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• This Kind Of Entitlement Gets A Frosty Reception Jul 29, 2026

  Read This Kind Of Entitlement Gets A Frosty Reception Caller: "And why not?! I am the wife of a doctor, and it's my j...

• Bag Judgment Jul 29, 2026

  Read Bag Judgment I'm an assistant store manager at a luxury handbag store. One day, a longtime customer comes in loo...

• Use Your Noodle! Jul 29, 2026

  Read Use Your Noodle! Customer: "What kind of spaghetti is in the spaghetti all'astice e gamberi?" Me: "That's… spagh...

Above the Law

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

• The Bar Exam That Went So Horribly Wrong The Whole Thing Got Canceled — See Also Jul 29, 2026

  The NCBE Called It A 'Historic Milestone.' Washington Canceled It. The state pulled the plug on the entire exam rathe...

• This Attorney Wouldn’t Let The Supreme Court Have The Last Word Jul 29, 2026

  She didn't take 'none but men' as an answer. The post This Attorney Wouldn’t Let The Supreme Court Have The Last Word...

• Data Centers In Space: An Absurd Fantasy Dumber Than Running Hundreds Of Tests On A Drop Of Blood Jul 29, 2026

  The idea crumbles under even the slightest amount of critical thinking. The post Data Centers In Space: An Absurd Fan...

The Volokh Conspiracy

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

• Pentagon Contractor's Fraudulent Misrepresentation Claim Over Hidden Date Recording by O'Keefe Media Group Can Go Forward Jul 29, 2026

  From today's decision by Judge Amit Mehta (D.D.C.) in Mannina v. O'Keefe Media Group: In January 2025, Plaintiff Jami...

• Pentagon Contractor's Libel Claim Over Hidden Date Recording by O'Keefe Media Group Can Go Forward Jul 29, 2026

  From today's decision by Judge Amit Mehta (D.D.C.) in Mannina v. O'Keefe Media Group: In January 2025, Plaintiff Jami...

• New Article on "The State Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning" Jul 29, 2026

  It is the first comprehensive analysis of how to use state constitutional law to combat exclusionary zoning. Coauthor...

Improve Something Today

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

• Podcast episode No. 0046: What the heck is Brian up to? Jul 29, 2026

  A professional update, some new things, a request for listeners, and a reading.

• A summertime check-in: Comfort-Stretch-Panic & Disability Pride Month Jul 22, 2026

  A simple method for checking in; a reading & a game for Disability Pride Month; plus some recent updates across the s...

• Podcast episode No. 0043: The stone boat Jul 02, 2026

  Episode details A reading of a short poem by W.S. Merwin: The Estuary. I share a few words about what might have infl...

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.

• Russia Sustaining War Machine Despite Western Sanctions Jul 29, 2026

  Taras Kuzio

• Continuity in Energy Strategy Amid U.S.–Iran War Jul 29, 2026

  Ethan Kessler

• Ukraine’s Refinery Strikes Push Russia’s Fuel Crisis Toward Structural Problem Jul 28, 2026

  Alex Horobets

Your Local Epidemiologist

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

• It's time to leave the man alone. Jul 29, 2026

  One day in 2020, I went to a coffee shop.

• Measles record (and hot questions), foodborne illness summer, Covid-19 summer wave, and more Jul 28, 2026

  The Dose (July 28)

• Why is gauging health risk so hard? Jul 24, 2026

  Hantavirus.

Stranger Than Usual

• Rollenspielszenen: Der Vogelschutzbund Jul 29, 2026

  Siobhan wird fast von einem Vogelschutzbund zwangsrekrutiert.

• Schneckenfressende Schnecken Jul 28, 2026

  Der Tigerschnegel, eine Schnecke, frisst andere Schnecken.

• Rollenspielszenen: Vanillekipferl Jul 27, 2026

  Die Rettungsmission hat sich etwas verzögert. Wir mussten noch Vanillekipferl backen.

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• Scrap Pinball Parts Become Beautiful Wall Art Jul 29, 2026

  [Hans Scharler] came into a neat find recently—the playfield from a 1970s Atari Superman game. It’s the sort of thing...

• FLOSS Weekly Episode 877: RCE As a Service Jul 29, 2026

  This week Jonathan chats with Francois Proulx about SmokedMeat! That’s the third in a trio of Open Source security to...

• The ESP32 Gets a Web Browser Jul 29, 2026

  At the Hackaday Europe conference in Italy earlier in the year, we were shown a rather interesting device. The work o...

Ambient Irony

Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...

• Daily News Stuff 29 July 2026 Jul 29, 2026

  Beware Of Doug Edition Top Story So how are things going a year into the DRAM Apocalypse? (Tom's Hardware) I'm glad y...

• Daily News Stuff 28 July 2027 Jul 28, 2026

  Alabaster Emanations Edition Top Story The best time to buy an Nvidia graphics card is never. The second best time is...

• Daily News Stuff 28 July 2026 Jul 28, 2026

  Alabaster Emanations Edition Top Story The best time to buy an Nvidia graphics card is never. The second best time is...

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

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

• Maximum entry fee for sento public baths in Tokyo increases slightly for adults next month Jul 29, 2026

  The rise in the entry fee comes amid an increase in public bathhouse users in Tokyo and a decrease in the total numbe...

• Foreign tourists in Japan eat far more rice than previously thought, according to new data Jul 29, 2026

  The average overseas visitor now consumes more rice in a day than a Japanese local. On 27 July, Japan’s Ministry of A...

• Life-size Legendary Pokémon Mega Rayquaza digitally greeting travelers at Tokyo train station [Vid] Jul 29, 2026

  Mega Rayquaza comes to Shinjuku from the stratosphere. Seeing a Rayquaza is a pretty special occasion for Pokémon fan...

The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out

• Failure Modes Jul 29, 2026

  Graceful degradation is underrated

• Just being is worthwhile Jul 28, 2026

  Some moments are intensely vivid and pleasant. Other moments are intensely and vividly unpleasant, or, more commonly,...

• People and Clothes Jul 10, 2026

  Some people’s clothes have a way of riding up in unfortunate places, in a way that seems almost willful. It’s as if t...

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.

• Does Prayer Change Things? by R.C. Sproul Jul 29, 2026

  Why read the book? R.C. Sproul answers a common question: does prayer make any difference? He shows that prayer does ...

• Zero to One by Peter Thiel Jul 27, 2026

  Why read the book? Peter Thiel explains how to build companies that create new value instead of improving on old idea...

• 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 3 by Nick Needham Jul 20, 2026

  Why read the book? Nick Needham wrote 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 3: The Renaissance and Reformation. It is t...

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.

• Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge Jul 29, 2026

  Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in *The Matrix*, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of diffi...

• Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920) Jul 29, 2026

  Photographs from when Atlantic City beaches featured artists ornately sculpting sand.

• “The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892) Jul 28, 2026

  A Zoroastrian text about serpents translated by the President of the Bombay Anthropological Society.

Fatbobman's Blog

English Home | Fatbobman's Blog ｜肘子的 Swift 记事本 – Sharing content related to Swift, SwiftUI, Core Data, and Swift Data, as well as covering development tools, AI, and other topics. All articles are original creations; for reproduction, please contact the author.

• Liquid Glass: A Field Guide to UIKit Compatibility Pitfalls Jul 29, 2026

  Although Liquid Glass has been around for two years, the compatibility issues it introduced haven’t completely disapp...

• It's Not That the Models Are Slower—The Tasks Have Become Bigger - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #146 Jul 27, 2026

  Lately, even tasks that I consider relatively simple often take AI several minutes—or sometimes even tens of minutes—...

• When Inspiration Outruns the Results - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #145 Jul 20, 2026

  Over the past few months, I've been refining my own AI-assisted workflow. Real progress has been made, but for long-r...

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• Two 40,000-Year-Old Ivory Bird Figurines Discovered in Hohle Fels Cave, the Smallest Sculptures Found to Date at the Famous Site Jul 29, 2026

  Excavations carried out during 2025 in the Hohle Fels cave, located in the UNESCO World Heritage area of the Swabian ...

• Byzantine Ballista Bolts from the 11th Century Found at the Manzikert Site, Used in the Siege Prior to the 1071 Battle Jul 29, 2026

  The systematic excavations that have been underway since 2020 in the plain of Manzikert (in Turkish Malazgirt), in ea...

• Discovery Shows Lead Was Worked in the Iberian Peninsula During the Bronze Age 1,800 Years Before the Phoenicians Arrived Jul 29, 2026

  A discovery at the Minferri site, in the town of Juneda in Lleida, has completely upended the established chronology ...

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• Nicholas Brembre Jul 29, 2026

  Proving that "what goes around comes around"—although we should probably just allude to the medieval concept of the W...

• Mayor Northampton Jul 28, 2026

  Despite his past as a troublemaker being involved in public brawls, even being imprisoned in the Tower for a time bec...

• The Good Parliament Jul 27, 2026

  1376 was a time of unrest in England under King Edward III. The court was considered corrupt, the wealth gap was incr...

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• Good News Gamers! GOG is Officially Coming to Linux Jul 29, 2026

  They have hired someone to bring the GOG GALAXY client to the platform.

• Ubuntu Now Has a Rolling Release Model! But Not For The Distro Jul 29, 2026

  A new virtualization stack is being introduced that gets updated every six months.

• A GrapheneOS Privacy Feature Just Became the Basis for a Federal Indictment Jul 28, 2026

  Samuel Tunick faces up to five years in prison after the passcode he gave CBP agents wiped his phone.

LifeDev.net

Empowering creative people

• How Do Decision-Making Frameworks Work? 8 Methods That End Overthinking Jul 29, 2026

  Decision-making frameworks exist because the human brain, brilliant as it is, turns into a hamster wheel the moment a...

• 6 Slow Productivity Principles That Beat Hustle Culture in 2026 Jul 22, 2026

  Slow productivity principles are having their moment, and it is about time, because the hustle culture experiment has...

• Digital Minimalism 2.0: It is Time For Cutting Your Tool Stack Down to Five Apps Jul 11, 2026

  Digital minimalism used to mean deleting Instagram and turning your phone grayscale, but in 2026 the problem has quie...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• Fantastical adds an MCP server, better timezone management, and multiple duration options Jul 29, 2026

  Fantastical version 4.1.17 introduces several features designed to enhance scheduling and automation for macOS and iO...

• Linkwarden 2.16 brings modernized design, link format re-preservation and new search modal Jul 29, 2026

  Linkwarden 2.16 introduces several notable updates for web and mobile users of this open source, collaborative, and s...

• Instapaper revamps website, launches major iOS redesign, and AI text-to-speech on Android Jul 29, 2026

  Instapaper, the widely-used read-later service, has rolled out a comprehensive update, introducing a fully rebuilt we...

The Universe of Discourse

Mark Dominus's long-running blog exploring mathematics, programming, language, and history through long-form essays with technical depth.

• The road to epsilon-zero: Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game Jul 29, 2026

  Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals I...

• “Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later Jul 27, 2026

  (Previously) Flukes and Breakthroughs In the NBA 2015–16 season, Steph Curry set the all-time single-season record fo...

• The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals Jul 19, 2026

  Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Yesterday I talked about the game of Nim, whic...