Aug 11, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 11 August 2026 Delululemon Edition Top Story Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million opposing California's demented billionaire tax. (Tech Crunch) The article says the tax would cost Brin $13 billion, but if so th...
Aug 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition A Huge Roman Dolium and a Possible Late Antique Shipwreck Discovered on the Seafloor of Elba Island The waters surrounding Elba Island have once again yielded evidence of its millennia-old past. A dolium from the Roman era and a presumed shipwreck, still under study, have been located on the seab...
Aug 11, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read (When you work in a customer-facing position, you learn a lot about the extremes of humanity. Most patients are straightforward and businesslike; a few can have in-depth discussions about thei...
Aug 11, 2026 from Hackaday The Code The British Government Doesn’t Want You To See (Any More) Governments like to do things which at least sound open and honest. It makes them look like Thoroughly Good Eggs, when maybe the truth might be a little murkier. They …read more
Aug 11, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- 7-Eleven Japan adds new doughnut-like tonkotsu ramen fried chicken to its hot food section Plus, an exclusive bag of snacks to sprinkle on ramen, inspired by the iconic instant noodles. Japanese convenience stores are always coming up with exciting new ways to make hot food more interest...
Aug 11, 2026 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed Converting FLACs to Opus I have music collection of over 12,000 tracks. I prefer to actually own my music (ie digital files) and being able to play it on any device I choose rather than using a service like Spotify. That s...
Aug 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Persona 4 Dungeons Were Stressful? Gamer Braves conducted an interesting interview with Wada Kazuhisa, who is producer of the upcoming Persona 4 Revival. Long-time NLJ readers may know that I am a Persona 4 fan, although I am not pa...
Aug 10, 2026 from Hackaday Cotton-Fiberglass Composite Makes Lightweight RV Countertops You’ve seen fiber-reinforced-plastic before, no doubt, but perhaps never quite like in this video by [Whitburn Studio]: it’s still got the usual resin, but instead of glass or carbon fibers, …read ...
Aug 10, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com That’s One Way To Milk The System Read That’s One Way To Milk The System Customer: "I want a refund on this." Me: "What's the reason?" Customer: "It's gone off." Me: "It’s two weeks past its use-by date." Read That’s One Way To Mil...
Aug 10, 2026 from Above the Law Biglaw Flirts With Private Equity, Because Ruining Everything Else Wasn’t Enough — See Also Biglaw Wants Private Equity's Money -- Ask Your Vet How That Turned Out: The same 'management services' trick that swallowed your dog's clinic is now knocking on Paul Weiss's door. That's Some Catc...
Aug 10, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Reminder: Second Annual Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop We've already received several submissions, but you can submit until August 16. Don't worry if the article draft isn't fully polished, or even if some portions are incomplete; we're reviewing draft...
Aug 10, 2026 from splitbrain.org - blog My new favorite Terminal My new favorite Terminal I have been using the XFCE terminal for decades now and it has always been good enough. However there was one thing that was starting to bug me. I usually prefer my termina...
Aug 10, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 10 August 2026 Aud Hep Edition Top Story A Google developer has vibe-coded an entire new browser - albeit one that doesn't browse the web. (XDA Developers) Instead it interprets every URL as an AI prompt and vibe...
Aug 10, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Police ask Kumamoto residents to not get blackout drunk as much during earthquake relief efforts Hard times and hard drinking don’t mix. Of course, there’s never a good time to experience a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, but late July and early August is a particularly bad season for it. The additi...
Aug 10, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ Inventing ELIZA (Review) This year is the 60th anniversary of Joseph Weizenbaum’s article “ELIZA—A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man and Machine”. ELIZA was a natural language “en...
Aug 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-10-26 Pook-Emu Bee links are back today as we start the new work-week. 1 – Persona 30th Anniversary Paper Fragrances Feature Designs Announced (Orpheus Joshua for Noisy Pixel. August 9, 2026.) I have bee...
Aug 10, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation Ahvazi Militancy Muted in Iran’s Khuzestan Amid Wartime Pressures Jacob Zenn
Aug 10, 2026 from It's FOSS CachyOS is Laying Groundwork for The Server Edition The CLI installer's new experimental profiles target the upcoming Server Edition, while Shelly gets a full rewrite.
Aug 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition A Group of Hunter-Gatherers Survived the Younger Dryas 14,000 Years Ago in a Cave in Northern Türkiye A team of archaeologists has discovered in northern Turkey a settlement of hunter-gatherers who lived in the Koskarlı cave approximately 14,000 years ago. The remains found during the first excavat...
