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Jul 18, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 18 July 2026

Accidental Umpires Edition Top Story AWS is experiencing a wee spot of bother with its billing system. (The Register) Speculation is that it's a unit conversion error in the cost estimation tool, b...

Jul 18, 2026 from Puzzlify notes

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

Note: This has been cross-posted to my company's blog, in case you think there is some use in sharing with someone in a format that looks more authoritative. Link here. I strongly believe there are...

Jul 18, 2026 from Jordi Villar

Back to coffee

I gave up coffee because I started losing my sight. I was getting visual migraines, auras that would creep in until I stopped seeing out of one eye for several minutes. It was terrifying the first ...

Jul 18, 2026 from nutcroft

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

Note: This has been cross-posted to my company's blog, in case you think there is some use in sharing with someone in a format that looks more authoritative. Link here. I strongly believe there are...

Jul 17, 2026 from Above the Law

DOJ Remains Dullest Tools In The Shed — See Also

The DOJ Gabs About Its Biglaw Subpoenas: I don't think it'll work out the way they planned it in their head. House Oversight Caught With Their Pants Down: Alan "Underpants" Dershowitz cancels Monda...

Jul 17, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Flat Out Confused

Read Flat Out Confused Customer: "Okay, but what would I do with the screwdriver when I'm done with it?" Me: "…Put it away?" Customer: "Could I just rent one from your tool rental center?" Read Fla...

Jul 17, 2026 from Hackaday

How Octopuses Hacked their Ribosome to Become Smart

A fascinating aspect in evolutionary biology is that of convergent evolution — whereby similar structures and functions evolve independently from each other. The highly advanced nervous system of o...

Jul 17, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Site Linking to Abortion-Pill-Selling Websites Likely Protected by First Amendment, Even in States That Generally Ban Abortions

Mayday Health runs a website that provides various information about abortion pills. South Dakota law provides, in relevant part, No… The post Site Linking to Abortion-Pill-Selling Websites Likely ...

Jul 17, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

Vital Signals’ New Ring Brings Blood Pressure Monitoring to Your Finger

“Vital Signals thinks its Signal Ring is accurate enough to replace traditional blood pressure cuffs for the almost half of U.S. adults who live with high blood pressure. The new wearable is thicke...

Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Google's NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook, with expanded code execution & cross-app sync

Google has renamed its AI research and note-taking tool, NotebookLM, to Gemini Notebook. This updated identity marks a shift toward deeper integration across the Google ecosystem. Gemini Notebook r...

Jul 17, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 17 July 2026

Dwarves Are Back On The Menu Edition Top Story TSMC has committed another $100 billion for four new leading-edge 2nm fabs in Arizona. (Tom's Hardware) I'm not sure exactly why they chose Arizona ap...

Jul 17, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Broken Bench in Red Hook, Brooklyn

At the request of (or under orders from) a friend, I documented a broken park bench in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Jul 17, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Strategic Snapshot: Russian Oil Woes Reinforce Economic Troubles

Russia’s war against Ukraine continues to come home as Kyiv increases its strikes against Russian oil infrastructure.

Jul 17, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist

Bad air, bad lettuce

The public's health can't catch a break

Jul 17, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Studio Ghibli releases anime T-shirts that pay homage to one of Hayao Miyazaki’s most personal films

Iconic quotes, air pirates and a very subtle Gina reference make this collection a must-have for fans of this Ghibli classic. Back in 2017, Studio Ghibli founded a cool new streetwear label called ...

Jul 17, 2026 from riz#000000me

Cleaning Things Up

Trying to be less of a consumer or more of a conscientious consumer.

Jul 17, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Weekly Notes 29/2026

Overall, a good but hectic week. I spent time planning for the next few months. Planning is my comfort zone. When things are planned, I sleep better. It doesn’t mean I can’t do unplanned things; I ...

Jul 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Late Antique Building with Mosaic and Ritual Objects Found in Agrigento, Evidencing the Transition to Christianity in Sicily

The eleventh excavation campaign in the Hellenistic-Roman district of Agrigento, carried out over the past few weeks, has concluded with the discovery of a building whose construction sequence span...

Jul 17, 2026 from Palladium

Mesa-Optimization is Destroying Education

Educational institutions have learned to optimize for everything except learning. Artificial intelligence could force them to measure what’s important. The post Mesa-Optimization is Destroying Educ...

Jul 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Blood as Food

There's a scene early in The Name of the Rose involving barrels of pigs' blood. It was autumn, and time to slaughter the pigs, but of course you wouldn't want to waste the blood.You could not, howe...