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Aug 23, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Trump Imposes Harmful and Illegal Section 338 Tariffs Against Many Canadian Imports

Section 338 is a long-defunct part of the notorious Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.

Aug 23, 2026 from Hackaday

Using the Basic SNES Hardware to Play Minecraft

After previously putting a very basic version of Minecraft on the Game Boy Color, [Tobi] decided to have some fun and port that version also to the Super Nintendo (SNES), …read more

Aug 23, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

This Is The Right Stuff

Read This Is The Right Stuff Guest: "Hmm, this is the real Bill of Rights?" Me: "That's right." Guest: "It's just… those first two amendments seem okay, but the rest…" Read This Is The Right Stuff

Aug 23, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 23 August 2026

A Zelda In Time Edition Top Story Never send a Link to do a Zelda's work: The LINK mission intended to boost the Swift Observatory into a higher orbit has itself spun out of control, leaving Swift ...

Aug 23, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Rollenspielszenen: Kriminelle Konstrukte

Wenn es Wachkonstrukte gibt, gibt es dann auch Kriminalkonstrukte?

Aug 23, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

We recommend not buying one pack of Japan’s new convenience store corn soup-flavor fried chicken

But that doesn’t mean we don’t love it. Japanese convenience store chain Lawson’s Karaage-kun is one of the absolute all-stars of the combini food world. These bite-sized pieces of karaage (Japanes...

Aug 23, 2026 from Personal Log at usebox.net

New website

After 8 years of love/hate, I decided to leave Hugo and go Haskell.

Aug 23, 2026 from Kev Quirk

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Dungeon Crawler CarlAuthor: Matt DinnimanGenre: Fantast, Sci-fiReleased: 2020Rating: ★★★★★You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. A...

Aug 23, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Lombards Convert

There was a period in the history of the Kingdom of Lombardy when they had no king. Two kings in a row had been murdered—the first by his wife, the second by a young slave he had mistreated—and a d...

Aug 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The back cover of an 8th-century codex hid ten papyri, six of which remain undeciphered because no one knows what language they are written in

In 1919, when someone began to carefully examine the binding of an 8th-century codex preserved in the Chapter Archive of the Cathedral of Barcelona, they discovered that the back cover hid somethin...

Aug 23, 2026 from It's FOSS

17 GNOME Extensions To Help You Customization Desktop Looks

Change how your Linux desktop running GNOME DE looks with these GNOME extensions.

Aug 23, 2026 from The Autodidacts

How to fit Qwen3.8-27B into 16GB of VRAM and run it on a single RTX 3080 card: the best quantizations and Llama.cpp flags I've found

TL;DR: UD-IQ3_XXS with KV cache quantization

Aug 22, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Planting Evidence

Read Planting Evidence A woman is ordering at the drive-thru, ordering dinner to take home to her family. Customer: "My daughter is a vegan. Do you cross-contaminate your food?" Read Planting Evidence

Aug 22, 2026 from Hackaday

Open-Source ExpressLRS Receiver Reaches for Range

Drone control links are, from a radio signals perspective, nothing short of amazing: using a transmitter capable of transmitting, at most, one watt, a protocol such as ExpressLRS (ELRS) can …read more

Aug 22, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

Printer 64 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCIV

Leafy intro Welcome to the 294th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and its short-form wr...

Aug 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Headlines That Say “I Ran Out Of Ideas”

I came across a New York Post opinion column by Lydia Moynihan titled The Gwyneth Paltrow AI controversy only hurts women. This may be rich coming from someone who, in the last month, has published...

Aug 22, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Check Out the National High School Law Review, Vol. II

It's a project of Studium; Studium's Constitutional Law Advisory Board includes Prof. and National Constitution Center CEO Jeffrey Rosen, Prof.… The post Check Out the National High School Law Revi...

Aug 22, 2026 from Refereeing and Reflection

Grim Dwarfs and Perilous Elves

The option to play a dwarf or elf has been part of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay since its first edition – an inheritance from the original 1983 release of Warhammer, which somewhat muddied the waters...

Aug 22, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Hörnchen oder Waffel?

Ich muss hier unbedingt den Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache vorstellen. Ich dachte, ich hätte das schon längst getan.

Aug 22, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 22 August 2026

Diseneuropification Edition Top Story All the news is stupid. AI use boosts the quality of students' homework - and then craters their exam scores. (Economist) (archive site) Who knew? Anthropic's ...