AI Roundup: Everything Got More Specific. Google’s November core update lands three days before Black Friday, DeepMind reads DNA cell by cell, IBM links toward 1,040 qubits, and Runway opens its robot model. chrisabraham.net/2026/11/a…
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Abu Dhabi Closes With Prisoners and No Ceasefire, Wall Street Buys Back the Chips, and the President Claims a Won War at Arlington — Edition No. 34, The Evening Watch Abu Dhabi produced prisoners and no peace; the market took back Tuesday whole on one earnings report; the president used the holiday to claim a war already won. objectivedailynews.com/editions/…
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Olly Olly Oxen Free
This afternoon I proposed a new Usenet newsgroup: alt.fan.john-c-dvorak, an unmoderated group for the life and work of John C. Dvorak.
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The Whole Xteink World, for Jason Gooljar (updated: Jason named in full, with links to his photography)
A seventy-dollar e-reader that reads your files and answers to nobody—no Kindle app, no Kindle store, and no DRM of any kind.
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Abu Dhabi Ends With a Prisoner Exchange Agreed and the Land Untouched, the Chips Are Bought Back at Midday, and a Wreath Is Laid at Arlington — Edition No. 33, The Midday Watch The news at midday: the week’s one negotiation produced its one agreement, on prisoners, and adjourned without a date; the market that sold the chips on Tuesday bought them back on Wednesday morning. objectivedailynews.com/editions/…
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The House Refers the Hegseth Articles to Committee, 211 to 204, and Abu Dhabi Ends Its First Day Without an Agreement — Edition No. 31, The Midnight Watch The impeachment effort ended in a committee referral, 211 to 204, Abu Dhabi’s first day produced an agenda and no agreement, and both Senate counts kept their secrets for another night. objectivedailynews.com/editions/…
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Abu Dhabi Enters Its Second Day With Prisoners on the Table, Asia Rises for a Third Day, and Oil Firms on a Struck Pipeline — Edition No. 32, The Overnight Watch Abu Dhabi’s second day opened with prisoners discussed and not agreed, land off the table, and Asia rising for a third day. objectivedailynews.com/editions/…
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Veterans Day and Armistice Day: What November 11 Marks, and How the World Keeps It On November 11, 1918, an armistice signed before dawn in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne stopped the fighting on the Western Front at 11:00 in the morning. objectivedailynews.com/special-r…
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Pagey McPageface Is Ready to Audit Your Website
Pagey packages the rules inside my website generator as an agent skill that audits titles, links, headings, orphan pages, and repeated copy.
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GW Men’s Rowing Alumni Night Is Friday
GW Men’s Rowing takes the Champions Club this Friday at 7pm for the men’s basketball game, $25.20 a ticket, with a share to the crew.
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The House Takes Up the Hegseth Articles With No Vote in the File, Wall Street Closes Lower on the Hot Print, and Abu Dhabi Ends Its First Day Without an Agreement — Edition No. 30, The Evening Watch The day gave one number, one witness, one close, and two tables. The number was hot, the witness conceded nothing, the close was lower, and neither table produced an agreement. objectivedailynews.com/editions/…
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Chris, Put the Bible on the X3
One card, one file, one book: the Xteink X3 becomes a pocket Bible, and nothing else, forever.
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Donald J. Trump: The Documented Record, 1946 to 2026
An objective biography—origins, the building business, the brand, two presidencies, the courts, and the money, filed whole from the documented record.
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Inflation Runs Hot at 0.4 Percent, Hegseth Calls the Charges a Farce, and Abu Dhabi’s First Day Ends Without a Breakthrough — Edition No. 29, The Midday Watch Midday corrected the morning on the number, on the vote, and on the speaker, and it left every negotiation and every count exactly where the night left them. objectivedailynews.com/editions/…
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Chris, Put Hitchhiker’s on the X220
Two install commands, one story file, and your 2011 ThinkPad X220 becomes the finest Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy machine you have ever owned.
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How to Build Your Own InkQuest
InkQuest is a pocket text adventure machine: a 2.9-inch e-paper screen, one clicky knob, and an AI that writes the story while you play it.
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The Machine I Asked For Last Week
Last week I asked whether a little e-ink box could play a text adventure that writes itself while you play—this morning the internet handed me one: InkQuest, about fifty dollars in parts.
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Starship Flight 15: The First Attempt to Catch Both Stages of the World’s Largest Rocket SpaceX is targeting Friday, November 13, 2026 for the first attempt to catch both stages—booster at 6:35 after liftoff and the ship after about 22 hours in orbit. objectivedailynews.com/special-r…
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Catching a Falling Building on Friday the 13th
SpaceX will try to catch both halves of Starship on Flight 15, booster on Friday the 13th and the ship a day later, and the resident alien has opinions.
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Nuclear Power in 2026: The Operating Record, the Cost of Building New, the Small Reactors, and the Data Centers 94 U.S. reactors ran at 91.0% in 2025, new nuclear costs $175 to $255 per megawatt-hour, and no small reactor powers any data center—delivered small-reactor capacity is zero megawatts. objectivedailynews.com/special-r…