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Sep 29, 2026 from Hackaday

Designing a Fully 3D-Printed Mechanical Calculator

Even if almost tragically impractical in a world where digital calculators are cheap as chips, mechanical calculators and their big mechanical computer brethren remain an absolute marvel of enginee...

Sep 29, 2026 from Above the Law

Judge Accidentally Fires Gun While Trying To Pay For Taco Tuesday Meal

Apologies, Your Honor, but the only acceptable shells inside a taco restaurant are supposed to be made of corn or flour. The post Judge Accidentally Fires Gun While Trying To Pay For Taco Tuesday M...

Sep 29, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

The Very Hungry Photocopier

Read The Very Hungry Photocopier Customer: *Holding a book.* "Can I use your photocopier?" Me: "No, you cannot photocopy the books we are trying to sell you." Customer: "I just want to photocopy en...

Sep 29, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 29 September 2026

Blockdrain Edition Top Story OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all its rogue AI activity. (Tech Crunch) Because they are idiots. Nvidia has launched a new platform for reining in rogue ...

Sep 29, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

The Supreme Court's two decades of constitutional change

"People tend to think the times they are living in are the most unprecedented and unpredictable, but that is rarely the case."

Sep 29, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Studio Ghibli’s Calcifer is ready to light up your home as a magical-looking candle lamp [Photos]

Fireless fire spirit is ready to provide the cozy glows of the Ghibli anime film. For some Studio Ghibli characters, the marketing potential is obvious. Totoro, for example, is so invitingly cuddly...

Sep 29, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

AlternativeTo September Recap: New badges, hide apps by tag, revamped lists and more

Hey guys! Over the last few weeks we’ve been adding a bunch of new features and improvements to AlternativeTo, so we thought it was time for a quick monthly recap. You may have already stumbled acr...

Sep 29, 2026 from LifeDev.net

How Do You Practice Digital Minimalism? 6 Steps to Take Back Your Attention

Digital minimalism is the practice of deciding, deliberately, which technology earns a place in your life and quietly removing everything else. It is not a rejection of phones, apps or the internet...

Sep 29, 2026 from It's FOSS

openSUSE Leap is The Immutable Distro Now, Leap Micro is Out

Starting with Leap 16.1, the separate immutable flavor will cease to exist.

Sep 29, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Anatomy Unzipped: John of Arderne’s Sweden Scroll (ca. 1425–35)

Early surgical diagrams that present patients prying themselves open for our anatomical gaze.

Sep 29, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Ich habe ein neues Lieblingsemoji

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Sep 29, 2026 from Kev Quirk

2026-09-29 16:03: I think it's time... #Ubuntu

I think it's time... #Ubuntu Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.

Sep 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Cicero Ordered Luxury Plates by Letter — A Shipwreck May Hold the Same Ware

On 28 September 2026, Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, announced on X the recovery of 2,100-year-old tableware from the Adrasan wreck, a merchant ship that went down off...

Sep 29, 2026 from Palladium

The Mirror and the Gap

Artificial intelligence offers a reflection of our selves, yet something vital is missing from the picture. The post The Mirror and the Gap appeared first on Palladium.

Sep 29, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Khosrow I

I thought we should see the man who was causing such trouble for Justinian I and the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.Khosrow was the supreme ruler of Iran from 531 to 579, a very long reign during...

Sep 29, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Party Blames Zhang Youxia’s Fall on Disloyalty, Factionalism

Christopher Nye

Sep 29, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist

Flu is here early. Plus Covid, mosquitoes, and more.

The Dose (Sept 29)

Sep 29, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Christmas Tree Man

Less shit, not more. Especially with being more manic recently, my capacity to make decisions is disoriented by the constant streams of interconnected thoughts; oh, and of course there's the increa...

Sep 28, 2026 from Above the Law

Trump Is Rerunning His 2024 Campaign Ad And Sending Taxpayers The Bill — See Also

Trump's Newest 'Public Service Announcement' Is Just His 2024 Campaign Ad, Now Paid For By You: Ethics lawyers from both parties say that's the whole problem. Weil Poaches Cravath's Private Equity ...

Sep 28, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Azerbaijan Expands Green Energy Production

Vasif Huseynov