Oct 12, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 12 October 2026 Prostetnic Vogon Jatz Edition Top Story Xbox sales have fallen 33% to the lowest level since the platform launched 75 years ago. (MSN) PlayStation sales are also down by 25%, their lowest level sin...
Oct 12, 2026 from Hackaday A Free Cloud AI If you would like an AI “personal agent” but don’t want your data on some opaque cloud computer, there’s a new option that appears to be somewhat nicer: [rociiu] has …read more
Oct 12, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Python 3.15 is here with faster JIT compiler, explicit lazy imports, and UTF-8 by default The Python Software Foundation has officially released Python 3.15, marking one of the most significant updates to the programming language in recent years. The new version introduces a suite of pe...
Oct 12, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Ten-sion Rising Read Ten-sion Rising Customer: "Okay. What time do you guys close? Me: "Ten O'clock." Customer: "Alright. What time do you guys close? Me: "Ten." Customer: "Got it. So, what time do you guys close?...
Oct 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition Roman-Era Oracle Pillar With 56 Answers, Consulted by Throwing Sheep Bones, Found in Turkey Here is how a consultation worked. Anyone with a question (whether to travel, close a purchase, go to court, or wait for a sick relative to recover) walked up to a statue of the god Hermes in the t...
Oct 12, 2026 from Avenyora Journal Midheaven vs 10th House Cusp: Why Your MC Can Be Elsewhere Your MC does not have to sit on the tenth-house boundary. Compare the point, the house cusp, and the house system before treating a chart difference as a mistake.
Oct 12, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Japan’s newest anime figure crane game prize may also be the world’s weirdest hanger [Photos] There are two reasons this figure is posed that way. Prizes for UFO catchers/crane games in Japan tend to fall into one of two categories. In one you have stuff that you don’t really need, but whic...
Oct 12, 2026 from Thejesh GN 46 It feels like a major life turn after 35, even though I thought 35 was like half-life. I haven’t crossed the second half-life yet. I think there are a couple more years until the second half-life, ...
Oct 12, 2026 from Puzzlify notes A thank-you for the volunteers at your weekly community run: a finish-line photo as a jigsaw, with your note at the end Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We've tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We're not affiliated with parkrun or...
Oct 11, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Madness Reaching Topping Tipping Point Read Madness Reaching Topping Tipping Point We currently have a carryout deal for a large one-topping pizza for $6 at the pizza place where I work. A middle-aged couple enters the store and walks u...
Oct 11, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Links: October 11, 2026 It probably goes without saying that if you send four humans to observe the Moon up close, they’ll see things that those of us stuck here on Earth have never …read more
Oct 11, 2026 from The Autodidacts Listening to music as an active process Although I’m a semi-professional musician, most days, I listen to far less music than my friends. I generally work in silence, cook in silence, run in silence. When I do listen to music, usually in...
Oct 11, 2026 from Personal Log at usebox.net Into the Breach As I have mentioned here a few times, I don’t play a lot of games these days. The last game I completed was Skyrim. I didn’t write a post about that, but at least I mentioned here I was playing it....
Oct 11, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Fusionism in the Twenty-First Century A Civitas Symposium on Stephanie Slade's new book.
Oct 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-11-26 After a nine-day work/NLJ/newsletter-induced lull in the Pook-Emu Bee, I return with my sometimes-regularly-scheduled daily links. Speech 1 | Foul Call: New York Times Calls for Canceling Sophie Cu...
Oct 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition Researchers Solve the Mystery of Enigmatic 18,000-Year-Old Venus Figurines: Artists Followed the Hidden Pattern Inside a Mammoth Tusk Cut a mammoth tusk across and a pattern appears that nobody drew. Rings like those of a tree trunk mark how the ivory grew, and are known as Owen’s lines. Crossing them runs a web of curved lines t...
Oct 11, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 11 October 2026 Box That Goes Ping Edition Top Story AI models and agents are security risks and should be banned from your corporate network, or at a minimum, air gapped and restricted to a lead lined Faraday cag...
Oct 11, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation Campaign Against ‘New Qing History’ Reinforces Ethnic Unity John Dotson
Oct 11, 2026 from Daily Medieval Gordiya The woman whose name keeps showing up in the last few posts was the wife of three powerful men in 6th-century Iran, one of whom was her brother.Born to one of the Seven Great Houses of Iran, Gordiy...
