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Sep 07, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 7 September 2026

Fantasy Dimension Edition Top Story Your Roku TV now offers AI slop for free! (Engadget) Never mind the quality, feel the width! Your LG TV is spying on you. (Notebook Check) For once this is not e...

Sep 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

All Lions Belonged to the Emperor — And Rome Had the Paperwork to Prove It

Picture the Colosseum, and the image that comes to mind is almost always the same: a lion bursting into the arena, the crowd roaring, a doomed man backing away. Film and popular history have fixate...

Sep 07, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Untitled

Read 24 years ago, I was training as an Arabic linguist for the military, so when 9/11 happened, our little, open training base was obviously thrown into massive chaos and confusion. Housing only t...

Sep 07, 2026 from Hackaday

Comparing PETG and PCTG Filaments

The average 3D printer owner knows a few types of filaments – PLA, ABS, somewhere in the middle, PETG.  PCTG is another option that can be confusingly similar to PETG. …read more

Sep 07, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Open Thread

What’s on your mind?

Sep 07, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Die Brandmauer in Sachsen-Anhalt

Wird die Brandmauer gegen die AfD nach der Wahl in Sachsen-Anhalt halten?

Sep 07, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Uniqlo’s sister brand will be waiting with Pokémon sweaters and parkas this fall [Pics]

Pikachu, Eevee, and even Gengar want to keep you warm and toasty once the weather gets crisp or chilly. As someone whose favorite time of year is summer, it always irks me to see how gleefully quic...

Sep 06, 2026 from Hackaday

Hackaday Links: September 6, 2026

Yesterday, Isar Aerospace secured its place in the history books when the upper stage of their Spectrum rocket put a payload of CubeSats into low Earth orbit (LEO). Not only …read more

Sep 06, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Refunder Blunder, Part 83

Read Refunder Blunder, Part 83 Me: "Can I see the receipt?" Customer: "I lost it, but you sell this!" Me: "Yes, we do, but it isn't exclusive to our store. Without a receipt, I have no evidence of ...

Sep 06, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

Weekly Robotics #375

Today in Weekly Robotics: A modular skid-steer UGV you can build yourself, a winning SLAM implementation, balancing a pole with propellers, GPT-6 for robotic manipulation, and more!

Sep 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

PSA on RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot

I discovered two new bots in my server logs last week: RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot. They come from RSS Amplifier and Brisk News respectively. Bot sites are built by Profullstack, Inc. I discovered...

Sep 06, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

Kept is an open-source self-hosted alternative to Google Keep notes

It looks and feels like Google Keep notes, but is private and tracker-free. It has some extra features too, such as location notifications, CalDAV integrations, collaborative editing, file attachme...

Sep 06, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

RSS Amplifier Re-Publishes 19 Full NLJ Articles Without Permission

A PSA about a new scraping service for AI crawlers that syndicated (charitably) or re-published (less charitably) 19 New Leaf Journal articles without permission, before I identified the issue.

Sep 06, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 6 September 2026

Ambiguous Index Edition Top Story Word of caution: If you ever rewrite your own blogging platform and use your personal website as a scratch monkey, remember to unmount it before trying to post you...

Sep 06, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Shinto shrine gate parfaits that tell your fortune now being served in Tokyo

At the base of the Skytree there’s a dessert rooted in enmusubi traditions. I think we can all agree that at any moment when you’re eating ice cream, you’re enjoying one of life’s great blessings. ...

Sep 06, 2026 from It's FOSS

Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers

This is the pilot phase, with 3,000 workstations moving away from Microsoft 365. The federal administration has over 54,000 computers.

Sep 06, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Book Swap: A Night in the Lonesome October

I did a Book Swap with some friends. I got “A Night in the Lonesome October” by Roger Zelazny.

Sep 06, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Emperor Belisarius

For the sake of ending the Byzantine invasion of Italy to conquer the Ostrogoths and unify the old Western Roman Empire with the Eastern Byzantine Empire, King Vitiges of the Ostrogoths agreed to t...

Sep 06, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Alienation of Affections as Complicity

In the discussion of the Kyrsten Sinema alienation of affections case, several commenters took roughly the following view: Spouses have… The post Alienation of Affections as Complicity appeared fir...

Sep 06, 2026 from kmcd.dev

Joining Buf

A check-in for my career