Aug 20, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation Beijing Signals Tiered Governance of Open-Weight Models Sunny Cheung & Shijie Wang
Aug 20, 2026 from Daily Medieval History of the Lombards Paul the Deacon assembled information from some of the greatest scholars and historians and his own observations to assemble his Historia Langobardorum. Written between 787 and 796CE, he recounts t...
Aug 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition Scientists Create a ‘Mini Big Bang’ and Manage to Reproduce in the Laboratory the State of Matter That Filled the Cosmos During the First Moments of the Universe Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, at the University of Copenhagen, have managed to reproduce in the laboratory the state of matter that filled the cosmos during its first millionth of a seco...
Aug 20, 2026 from The Jaxson The South Will Not Be Silenced Artists Are Essential to Building a Just Future -
Aug 19, 2026 from Above the Law Jim Comey Case Proves Words Are Hard For DOJ — See Also 86: DOJ says no one disputes the meaning of term that literally everyone disputes. Get Out While You Can: Meanwhile, DOJ whistleblower disclosure suggests government attorneys are starting to fear ...
Aug 19, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Tanked The Test Read Tanked The Test Me: "Okay, so as this is a pretty exotic fish, I want to confirm what temperature you're keeping your tank—" Customer: "—Why so many questions?! Just sell me the d*** fish!" Me...
Aug 19, 2026 from Hackaday HYDR8 Will Lead You to Water, But Will You Drink? [Ayushmaan] states up front that most of his free time is spent “building things that probably didn’t need to exist”. Well, this one might be an anomaly, because it seems …read more
Aug 19, 2026 from Refereeing and Reflection Kwisatz Your Own Haderach: the Sweeping Ambition of the Dune RPG Dune is, it’s fair to say, a fairly troubled franchise. In terms of the novels, the original book is a landmark of science fiction by any measure, but its sequels are a bit of a bumpy ride, incorpo...
Aug 19, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy "Trendy Eateries May Keep a Secret Menu; the United States Code Does Not" Some excerpts from the long opinion in R.J. Reynolds Tobacco v. FDA, written by Judge Don Willett and joined in… The post "Trendy Eateries May Keep a Secret Menu; the United States Code Does Not" a...
Aug 19, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Erlebnis Sonnenfinsternis: Der Komödie zweiter Teil Wie ein sonniger Tag sich kurz vor Beginn der Sonnenfinsternis in eine Waschküche verwandelte.
Aug 19, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 19 August 2026 Triple-Baked Baklava Edition Top Story A federal judge has ruled that a state judge who used AI to handle the entire decision in a case so she could spend the day playing Cookie Run Kingdom or some...
Aug 19, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Moving your Linux home folder to a dedicated drive is the distro-hopping secret I wish I knew earlier “Home is where the heart is. On Linux, home is where everything personal to you is: your documents, downloads, screenshots, and configuration. In fact, your home is so special, you really ought to ...
Aug 19, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- 7-Eleven Japan brings back best-selling flat croissant that became a hit on social media Meet the newest Japanese convenience store find that’s soon to flood your feed. If you’ve been scrolling through social media looking for the latest convenience store food find, there’s a good chan...
Aug 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-19-26 Keeping the Pook-Emu Bee weekday streak going on this sunny (here in Brooklyn, at least) August 19, 2026. 1 | Vindman Vaporizes $16.2 Million in Loss, Spends 36X DSA Candidate on Ads (Paul Bois for...
Aug 19, 2026 from Palladium American AI May Not Survive Chinese Open-Source Chinese companies’ AI strategy can economically cripple American labs unless the U.S. government competently counters. The post American AI May Not Survive Chinese Open-Source appeared first on Pal...
Aug 19, 2026 from Kev Quirk Gamifying Snacking with Snacker Tracker So one of the things I've been trying to do as part of my journey to lose weight and get fit is sort my diet out. As the saying goes, "you can't out-train a poor diet". And the worst part of my die...
Aug 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval Paul the Deacon's Writings Paul the Deacon (c.720s – 13 April c.796-799) has many writing attributed to him (some probably erroneously, like a life of Gregory the Great, that was written much earlier than Paul). He was in th...
Aug 19, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog From Using AI to Delegating Work to AI: Some Thoughts From Q&A, code generation, to letting Agent take on more complete work,不知不觉间，我已经使用 AI 好几年了。这些年里，变化的不只是模型能力，人与 AI 的协作方式也一直在变。我也在一边使用，一边调整自己的方法。我关心的已经不只是“AI 能不能完成这项工作”，而是另外几个问题：执行范围是否稳定，结果能否被信任，投入是否可...
Aug 19, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist When wildfire smoke hits home With a son on the fire line, what I’ve learned about protecting the air we breathe.
Aug 19, 2026 from It's FOSS Book Review: The Ultimate AI Guide for Linux Engineers A book specifically written for seasoned Linux professionals so that they can use AI effectively and safely in their workflow.
