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May 31, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 31 May 2026

Nesting Countries Edition Top Story GitHub Copilot users are aghast at the exponentially higher costs they are facing starting tomorrow with the introduction of usage-based billing. (Tech Crunch)"W...

May 31, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

I tried using Google NotebookLM to generate an overview podcast of my YouTube channel

Whilst exploring Google’s NotebookLM product I decided to try pointing it to my GadgeteerZA YouTube Channel, and I did the one-click generate an audio podcast about this source. The result was the ...

May 31, 2026 from Peter's Path

Suicidal Empathy by Gad Saad

Why read the book? Gad Saad wrote Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind. He is an evolutionary psychologist who studies how bad ideas spread. In this book he explains how empathy, a useful human trait...

May 31, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Krispy Kreme releases a new Doughwich… at only one store in Japan

An exclusive doughnut you won’t find anywhere else in the world.  Krispy Kreme Japan loves to cater to the local market with sweet exclusives, and it zooms in even further by catering to a micro ma...

May 31, 2026 from Chuniversiteit

People are apparently farming citations on ResearchGate

This week’s paper about citation farming is right at the intersection of two of my “favourite” subjects: AI slop and academic fraud.

May 31, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

PRC Supplies Solar in the Caribbean

Jared Ward

May 31, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Sweyn II of Denmark

Also known as Sweyn Estridsson or Estridsen, because his mother was Estrid, daughter of Sweyn Forkbeard, Sweyn II was King of Denmark from 1047 to 1078. He was also sometimes known as Sweyn Ulfsson...

May 31, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Flutter Web: Schlechte Idee

Warum ich Flutter für eine furchbare Idee halte, wenn damit Webapps gebaut werden.

May 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Saving Myth: When Oral Memory Holds the Warning of the Ancestors

Sometime in 1880, a British colonial officer named Maurice Vidal Portman landed on a small island in the Andaman archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The island was —and still is— home to the Sentinele...

May 31, 2026 from Kev Quirk

📝 2026-05-31 09:25

I've been thinking about getting a #3DPrinter recently. Never used one before but I think it would be useful/interesting. I have no experience with them, and don't want to spend a tonne of money. E...

May 31, 2026 from Roy Tang

Weeknotes 2026-05-31

It's the last day of May! The World Local politics calmed down a bit compared to last week's clown show. I think the impeachment trial had started in the Senate, but who knows if that will go anywh...

May 31, 2026 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog

Btrfs scare

Last weekend, I updated and rebooted the system, but it did not come back online. Checking with IPMI revealed that the ata-2 disk was not responding to the operating system, preventing a clean moun...

May 31, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

The Next Morning

Actually achieving your dreams is kind of whack, honestly. I usually don't write here on Sundays since I already have the link log posted, but whatever. I've been thinking about people who really w...

May 31, 2026 from Brajeshwar

Childhood Computing

Work-in-Progress.

May 30, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Ply Another Day

Read Ply Another Day Customer: "Where's the toilet paper?" Me: "It's in the back section of the store, across from toys." They looked at each other, frustrated. Read Ply Another Day

May 30, 2026 from Hackaday

Keychain GameCube Controller Made Functional

Mini game controllers with buttons and joysticks that move like the real deal are a pretty cool keychain and fidget toy, but at least for some of us there’s this …read more

May 30, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz

Summer Game Challenge 2026

I have a handful of games that need completing. This is my Summer Game Challenge for 2026.

May 30, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz

Summer Game Challenge 2026

I have a handful of games that need completing. This is my Summer Game Challenge for 2026.

May 30, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Trump Administration Will Appeal Ruling Requiring Tariff Refunds

They claim the injunction requiring refunds cannot be universal, and can only apply to those businesses who filed lawsuits seeking recovery.

May 30, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Replace Yourself With a Human, Not Bot

An article about an outgoing Baidu employee replacing himself with a chatbot reminded me of the time I replaced myself with a classmate in math class. What follows is an anecdote about humanity. Is...