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Jun 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Served Them Right

Read Served Them Right Customer: "This roast beef tastes like a**." I stared at her for a minute, then said: Me: "Wow, it's unfortunate that you know what a** tastes like." Read Served Them Right

Jun 08, 2026 from Hackaday

Pico-Driven Ultrasound Enables Scaled Acoustic Model of Home Stereo

There are plenty of ways to get sound into your house: good old fashioned headphones, the Dolby surround setup we all lusted after back in the day, or the 21st …read more

Jun 08, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

Weekly Robotics #363

ICRA 2026 was lots of fun! Having attended ICRA in 2023 and staying on top of what is happening in robotics, I thought I knew what I would see - lots of humanoids and VLA demos. Boy, was I wrong. I...

Jun 08, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Ex-DOGE Staffer, Ex-Pete-Hegseth Advisor Justin Fulcher Sues the Guardian for Libel

From today's Complaint in Fulcher v. Guardian News & Media LLC (D.D.C.); of course, these are just plaintiff's allegations: On… The post Ex-DOGE Staffer, Ex-Pete-Hegseth Advisor Justin Fulcher Sues...

Jun 08, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Mobilization Could Lead to More Russian Deserters From Moscow’s War

Kassie Corelli

Jun 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

No Grand Slam Winners in 2026 French Open Men’s R16

I watched a good amount of most of tennis’ grand slams from about 2000 through 2013 or so. I was a Roger Federer fan, and for a good chunk of that period, you could always count on Mr. Federer play...

Jun 08, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Fallen Double Arrow Sign in Columbia Street Waterfront District

It has been too long since I reported on a fallen street sign. For the first time ever, we cover (A) a fallen Double Arrow sign and (B) a fallen street sign in Columbia Street Waterfront District.

Jun 08, 2026 from Kev Quirk

An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement

An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcementby The Document FoundationThe Document Foundation shares its history to rebuke claims made by Euro-Office about being E...

Jun 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Sigil 2.8 brings built-in image editing, CSS de-nesting, and support for more media types

Sigil 2.8 brings an updated EPUB editing experience with several feature enhancements and workflow options. The release introduces a dedicated “Change reading order” dialog for users who may be una...

Jun 08, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 8 June 2026

Apocryphal Anomalies Edition Top Story The Sound Blaster Katana V2X is a walking disaster. (Ars Technica) It's a USB speaker. How bad can it be? Well, it is a USB speaker, yes. It also supports Blu...

Jun 08, 2026 from Chaotican Writer

The Future of Chaotican Writer (introducing Odd Fair Press)!

Salutations, friends! It has been a time since I’ve had the notion of treating ChaoticanWriter.com as a place to talk about… well… itself.The year 2026 has been a turbulent one for many of us. In s...

Jun 08, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Trainpunks: Kickstarter ab Februar 2027

Freunde von mir bereiten die Veröffentlichung eines Eldritch-Horror-U-Bahn-Punk-Spiels vor.

Jun 08, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

New Tokyo sweets shop offers 648 different mochi ice cream dumpling combinations

Customizable Yukimi Daifuku shop makes an amazing variety of sweet treats so that you can find the perfect one for you. There are certain problems in life that it’s nice to have. For example, Japan...

Jun 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Dozens of Headless Skeletons Found in Slovakia Point to Neolithic Funerary Rituals, Not a Massacre

Researchers from the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel (CAU) and the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Nitra have published the first conclusions about the exceptional archaeological site of Vrábl...

Jun 08, 2026 from Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations

We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. This was the 11th year we’ve taught Hacking for Defense, and the impact of asymmetric warfare, (drones, off-the-shelf technologies, etc...

Jun 08, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Alexander III's Reign

In 1179, Pope Alexander III, now able to function as the recognized pope after his imperial-supported rival popes were suppressed, was in a position to summon clergy from all over to address some r...

Jun 08, 2026 from Roy Tang

On Generative AI and LLMs

I wanted to have a post that I could point to when people ask why I don't use or like GenAI/LLMs. I had to restart this one a few times because it kept growing too long and full of links and I don'...

Jun 08, 2026 from Heitor's log

Benchmarking OpenZFS vs EXT4 for my NAS

Checking how ZFS compares against ext4 for my NAS, with an encrypted RAID1 array.

Jun 08, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Beach Balls

Hey, you're a fellow CBT enjoyer, right? We're all pretty well-adjusted here, aren't we? Well, it's funny to think about the sort of feedback loop it suggests: our thoughts turn into feelings which...

Jun 08, 2026 from The Fly Blog

Building Agents that Don't Break Themselves

Building agents is fun. Rebuilding agents that break themselves… less so. A lot of Fly people are building agents with less of a penchant for self-destruction by teaching their agents to do anythin...