Aug 14, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 14 August 2026 Two Ventlemen Of Genoa Edition Top Story You get a letter of marque and reprisal! And you get a letter of marque and reprisal! Everybody gets a letter of marque and reprisal! (White House) (Yes, th...
Aug 14, 2026 from Above the Law Hakeem Jeffries Is Reading The Room, Wants ‘Dramatic’ Supreme Court Reform He called the conservative majority on the Court 'basically a subsidiary of the MAGA Republican Party.' The post Hakeem Jeffries Is Reading The Room, Wants ‘Dramatic’ Supreme Court Reform appeared ...
Aug 14, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation NRF’s Potential to Launch an Anti-Taliban Counterinsurgency Andrea Serino
Aug 14, 2026 from Hackaday Snooping Flume Water Monitor Data On The Wire [Stephen] had an interesting piece of hardware at home—namely, a Flume water monitor. It’s a smart device which reports usage data to Flume’s servers, and the water utility in turn. …read more
Aug 14, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Fireside Friday, August 14, 2026 (On Financing Pre-Modern Navies) Hey folks, fireside this week as I get ready for the start of a new semester! For this week, I wanted to talk briefly about the wrinkles that financing navies poses with regards to our worldbuildin...
Aug 14, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Cursor joins SpaceX as part of SpaceXAI to enhance Grok platform As announced in June, Cursor has been acquired by SpaceX and will join the SpaceXAI team. The Cursor team will focus on improving Grok, Grok Build, Grok Bot, Grok API, and Cursor products alongside...
Aug 14, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Ride a tram that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a new limited-time history tour Step back in time on Hiroshima’s “Peace Loop 653”, a special tour that links passengers to the city’s past and present. Visitors to Hiroshima tend to have an interest in learning about its past, as...
Aug 14, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com The Sand(wiche)s Of Time Read The Sand(wiche)s Of Time Customer: "Can I get a refund on a sandwich you guys made? It was really bad. I have the receipt." Me: "May I see it?" Read The Sand(wiche)s Of Time
Aug 14, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Some More Thoughts About Surrogacy and Abortion My post yesterday on surrogacy and abortion has generated many responses, as I had suspected. Surrogacy is one of those… The post Some More Thoughts About Surrogacy and Abortion appeared first on R...
Aug 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition Tree Rings Reveal the Exact Chronology of the Ancient Phrygian City of Gordion, Capital of the Legendary King Midas The ancient city of Gordion, capital of the Phrygian kingdom and recently declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, now has a new and precise chronology for its most important construction phases. An ...
Aug 14, 2026 from Daily Medieval Richard of Conisburgh Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, was one of the chief conspirators of the Southampton Plot to eliminate Henry V and replace him with Edmund Mortimer. He had an impressive lineage. His ...
Aug 14, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Homelabbers and Desktop Tweakers may want to move beyond just plain AI chat The days of asking AI a question, or pasting a config file in, and then pasting (or typing) the updated file back, are no longer needed. I have over 47 running docker containers, with almost as man...
Aug 14, 2026 from Kev Quirk On Publishing Your Salary One of my favourite things to do online is perusing the IndieWeb. It's fun, and I've been able to discover a tonne of interesting people along the way. But every now and then, I come across someone...
Aug 14, 2026 from It's FOSS LightDM is Back From The Dead, But Canonical isn't in Charge Anymore It took years of silence, new maintainers, and a release to bring LightDM back.
Aug 14, 2026 from PRBS23 Reverse Engineering the Gravity 800 Smoker Controller I recently released FreeFall 800, open source firmware for the Gravity 800 smoker/grill from Masterbuilt. The project started because I needed to open the controller to fix a broken wire. That is w...
Aug 13, 2026 from Above the Law XOXO, Gossip Girl: The Yale Law Whisper Network Dishes On Usha Vance — See Also Everything You Need To Know About Usha Vance, You Can Learn At Yale Law: Her classmates gossip about her on Signal. The clerkship culture that shaped her politics is the part they don't put in the ...
Aug 13, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Putting The $ Into $ervice Read Putting The $ Into $ervice A customer tosses an item onto my checkout belt. Customer: "Why is this so expensive?! I can get it $2 cheaper at [Competitor]!" Me: "We don't price match, so I woul...
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Troubleshooting Video Delay On The Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi line of single-board computers are great little devices, and they can do great things with cameras and video. However, there can be a fair bit of latency …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy En Banc Fifth Circuit Dismisses Alien Enemies Act Case as Moot The ruling does not address whether Trump properly invoked the Act.
Aug 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Five Linux Apps to Install on Day One I read a How to Geek blog post titled 5 apps new Linux users should install on day one (HT Tux Machines). The author, Dibakar Ghosh, recommended the following apps: GNOME Tweaks and GNOME Extension...
