All Blogs

Ambient Irony

Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...

• Daily News Stuff 16 April 2026 Apr 16, 2026

  Refinery Fire Edition Top Story Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits & paid services to improve itself...

• Daily News Stuff 15 April 2026 Apr 15, 2026

  Busy People Edition Top Story China's leading flash memory producer, YTMC, is constructing two new factories in addit...

• Daily News Stuff 14 April 2026 Apr 14, 2026

  Greasy Spork Edition Top Story Answering the questions nobody is asking: Can AI be a "child of God"? (Washington Post...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• Banking On Pettiness That Can Last Centuries Apr 16, 2026

  Read Banking On Pettiness That Can Last Centuries I get a notice for inactivity stating that I will be charged five d...

• They Are Not Shelf Aware Apr 16, 2026

  Read They Are Not Shelf Aware Customer: "I want a Long Island! Top shelf!" Me: "To be clear, by top shelf, you mean t...

• Not A Prime Shopping Experience Apr 16, 2026

  Read Not A Prime Shopping Experience Guy: "Yeah, where are the aisles?" Me: "The aisles?" Guy: "Yeah, with all the pr...

Above the Law

A Legal Web Site – News, Insights, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts

• The T14 Is Not Dead. It Is Undying, And That’s Okay Apr 16, 2026

  A score is a score, even if the goalposts keeps shifting. The post The T14 Is Not Dead. It Is Undying, And That’s Oka...

• Sotomayor Apologizes For Possibly Hurting Kavanaugh’s Feelings Over The Racial Profiling He Invented Apr 16, 2026

  No amount of human misery is as important as maintaining proper manners at the Supreme Court. The post Sotomayor Apol...

• Due North: Navigating Legal Licensing In Canada For US Lawyers Apr 16, 2026

  License conversion is far from impossible. The post Due North: Navigating Legal Licensing In Canada For US Lawyers ap...

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today.

• Pikachu to cuddle with kimono-clad beauty on Tokyo street as part of flower art event Apr 16, 2026

  Exhibition near Tokyo Station mixes flowers, anime, and ukiyo-e aesthetics. Even in a country filled with cute charac...

• McDonald’s Japan now has Hello Kitty and Pompompurin drinks on the menu Apr 16, 2026

  We find out if the limited-edition Sanrio frappe and smoothie taste as sweet as they look.  Some of the sweetest char...

• Sanrio’s best-loved butthole defies physics in adorable sumo collaboration[Photos] Apr 16, 2026

  Pompompurin’s charm point apparently can’t be concealed. Late last year, Sanrio unveiled its collaboration with the J...

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• The Kentucky Cave Wars, and Going Viral in 1925 Apr 16, 2026

  Information, it seems, flows at the speed of media. In the old days, information traveled with people on ships or hor...

• Emergency Bolt-Action Launcher for EpiPens Apr 16, 2026

  Imagine you and your friend are enjoying a nice sunny day, and BAM — they start to have a severe allergic reaction to...

• Trying to Build Your Own Consumer-Grade Router in 2026 Apr 16, 2026

  Although we have many types of networking equipment with many unique names, at their core they can usually be reduced...

Peter's Path

Peter's Path is my personal endeavour to live a life of purpose through hiking, reading, and embracing the beauty of nature, faith, and ideas.

• Veluwe Wander Trail part 13 Apr 16, 2026

  Hiked part 13/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 15.9 kilometres from Hoog Soeren to Kootwijk. You walk on wide paths thr...

• That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis Apr 16, 2026

  Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote That Hideous Strength. It is the third and final book in his Space Trilogy. The s...

• Perelandra by C.S. Lewis Apr 15, 2026

  Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Perelandra. It is the second book in his Space Trilogy. Dr Elwin Ransom travels t...

The Volokh Conspiracy

Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent | Est. 2002

• Justice Ginsburg Cancer Treatment Leak Prosecution: Blame the Cat Apr 16, 2026

  "Russell insisted that he didn't know how his credentials had been used to run the 'Gins' and 'Ginston' searches. But...

• Who Owns The President's Papers? Apr 16, 2026

  Yes, there is a Domestic Emoluments Clause issue.

• Trump Administration Presents Update on its Tariff Refund Plan Apr 16, 2026

  The plan is not completely terrible. But many importers may still have difficulty getting the refund money owed to them.

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• Tuta Drive enters closed beta with end-to-end encryption and quantum-secure cloud storage Apr 16, 2026

  Tuta, the company known for its privacy-focused products Tuta Mail and Tuta Calendar, has announced the closed beta r...

• YouTube finally lets users disable Shorts feed Apr 16, 2026

  YouTube has introduced an option for all users to set a zero-minute time limit for Shorts, effectively disabling the ...

• Simplenote announces beta MCP Server for AI-powered natural language search Apr 16, 2026

  Simplenote has launched the beta MCP Server, enabling users to search and manage notes using natural language through...

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-16-26 Apr 16, 2026

  Today marks the 1957th anniversary of the death-by-suicide of the short-reigning Roman Emperor, Otho. I note this bec...

• Unique Individual Scoring Games in NBA History Apr 15, 2026

  I recently published a new NBA research project inspired by Bam Adebayo’s 83-point eruption on March 10, 2026. Noting...

• AI Can’t “Lie” Apr 15, 2026

  Ars Technica published an article by Ryan Whitam titled Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies ...

Chronicles of Miss Miseria

A practising self-memoir, recorded as an inconsistent logbook.

• NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 16] - What the half-room refused to say Apr 16, 2026

  NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 16]Day Sixteen Happy sixteenth day of National/Global Poetry Writing month, everyone! Our featu...

• NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 15] - In Case Someone Needs Fire Apr 15, 2026

  NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 15] Day Fifteen Welcome back, all! As of today, we’re halfway through another Na/GloPoWriMo. Ou...

• NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 14] - the day after ai was dismantled Apr 14, 2026

  NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 14]Day Fourteen Happy Tuesday, everyone, and welcome back for the fourteenth day of National/Gl...

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• Study Reveals Why Property Owners Planted Vineyards and Orchards Instead of Rebuilding After the Earthquake of 62 AD in Pompeii Apr 16, 2026

  Pompeii did not die suddenly. Before Vesuvius buried it in AD 79, the city had already survived another catastrophe: ...

• A 350-square-meter megastructure discovered in Romania challenges theories about early egalitarian societies in Europe Apr 16, 2026

  Between 2020 and 2024, a team of researchers from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Bo...

• 4,000-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablets Suggest Gilgamesh May Have Really Existed, Researchers Say Apr 16, 2026

  More than a century after the National Museum of Denmark began to accumulate a vast collection of inscribed clay tabl...

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• FOSS Weekly #26.16: Kernel 7.0, Essential Terminal Tips, France Linux Move, New Age Verification Bill and More Apr 16, 2026

  Some good news, some not so good news.

• Can You Identify The Fake Linux Distros From The Real Ones? Apr 16, 2026

  With over 300+ Linix distros, it is never easy to remember all of them. Still, you can make a guess and see if you ca...

• Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA Apr 16, 2026

  If passed, the bill would apply across the U.S., unlike the state-level laws already around.

Palladium

Governance Futurism

• The Peoples of America Apr 16, 2026

  The Human Geography of this Continent The post The Peoples of America appeared first on Palladium.

• The Dostoevskian Moment Apr 11, 2026

  As we accelerate toward superintelligence, our quest for self-mastery takes a spiritual turn. The post The Dostoevski...

• The Total Art of Flat Design Apr 08, 2026

  The digital era has brought about a flattening of art and culture, creating a world where depth and texture have beco...

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• Charles and Rebels and Salt Apr 16, 2026

  The French word gabelle derives from the Italian gabella, which means "duty." It was a tax applied to agricultural an...

• The Start of Charles' Reign Apr 15, 2026

  Some months after Charles of Anjou married Beatrice of Provence in 1246, therefore becoming Count of Provence and For...

• Securing Beatrice Apr 14, 2026

  The agreement was made in 1245 between several powerful individuals that Beatrice of Provence (heir to the counties o...

The Jamestown Foundation

Jamestown provides primary-source analysis on global developments of strategic importance to the United States and its allies. We primarily cover Russia, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

• New Five-Year Plan Could Boost PLA Combat Power Apr 16, 2026

  K. Tristan Tang

• Türkiye and Azerbaijan Contend With Potential Kurdish Role in Iran Conflict Apr 15, 2026

  Fuad Shahbazov

• Péter Magyar’s Historic Victory Holds Implications for Russia and Ukraine Apr 15, 2026

  Péter Fazekas

The Public Domain Review

An online journal exploring curious and obscure works that have entered the public domain, featuring essays, collections, and cultural commentary on historical art, literature, and media.

• “A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) Apr 16, 2026

  An early contribution to drug literature, in which a man came to be fashioned out of wood.

• Introducing PDR Press Minis Apr 14, 2026

  Announcing an exciting new book series!

• Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) Apr 09, 2026

  A modernist adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. One of the first avant-garde films from America.

The New Leaf Journal

Where the leaves are perennially virid

• AI Today, Calculators Back in the Day Apr 16, 2026

  An article about the dangers of AI dependency reminded me of how I encouraged a middle schooler to do algebra by hand...

• Bam Adebayo’s 83 and Scoring Averages in 60+ Point Game Seasons Apr 15, 2026

  Bam Adebayo's 83 point performance inspired me to look at PPG and P/36 minutes by NBA players who scored at least 60 ...

• 2000-01 Bucks vs Second Three-Peat Bulls Apr 13, 2026

  A quote from former NBA player Jason Caffey inspires me to compare the offenses of the 2000-01 Milwaukee Bucks and th...

Noahie's Blog

Welcome! This is where you can find my most up-to-date writings.

• Scraps Apr 16, 2026

  A series of scribbles from my many notebooks. 1 The tenant jostles his keys. The landlord must have changed the locks...

• Temperament and Spirit Apr 15, 2026

  I broke my fast last night. There were about ten leftover chicken tenders from dinner a few nights ago, and I ate all...

• Thought Through Apr 14, 2026

  I've decided to make my sprints here an hour long now, but even when they were at 45 minutes, I tended to go toward a...

Improve Something Today

Continuous improvement in a complicated world. A blog, podcast, and free e-mail newsletter by Brian Kerr. Simplicity, patience, compassion.

• Timely plugs: Mandy Brown’s workshop, Abby Covert’s next sensemaking book, & new music Apr 15, 2026

  Three things to consider this week.

• Questions along the way Apr 09, 2026

  The Periodic Table of Questions, ICA’s ORID, Liberating Structures’ W3, and more. How might we organize questions, an...

• Remembering Christopher Alexander: love even for the smallest pebble Mar 17, 2026

  Two passages from the architect and writer on the fourth anniversary of his passing.

GadgeteerZA

Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!

• Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit Apr 15, 2026

  “An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may b...

• Bitsocial is an Open Source P2P Network for Social Apps Apr 11, 2026

  There are so many peer-to-peer networks now in existence that I have seriously lost count of them. You may think that...

• Instead of upgrading your motherboard you may be able to use your spare PCIe x1 slot Apr 11, 2026

  It’s true that most often we just use one slot for the video card and there are another two or three empty slots wait...