May 28, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 28 May 2026 The Beeg Cat Who Walks Through Walls Edition Top Story Nvidia is planning to spend $150 billion a year in Taiwan. (Reuters) That used to be a lot. Anthropic and OpenAI have found a product-market f...
May 28, 2026 from Hackaday Linux Fu: Fake Webcams Have Many Uses Dealing with text streams is a fundamental skill for the Linux power user. You can sort, merge, and search text files easily from the command line. What if you could …read more
May 28, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Blowback Read Blowback I live in an apartment block. The lobby has the mailboxes and a notice board for neighbors to post items and such. I read the following: Post #1: "To whoever’s dog keeps barking at 6 ...
May 28, 2026 from Above the Law Morning Docket: 05.28.26 * Justice Department launching criminal investigation of E. Jean Carroll, in case you were wondering how the whole "weaponization of the DOJ against the president's enemies" is going. [BBC News] * ...
May 28, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy SCOTUS Summarily Reverses The "Inquisitorial" Fourth Circuit Twice In One Term The judges of the Fourth Circuit continue to act as advocates.
May 28, 2026 from Rock and Null LLMs changed writing. But our submission processes haven’t caught up. LLMs are changing how we write, communicate, and evaluate information, but many submission and proposal processes are still designed for a pre-AI era. If AI generates documents and is later summari...
May 28, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Roku home screen gets major redesign with smarter recommendations and streamlined features Roku has released its most substantial home screen update in over ten years, presenting users with a smarter, more dynamic interface. This major redesign aims to reduce friction in content discover...
May 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition A Marine Animal Defies the Limits of Immortality: A Fragment of Its Amputated Body Survives for Three Years in Seawater From the reanimated corpse of Frankenstein’s monster to the detached hand known as Thing in the Addams Family, reanimated tissue is one of the most enduring images in science fiction. This archetyp...
May 28, 2026 from Daily Medieval The Oxford Massacre One site of the St. Brice's Day Massacre in 1002 seems to have been Oxford. Æthelred called it in a 1004 charter "a most just extermination" of Danes, because of the rumor that they intended to kil...
May 28, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Animal, Vegetable, Lamb: The Zoophyte from Tartary In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. A hoax based on fern rhizomes? A euphemism for culled...
May 28, 2026 from Benny Powers: Web Developer Let Equals Equal Equals Setting `ariaDescribedByElements` on a node silently fails when the target is in a different shadow root. The spec broke `=` to preserve encapsulation purity. This violates the Priority of Constitu...
May 28, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Sushi Pizza surprises diners in one of the best food destinations in Japan New fusion food looks set to become a hit on social media. If you’re in Japan and find yourself in the mood for pizza, but with a hankering for sushi as well, there’s a new restaurant in Osaka rea...
May 27, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy A Prescient Poem About AI A post jocularly characterizing AIs as our children reminded me of this stanza from Philip Larkin: They fuck you up,… The post A Prescient Poem About AI appeared first on Reason.com.
May 27, 2026 from Hackaday Autopsy of a Failed Vintage Carbon Resistor Although resistors are hardly among the most exciting components, they are arguably one of the most important ones, as anyone who has done any amount of circuit design and debugging …read more
May 27, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Friend Or Faux? Read Friend Or Faux? Customer: "I want your name! Your boss is my best friend, and he'll want to know just how you treat customers." Coworker: *Calmly.* "Hmm. That's strange." Read Friend Or Faux?
May 27, 2026 from Above the Law Experience Rewarded — See Also Firms Are Hiring More Laterals Than Law Students: Killing OCI has its consequences. Quinn Emanuel Earns Another Benchslap!: If an associate did what the leading partner on the matter did, they'd ha...
May 27, 2026 from Darek Kay Sabbatical #15: Tasman-Marlborough A travel journal from my visit to Tasman-Marlborough, New Zealand.
May 27, 2026 from Improve Something Today Tilopa’s six words of advice A six-word poem to be appreciated, for today, as a poem.
