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Sep 21, 2026 from Michael Lynch

Refactoring English: Month 21

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...

Sep 20, 2026 from Hackaday

No GPU, No Problem: Flagship LLMs on a GPU-less Teenaged Server

There are lots of reasons to run LLMs locally, from privacy concerns to just wanting to futz about with the technology, but if you want to run the big models, …read more

Sep 20, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Open Thread

What’s on your mind?

Sep 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bronze Age Sardinians Were Trading Metal with Scotland and Sweden— 500 Years Before the Phoenicians

A copper ingot cast somewhere in inland Sardinia during the Bronze Age might, centuries later, turn up in a Scottish tomb or a village in southern Sweden. That is the striking picture drawn by Sere...

Sep 20, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Studio Ghibli releases new anime socks that pay tribute to characters from four different movies

Cosy up in colder weather with cute characters cuddling your toes. With the days now getting colder in Japan, it’s time to start looking for cosy socks, and for Ghibli fans there’s no better way to...

Sep 20, 2026 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

Why I Stopped Paying to Host Two Static Sites

I recently switched from Namecheap shared hosting to Cloudflare Pages. I have two websites that are both plain text html files that I edit by hand (for now). For my needs, paying to host two plain ...

Sep 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Sumo Ballet

I have been watching all of the top division bouts at the 2026 Aki Basho (September Grand Sumo Tournament). One of the highlight bouts on day 4 featured Yokozuna Onosato vs Takayasu. Takayasu deliv...

Sep 20, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

I had nothing 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCVIII

Welcome to the 298th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and its short-form writing sister...

Sep 19, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Jurassic Lark, Part 7

Read Jurassic Lark, Part 7 I'm a tour guide at a Natural History Museum. Every so often, I get old or middle-aged guys 'joking' with me by asking deliberately dumb questions or pretending to be stu...

Sep 19, 2026 from Hackaday

A Hotspot Becomes A Handheld

A Linux handheld computer is, in theory, easy and inexpensive given the availability of single-board computers, but in practice the budget invariably edges well into three figures. There’s an inter...

Sep 19, 2026 from Kev Quirk

2026-09-19 22:28: Watched Forrest Gump for the first time in 20 odd years this evening. Watching it...

Watched Forrest Gump for the first time in 20 odd years this evening. Watching it again with an adult brain...Jenny is a real bitch! Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you...

Sep 19, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

Galley House Is Beyond Help

Back in the 1930s, a terrible discovery was made at Galley House – a broken corpse on the doorsteps, the blood still not quite dry, and a range of other bodies scattered about the place. The scene ...

Sep 19, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 19 September 2026

Fluorine Bleach Edition Top Story The first new cat species to be identified in more than a century, leopardus tilcayo, has been, uh, identified. (Wikipedia) Of course the people who live in that p...

Sep 19, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Gang of angry monkeys surrounds and attacks Japanese man in hot spring town

Morning walk interrupted by notorious Troop T1. The town of Yugawara, in Kanagawa Prefecture, seems like it should be a very tranquil place. A seaside hot spring town, with baths and inns dotting t...

Sep 19, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

When You're in a College Electrical Circuits Lab, Better Follow the Teacher's Instructions

From Soliz v. Alamo Colleges Dist., decided by Judge David Ezra (W.D. Tex.) on Sept. 16: Plaintiff Joseph Soliz, who… The post When You're in a College Electrical Circuits Lab, Better Follow the Te...

Sep 19, 2026 from It's FOSS

Elecrow CrowPanel Advanced HMI Display Review: A Tinkerer's Touchscreen

A big touchscreen board for makers who want a physical control panel for their homelab, if you don't mind doing the work yourself.

Sep 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Belisarius Returns to Italy

The Gothic Wars (535 - 554) under Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I were created to reunify the Western Roman Empire with the Eastern. They were successful, thanks to the strategies and (in one cas...

Sep 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Why Doesn’t Gravity Explain Why You Can’t Be in Two Places at Once? A New Experiment Under 1,400 Meters of Rock Just Narrowed It Down

Somewhere between an electron and a human being, the rules of physics change. Quantum mechanics allows an atom to exist in two states simultaneously — spinning left and right at the same time, for ...

Sep 19, 2026 from The Scholar's Stage

The Cure for Cancer Is Not a Pure Math Benchmark

PERHAPS SILICON VALLEY'S BRIGHTEST have miscalculated.  I suspect those leading and investing in the AI labs have underestimated—vastly underestimated—the chance that progress in machine intelligen...

Sep 19, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part II: Divisions, Designers and Doctrines

This is the second part (I) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game and also one of the most popular strategy games currently...