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Jul 06, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 6 July 2026

Post Alpacalyptic Edition Top Story AI companies led by OpenAI and Anthropic say they're definitely not going to put hundreds of millions of people out of work so please don't lynch them. (MSN) Sor...

Jul 06, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

A Chronological Reader's Guide To The Opinions In Trump v. Barbara

How to read nearly 200 pages of opinions by time period.

Jul 06, 2026 from Above the Law

How To Slaughter Slaughter

If Congress cares about its authority, then Congress should stand up for itself. The post How To Slaughter Slaughter appeared first on Above the Law.

Jul 06, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

IS-Sahel’s Nigeria Claims Signal a New Jihadist Frontier

Jacob Zenn

Jul 06, 2026 from Hackaday

A New Challenger Approaches the Open Source Vehicle

Cheap vehicles are thin on the ground in 2026, but [Andy Didorosi] thinks he has the answer for low-speed applications with an open source kei truck. Still in the early …read more

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

A Very Short Paper Trail

Read A Very Short Paper Trail Customer: "Where's the paper?" We are both standing next to the stationery supplies section. The paper is literally three feet away. Me: *Points.* "Right there, ma'am....

Jul 06, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Tokyo’s giant Pokémon Stamp Rally is back for 2026 with exclusive prizes up for grabs

Including a chance to relive your starter Pokémon anxiety a whole nine times. Japan is a nation that loves a stamp rally, and it’s not just kids getting in on the action. From highway rest stops to...

Jul 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Phosh 0.56 adds CPU load-meter plugin, application hiding, and tablet lock screen rotation

Phosh 0.56 is now available, bringing several new features and improvements to this graphical user interface tailored for mobile and touch-based devices. The update introduces a load-meter status i...

Jul 06, 2026 from The Jaxson

Jacksonville's 4 disasters

The road to recovery from devastation is never easy. This is the story of Jacksonville’s recovery from four major disasters. In James Weldon Johnson’s lifetime, Jacksonville suffered three major mi...

Jul 06, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog

When Linux Becomes "Air": Containers, Agents, and a "Desktop War" That No Longer Matters - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #143

A week ago, Microsoft released the public preview of native Windows 11 container support that requires no Docker. Combined with Apple's recent 1.0 release of its container manager (Apple Container)...

Jul 06, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Jews in Oxford

Just as London had a Jewish presence after the arrival of William and the Norman French, Oxford started to see a significant Jewish population about 10 years after the 1066 conquest. Living mostly ...

Jul 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Inscriptions in the Ancient Phrygian City of Acmonia Reveal Torch-Bearing Statues at Night and the Power of Priestesses

Researchers have announced the discovery of nine inscriptions in the ancient city of Acmonia, located in modern-day Turkey, offering an exceptional window into the daily life, religious beliefs, an...

Jul 06, 2026 from Kev Quirk

Built for Exactly One

Built for Exactly Oneby Amit GawandeAmit talks about what motivated him to build his custom blogging platform, Jot. It's an interesting read that resonated with me as it aligns with why I created P...

Jul 06, 2026 from It's FOSS

Return of The Meme! Hannah Montana Linux Lives Again in 2026

A curious developer took it upon himself to revive this *iconic* gem.

Jul 06, 2026 from riz#000000me

Grading Papers

Working with high school students in a college-level class.

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

Caught Between A Wok And A Hard Place

Read Caught Between A Wok And A Hard Place Customer: "What do you have that's gluten-free?" Me: "Uh, not much. We just have the one wok back here, so we can't guarantee a lack of contamination, plu...

Jul 05, 2026 from Hackaday

Hackaday Links: July 5, 2026

Happy belated July 4th to all the readers from the United States — hopefully you aren’t reading this from a hospital bed after losing a hand or burning off your …read more

Jul 05, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

Weekly Robotics #367

Today in the Weekly Robotics newsletter: 100 years of humanoid robot developments, self-supervised learning for multimodal data with OctoSense, a NASA orbit bump mission, a robot arm tying a knot, ...

Jul 05, 2026 from Above the Law

Supreme Court Term Goes Out In Blaze Of Hypocrisy, False Retirements, And Bad Ratings — See Generally

Roberts Writes Two Opinions With One Shrug Emoji: The Chief Justice declared independent federal agencies unconstitutional and then turned around and, without a note of irony, said that OF COURSE t...

Jul 05, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

Wallos — An Open-Source Personal Subscriptions Tracker Which Saved Quite A Bit Of Money For Me

Wallos is a free and open-source application that you can self-host and which will help you track what subscriptions you currently have, what they cost (with auto-conversion to your currency), when...