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Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...

• Daily News Stuff 20 May 2026 May 20, 2026

  Unpossible Edition Top Story Google search is dead, says... Google. (Tech Crunch) Professor Plum in the library with ...

• Daily News Stuff 19 May 2026 May 19, 2026

  Also No Edition Top Story Intel has started shipping Nova Lake... Engineering samples. (WCCFTech) Linked from that ar...

• Daily News Stuff 18 May 2026 May 18, 2026

  Pololalia Edition Top Story Agent harnesses like OpenClaw are changing how we build and run AI models. (The Register)...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• Untitled May 20, 2026

  Read This story https://notalwaysright.com/if-you-make-it-right-your-friends-wont-explode-like-shaken-soda-cans/36070...

• Can’t Do Split Decisions May 20, 2026

  Read Can’t Do Split Decisions Me: "Alright. Here's your $100 refund." Customer: "But I paid $200." Me: "That was for ...

• Untitled May 20, 2026

  Read So, a customer’s doggie licked my sleeve at work today (customer was holding her dog in her arms), and I flinche...

The Volokh Conspiracy

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

• Today in Supreme Court History: May 20, 1996 May 20, 2026

  5/20/1996: Romer v. Evans is decided.   The post Today in Supreme Court History: May 20, 1996 appeared first on Reaso...

• Open Thread May 20, 2026

  What’s on your mind?

• Court Rejects First Amendment Claims Against NYPD Commissioner Brought by "Most Wanted CEOs" Card Makers May 19, 2026

  From yesterday's decision by Judge Hector Gonzalez (E.D.N.Y.) in Harr v. City of N.Y.: In 2003, in connection with th...

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• Bring Back That Aged Scanner, in Your Browser May 20, 2026

  We have probably all at some point had to replace a peripheral not because it is faulty, but because it is no longer ...

• DecayDock Keeps Track of Spoilage May 20, 2026

  Many of us have suffered the common experience of buying a great deal of (now very expensive) food, only to have it g...

• Using 3D Printers To Make Circuit Boards May 20, 2026

  Custom printed circuit boards have become more and more accessible to the average hobbyist over the last decade. But ...

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• Open Source ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.4 Brings Dark Spreadsheets, Smarter Forms, and a Licensing Cleanup May 20, 2026

  The community build also drops its 20-connection limit and gets a lighter, simpler architecture.

• Things Are Quietly Changing at Bitwarden, and People Are Worried May 19, 2026

  The password manager swapped its CEO, rewrote its core values, and briefly pulled "Always Free" from its pricing page.

• Wow! Microsoft Now Has a Fedora-based Linux Distro May 19, 2026

  Azure Linux 4.0 is on the way, and its GitHub repo quietly confirms it's built on Fedora.

Your Local Epidemiologist

Providing a direct line of "translated" public health science to you, so you can take action for your community's health

• World Cup’s hidden health operation May 20, 2026

  YLE behind the scenes

• Ebola international emergency, hantavirus update, ticks, heat, opioid deaths decline, and more. May 19, 2026

  The Dose (May 19)

• Something deeper than hantavirus May 15, 2026

  Two weeks ago, my phone started lighting up before I’d had my coffee.

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• Firefox expands Shake to Summarize feature to Android and more languages on iOS May 20, 2026

  Mozilla is expanding Firefox’s Shake to Summarize feature beyond its initial iOS launch in English by bringing it to ...

• Mole 1.4.1 adds menu bar HUD, smart app updates, redesigned status May 20, 2026

  Mole 1.4.1 introduces a menu bar HUD that displays live CPU, RAM, and network activity. The update also detects new v...

• WordPress Workspace app debuts for Mac, unifying editor, notes, AI agent, and media tools May 20, 2026

  Automattic has introduced WordPress Workspace, a new desktop application for Mac that brings together the editor, not...

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History & Culture

• The Law that “Regularized” Thousands of Freed Slaves by Granting Them the Vote in the Roman Republic was not for what we thought May 20, 2026

  For decades, the official history of ancient Rome has repeated the same idea: in the last decades of the Republic, fr...

• The Mykonos Vase, Created in the 7th Century BC, Contains the Oldest Known Depiction of the Trojan Horse May 20, 2026

  In the summer of 1961, some workers conducting excavations in the center of the city of Mykonos, on the Greek island ...

• Pre-Roman Sanctuary Found in Padua, With Temples and Venetic Inscriptions Buried by an Ancient Flood May 19, 2026

  During the construction work of the first functional section of the New Regional Road 10 “Padana Inferiore,” which wi...

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

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

• Do Bare Feet of a Gorilla slides really make your legs slimmer? May 20, 2026

  These bizarre sandals have gone viral on Japanese social media, so we put them to the test. If you’re interested in J...

• 7-Eleven Japan adds macaroni cheese sandwiches to its convenience store food range May 20, 2026

  New “one piece” sandwich looks set to be another sell-out hit for the popular chain. On “Sandwich Day” on 13 March, 7...

• Japan has a new cute and clever sunblock for cat lovers May 20, 2026

  The adorable bottle is only part of what makes this a fun and convenient way to protect yourself from UV rays. The ca...

Improve Something Today

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

• 10 things I’ve learned in 10 years of writing Improve Something Today May 19, 2026

  This site is about learning in public. As it turns a decade old, I scrounge around for 10 things I’ve learned while w...

• 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...

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.

• South Caucasus Navigating Economic and Security Effects of Iran Conflict May 19, 2026

  Irakli Laitadze

• Meloni Visits Baku to Cement the Italy–Azerbaijan Strategic Partnership May 19, 2026

  Vasif Huseynov

• Central Asia’s Increasing Commitment to Ankara’s Turkic World Alarms Moscow May 19, 2026

  Paul Goble

Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

Books, films, TV, videogames, comics, music, all that bread and circuses stuff.

• Lexxual Debauchery: Season 4 May 19, 2026

  The crew of the Lexx‘s adventures on the twin worlds of Fire and Water ended with the destruction of both planets. Si...

• When Will Frank Herbert Ruin Dune For You? May 17, 2026

  Frank Herbert, eh? Maverick author, apparently a terrible dad, political oddball, and simultaneously the genius creat...

• Cerritos Spinoffs and Lower Decks Delights May 10, 2026

  Lower Decks has gone the way of all Alex Kurtzman Star Trek shows – getting cancelled before it can undertake the sor...

Above the Law

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

• Biglaw Firm Mourns Veteran Partner — See Also May 19, 2026

  Quinn Emanuel Honors Harry Olivar: Our condolences to his friends and family. That's Not The Bragging Point You Think...

• Now That’s An Elite M&A Practice May 19, 2026

  Biglaw's top M&A practice. The post Now That’s An Elite M&A Practice appeared first on Above the Law.

• Biglaw’s Growth Game Comes With Cuts, Too May 19, 2026

  The chair of this top firm says sustainable growth sometimes means knowing what to leave behind. The post Biglaw’s Gr...

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-19-26 May 19, 2026

  I had been sitting down to churn out today’s edition of Pook-Emu Bee links when work fell into my lap. But it is now ...

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-18-26 May 18, 2026

  Monday is here. So too after taking the weekend off are my Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Maniac strangles 7-year-old boy in ...

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-15-26 May 15, 2026

  After two missed days due to having many work assignments, I return with a new edition of my Pook-Emu Bee links. Of c...

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.

• “Plaything of the Gods”: Photographs of Pushball (early 1900s) May 19, 2026

  Photographs and films of a forgotten pastime.

• Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype May 13, 2026

  Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand — and they set them *fast*. Al...

• Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683) May 13, 2026

  A Dutch physician’s encounter with acupuncture.

Thejesh GN

A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.

• Embedding user code in your app using Extism May 19, 2026

  Every application I love has some kind of power-user mode where I can add my own code or scripting to make it useful ...

• Weekly Notes 20/2026 May 15, 2026

  We are in Thrissur. We left at around 2 AM and reached by 11 AM, with two breaks. The drive was comfortable. The traf...

• Weekly Notes 19/2026 May 08, 2026

  My first, full-fledged in-class course at APU ended this week. The final round of assessments is yet to be done. I am...

Chronicles of Miss Miseria

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

• [dVerse] May 19th - safety through ugliness May 19, 2026

  safety through uglinessthe phone cover shedsits tired skinwhile I eata sandwich late.hunger sits beside me,loyal as a...

• The stuck-but-not-dead phase is suffocating as hell. The phone cover remains ugly because honesty is expensive. May 18, 2026

  19th May 2026. 00:35 AM.today, as i made a sandwich which i was supposed to make on sunday night, but monday night it...

• the salary arrived. so did the sinkhole. May 15, 2026

  It is Friday, May 15th, 2026.Five days since I wrote that all roads lead to rot, and unfortunately, the road has not ...

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• The St. Edmund Cult May 19, 2026

  After Edmund of East Anglia began to be treated as a saint, he became an important focal point for Christians in East...

• Edmund Ironside May 19, 2026

  Edmund, son of Æthelred the Unready and his first wife Ælfgifu of York, was likely born between 990 and 993, one of s...

• Saint Edmund May 18, 2026

  When King Edmund of East Anglia bought off the Vikings of the Great Heathen Army in 865, he might have thought he was...

kmcd.dev

I'm Kevin McDonald. I am a backend software engineer from Texas, living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark. Let's learn together.

• Zero-Friction Demos with WASM May 19, 2026

  Bringing Go libraries to life with WebAssembly.

• Let's Learn About BGP May 12, 2026

  How a live BGP map evolved into an interactive explainer on internet routing.

• ConnectRPC: Where is it now? May 05, 2026

  Reflecting on two years of ConnectRPC: How it evolved from a gRPC alternative to a complete API ecosystem.

Victor Blomqvist's blog

A software developer's blog and project portfolio focused on coding, software architecture, and technology.

• Scheduled GitHub Actions are now useless May 19, 2026

  Scheduled GitHub Actions are now (in May 2026) so delayed that they are more or less useless. Here I have two graphs ...

• AI makes open source release faster. Or does it? May 03, 2026

  The other day my colleague noted that it feels like our Renovate bot triggers much more often in the repos he manages...

• Are AI SQL yet? Feb 10, 2026

  Whenever I ask an AI for help on a nontrivial database task I'm always extra careful. By experience I know that they ...