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Jul 17, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 17 July 2026

Dwarves Are Back On The Menu Edition Top Story TSMC has committed another $100 billion for four new leading-edge 2nm fabs in Arizona. (Tom's Hardware) I'm not sure exactly why they chose Arizona ap...

Jul 17, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Spread The Wrong Sheet

Read Spread The Wrong Sheet The project manager, a brilliant but non-technical guy, looked at all this and decided that Excel must be the tool to use. And they needed an expert, because, well, expe...

Jul 17, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Strategic Snapshot: Russian Oil Woes Reinforce Economic Troubles

Russia’s war against Ukraine continues to come home as Kyiv increases its strikes against Russian oil infrastructure.

Jul 17, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Court Rejects Claim That Allowing Allegedly Biologically Male Student in Girls' Restroom Violates Equal Protection Clause and Title IX

From F.F. v. Valley View Comm. Unit School Dist. 365U, decided Monday by Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman (N.D. Ill.): Plaintiff… The post Court Rejects Claim That Allowing Allegedly Biologically Male ...

Jul 17, 2026 from Above the Law

What Lawyers Really Need To Know About Marketing

Advice for lawyers at every stage of their career. The post What Lawyers Really Need To Know About Marketing appeared first on Above the Law.

Jul 17, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist

Bad air, bad lettuce

The public's health can't catch a break

Jul 17, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Studio Ghibli releases anime T-shirts that pay homage to one of Hayao Miyazaki’s most personal films

Iconic quotes, air pirates and a very subtle Gina reference make this collection a must-have for fans of this Ghibli classic. Back in 2017, Studio Ghibli founded a cool new streetwear label called ...

Jul 17, 2026 from Hackaday

Hackaday Podcast Episode 378: C Coders, Ceramic Printers, and Shadow Archives

It’s a hot one at both microphones, as Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos wilt in the heat with ice lollies and freezer packs. But still, we persevered long enough to …read more

Jul 17, 2026 from riz#000000me

Cleaning Things Up

Trying to be less of a consumer or more of a conscientious consumer.

Jul 17, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Weekly Notes 29/2026

Overall, a good but hectic week. I spent time planning for the next few months. Planning is my comfort zone. When things are planned, I sleep better. It doesn’t mean I can’t do unplanned things; I ...

Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Eurosky launches mu, a European microblogging app with new user features

Eurosky has released mu, a microblogging application built and hosted in Europe on the AT Protocol ecosystem. Mu launches with features such as a user-customizable news feed, post editing, and a ne...

Jul 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Late Antique Building with Mosaic and Ritual Objects Found in Agrigento, Evidencing the Transition to Christianity in Sicily

The eleventh excavation campaign in the Hellenistic-Roman district of Agrigento, carried out over the past few weeks, has concluded with the discovery of a building whose construction sequence span...

Jul 17, 2026 from Palladium

Mesa-Optimization is Destroying Education

Educational institutions have learned to optimize for everything except learning. Artificial intelligence could force them to measure what’s important. The post Mesa-Optimization is Destroying Educ...

Jul 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Blood as Food

There's a scene early in The Name of the Rose involving barrels of pigs' blood. It was autumn, and time to slaughter the pigs, but of course you wouldn't want to waste the blood.You could not, howe...

Jul 17, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Internetprovidervertreterscam Episode 2

Schon wieder stand so ein angeblicher Telekomvertreter vor der Tür. Ein anderer als gestern, aber dieselbe Masche.

Jul 17, 2026 from It's FOSS

Linus Torvalds Spent Years Dismissing AI, Only to Vouch for It

A chronological look at how Linux's creator went from "90% marketing" to telling AI critics to fork the kernel or walk away.

Jul 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Cup Noodle (Cold Edition) in Japan

SoraNews24, which covers news from Japan, is a long-time member of my feed collection and a regular article contributor to the “Around the Web” secution of my weekly newsletter. They cover some “ne...

Jul 17, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Over-Medicated

The last few days have been intense, haven't they? Well, thankfully, my personal barometer is reading a bit lower today. Some days, I have a decent idea of what I want to write here and can follow ...

Jul 17, 2026 from Julia Evans

Learning a few things about running SQLite

Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts ...

Jul 16, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

EU Sanctions Expose Funding Mechanism Behind Pro-Russian Influencer

Schuyler Van Tassel