Jun 13, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 13 June 2026 Out Of Ink Edition Top Story Welcome to Earth Delos D. Harriman, our new-minted trillionaire! (Tech Crunch) May I say how delightful it is to watch the wailing of the worst people on the planet at ...
Jun 13, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read [In junior high, the vice principal would read announcements twice a day, during 2nd and 6th periods. The Monday after the first basketball game of the season — which we won — he gave the morn...
Jun 13, 2026 from Hackaday Behold a 60 Hz Refresh Rate E-ink Monitor E-ink displays have a number of advantages over other display types, but their refresh rate isn’t one of them. But what exactly makes them slow? According to [Wenting Zhang], it’s …read more
Jun 13, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Today in Supreme Court History: June 13, 1977 6/13/1977: Justice Tom C. Clark dies. The post Today in Supreme Court History: June 13, 1977 appeared first on Reason.com.
Jun 13, 2026 from Roy Tang Mighty Gunvolt (Steam) Trying to very slowly work through my Steam backlog (an impossible task) by playing through some shorter games in addition to my favored very long RPGs. First up is Mighty Gunvolt. This 2014 game i...
Jun 13, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Starbucks Japan releases special limited-edition summer drinks… at only 30 stores These Japan-exclusive beverages are harder to get than most. Starbucks might have originated overseas but Japan has refined its offerings and taken them to a whole other level. Case in point is the...
Jun 13, 2026 from It's FOSS There is a New X11 Server, Written in Rust, With the Help of AI Yserver is a vibe-coded project that ditches legacy code to work cleanly on modern Linux systems.
Jun 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social New Features in ActivityPub For WordPress 9.0 ActivityPub for WordPress version 9.0 was just released, and a blog post by lead developer Matthias Pfefferle goes over the new features (you can follow me from Mastodon, Pixelfed, or the like at [...
Jun 13, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse Egyptian fractions for 2/105 The ancient Egyptians had a terrible notation for fractions. They had notations for for each , for , but everything else was written as a sum of these, with repeats forbidden, so that for example h...
Jun 12, 2026 from Above the Law Even Biglaw Is Celebrating The Knicks! — See Also Knicks Supporting Partner Tells Associates The Work Can Wait Until Later: If your partner didn't, they're probably a Spurs fan. Judge Ross's Sorry Apologies Have No Consequence: Chief Judge Pryor s...
Jun 12, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Wrong On Every Account Read Wrong On Every Account Me: "He's going on and on about me sabotaging his security verification steps, but he's just not getting any of the answers right. He's not hanging up." My manager nods,...
Jun 12, 2026 from Hackaday The Air Position Indicator for the B-29 When you think of a computer, you probably don’t think of a tube full of motors and mechanics. However, as [Our Own Devices] shows, the Bendix AN5841 API Computer, an …read more
Jun 12, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Assessing Non-Packing Rationales For Increasing the Size of the Supreme Court These arguments are relatively weak. And to the extent they are valid, they can be addressed without changing the Court's ideological balance.
Jun 12, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Finding Backlinks to Your Articles and Blog Posts I share various tools for finding backlinks to one's own articles, blog posts and other online media.
Jun 12, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIa: Mobilization without Administration This is the second part (I, IIa) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. While I hope t...
Jun 12, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 12 June 2026 202 Flows Edition Top Story It's been an entire day since there was a critical Microsoft vulnerability so here we are again. (The Register) It's BitLocker again this time, which not many people car...
Jun 12, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 24/2026 I am at IITM/Chennai for Paradox. I have been here since 2022, since the first Paradox. The fest and the crowd have grown bigger. I came by car with friends A&S. We took Old Madras Road and stopped...
Jun 12, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- New Japanese overnight train coming to connect Tokyo with Tohoku in sleep-travel style Luna Azul can take you from Tokyo to Akita or Aomori while you snooze. The Shinkansen is usually the fastest way to get from Point A to Point B when traveling within Japan. Since the stations tend ...
Jun 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-12-26 I have an assignment I need to finish today. But I will not let that stop me from capping off the work-week with one more edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. Pook-Emu Bee will be off tomorrow for Newsle...