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Jun 06, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 6 June 2026

Sleb Edition Top Story SpaceX just launched 50 more Starlink satellites into orbit in a single day, using a pair of its trusty Falcon 9 boosters from facilities at Cape Canaveral and Vandenburg. (S...

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

Offended, Bar None

Read Offended, Bar None Customer: "My wife is seventy-three years old, and it is extremely offensive when you refer to her as a guy!" Me: *Perplexed.* "Sorry… I don’t recall referring to her as a g...

Jun 06, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Gordon-Darby Prepares to Renew Effort to Commandeer New Hampshire in Order to Maintain Emissions Testing Contract

Since it lost its first case on technical procedural grounds, the company plans to try again.

Jun 06, 2026 from Hackaday

Homebrew Webcam Support for the Original Xbox

These days, we take it for granted that a video game console will have multiple USB ports. There’s even an expectation that basic peripherals such as storage devices will “Just …read more

Jun 06, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Eric the Memorable

After Niels, the fourth and last of the sons of Sweyn II to become kings of Denmark, died, the throne passed to the next generation; in this case to Eric II "the Memorable," son of Eric the Evergoo...

Jun 06, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Ghibli’s No Face continues to demonstrate his generous character growth by dispensing soy sauce

Can you please pass the soy sauce, No Face? Explicit exposition has never really been Studio Ghibli’s thing, but even by their standards, No Face’s character arc is an impressive case. Without sayi...

Jun 06, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Beijing’s Emerging Corps of Foreign Service Nationals and Proxies

Matt Brazil

Jun 06, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Tippfehler: Hinweise erwünscht

Wenn ihr Tippfehler in meinen Artikeln entdeckt, kontaktiert mich gerne dazu, ich werde sie korrigieren.

Jun 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

11 Prehistoric Stone Tools That Were Never Used, a Puzzling Discovery on an Ohio Golf Course

It was an ordinary Saturday in January 2021 when Joshua Fetter was walking next to a pond on the Sugar Creek golf course in Ohio. The land was being leveled for future housing developments. Unknowi...

Jun 06, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

Meta Quietly Added Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses

“According to a report from Wired, Meta has been quietly installing facial recognition in its Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta smart glasses for the last few months. Internally called “NameTag”, the fe...

Jun 06, 2026 from It's FOSS

Craving Hyprland But Don't Want to Configure It? Try Dank Linux

A single cURL command can set you up with a fully themed desktop on top of Hyprland.

Jun 06, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight

This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems te...

Jun 05, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

PC Pick-and-Mix: An Upsetting Abscission, A Trapped Archive, and a Sweet Family Tree

Time for another entry in my occasional series unpacking what PC games I’ve been playing lately. This time around, it’s a puzzles-and-narrative special, with one point-and-click adventure and two m...

Jun 05, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Court Dismisses Fraud Claim Against N.Y. Times Over "Young, Old, and Sick Starve to Death in Gaza" Photo

Among other things, plaintiff failed to allege "that the alleged fraudulent conduct induced ... the plaintiff into purchasing merchandise."

Jun 05, 2026 from Hackaday

Over-Engineering an FDM Spool Holder From Prusa Mk4S Remains

Unlike resin printers where you generally just pour the fresh resin into the easily accessible vat, FDM printers need to squirrel away at least one spool and its requisite holder …read more

Jun 05, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Mary Contrary

Read Mary Contrary Customer: "What's that?" Me: "That's your bellini." Customer: "Why is it orange?" Me: "Uh, it's the peach puree." Customer: "Wait! There's peach in this? I'm allergic to peach!" ...

Jun 05, 2026 from Above the Law

Salaries Are On The Rise! — See Also

Another Biglaw Firm Matches Milbank: Katten Muchin bumps up their salaries! Keeping Up With The Milbanks: Check to see if your firm is on the scoreboard! Here Lies Diversity Lab: The FTC successful...

Jun 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Google adds an opt-out option to let website owners exclude their sites from AI results

Google has announced that it will add a new opt out control in Search Console, allowing website owners to exclude their domains from the company’s generative AI search results. The control applies ...

Jun 05, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Special Report: A Perfect Storm – Russia Losing Its War Against Ukraine May Lead to Regime Change

Taras Kuzio

Jun 05, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 5 June 2026

Lilo Pelekai Multipass Edition Top Story AI token costs are becoming a meme. Here's why that's a good thing. (Tom's Hardware) It's not. I mean, not unless for the AI companies, and not for anyone e...