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Aug 02, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Merciless Parliament, Part 2

After the Merciless Parliament in 1388 had eliminated the five specific advisors to Richard II that they considered the most corrupt, the Lords Appellant decided to sweep through the rest of the ad...

Aug 02, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Today in Supreme Court History: August 2, 1923

8/2/1923: President Calvin Coolidge's Inauguration. He would appoint Justice Harlan Fiske Stone to the Supreme Court.   The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 2, 1923 appeared first on Rea...

Aug 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Detect Stones That May Have Human Shapes Beneath the Enormous Neolithic Mounds of Coëby in Brittany

In the heart of the granite massif of the Landes de Lanvaux, in the French department of Morbihan, lies the Neolithic cemetery of Coëby, discovered in 1986. This site, preserved for centuries by th...

Aug 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Fixing Failed KOReader OTA Update on PocketBook

I have a PocketBook InkPad Color and PocketBook Color (both first generation). I run KOReader on both. I tried to do an OTA update of KOReader, but it failed in both cases (locked up after hitting ...

Aug 01, 2026 from Hackaday

Stewart Platform Walker Gains Feeling In Legs From Resistors

Stewy is a very interesting robot, with some slightly odd kinematics. Its head is a Stewart platform, which is a common-enough 6-DOF actuated plate normally used with a fixed base. …read more

Aug 01, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Taxing Faxing, Part 45

Read Taxing Faxing, Part 45 I'm a tax accountant. Client: "Why am I paying so much tax?!" Me: "Well, someone has to pay for the schools and roads." Read Taxing Faxing, Part 45

Aug 01, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Federal Court Rules Against Rhode Island Town's Use of Eminent Domain for NIMBY Purposes

The local government sought to use eminent domain to block a housing project local NIMBYs objected to.

Aug 01, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

August Novel 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCI

Leafintro Welcome to the 291st 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 writ...

Aug 01, 2026 from riz#000000me

Just Waiting Around

Kicking rocks, it feels like.

Aug 01, 2026 from Peter's Path

Pelgrims Path part 05

Hiked part 5/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 18.82 kilometres from Reeuwijk to Haastrecht. You walk right through the Reeuwijkse Plassen along the narrow lanes that separate the lakes. In 1657 four felled...

Aug 01, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Air-conditioned dress shirts arrive in Japan to save working professionals from sweltering heat

These dress shirts are sure to have fans. If you need business attire in Japan, Yofuku no Aoyama is pretty much always a safe choice. They may not have the trendiest fashions from brand-name design...

Aug 01, 2026 from Kev Quirk

📝 2026-08-01 15:28: Our new addition to the family, Nelly, has arrived and she's causing havoc already. 🤣

Our new addition to the family, Nelly, has arrived and she's causing havoc already. 🤣 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or le...

Aug 01, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 1 August 2026

Port Elizabeth Edition Top Story VC-backed startups commit more fraud and researchers think they know why. (Tech Crunch) Yes, it's exactly the reason you immediately thought of. Congratulations, yo...

Aug 01, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Merciless Parliament, Part 1

A few years back I offered a brief look at the Lords Appellant, the group put in charge of England because of the excesses in the administration of the king, Richard II. Richard tried to overthrow ...

Aug 01, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Anthropic reveals Claude models breached 3 companies without authorization during tests

Anthropic has disclosed that 3 Claude models gained unauthorized access to the production systems of three external organizations during cybersecurity evaluations. The incidents emerged after OpenA...

Aug 01, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Draft Law Would Exploit Tech for National Mobilization

Samantha Hoffman

Aug 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Shipwreck from the 5th-4th Centuries BC with a Cargo of Amphorae Containing Wine from the Northern Islands and the Bosporus Found off the Coast of Andros Island

The Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, under the Greek Ministry of Culture, has completed an official inspection at a point along the shoreline of the island of Andros following a report from a pr...

Aug 01, 2026 from Jasco's Website

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I talk about our recent migration of ticketing systems, AI slop, and toxic positivity

Aug 01, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Insentient Dust

Man, I'm exhausted. Last night, I spent a fair portion of the evening alone in my car in this parking lot I frequent. The spot I go to is nestled in a small corner of the strip mall. I like it beca...

Jul 31, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

First Amendment Might Protect FTP&ATF License Plate

The Fourth Circuit considers "a question that has divided ... courts ...: whether the character combinations on personalized license plates ... are government speech or private speech."