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Daily News Stuff 7 August 2026

Liminal Bugs Edition Top Story A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $942 million under a law that so far as I can tell is both unconstitutionally vague and entirely inapplicable. (WSJ / MSN) ...

Productivity Theater

Read Productivity Theater So, my boss demands that when I am clocked in, my upload records must always show that I have recently done something, and that there cannot be a gap in uploads longer tha...

Trump Issues New Birthright Citizenship Orders In Direct Defiance Of Supreme Court

Two new executive orders cite Trump v. Barbara for exactly the proposition the Court spent several pages rejecting. The post Trump Issues New Birthright Citizenship Orders In Direct Defiance Of Sup...

Japanese toilet aims to attract foreign tourists but not everybody is happy about it

Rural town’s attempt to draw tourists may have gone a step too far. In recent years, Japanese public toilets have become known not only as places to do your business but as tourist attractions with...

Divided D.C. Circuit Panel Upholds Injunction Against White House Ballroom Construction; Next Stop, One First Street

Justice Rao writes a powerful dissent that is likely to find a receptive audience at One First Street.

The Sword of Freedom by Yossi Cohen

Why read the book? Yossi Cohen served as director of Mossad from 2016 to 2021. In The Sword of Freedom he describes how Israel has faced existential threats and still found ways to defend itself. H...

Hackaday Podcast Episode 381: Airless Tires, Full-color Prints, and 28 MW of LEDs

This week’s Hackaday podcast is a European affair again, as Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List on a summer evening to review the week. And we have a feast …read more

YouTube's New Programs to Encourage Binge Watching

YouTube is trying to become everything you watch on the TV. Luckily, there are still ways to opt. At least for now.

Weekly Notes 32/2026

It’s been a hectic but active week. As usual, I continued with my two P.T sessions. I played a game of Pickleball on Thursday. I also ran twice. This week has been my most active week in quite some...

Granola launches redesigned note-taking app for Apple Watch

Granola has launched a newly redesigned app for Apple Watch, letting users start and stop notes with a single tap from their wrist. Notes sync automatically across iPhone, Mac, and Windows platform...

Scientists Discover that the Increase in Visual Information Was What Allowed the Development of Ape and Human Brains

The research, published in the journal Science, was led by Richard F. Kay, emeritus professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and at the Nicholas School of th...

Google Search is likely Yahooed now

This is a lesson that you are never too big to disappear. I remember the arrival of Google Search (when that was all they did) and how it collapsed Yahoo search from the scene. Googling even became...

Henry in Exile

After the Trial by Combat affair in 1398 between Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray (which was supposed to be to the death), King Richard II exiled Mowbray for life and Henry for 10 years. They w...

Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age

The Children's Online Social Media Safety Act has device makers collect the age bracket, but apps still have to act on it.

📝 2026-08-07 09:22: Follow up from this post - I just signed into my Vinted account (to delete...

Follow up from this post - I just signed into my Vinted account (to delete it) and it didn't send me an MFA SMS so how the fuck is me giving them my number securing my account in any way? The inter...

Pearl Square District's Block N6 headed to DDRB

Gateway Jax seeks DDRB conceptual approval for Pearl Square's latest adaptive reuse project. Let us known what you think! -

Free “Just Heavy :)” Air Conditioner in Brooklyn

Reporting on a free air conditioner with note seen in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

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Man, taking that kpin yesterday really helped. Although last night, I made the mistake of drinking too much caffeine in the evening. It's a common mistake for me, especially when I am feeling waves...

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The Incredible, Shrinking Biglaw Class — See Also

Go Big Or Go Home: Biglaw may be the largest single employer of new law school grads, but now associate class sizes are shrinking. Senator Schiff Tried A New Approach With Trump's Election-Denying ...