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Son of Believers

I've been having to remind myself why I write, especially after dealing with the bout of shame from grappling with its confessional nature and the bleak horizon of getting paid some time in the fut...

Charge It To Experience

Read Charge It To Experience On her return, she presented a receipt from the local café and said in a demanding tone: Customer: "You will reimburse me for the coffee and cake I had to have because ...

Hackaday Links: August 23, 2026

We’ll start this week off with some disappointing, though not entirely unexpected, news — the ambitious commercial mission to save NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is officially a bust. The …r...

Weekly Robotics #373

Weekly Robotics 373: how to train robots at a million-hour scale, NASA abandons satellite rescue mission, ROS enters Physical AI world, a construction digger interface, and more!

ChatGPT Experts, $700 Million Law Firms, And Frat House Felonies — See Generally

Expertly Flawed: An expert witness collected $90,000 from 3M to ask ChatGPT, "show how 3M is 0% at fault." Plaintiffs' counsel turned the resulting 350-page prompt log into the deposition of a life...

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.

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 ...

Rollenspielszenen: Kriminelle Konstrukte

Wenn es Wachkonstrukte gibt, gibt es dann auch Kriminalkonstrukte?

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...

New website

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

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...

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...

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...

Weeknotes 2026-08-23

These weeknotes are coming in a day late because reasons. The World The Iran war is in a deadlock with both sides claiming victory and seems to have moved into a phase of economic sanctions/pressur...

17 GNOME Extensions To Help You Customization Desktop Looks

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

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

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

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

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...