May 28, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-28-26 I have more work ahead of me today. But once again, I refuse to let work stand between me and another edition of our regularly scheduled Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Can an ESPN analyst revive the Scripp...
May 28, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Perplexity Computer launches native add-ins for Microsoft 365 apps Perplexity Computer is now available as a native add-in within Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook for Microsoft 365, eliminating the need for manual content transfers. Users can draft, ...
May 28, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Japanese convenience store Lawson launches new “mini supermarket” chain, L Minimart Lawson opens its first “mini supermarket” in Tokyo. Lawson is one of Japan’s big-three convenience stores (the others being 7-Eleven and Family Mart), but Lawson itself has multiple sub-brands. For...
May 28, 2026 from It's FOSS FOSS Weekly #26.22: Win for Linux, Firefox New AI Feature, AMD Betrayal, Rust Linux Commands and More Linux gets some relief in the absurd OS-level age verification law fiasco.
May 28, 2026 from Rock and Null LLMs changed writing. But our submission processes haven’t caught up. LLMs are changing how we write, communicate, and evaluate information, but many submission and proposal processes are still designed for a pre-AI era. If AI generates documents and is later summari...
May 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition A Marine Animal Defies the Limits of Immortality: A Fragment of Its Amputated Body Survives for Three Years in Seawater From the reanimated corpse of Frankenstein’s monster to the detached hand known as Thing in the Addams Family, reanimated tissue is one of the most enduring images in science fiction. This archetyp...
May 28, 2026 from Daily Medieval The Oxford Massacre One site of the St. Brice's Day Massacre in 1002 seems to have been Oxford. Æthelred called it in a 1004 charter "a most just extermination" of Danes, because of the rumor that they intended to kil...
May 28, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Animal, Vegetable, Lamb: The Zoophyte from Tartary In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. A hoax based on fern rhizomes? A euphemism for culled...
May 28, 2026 from Benny Powers: Web Developer Let Equals Equal Equals Setting `ariaDescribedByElements` on a node silently fails when the target is in a different shadow root. The spec broke `=` to preserve encapsulation purity. This violates the Priority of Constitu...
May 28, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Carry Me I had a long nap this afternoon, and ran a bunch of errands this morning. It's been a dull day, but a day nonetheless. I've been having to take my antipsychotics more frequently. When there's a nig...
May 27, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy A Prescient Poem About AI A post jocularly characterizing AIs as our children reminded me of this stanza from Philip Larkin: They fuck you up,… The post A Prescient Poem About AI appeared first on Reason.com.
May 27, 2026 from Hackaday Autopsy of a Failed Vintage Carbon Resistor Although resistors are hardly among the most exciting components, they are arguably one of the most important ones, as anyone who has done any amount of circuit design and debugging …read more
May 27, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Friend Or Faux? Read Friend Or Faux? Customer: "I want your name! Your boss is my best friend, and he'll want to know just how you treat customers." Coworker: *Calmly.* "Hmm. That's strange." Read Friend Or Faux?
May 27, 2026 from Above the Law Experience Rewarded — See Also Firms Are Hiring More Laterals Than Law Students: Killing OCI has its consequences. Quinn Emanuel Earns Another Benchslap!: If an associate did what the leading partner on the matter did, they'd ha...
May 27, 2026 from Darek Kay Sabbatical #15: Tasman-Marlborough A travel journal from my visit to Tasman-Marlborough, New Zealand.
May 27, 2026 from Improve Something Today Tilopa’s six words of advice A six-word poem to be appreciated, for today, as a poem.
May 27, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 27 May 2026 Stardenburdenhardenbart Edition Top Story California is considering an exemption from its sweeping age verification requirements for open-source operating systems such as Linux. (Tom's Hardware) Wh...
May 27, 2026 from It's FOSS Don't Expect a Raspberry Pi 6 Until At Least 2028 Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton confirmed that in a Reddit AMA recently.
May 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-27-26 I have a busy day ahead of me, but not too busy for Pook-Emu Bee links. Before getting to links from around the web, I note that I just published the sixth and final part of my New Leaf Journal six...
