Aug 08, 2026 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed Why We Believe in the Preposterous We all have that friend or family member that believes in the most ludicrous things, convinced of a conspiracy that doesn't fit into the reality shared by the rest of us. I don't think an empirical...
Aug 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com No SIMpathy For Them Read No SIMpathy For Them Customer: "My SIM card is growing." Me: "Your SIM card is… what?" Customer: "Growing. I took it out, and it got bigger, and now I can't make it fit back in the slot." Read...
Aug 08, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Va: Putting It Together This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently five-part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized, in particula...
Aug 08, 2026 from Hackaday Block, shmock — Just Pump Water Over The Chip If you’re water cooling a PC, it’s generally accepted that you need some interface between the coolant and the chips — a water block of copper or aluminum that carries …read more
Aug 08, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- New Japanese vending machine at Shinkansen station sells cups of ice on platform A new way to make your journey on Japan’s fastest trains even cooler. If you’re about to take a bullet train ride on a hot summer day, you’ll be happy to know that Central Japan Railway Company has...
Aug 08, 2026 from Kevin Cox's Blog Lost Inputs A UI shouldn’t lose your inputs.If you are typing, each and every key should result in a letter in order. No characters should e mssig or rerodeerd.If I switch windows with Alt+Tab and then type, t...
Aug 07, 2026 from Above the Law Losing Supreme Court Argument? No Problem! — See Also When You're A Star: Donald Trump bitterly complained about losing the birthright citizenship cases. Yesterday, he issued executive orders asserting that he won. Collins No. Murkowski No. McConnell ...
Aug 07, 2026 from Hackaday This Filesystem is Born to Fail Sandboxing a Linux process usually means spending a lot of effort deciding what it isn’t allowed to see. You might put it in a mount namespace, bind-mount a few directories …read more
Aug 07, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Take The ‘L’ And Move On Read Take The ‘L’ And Move On Back in the nineties, I worked for a national chain of computer stores. I saw a customer looking confused at our selection of keyboards. Me: "Can I help you, ma'am?" C...
Aug 07, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy The BBC Past Doctor Adventures: From Neptune To London It’s high time I made a start working through the Past Doctor Adventures series as put out by BBC Books once the Doctor Who novel licence was wrested away from Virgin. As I noted in my first review...
Aug 07, 2026 from Palladium How to Deal With Iran The Iran crisis cannot be resolved without recognizing Iran’s unexpected military and technological edge. Victories can be salvaged from this dangerous stalemate. The post How to Deal With Iran app...
Aug 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-07-26 I am a bit late today, but I decided to keep the Pook-Emu Bee links running with four in a row before our off-day tomorrow (Newsletter Saturday). 1. Private email is fine, actually (Matthew Guay fo...
Aug 07, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Parents' Free Exercise Claim Against School for Referring to Student by "Preferred Name[] and Gender Pronoun[]" Can Go Forward From Judge Paul Maloney (W.D. Mich.) in Mead v. Rockford Public School Dist.: Dan and Jennifer Mead have a child,… The post Parents' Free Exercise Claim Against School for Referring to Student by "...
Aug 07, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Planetariumswebsitebload Die Website des Planetarium Bochum ist riesig, langsam und auf Smartphones kaum benutzbar.
Aug 07, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 Luna as default for free ChatGPT users with unlimited text chats OpenAI is making GPT-5.6 Luna the default model for Free and Go ChatGPT users, replacing GPT-5.5 Instant. Starting this week, both plans will get unlimited text chats without rate limits, although ...
Aug 07, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 7 August 2026 Liminal Bugs Edition Top Story A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $942 million under a law that so far as I can tell is both unconstitutionally vague and entirely inapplicable. (WSJ / MSN) ...
Aug 07, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Japanese toilet aims to attract foreign tourists but not everybody is happy about it Rural town’s attempt to draw tourists may have gone a step too far. In recent years, Japanese public toilets have become known not only as places to do your business but as tourist attractions with...
Aug 07, 2026 from Peter's Path The Sword of Freedom by Yossi Cohen Why read the book? Yossi Cohen served as director of Mossad from 2016 to 2021. In The Sword of Freedom he describes how Israel has faced existential threats and still found ways to defend itself. H...
Aug 07, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog YouTube's New Programs to Encourage Binge Watching YouTube is trying to become everything you watch on the TV. Luckily, there are still ways to opt. At least for now.
Aug 07, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 32/2026 It’s been a hectic but active week. As usual, I continued with my two P.T sessions. I played a game of Pickleball on Thursday. I also ran twice. This week has been my most active week in quite some...
