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The Canons on Heresy

The Fourth Lateran Council called in 1215 by Pope Innocent III had three chief objectives: Church reform, freeing the Holy Land, and eliminating heresy. The first Canons addressed the subject of th...

Tethys

Getting to Work

Your browser does not support the video tag. You ever just wake up sad and you don't know why? I don't think I'm sad right now, but there might be some post-dream processing going on; even though I...

Hackaday Links: June 14, 2026

Times are tough out there, and many are starting to feel the pressure at the grocery store checkout line or the gas pump. But whenever you start to worry about …read more

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, Part 8

Read This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, Part 8 A woman brings a full cart up and starts trying to unload all her items onto our small counter. Me: "Ma'am, please take these items to the front o...

Weekly Robotics #364

This weekend, I took a wood planing workshop. If you are in robotics, you probably know the feeling of satisfaction that comes from working with your own hands, but somehow, working with wood and a...

Justice Barrett v. Justice Jackson On Textualism

Textualists cannot rest on Justice Scalia’s laurels. They need to address modern criticisms.

Daily News Stuff 14 June 2026

Inked Edition Top Story The US government has responded to Anthropic's constant warnings of imaginary dangers with a global ban - except for US citizens on US soil - on access to the company's Myth...

7-Eleven Japan releases new “mix-and-drink” matcha latte… that comes with a risk of choking

A new style of Japanese dessert revolutionises convenience store sweets, but it comes with a safety warning. You’ll find a lot of matcha lattes in Japan, but over at 7-Eleven you’ll find one that c...

AI Blog Questions Challenge

Ava did it, then Manu did it, then Thomas did it. So now I'm joining in. I haven't written a lot about AI on this site, so maybe this will give you all some insights as to what my opinions are on i...

2026W23

Software Is Made Between Commits — The claim that stuck with me: “the conversation that generates the code is becoming the true source of our software.” I’ve felt this shift myself. The PR descript...

Software engineering across domains

Software engineering practices differ between domains and companies. Who’d have thought?

An AI Agent Infiltrated Fedora's Bug Tracker and Wreaked Havoc

A hijacked contributor account let an AI agent loose on Fedora's bug tracker, closing bugs, posting hallucinated fixes, and getting bad code into Anaconda.

Weekly Recap: 14 June 2026

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Cassette Beasts 2002 Announced Permalink to section 'Cassette Beasts 2002 Announced' # Cassette Beasts, my favourite video game ever, is officially becoming a series, with a...

The Start of the Fourth Lateran

After years of being pope and asserting his will on the world, Innocent III decided to bring together all the church leaders and establish a new set of rules and policies for unifying the Church's ...

Fossil footprints found in Italy reveal the earliest evidence of when and where dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet

About 230 million years ago, during a geological period known as the Carnian (within the Late Triassic), Earth experienced a drastic climate change. An episode of intense and widespread rainfall, c...

Weeknotes 2026-06-14

The World Iran crisis still unresolved. Trump claims they are very close to signing a deal, but he's said that something like 30 times before so I'll believe it when it happens. SpaceX had a record...

AI Slop About Medieval London

I was linked to a site called Fake History Hunter a few weeks ago. The author, a former historical consultant, uses her site to debunk fake history in media. In AI review: Time Witnessed, she takes...

Update: Here I am at the Sagrada Família

(Previously) In 2003 I visited Barcelona and spent all day wandering around the mighty Basilica de la Sagrada Família, the architectural masterpiece of Antoni Gaudí. It had been under construction ...

Double Arrow NLJs 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXXIV

Leafy Intro Welcome to the 284th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal ("NLJ") and its short-form wr...