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"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
-- It wasn't Francis Wilhoit, the political scholar who died in 2010, but Frank Wilhoit, the music composer who wrote it as part of a reply to a blog post in 2018.

"To make it possible to run x86 programs via emulation, we leverage several tools, each solving a specific problem:
FEX, a fast emulator that can run x86 and x86-64 programs on ARM Linux hosts muvm, a tool that can run another program inside a microVM binfmt-dispatcher, a simple dispatcher that can dynamically pick the best emulator to use when an x86 or x86-64 program is started With this setup, when a non-native program is run, the kernel invokes binfmt-dispatcher via the binfmt_misc interface. The dispatcher picks the best emulator to use. This is based on the program, the system it’s running on, and its own configuration. "

"Medium is a home for the intellectually curious — people that are driven to expand your understanding of the world. And for curious people, diversity isn’t a threat, it’s a strength."

"Drew Struzan is the most influential movie poster artists of the 80s, and probably of all time, here is his story and work!"

"The elephants, who live at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, were engaging in a defensive behavior known as an “alert circle,” which is used in the wild to protect the youngest members of the herd from threats, said Mindy Albright, curator of mammals at the zoo. "

"We’ve been getting a lot of questions about when border agents can legally conduct searches of travelers’ electronic devices at international airports and other ports of entry. Unfortunately, the answer isn’t simple."

"The joint mission by Magellan and Atlantic Productions deployed two submersibles nicknamed Romeo and Juliet to map every millimeter of the wreck, including the debris field spanning some three miles. The result was a whopping 16 terabytes of data, along with over 715,000 still images and 4K video footage. That raw data was then processed to create the 3D digital twin. The resolution is so good, one can make out part of the serial number on one of the propellers."

Complete book series, including New Spring, the WoT Companion, and the World of the Wheel of Time.
Looks like DRM-free ePubs, too!

LLM training bots are overwhelming Wikimedia's servers, particularly Wikimedia Commons (which has a looooooot of media).