Aug 17, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 17 August 2026 Backsplash Edition Top Story Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the AI backlash is fundamentally a crisis of trust and also that water is wet. (Tech Crunch) Well... Yes. Anthropic is planning to water...
Aug 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition An “Enigmatic Tablet” from the Bronze Age Found at the Lucone Site, the Largest Concentration of These Objects Whose Function Is Unknown The 2026 summer excavation campaign at the Lucone archaeological site, in the province of Brescia, has yielded a discovery that the project leaders do not hesitate to describe as exceptional. Durin...
Aug 17, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read I work at an office where about 70% of us are Pokémon players. This includes our direct manager, who insists that he “must remain impartial” to all his workers… and so takes it upon himself to...
Aug 17, 2026 from Hackaday May This Balloon Banjo Resonate With You Most instruments, with maybe the exception of pianos, have consumable parts. Guitars need string changes, bows need rosin, saxophones need reeds. [Co:Creation Lab]’s balloon banjo requires both fis...
Aug 17, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W32 Abdominal Fat Predicts Heart Disease Risk Better Than BMI - American College of Cardiology — The number that stuck with me is that people classified as normal weight by BMI still carried 15 to 50% ...
Aug 17, 2026 from It's FOSS Linux 7.2 Arrives With Cache Aware Scheduling After More Than a Year of Work AMD's Radeon driver also picks up HDMI 2.1 support, and Apple M3 MacBooks can now boot the kernel.
Aug 17, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- These Japanese contact lenses let you put anime characters on your eyes [Photos] Chiikawa contacts are a cute way to add some subtle anime flair to your look. In Japanese, there’s a phrase, “Me ni irete mo itakunai,” which translates literally to “It won’t hurt even if you put ...
Aug 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval Pepin's Rebellion There was a rebellion against Charlemagne in 792 by a handful of Frankish nobles headed by Charlemagne's eldest son, Pepin the Hunchback.An anonymous Saxon poet known only as Poeta Saxo, writing in...
Aug 16, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Links: August 16, 2026 We’re no strangers to unusual hardware failures around these parts, but even so, a swarm of jellyfish clogging up the works is a new one to us. That’s exactly what …read more
Aug 16, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Far From Pitcher Perfect Math Read Far From Pitcher Perfect Math Customer: "Does the half pitcher have more alcohol than the full pitcher?" Me: "I mean, it would be the same alcohol percentage, but in terms of volume it would b...
Aug 16, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #372 If your Monday coffee didn’t taste the same as usual due to me not sending out an issue - apologies. I hope today’s issue makes up for it! I’m in SF all week starting today; if you would like to me...
Aug 16, 2026 from Above the Law Vances Learn That If You’re Not In A Side Chat, The Side Chat Is About You — See Generally Yale Law Cool Kids' Chat: JD and Usha Vance's law school classmates have kept a private Signal chat running for years to gossip about the couple's improbable turn from Yale liberals to MAGA royalty...
Aug 16, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Erlebnis Sonnenfinsternis: Der Komödie erster Teil Wir haben ausgekundschaftet, wo man die Sonnenfinsternis am besten betrachten kann.
Aug 16, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who: Bessie’s Tape Deck – The Third Doctor Audios, Part 2 Time to check in again on Big Finish’s offerings starring the Third Doctor. As with last time, we’re still in the era when Big Finish were reluctant to recast characters whose actors had died (or, ...
Aug 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition A Particle Composed Only of Force: Scientists Confirm the Existence of a Previously Unknown State of Matter For more than half a century, particle physics has pursued one of the most elusive and fascinating predictions of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory that describes the strong nuclear force. I...
Aug 16, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 16 August 2026 Ananaisotropic Edition Top Story Every fusion power startup that has raised over $100 million. (Tech Crunch) Your weekly reminder that it is the 21st century, and not everything is poop-flavoured i...
Aug 16, 2026 from Thejesh GN Embedding Workouts using Web Component I wanted a way to represent workouts by the muscle groups they activate. Most applications where you log do it. I thought it must be easy with SVG images. It wasn’t as easy. First, I had to get an ...
Aug 16, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog I've Inadvertently Opted Out of Smart Notifications Thanks to GrapheneOS. I've been running GrapheneOS for a little over a year now and didn't realize much Smart Notifications have changed phone usage. I'm happy I had the chance to opt out of them.
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