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Gigantic gacha machine appears in Tokyo department store for capsule toy celebration

Monster Capsule is a gacha behemoth. “Monster Capsule” might sound like the name of some cheap Pokémon knockoff, but the capsule being referred to isn’t one meant for carrying creatures around in. ...

Eurobloat #0192 • April 2026

April was the month Brussels announced it would cut its own red tape, which sounds splendid until you read the small print and find that the real project is to pull yet more power up from the membe...

Weekly Notes 22/2026

This Saturday, we drove to Palakkad to meet Pradeep and Dhanya. It was a short morning walk and breakfast meet. We met at the fort, walked around, and chit-chatted while having breakfast at Indrapr...

Remains of a Roman Bridge from the Year 363 AD Discovered in the Bed of the Meuse River in the Netherlands

A sand extraction operation in the channel of the Meuse River, near the municipality of West Maas en Waal, in the center of the Netherlands, has brought to light four long oak posts whose character...

Steam Deck OLED is Absurdly Overpriced Now, Yet It Sold Out in North America Overnight

The handheld returned at $789 and $949, sold out in North America within 24 hours, and is now back with inconsistent availability.

Blaming ‘Foreign Forces’ Backfires for Beijing

Shijie Wang

Sweyn Invades

It may well have been news of the wholesale slaughter of Danes in 1002 that was ordered by King Æthelred that motivated Sweyn Forkbeard to invade England. The St. Brice's Day Massacre is said to ha...

Farewell AWS

Wow. I really didn’t expect my post about being fired from AWS to get as much traction as it did, but verklempt doesn’t even begin to describe my feelings. The outpouring of support on LinkedIn was...

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Question grab bag

Our favorites (so far)

Now that Improve Something Today is a decade old, here are some of your favorite—and my favorite—of the things I’ve offered to date.

Make Linux Detect SD Card On Boot

Ancestral Genomes

Breakfast

Your browser does not support the video tag. My friend Mateusz sent me this video of a Zen priest comparing David Foster Wallace to Zen Buddhism. He doesn't really get too deep into analysis with D...

Central Asia Accessing Pakistani Sea Ports that Bypass Afghanistan

Syed Fazl-e-Haider

Naming Unnamed Fornicating Judges — See Also

This Is Going To Be The Best AI Sleuthing Story You Read Today: Here's how we figured out Eleanor Ross was the unnamed judge. Todd Blanche Faces NY Bar Complaint: Vindictive prosecution has consequ...

The Lamination Intimidation

Read The Lamination Intimidation Last week, a customer was upset at the need to present ID to pick up his package, and when I pointed to the paper sign stating this, he took it and tore it up as if...

Recycling Two XBox One Consoles into a 10 GB USB Flash Drive

Amidst the ongoing RAM & storage apocalypses, Mad Max-esque scenes are unsurprisingly developing, with the eMMC recycling project by [Chase Fournier] from a pair of XBox One S (‘XBone’) mainboards ...

Daily News Stuff 28 May 2026

The Beeg Cat Who Walks Through Walls Edition Top Story Nvidia is planning to spend $150 billion a year in Taiwan. (Reuters) That used to be a lot. Anthropic and OpenAI have found a product-market f...

Alte Rollenspielszene: Plan und Ausführung

Jork macht einen Leeroy Jenkins

Bloomberg Law Confirms That Judge Betsy is Judge Ross

Now that her identity is known, the consequences should begin.