Aug 29, 2026 from The Linkfest Linkfest #48: The MouthPad, "Volitional Reconsumption", and The Genetics of Giant Pumpkins Hello there! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I slowly and patiently distill vats of science, culture and technology, just for you. If you’re a subscri...
Aug 29, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Scientist learns in front of peers why we cannot trust AI Blindly “Sutter’s cringe-inducing tale perfectly illustrates how many users of AI tools are putting themselves at risk without knowing it, including in the most rarefied echelons of academia. The science w...
Aug 29, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net DEVONthink 4.4 brings smarter AI assistant, MCP integration, and better Markdown rendering DEVONthink 4.4 Tycho has been released as the latest version of this application for professional document and information management. This update brings new AI workflows, Markdown authoring, web c...
Aug 29, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 29 August 2026 Terry Thomas Chocolate Clockwork Orange Edition Top Story Stripe has decided maybe they won't buy PayPal after all. (Axios) Apparently they got it confused with some place in Italy. China is secret...
Aug 29, 2026 from Daily Medieval Burgundian Wars The sons of Clovis saw Burgundy as a target. Sigismund of Burgundy (c.475 - 524) became king in 516. His father, Gundobad, had slain Chilperic II of Burgundy in 493. Chilperic's daughter was Clotil...
Aug 29, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Family Mart releases new Human Made Cup Noodle in Japan, with freebies for Nigo fans Japanese convenience store essential gets a cool Human Made makeover. Ever since Family Mart opened a new “Famima” flagship store in Tokyo last month, the convenience store chain has been undergoin...
Aug 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition Tambora, the volcano that in 1815 darkened half the planet’s skies, causing the year without a summer in which Frankenstein was born In these years, when climate change dominates much of the public conversation, it is worth looking back and remembering that the planet already experienced, just over two centuries ago, a sudden an...
Aug 29, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Collections: Global Trade and United States Navy This week we’re doing another one of our series of military theory primers, this time focusing on a fairly simple contention: that the United States Navy is a load-bearing component of the global e...
Aug 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Kan Gao on Why He Uses RPG Maker Kan Gao is the creator of the successful indie To the Moon series. I am not personally a fan of To the Moon. I tried the first entry and it just was not working for me, so I never finished. But des...
Aug 29, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Self-Examination Self-aware, but not self examined. That phrase has been plaguing me something fierce. Along with an actual bout of sickness I've been facing since Thursday night, it's something that has been eatin...
Aug 28, 2026 from Above the Law When Samuel Alito Is The One Calling You ‘Scary,’ You Know There’s A Problem — See Also Clarence Thomas Was "Scary" In Law School: At least according to Samuel Alito. Court watchers still think he's plenty scary now, too. SCOTUS Said Come Back With A Final Rule. The States Did. They W...
Aug 28, 2026 from Hackaday Reviving an SD Card With Shorted Capacitors A nice thing about SD cards is that even in their non-micro format they are conveniently small. This is however a bit of a problem when an SD card stops …read more
Aug 28, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com The Gift Card That Keeps On Giving, Part 38 Read The Gift Card That Keeps On Giving, Part 38 Customer: "Why is it charging me $100?" Me: "You said you wanted $100 on the gift card, right?" Customer: "Yes, but you have a 10% off everything in...
Aug 28, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Federal Judge Concludes Then-Candidate Trump's Attempt to Remove N.Y. Hush Money Non-Reporting Prosecution to Federal Court Came Too Late From the long opinion today by Judge Alvin Hellerstein (S.D.N.Y.) in People v. Trump: Defendant Donald J. Trump, President of… The post Federal Judge Concludes Then-Candidate Trump's Attempt to Rem...
Aug 28, 2026 from HunterDavis.com It happens so fast now, Johnny Castaway RetroArch released No AI was used to draft this post, these are my words fully.
Aug 28, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Image Toolbox is an open source Android app for social media creators “For you, as a content creator, the tools that matter the most are batch processing, format conversion, the 61 built-in export presets sized for platforms like Instagram, X, and YouTube, background...
Aug 28, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Tripsy 3.9 adds smart routes, multi-stop travel planning, saved addresses & timing alerts Tripsy 3.9 is now available for Apple devices, adding Smart Routes to compare scheduled itinerary activities with estimated travel time. The feature also shows a Tight Timing warning when travel be...
Aug 28, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 28 August 2026 Claudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Edition Top Story Hugging Face has announced a new robot duck. (The Register) $13 billion for this? Tech News Intel's 270K CPU - an honestly pretty good processor ...
Aug 28, 2026 from Roy Tang MTG: Marvel Super Heroes This is my set recap for the Marvel Super Heroes MTG set! It has only been around six weeks since I last wrote one of these! This pace of set releases continues to be exhausting. SOS Limited Summar...
Aug 28, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Studio Ghibli unveils new anime calendars and diary planners for 2027 Schedule your days the Ghibli way, with a dash of magic on every page of the year. With the end of the year now fast approaching, 2027 diaries and calendars are beginning to pop up on the market, a...
