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CLOSH. A general name given by the mobility to Dutch seamen, being a corruption of CLAUS, the abbreviation of Nicholas, a name very common among the men of that nation.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Of course, as Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of all seamen, There is a chappel or church dedicated to him in almost every port.




Fantastic Adventures vol. 6, no. 3 (June 1944)

I love this, particularly all the detail of her hair and clothes and throne.

It's intriguing that the guy in contemporary clothes is being restrained. Is he being given the sword?

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KVM Guest VMs Using Intel AMX Can Cause The Linux Host To Kernel Panic

An unfortunate Linux kernel bug coming to light just ahead of Christmas may cause frustration for some server administrators, particularly public cloud providers... It turns out with the Linux kernel releases since 2022, KVM guest virtual machines making use of Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) is possible to cause the host to experience a kernel panic...
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Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks (George Chidi/The Guardian)

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Illinois lawmakers gain access to Chicago-area ICE facility after pushback (Tara Suter/The Hill)

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Linux's sched_ext Has Plans For GPU Awareness, Energy-Aware Abstractions

Sched_ext as the extensible scheduler code for the Linux kernel that allows loading schedulers from user-space via eBPF code has shown a lot of interesting possibilities. Andrea Righi of NVIDIA who has been heavily involved in sched_ext development shared some of the future plans being looked at as we move into 2026...
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From Project Gutenberg:

Peter Trawl; Or, The Adventures of a Whaler

by William Henry Giles Kingston

Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/21475



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Waymo explains Saturday’s self-driving shutdown in San Francisco.

When a substation fire cut off electricity across the city, Waymo SUVs stuck at malfunctioning stoplights quickly became another headache, and now the company is explaining it as an issue of too many remote operator assistance requests:

While the Waymo Driver is designed to handle dark traffic signals as four-way stops, it may occasionally request a confirmation check to ensure it makes the safest choice. While we successfully traversed more than 7,000 dark signals on Saturday, the outage created a concentrated spike in these requests. This created a backlog that, in some cases, led to response delays contributing to congestion on already-overwhelmed streets.
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At least 6 among victims of Mexican Navy plane crash off the coast of Texas (Max Rego/The Hill)

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#BBC US denies visas to ex-EU commissioner and others over social media rules w.st/SmP9v
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