Aug 16, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 16 August 2026 Ananaisotropic Edition Top Story Every fusion power startup that has raised over $100 million. (Tech Crunch) Your weekly reminder that it is the 21st century, and not everything is poop-flavoured i...
Aug 16, 2026 from Hackaday Researchers Hack an Airline Analog Modern airliners are rather complicated feats of engineering. Innumerable safety-critical components are connected with tens of miles of wiring, complex digital buses, and dozens (perhaps hundreds)...
Aug 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition Roman Emperors Did Plan for the Future of Their Dynasties, According to a Study Were Roman emperors simply improvisers who waited to see what would happen after their death? Or did they carefully plan for the future of their dynasties, thinking not only about their immediate s...
Aug 16, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Visiting Japan’s muscular mascot character dog at his free museum near Kansai International Airport There’s a manga-related reason Inunakin is so buff. A lot of towns in Japan have official mascot characters, so it’s no surprise that the city of Izumosano in Osaka Prefecture has one too. Also not...
Aug 15, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Deflated Bee 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCIII Welcome to the 293rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and its short-form writing sister...
Aug 15, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com More Than A Few Loose Shingles Read More Than A Few Loose Shingles Me: "Okay, that's going to be a special-order item, which has a minimum-purchase quantity of nine bundles, and a ten-business-day turnaround time." Caller: "But ...
Aug 15, 2026 from Hackaday Peeling Fruit with the Power of Steam Steam power is a staple of the steampunk aesthetic, thermodynamics, and a checkpoint for the budding mechanical engineer studying heat cycles. But because food is largely made of water, steam …read...
Aug 15, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Israeli Settler "Terrorists" Unjustly Expel West Bank Palestinians From Their Land I am generally pro-Israel. But these actions amount to ethnic cleansing and gross violations of property rights.
Aug 15, 2026 from GadgeteerZA FairEmail is an open source privacy orientated email app “Setup was IMAP credentials for each of my personal accounts. There’s no account to create with the developer or a sign-in step before you can reach your inbox. Two things in the listing made it ap...
Aug 15, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 15 August 2026 Twenty Essential Classical Elements Edition Top Story Who are you and what have you done with France? France's Constitutional Council has found the French government's plan to block social media ac...
Aug 15, 2026 from Peter's Path Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne Why read the book? Jules Verne published Journey to the Centre of the Earth in 1864. Professor Otto Lidenbrock finds a coded message from an old Icelandic explorer. He sets out with his nephew Axel...
Aug 15, 2026 from Daily Medieval Hunchbacks In William Shakespeare's Richard III, someone refers to Richard as “that foule hunch-backt toade.” It's the first recorded instance of the term for someone who had a less-than-straight spine, and—p...
Aug 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition Philogelos is the oldest joke book in the world, and why some of its jokes still work 1,600 years later In 2008, British comedian Jim Bowen stepped onto a stage to try out new material. Only the material wasn’t new at all: it had been written since the 4th century. Bowen read to a contemporary audien...
Aug 15, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Japanese gacha machine in Shibuya now sells tiny capsule terrariums We join the “koke katsu” trend to find out if these little ecosystems are as easy to make as they say. Japan is famous for its gacha machines, which dispense all sorts of products at random, throug...
Aug 15, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation Institutions Outpace Ideas in ‘Autonomous Knowledge System’ Jean Christopher Mittelstaedt
Aug 15, 2026 from It's FOSS Overshared to an AI? Proton's Tool Will Give You a Reality Check Powered by Lumo, the tool turns your exported AI chat history into a personalized report of your privacy exposure.
Aug 15, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenAI launches a Computer History feature that tracks user activity across apps and sites OpenAI has introduced Computer History in the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS, a new feature that enables the app to track user activity and interactions across applications and websites to give Chat...
Aug 15, 2026 from Toni Notes Why most blog advice does not apply to small publications Most blogging advice is built for marketing assets at a different scale. When a small publication imports that infrastructure, the result is friction, guilt, and frameworks for a business that is n...
Aug 14, 2026 from Roy Tang 750 Words: Hall of Phoenixes Interview I've written a bit about 750 Words before, the last time in 2019. It's a service I started using for private journalling in 2010 on and off and since 2020 I've been writing there on a daily basis. ...
