses, I have a question. If you are feeding power over Ethernet (POE) into devices that don't use POE, you can't hurt them, right? (I have POE ports and non-POE ports on my switches, but do I care if a hot cable goes into a device that doesn't need or use it?)

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  Sigh. Takedown from Indian Roads Congress. These docs have been there for 11 years. https://law.resource.org/pub/in/irc.gov.in.20260429.pdf

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  Artichokes from the front yard. No ants or aphids this year. Very happy. Hurrah for neem. Also, my pomegranate harvest looking good for this early. This is one of two trees. Will need to do some serious branch support when they start to firm.

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  The Servants of Knowledge presented a computer with 20,000 science books to the Science Gallery Bengaluru, which will place it in their library for public access. ht @omshivaprakash @sushantsinha

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  Nice article in The Hindu. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/servants-of-knowledge-presents-digital-libraries-to-science-educational-institutions-in-bengaluru/article69878372.ece ht @sushantsinha @omshivaprakash

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  We had a potluck dinner at the local watering hole, the Elephant in the Room, to celebrate the first game of the season. Being in receipt of 5kg of Athula's wonderful "spicy bhel blast" ( https://athulanirmitiorganics.com/product/spicy-bhel-blast/ ) I packaged some up in popcorn containers and perhaps took liberty with some well-known trademarks because nobody will notice and I thought it was funny.

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  These are the scans of the N.C. Desai paintings that was featured in the Hindu. https://archive.org/details/ServantsOfKnowledge?tab=collection&query=NC+Desai+Paintings&sort=-addeddate

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  Baby Nandi just arrived, now living in my vahana parking lot in the front yard.

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  Here's some work Public Resource has been supporting. It is a Florilegium Phytochemistry site. It is an "evidence-linked knowledge florilegium that represents phytochemical information as species-chemistry-DOI triplets extracted from the scientific literature." https://db.nipgr.ac.in/florilegium_phytochemistry/index.php

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  Went to the Mysore Palace today with @omshivaprakash for a delightful meeting with HRE, the Maharani of Mysore in her palace office.

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  Nice visits in Mysore with the Commissioner of Archeology and Museums, a visit to one of the libraries in the new palace, meeting in the old palace with our contact there. Heading back to Bangalore. We’re on track to set up our new branch office. Ht @omshivaprakash

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  Decided to stop by Karnataka Samskrit University for a conference on manuscripts, things happened, etc., etc., and ended up on being thrown on stage, gave a speech. Not what I was expecting, but it was fun.