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Welcome to Home & Away. I have been away but now am back home, so jetlag aside, I feel well-positioned to tackle this week’s edition. A lot of political news, mostly on the Republican side. Wednesday night’s debate between Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis did neither of them much good. Again, without appearing on the debate stage, Donald Trump was the winner. It helps him that Fox News has clearly decided that if you can’t beat him, join him, and has all but signed up for Trump and his campaign by welcoming him back with a softball-filled on-air conversation in front of a friendly audience at the same time as the debate.

It sat there grotesquely in the midst of the daily hubbub of college life, sticking out on the rise of a slope like a fat middle finger on the hand of a school bully. Given the elevation, it was hard to go about campus and escape its demonic glare. You could see it from the lower field. You could see it from the Sigma Chi fraternity house and the other frat houses speckled along Nez Perce Drive, the road, named after the local Native American tribe, that winds its away across the college past the residences to the golf course and then the Kibbie Dome.

The complexity of modern GPUs needn’t obscure the essence of how these machines work. If we are to make the most of the advanced technology in these GPUs then we need a little less mystique. I think this is one of the most exciting times in computer architecture for many years. In CPUs we have x86, Arm and RISC-V, three increasingly well-supported application architectures. And GPU architectures are, of course, becoming much more important.

Filmed with private money from gay investors in what is known as “vulgar” Latin, Derek Jarman’s first feature Sebastiane (1976) was an event when it was released, but it was already part of a lineage that extended as far back as Jean Cocteau’s Blood of a Poet (1930), also filmed with private money, plus the hardcore-or-near-it homoeroticism of Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures (1963), Paul Morrissey’s Flesh (1968), James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus (1971), Wakefield Poole’s Boys in the Sand (1971), and Fred Halsted’s LA Plays Itself (1972).

Good morning all and this week, my dilemmas have been minimal which has meant that my week has been fairly calm. Calm weeks are a rare occurence in our house; there is normally some sort of drama going on, whether it be school or University based stress or my husband forgetting to collect his statins and deciding that he’s about to leave this mortal coil should he not get them within 24 hours.

Hey there! I’m Nicole, and I’m a product designer. I write this newsletter to share my experiences and lessons learned through my work as a product designer. One of my first projects in my new role was to improve an existing search functionality we had. We knew that users — both internal and external — had trouble finding the results they were looking for. The current search UX wasn’t helping with that; it was hindering it.

Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking here. Thanks! Would you leave a thriving law firm to strike out on your own? Many risk-averse lawyers would not, but David Elsberg has done so—twice. In 2018, David left Quinn Emanuel to launch Selendy Gay, later Selendy Gay Elsberg—which today is one of the nation’s top litigation boutiques.

Detective Forst is a grim but riveting Nordic Noir series from Poland, that you can also describe as a tense (but very enjoyable) serial killer thriller. So it’s probably fair to say it’s not for the faint of heart. The six-part series follows police detective Wiktor Forst (Borys Szyc), who gets in trouble for his unconventional methods, but then teams up with journalist Olga Szrebska (Zuzanna Saporznikow) to put an end to a gruesome murder spree near Zakopane in the Tatra mountains, on the border between Poland and Slowakia.

Hello Pizza Friends, Early last week, when I realized Super Bowl Sunday was upon us, I considered postponing the proposed Tomato Pie post and writing about Detroit-style pizza instead, which I love for these sorts of occasion. If you are unfamiliar, Detroit-style pizza is thick pan pizza characterized by a crisp, exterior cheese frico crust. Traditionally, it’s made with Wisconsin brick cheese, which goes on before the sauce and gets spread all the way to the edges.