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Four of the court's nine justices did not participate in consideration of the appeal by the music labels. They did not provide a rationale for their recusal. The remaining justices determined that the case could not be resolved in the coming term, resulting in the lower court's ruling being upheld. //
A provision of US copyright law allows artists to terminate copyright transfer agreements and reclaim their rights after decades under certain circumstances. For example, copyright grants from before 1978 must be at least 56 years old, and the copyrighted work cannot have been written for hire. The law was meant to address the lack of bargaining power for unknown artists who signed away rights to their works that later became more valuable.
Invoking this law, Vetter sent a copyright termination notice to Windsong in 2019, with an effective date of 2022. Resnik Music Group bought Windsong later in 2019.
Vetter sued Resnik in federal court in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2023, alleging that Resnik "refuses to relinquish claim to the 'Double Shot' copyright outside of the United States and purports to retain the exclusive right to exploit the work in all foreign countries."
US District Judge Shelly Dick ruled in favor of Vetter in 2025 and declared him the "sole owner of all right, title and interest throughout the world" of his reclaimed "Double Shot" copyright. The 5th Circuit affirmed Dick's ruling in January.
When Samaritan’s Purse retired its McDonnell Douglas DC-8 freighter N782SP after a final humanitarian mission to Jamaica in late 2025, aviation lost more than just another aging cargo aircraft. The retirement marked the near-complete end of the first-generation jetliner era, a period when four-engine aircraft symbolized the future of global aviation.
Built on December 24, 1968, the aircraft accumulated nearly 99,000 flight hours across a 57-year lifespan. Its career included service with Finnair, the French Air Force, and eventually one of the world’s best-known humanitarian organizations. Instead of heading for the scrapyard, the jet now lives on as a static display and educational platform at Liberty University.
While its rival, the Boeing 707, largely disappeared from civilian skies decades ago, the DC-8 continued hauling cargo well into the 2020s.
The reasons were deeply technical: an overbuilt airframe, extraordinary structural durability, and one of the most successful re-engining programs in aviation history. In many ways, the DC-8 became the ultimate example of how smart engineering and adaptability can extend the life of an aircraft far beyond what its designers ever imagined. //
Boeing was heavily committed to developing its next-generation narrow and widebody aircraft, including the 757 and 767, which represented the future of its commercial lineup.
A modernized 707 risked prolonging the life of an older platform that could compete internally with these newer, more profitable designs. In contrast, Douglas had fewer competing priorities and a greater incentive to extend the DC-8's life, making the Super 70 program a central part of its survival strategy.
The DC-8 also held a subtle but important physical advantage that made its conversion more practical. Its main landing gear sat higher relative to the wing and fuselage. This provided better ground clearance for the larger-diameter CFM56 engines. This reduced the amount of structural modification required when compared to the 707.
It also lowered engineering complexity and overall conversion cost. In the end, this seemingly small design difference helped tip the balance in favor of the DC-8, allowing it to successfully transition into a long-lived, economically viable cargo aircraft while its rival faded from the skies. //
The DC-8 became particularly popular for routes where acquisition cost mattered more than maximum fuel efficiency. Even as aviation technology advanced, the aircraft continued proving itself as a reliable workhorse. //
Humanitarian organization Samaritan's Purse gave the aircraft one of its most meaningful final chapters. After being rescued from storage in Roswell in 2015, N782SP flew more than 200 relief missions worldwide, transporting millions of pounds of humanitarian cargo into disaster zones and crisis areas.
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There is an old and unsettling theological idea about demons: they cannot truly be satisfied.
They don’t sleep. They don’t rest. They hunger but are never filled. They desire but are never content. Whatever they possess only produces the desire for something else.
Whether one accepts that as literal theology or simply considers it as a thought experiment, imagine how horrible such an existence would be.
You are starving, but eating never makes you full.
You are exhausted, but sleep never comes.
You desperately want something, finally possess it, enjoy it for a moment—and immediately begin wanting something else.
Forever.
Forget the cartoon version of hell with red devils, pitchforks, flames and boiling cauldrons.
What if hell is simply never being satisfied? //
C.S. Lewis famously made an observation that cuts directly into this problem. In Mere Christianity, he argued that when we discover within ourselves a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, perhaps the explanation is that we were made for something beyond this world.
People sometimes summarize that idea by saying there is a “God-shaped hole” inside the human heart. That isn’t actually Lewis’s phrase, but it captures something important.
We keep trying to fill an infinite longing with finite things.
And finite things eventually run out. //
Even good things—family, achievement, adventure and friendship—cannot bear the weight of becoming our ultimate purpose.
Christian theology has another word that appears surprisingly often when describing this problem:
Rest.
In Matthew 12, Jesus describes an unclean spirit wandering through dry places “seeking rest” and finding none.
That’s an interesting description of evil.
Restlessness.
Augustine famously approached the same idea from the opposite direction when he wrote that our hearts are restless until they rest in God.
Perhaps those ideas belong together.
Maybe separation from God isn’t merely punishment imposed upon a creature from the outside. Perhaps part of the punishment is what naturally happens when a creature separates itself from the only thing capable of ultimately satisfying it. //
If that’s even remotely accurate, perhaps we occasionally manufacture little pieces of hell right here on Earth.
Not because food, money, technology, possessions or pleasure are evil. They’re not.
The danger comes when we expect them to accomplish something they were never designed to accomplish.
That raises a question worth asking occasionally:
Am I enjoying the things in my life, or am I asking them to fill a hole they were never designed to fill?
Christianity offers a remarkable answer.
Jesus Christ did not enter history promising humanity a better shopping list, greater status, more possessions or another temporary distraction.
He offered something completely different.
Forgiveness.
Reconciliation with God.
Eternal life.
And something our perpetually hungry culture increasingly doesn’t know how to provide:
Rest.
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden,” Jesus said, “and I will give you rest.”
Maybe that’s the Gospel hook we’ve overlooked.
Perhaps heaven isn’t getting everything we’ve ever wanted.
Perhaps heaven is finally discovering what we were created to want.
And perhaps salvation begins when a tired, hungry human being finally stops trying to fill an infinite hole with finite things, turns toward Jesus Christ, and discovers that the invitation has been there all along:
Come to Me.
I will give you rest.
The FBI's Safe Online Internet (SOS) Challenge—which has taught cyber safety and digital citizenship to more than a million students in 3rd to 8th grades since October 2012—ends effective June 1, 2026 (due to budget constraints).
Additional resources for educators:
On December 14, 1986, an improbable chapter in aeronautical engineering reached its defining test when the Rutan Model 76 Voyager began its takeoff roll down the runway at Edwards Air Force Base. Conceived by aerospace visionary Burt Rutan and brought to life in Hangar 77 at the Mojave Airport, Voyager was engineered to achieve what had long eluded aviation: flying nonstop and unrefueled around the planet. Burt realized that utilizing advanced carbon fiber, aramid composites, and lightweight paper honeycomb could yield an airframe weighing under ten percent of its total takeoff mass, allowing the remainder to consist almost entirely of aviation fuel. Empty, the aircraft weighed just 939 pounds; laden with 1,200 gallons of fuel distributed across seventeen internal tanks, its weight ballooned to 9,694 pounds.
Piloted by decorated veteran Dick Rutan and record-setting aviator Jeana Yeager, the mission faced imminent disaster before leaving California soil. As the aircraft gathered speed, the heavily burdened, flexible wings bowed downward, violently scraping the runway surface and grinding away the wingtips. Despite severe structural abrasion, Dick nursed the craft into the air past one hundred knots. In the chase aircraft, Burt Rutan and Mike Melvill watched both damaged winglets shear off over the Pacific Ocean, yet the crew elected to press forward. What ensued was a punishing nine-day test of human stamina and mechanical endurance. Dick and Jeana were confined to a cockpit measuring just forty inches wide and thirty-three inches high, subjected to continuous mechanical roar after noise-canceling headsets failed.
You think time ages you. Everyone does. But Einstein proved something that changes everything: time is not fixed. The faster you move through space, the slower you move through time. At the speed of light, time doesn't slow down. It stops.
In this video, inspired by Richard Feynman's legendary approach to special relativity, we break down exactly why light never ages, what spacetime actually is, and why every second of your life you are already moving through the universe at the speed of light.
This is not science fiction. This is physics. And it will change how you see time forever. //
“you are always moving at the speed of light through spacetime.”
That motion is divided between space and time. If you are sitting completely still in spacetime then you are spending the maximum amount of time.
The faster you move through space, the slower you move through time.
Recently, I read an article about device fingerprinting, which argues that we’re in the post-tracking-cookie era. They’re no longer needed, because every browser can be fingerprinted with 100% accuracy.
https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies
There’s an EFF page which allows you to test your device fingerprinting. https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
The information theory idea is that while there are millions of people who have the same time zone, time zone offset, fonts, etc., it’s the combination of all these things that makes it possible to identify.
The EFF has a page on this, which explains. After establishing that 33 bits of entropy is needed for identification:
So for instance, if we know someone’s birthday, and we know their ZIP code is 40203, we have 8.51 + 23.81 = 32.32 bits; that’s almost, but perhaps not quite, enough to know who they are: there might be a couple of people who share those characteristics. Add in their gender, that’s 33.32 bits, and we can probably say exactly who the person is.
The Liberty Bell, with its famous crack, hasn’t been rung in 180 years, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from pondering what the bell might have sounded like when tolling. In honor of the nation’s 250th anniversary, researchers at Penn State University have modeled its acoustic properties, drawing on data collected from one of the bell’s replicas. The work was first presented at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Philadelphia earlier this year, followed by an article in Physics Today.
Historians aren’t sure exactly when the Liberty Bell acquired its distinctive crack, just that it occurred sometime between 1817 and 1846. An 1846 account in the Public Ledger described the ringing of the bell on February 23 that year and mentioned that the bell had developed a crack, which someone had attempted to fix by filing the sides down. But it didn’t work: The February 23 ringing extended the crack even more, so much so that “the old Independence Bell … now hangs in the great steeple irreparably cracked and forever dumb.” Nobody has heard it ring since.
This wasn’t the first time the bell had cracked; the rim cracked shortly after it arrived in Philadelphia in 1752, the first time the clapper struck while testing the sound. It was recast by two local foundry workers, John Pass and John Stow, not once but twice, because the first recast produced a sound that one bystander likened to coal scuttles banging together.
The second recast’s sound was deemed acceptable, and the bell was typically used to summon the Assembly, among other purposes, until it fell into disuse after the American Revolutionary War. As for why the bell was so prone to cracking, a 1975 study of the bell’s chemical composition revealed that the metals used formed “an extremely brittle alloy” that also made it easier for souvenir collectors to chip off pieces from the rim. //
Autapomorphy Ars Praetorian
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Since it's hard to imagine frequencies based on a number, I calculated the following based on equal temperament tuning using a standard concert pitch where A4 is 440 Hz.
174 Hz = -16.06 semitones. That's 6 cents flat relative to F2
323 Hz = -5.35 semitones. That's 35 cents flat relative to E3
381 Hz = -2.49 semitones. That's 49 cents flat relative to G3
510 Hz = +2.56 semitones. That's 44 cents flat relative to C4
623 Hz = + 6.02 semitones. That's 2 cents sharp relative to D4#
Yet these promises of a self-running state are illusory, because AI is never truly autonomous. Systems have to be built and maintained by a cadre of engineers and data scientists whose expertise political leaders cannot evaluate. The ruler who turns to AI to reduce a dependence on unreliable humans may end up relying, more blindly than before, on the few AI specialists who keep the system running. And this new digital Praetorian Guard may have the same weaknesses as the old, which makes it a threat to the ruler. //
Roman emperors typically had tens of thousands of people serving in the Praetorian Guard; modern autocrats rely on standing armies. But with AI, autocrats will need only a small clique of engineers to build and maintain large-scale AI systems. This might benefit rulers since they will have fewer people to watch, yet it also concentrates points of failure, since a devastating disruption requires only a handful of engineers and makes it easier for members to scheme against the leader. The new guard’s members may also be indispensable. A dictator can replace generals without destroying the army. But running complex machine-learning systems requires such a specialized set of skills that engineers can be difficult to replace without disruptions, giving these actors great leverage. //
AI will not let autocrats dismiss all their enforcers. Someone still has to make arrests and run the prisons, and autocrats can buy loyalty by offering supporters state jobs. But it will let authoritarians downsize, and the number of officials ultimately matters less than how the ruler oversees them. Keeping track of scheming or incompetent subordinates has always been the autocrat’s chief burden. AI could lighten it, letting rulers watch their officials more closely without paying as much active attention.
In the near term, then, AI may greatly benefit autocracies. Despite the many obstacles to deployment, the technology is already bringing autocratic regimes the upsides of cheaper surveillance, smarter censorship, and fewer human subordinates to fear and distrust. But for autocratic rulers, the temptations of artificial intelligence may re-create the same trap they are seeking to escape. The more a regime depends on AI, the more it depends on the people who keep AI running. And those people, like every other praetorian class in history, will quickly discover what their indispensability is worth.
- McDaniel has “drawn” the Mona Lisa, Munch’s The Scream, and a self-portrait
- N1810R has also been used for multiple positive messages
- See the most impressive sky art and how to follow along live
For the past few months, Flightradar24 users have been able to follow Benjamin McDaniel and his Cessna Skylane RG for hours each week as he completes intricate paths in the sky. From The Lord of the Rings to the Mona Lisa, from a self-portrait to The Scream, McDaniel puts an incredible amount of effort into his sky art.
McDaniel, known on social media as “Pilot Picasso,” and his 1978 Cessna R182 Skylane RG registration N1810R have captivated Flightradar24 fans and others with an unusually varied collection of subjects. His flights have been followed more than a million times on Flightradar24 and his sky art efforts consistently rank highly on the most tracked flights list.
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ACE Microsystems Ltd, the Brentford, Middlesex company that develops applications using the venerable Filetab-D language, which was around long before anyone started talking about fourth generation languages or, more bovinely, 4GLs just to show how clever they are and to ensure that no-one who over-hears them will have a clue what they are talking about, has come out with a version of its LEX-WP word processor, developed using Filetab, which can be used in place of DEC’s WPS-Plus within the All-In-1 office automation environment, offering All-In-1 users a powerful word processor with an integrated database and an unrivalled number of advanced features, including support for PostScript printers and the facility to add functions and related applications in Filetab; users can also run the same LEX-WP on Ultrix and MS-DOS machines as well as on VAXes running DEC’s VMS; prices under VMS start at UKP3,100.
DisplayWrite was a family of word processors from IBM in the 1980s. They were quite good in many ways, but never made it into the GUI era. DisplayWrite 3, for example, does not even have italics — it really is like a typewriter on a computer.
The default file format on DisplayWrite is a binary format. The default file extension is .TXT, but they are not what we think of as text files (I used to use DW3 as the extension). I have seen the odd request on the web about how to read old DisplayWrite files, so I thought I would document it here.
The trick is to go via WordPerfect 5.1 format, which can be read in by LibreOffice, because of the amazing stability of the WordPerfect file format.
First, download this convert.exe utility that used to come with WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS (I have no idea how long the link will remain live):
ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/WordPerfect/wpdos/5x/convert.exe
https://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/misc/ftp.corel.com/pub/WordPerfect/wpdos/5x/
This website lets you freely view documents created with Dos and Windows Word Processors dating as far back as 1970’s, as well as convert and download them as fully formatted and editable Microsoft Word documents. It handles more than 50 once-popular word processors including:•WordPerfect•Old versions of Word•WordStar•Multimate•IBM Displaywrite•XyWrite•Leading Edge WP•and many more
Good ol' mnemonics
By Bernhard on Wednesday, Oct 14th 2026 06:43Z
seven-five: man with a knife
seven-six: hear nix
seven-seven: fall from heaven
LifeTap™ is a durable and dependable self-closing valve. It is specifically designed to withstand the wear and tear of a community tap stand, ensuring water is not wasted due to leaks or breakage. LifeTap is easy to operate even for children, provides an increased flow rate compared with other alternatives, resists contamination, and is long-lasting and durable. LifeTap helps prevent devastating water loss in under-resourced communities, allowing people to access the water they need for their daily lives.
There are many great free and open-source alternatives to closed source and/or paid note taking applications. This project aims to track and compare the feature set between the many different options with a focus on ‘Gratis’ (free as in free beer) open source note apps. ‘Libre’ (free as in free speech) projects are also welcome, but will likely need to be submitted via a pull request since the time in testing each different project is significant.
Self-hosting is the practice of hosting and managing applications on your own server(s) instead of consuming from SaaSS providers.
This is a list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own server(s). Non-Free software is listed on the Non-Free page.
There are many great free and open-source alternatives to closed source and/or paid book libraries. This project aims to track and compare the feature set between the many different options with a focus on 'Gratis' (free as in free beer) open source photo libraries. 'Libre' (free as in free speech) projects are also welcome, but will likely need to be submitted via a pull request since the time in testing each different project is significant.