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Jul 31, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Prosecutor professional misconduct, detention without bond, and wanton statch interpretation.

Jul 31, 2026 from Above the Law

Washington Law Deans Say Diploma Privilege Is The Only Fair Fix After Bar Exam Fiasco

After the unprecedented cancellation of the bar exam, all three deans are urging the state supreme court to grant emergency licensure. The post Washington Law Deans Say Diploma Privilege Is The Onl...

Jul 31, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Brocco-Lies

Read Brocco-Lies Customer: "Is the broccoli gluten-free?" Me: "Of course." Customer: "It doesn't look gluten-free." Read Brocco-Lies

Jul 31, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Ukrainian Ideas of Victory Diversify and Expand as Russia's War Drags On

David Traugott

Jul 31, 2026 from Hackaday

NES Advantage Stick Gets Bluetooth Upgrade

The NES Advantage was a cool bit of hardware back in 1987, bringing an arcade stick to the home console gaming experience. Naturally they don’t get much use these days, …read more

Jul 31, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 31 July 2026

Wombats Aren't Us Edition Top Story Renesas (a Japanese company formed by the merger of the semiconductor operations of Hitachi and Mitsubishi) has announced multiplexers for third-generation MRDIM...

Jul 31, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Weekly Notes 31/2026

This week has been good. It’s been a busy week, but it has been good except today. I typed a wrong Git command and pushed without verifying. Initially, it looked like I lost a couple of weeks’ work...

Jul 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Tell Everyone About Your Hero[in]ism

A friend sent me a link to an interview in Natiulus titled I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem. I trusted that she sent it to me because she thought based on the headline that it would...

Jul 31, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Starbucks Japan opens new store inside historic seaside quarantine station near Tokyo

Sip on Starbucks in a setting once linked to infectious diseases. Whenever a historic building in a prime location in Japan needs a commercial tenant, there’s a good chance Starbucks will come knoc...

Jul 31, 2026 from Peter's Path

Goodbye to Nikki and Anouk

Today two colleagues said goodbye. It is hitting me harder than I thought. I cried. Nikki and Anouk appreciated my honesty. They were honest with me too. That is rare. Honesty is not a given in the...

Jul 31, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Ink/Stitch v3.3.0: Cross Stitch fill, improved lettering & satin column simplification

Ink/Stitch v3.3.0 introduces a new Cross Stitch fill stitch type, supported by the Cross Stitch Assistant for easier setup and conversion of charts or images. The update brings expanded lettering f...

Jul 31, 2026 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

An old-new take on argument parsing in Rust

Extending getopts into a small framework for Unix-style Rust command-line tools. Over the years, I’ve written tens of command-line applications in many different languages—shell is probably the top...

Jul 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

One of the Oldest Giants’ Tombs Discovered in the Archaeological Site of Carrarzu Iddia, in Sardinia

The archaeological survey work carried out in the area of Carrarzu Iddia, in the municipality of Bortigali in central-western Sardinia, has culminated in the discovery of a new Giants’ Tomb that un...

Jul 31, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Thomas Usk, Civil Servant & Poet

We know little of Thomas Usk's early life except that he was born in London. The name Usk appears in several records, but we cannot link them together. He became a civil servant and left us some wr...

Jul 31, 2026 from It's FOSS

Exploring Kittens With Kitty Terminal Emulator

Kitty terminal's functionality can be enhanced with kittens. You can create your own or use the default ones.

Jul 31, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist

Does public health *need* MAHA?

It’s a little more complicated than that

Jul 31, 2026 from Kev Quirk

Left-Handed People Can’t Use a Fountain Pen

Apparently left-handed people can't use a fountain pen as the left hand smudges the ink as they write. I call bullshit on that. I'm left-handed, and I use a fountain pen just fine - even with an "o...

Jul 31, 2026 from LifeDev.net

Why Is Journaling So Powerful? 9 Prompts That Change How You Think

Journaling has survived every productivity fad of the last two centuries for a simple reason. It works, and it works on almost everything, from tangled emotions and foggy decisions to creativity bl...

Jul 31, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

O2A2 2026 Visual Novel Review Project (Part 2/2)

Part two of my O2A2 2026 short visual novel review project...

Jul 31, 2026 from riz#000000me

LightOS Tools

Thinking ahead.