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Jul 23, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing

How airlines borrow against loyalty programs.

Bank payments reach the airline before many awards are redeemed. Contracts and controlled accounts determine how lenders can claim that cash.

Jul 23, 2026 from Muffin Man

SpaceDeck X July devlog: upgrades, backgrounds, and more

I've been developing SpaceDeck X since December last year. It started as me playing with a random framework I found fun, and it grew so much that I'm now working towards releasing it on Steam. I ke...

Jul 22, 2026 from Above the Law

When You Run Out Of Law, Reach For ‘Absurd’ — See Also

DOJ Files Childish Brief, Begs Judge Not To Take Its Allowance: The $1,000 a day fine Todd Blanche would really like to avoid. Heartbreaking: DOJ Lawyers Used To Have To Follow Ethics Rules: While ...

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

Pie-Dentity Crisis

Read Pie-Dentity Crisis Me: "What's your address?" Customer: "I don't know." Me: "Okay... what's the phone number on the order?" Customer: "I don't know." Read Pie-Dentity Crisis

Jul 22, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Moscow Exploits Poland–Ukraine Dispute Over OUN and UPA Legacy

Alexander Neuman

Jul 22, 2026 from Hackaday

An LLM in the Kitchen

Have you ever been looking up a recipe for something new and been stymied by the directions being a wall of text, especially to find that one detail right when …read more

Jul 22, 2026 from Improve Something Today

A summertime check-in: Comfort-Stretch-Panic & Disability Pride Month

A simple method for checking in; a reading & a game for Disability Pride Month; plus some recent updates across the site.

Jul 22, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Will Courts Uphold the EPA's Rescission of the "Endangerment Finding"?

The legal arguments put forward by the EPA are weak and unpersuasive, and could undermine the Administration's position in other climate litigation.

Jul 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Were AI Blog Post Images Ever Cool?

I read an interesting blog post by Panagiotis Vryonis titled AI-generated blog post images are not cool any more. My first thought was “they were never cool.” But I read on to see his perspective. ...

Jul 22, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 22 July 2026

Summertime In July Edition Top Story LLM company OpenAI says that LLM archive site Hugging Face was breached by hackers using OpenAI's LLMs to gain access to models hosted at Hugging Face in order ...

Jul 22, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

New Shinkansen luggage drop-off system begins in Japan, making train travel even easier

“Hands-Free” service lets Shinkansen travellers send their suitcases by bullet train without carrying them onboard. Travelling by Shinkansen is one of the highlights of any trip to Japan, but there...

Jul 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Tomb with 560 Ushabti Figurines, Rhodian Pottery, and Osirian Burials Discovered in Egypt

The Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities, conducting excavation work at the necropolis of Tell el-Quwaysna, located in the Menufia governorate, has documented th...

Jul 22, 2026 from riz#000000me

Starting Over

Something shifted; now my computer should be a tool. I'm trying The Artist's Way.

Jul 22, 2026 from LifeDev.net

6 Slow Productivity Principles That Beat Hustle Culture in 2026

Slow productivity principles are having their moment, and it is about time, because the hustle culture experiment has delivered its verdict: record burnout rates, shrinking attention spans, and a w...

Jul 22, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

YubiKey 5.8 extends passkeys from secure authentication to verifiable authorization

Yubico has officially released YubiKey 5.8, marking an expansion of the role of the passkey from secure authentication to include hardware-backed, verifiable authorization for digital actions. This...

Jul 22, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

Hugging Face Said Last Week It Was Attacked. An Unreleased OpenAI Model Did It, OpenAI Now Says

“OpenAI’s blog post essentially says an evaluation was going on that was intended to test the ability of the models to carry out cyberattacks—benchmarks as they’re called. These instances of the mo...

Jul 22, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Urinalysis, Part 3

William of Malmesbury tells us that William the Conqueror fell from his horse in summer of 1087 while fighting on the continent and suffered painful internal damage. Physicians examined his urine a...

Jul 22, 2026 from It's FOSS

Talk to This Glowing Pyramid on Your Desk, and It'll Run Your AI Agent for You

It's a pyramid-shaped Orange Pi 4 Pro that ships with OpenClaw or Hermes preloaded and now talks back so you get that "Iron Man" feel.

Jul 22, 2026 from Autistic As Fxxk

Growing up as a semi-speaking, undiagnosed Autistic person in Singapore

Content Warning: lots of ableism (both systemic and internalised) These are just some snapshots of my life growing up in a society with a poor understanding of neurodivergence (particularly during ...

Jul 22, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist

Ending clock changes. But which direction should we reset the clock?

The science says Congress is getting it wrong