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    <description>Discover interesting blogs from around the Internet</description>
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      <title>Daily News Stuff 12 October 2026</title>
      <link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_12_october_2026</link>
      <description>Prostetnic Vogon Jatz Edition Top Story Xbox sales have fallen 33% to the lowest level since the platform launched 75 years ago. (MSN) PlayStation sales are also down by 25%, their lowest level since 1813. And yet somehow the Xbox is selling in some places for as much as $1600 due to shortages. (Notebook Check) Nobody is buying it, but there are shortages? Tech News Analyst firm New Constructs estimates that Anthropic is worth around $150 billion. (CNBC) That&amp;#39;s a lot of money. Only problem is...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://ai.mee.nu">Ambient Irony</source>
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      <title>A Free Cloud AI</title>
      <link>https://hackaday.com/2026/10/12/a-free-cloud-ai/</link>
      <description>If you would like an AI “personal agent” but don’t want your data on some opaque cloud computer, there’s a new option that appears to be somewhat nicer: [rociiu] has …read more</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://hackaday.com">Hackaday</source>
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      <title>Python 3.15 is here with faster JIT compiler, explicit lazy imports, and UTF-8 by default</title>
      <link>https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/python-3-15-is-here-with-faster-jit-compiler-explicit-lazy-imports-and-utf-8-by-default/</link>
      <description>The Python Software Foundation has officially released Python 3.15, marking one of the most significant updates to the programming language in recent years. The new version introduces a suite of performance-focused enhancements alongside long-awaited language features. Perhaps the most impactful change is the introduction of explicit lazy imports, which promises substantially faster application startup times by deferring module loading until absolutely necessary. Additionally, the experimenta...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://alternativeto.net/news/all">News - AlternativeTo.net</source>
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      <title>Ten-sion Rising</title>
      <link>https://notalwaysright.com/ten-sion-rising/425106/</link>
      <description>Read Ten-sion Rising Customer: &amp;quot;Okay. What time do you guys close? Me: &amp;quot;Ten O&amp;#39;clock.&amp;quot; Customer: &amp;quot;Alright. What time do you guys close? Me: &amp;quot;Ten.&amp;quot; Customer: &amp;quot;Got it. So, what time do you guys close?&amp;quot; Read Ten-sion Rising</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://notalwaysright.com">Funny &amp; True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com</source>
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      <title>Open Thread</title>
      <link>https://reason.com/volokh/2026/10/12/open-thread-355/</link>
      <description>What’s on your mind?</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://reason.com/volokh">The Volokh Conspiracy</source>
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      <title>Roman-Era Oracle Pillar With 56 Answers, Consulted by Throwing Sheep Bones, Found in Turkey</title>
      <link>https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/10/roman-era-oracle-pillar-with-56-answers-consulted-by-throwing-sheep-bones-found-in-turkey/</link>
      <description>Here is how a consultation worked. Anyone with a question (whether to travel, close a purchase, go to court, or wait for a sick relative to recover) walked up to a statue of the god Hermes in the town square, threw a handful of sheep bones onto a table, added up the points and looked […]</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en">LBV Magazine English Edition</source>
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      <title>Midheaven vs 10th House Cusp: Why Your MC Can Be Elsewhere</title>
      <link>https://avenyora.com/blog/midheaven-vs-10th-house-cusp</link>
      <description>Your MC does not have to sit on the tenth-house boundary. Compare the point, the house cusp, and the house system before treating a chart difference as a mistake.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://avenyora.com/blog">Avenyora Journal</source>
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      <title>DECing Out the Homelab with an AlphaServer 2100</title>
      <link>https://hackaday.com/2026/10/11/decing-out-the-homelab-with-an-alphaserver-2100/</link>
      <description>Retrocomputer enthusiasts have a bad rap as nerds who just want to play old video games. There’s some truth in this, but the reality is that we’re nerds who want …read more</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://hackaday.com">Hackaday</source>
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      <title>Japan’s newest anime figure crane game prize may also be the world’s weirdest hanger [Photos]</title>
      <link>https://soranews24.com/2026/10/12/japans-newest-anime-figure-crane-game-prize-may-also-be-the-worlds-weirdest-hanger-photos/</link>
      <description>There are two reasons this figure is posed that way. Prizes for UFO catchers/crane games in Japan tend to fall into one of two categories. In one you have stuff that you don’t really need, but which is awesome to have, like a giant Dragon Quest Shadow Slime plushie. Then you have the other group, […]</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://soranews24.com">SoraNews24 -Japan News-</source>
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      <title>46</title>
      <link>https://thejeshgn.com/2026/10/12/46/</link>
      <description>It feels like a major life turn after 35, even though I thought 35 was like half-life. I haven’t crossed the second half-life yet. I think there are a couple more years until the second half-life, but it still feels like a big turn after 35. I didn’t think much about 45, but...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://thejeshgn.com">Thejesh GN</source>
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      <title>Pizza Hut in Japan now serves spicy glass noodle pizza</title>
      <link>https://soranews24.com/2026/10/12/pizza-hut-in-japan-now-serves-spicy-glass-noodle-pizza/</link>
      <description>No fewer than five nations are involved in the Malatang Pizza. Pizza Hut Japan has always been an example of culinary cross-culturalism, but it’s become even more enthusiastically eclectic with some of its recent offerings, such as the chrysanthemum tsukimi and drinkable curry pizzas we saw earlier in the year. Now the chain has yet […]</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 03:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://soranews24.com">SoraNews24 -Japan News-</source>
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      <title>Taking A Nokia 3310 Game Jam To The N’th Degree</title>
      <link>https://hackaday.com/2026/10/11/taking-a-nokia-3310-game-jam-to-the-nth-degree/</link>
      <description>Game jams are a fun competition in which the aim is to write a game under a particular theme while under a time constraint, usually a weekend.  [Hoani] entered one …read more</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://hackaday.com">Hackaday</source>
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      <title>Do Komeda’s beefy rice balls continue the chain’s hallowed tradition of “reverse fraud”?</title>
      <link>https://soranews24.com/2026/10/12/do-komedas-beefy-rice-balls-continue-the-chains-hallowed-tradition-of-reverse-fraud/</link>
      <description>Goodness gracious, great balls of rice and beef! Komeda Coffee is a nationwide chain of coffee shops that’s earned a reputation as practitioners of “reverse fraud” (gyakusagi).  More often than not, when looking at a restaurant’s menu, you’ll see images of towering burgers and overflowing fries, only to be greeted with a pale imitation of […]</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://soranews24.com">SoraNews24 -Japan News-</source>
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      <title>A thank-you for your junior ice hockey coach at the end of the season: a team photo as a jigsaw, with your note at the end</title>
      <link>https://puzzlify.mataroa.blog/blog/a-thank-you-for-your-junior-ice-hockey-coach-at-the-end-of-the-season-a-team-photo-as-a-jigsaw-with-your-note-at-the-end/</link>
      <description>Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We&amp;#39;ve tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We&amp;#39;re not affiliated with any ice hockey club, league, rink or governing body, and nothing here is safeguarding, legal or coaching advice. Junior ice hockey runs on volunteers. Somebody books the ice, lugs the kit bags, teaches a first-year skater how to stop without taking out half the line, stays late after practice to talk through ...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://puzzlify.mataroa.blog">Puzzlify notes</source>
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      <title>A thank-you for your junior netball coach at the end of the season: a team photo as a jigsaw, with your note at the end</title>
      <link>https://puzzlify.mataroa.blog/blog/a-thank-you-for-your-junior-netball-coach-at-the-end-of-the-season-a-team-photo-as-a-jigsaw-with-your-note-at-the-end/</link>
      <description>Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We&amp;#39;ve tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We&amp;#39;re not affiliated with any netball club, league, association or governing body, and nothing here is safeguarding, legal or coaching advice. Junior netball runs on volunteers. Somebody books the court, sets out the bibs, teaches a first-year player where centre pass goes, stays late after training to talk through a missed intercept,...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://puzzlify.mataroa.blog">Puzzlify notes</source>
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      <title>A thank-you for the school-run parent who drove your kids all term: a photo as a jigsaw, with your note at the end</title>
      <link>https://puzzlify.mataroa.blog/blog/a-thank-you-for-the-school-run-parent-who-drove-your-kids-all-term-a-photo-as-a-jigsaw-with-your-note-at-the-end/</link>
      <description>Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We&amp;#39;ve tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We&amp;#39;re not affiliated with any school, council, parents&amp;#39; association or transport scheme, and nothing here is legal, insurance or child-safety advice. Most families who get through a term in one piece have someone to thank for it. The neighbour who said &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m going anyway, I&amp;#39;ll take yours&amp;quot; on the first wet Monday and then just kept doin...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://puzzlify.mataroa.blog">Puzzlify notes</source>
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      <title>A thank-you for the allotment neighbour who watered your plot all summer: a harvest photo as a jigsaw, with your note at the end</title>
      <link>https://puzzlify.mataroa.blog/blog/a-thank-you-for-the-allotment-neighbour-who-watered-your-plot-all-summer-a-harvest-photo-as-a-jigsaw-with-your-note-at-the-end/</link>
      <description>Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We&amp;#39;ve tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We&amp;#39;re not affiliated with any allotment society, council, community garden or gardening organisation, and nothing here is horticultural, legal or tenancy advice. Every allotment site has one. The plot neighbour who watered your beans during the heatwave while you were away. The committee member who sorted the water troughs, chased the...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://puzzlify.mataroa.blog">Puzzlify notes</source>
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      <title>A thank-you for the volunteers at your weekly community run: a finish-line photo as a jigsaw, with your note at the end</title>
      <link>https://puzzlify.mataroa.blog/blog/a-thank-you-for-the-volunteers-at-your-weekly-community-run-a-finish-line-photo-as-a-jigsaw-with-your-note-at-the-end/</link>
      <description>Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We&amp;#39;ve tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We&amp;#39;re not affiliated with parkrun or any running club, event organiser, athletics federation or governing body, and nothing here is health, safety or legal advice. Every Saturday morning, in parks all over the world, a small crowd of people stand in the cold so everyone else can run. The run director with the clipboard and the briefin...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://puzzlify.mataroa.blog">Puzzlify notes</source>
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      <title>Madness Reaching Topping Tipping Point</title>
      <link>https://notalwaysright.com/madness-reaching-topping-tipping-point/425114/</link>
      <description>Read Madness Reaching Topping Tipping Point We currently have a carryout deal for a large one-topping pizza for $6 at the pizza place where I work. A middle-aged couple enters the store and walks up to the counter. Note that these people are completely sober, there is no language barrier, and there is zero indication of hearing difficulties. Read Madness Reaching Topping Tipping Point</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://notalwaysright.com">Funny &amp; True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com</source>
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      <title>Hackaday Links: October 11, 2026</title>
      <link>https://hackaday.com/2026/10/11/hackaday-links-october-11-2026/</link>
      <description>It probably goes without saying that if you send four humans to observe the Moon up close, they’ll see things that those of us stuck here on Earth have never …read more</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://hackaday.com">Hackaday</source>
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      <title>Listening to music as an active process</title>
      <link>https://www.autodidacts.io/listening-to-music-as-an-active-process/</link>
      <description>Although I’m a semi-professional musician, most days, I listen to far less music than my friends. I generally work in silence, cook in silence, run in silence. When I do listen to music, usually in the evening, I give it my full attention. Everybody is different, and</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.autodidacts.io/listening-to-music-as-an-active-process/</guid>
      <source url="https://www.autodidacts.io">The Autodidacts</source>
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      <title>Into the Breach</title>
      <link>https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/into-the-breach/</link>
      <description>As I have mentioned here a few times, I don’t play a lot of games these days. The last game I completed was Skyrim. I didn’t write a post about that, but at least I mentioned here I was playing it. Actually, can you really complete Skyrim? So, let me clarify: I completed the main quest and some side quests, and after a bit over 63 hours playing the game, I’m ready to move on. Since then I’ve tried Divinity: Original Sin, me alone and in co-op with one of my sons, but it didn’t stick. The game...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/into-the-breach/</guid>
      <source url="https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog">Personal Log at usebox.net</source>
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      <title>Fusionism in the Twenty-First Century</title>
      <link>https://reason.com/volokh/2026/10/11/fusionism-in-the-twenty-first-century/</link>
      <description>A Civitas Symposium on Stephanie Slade&amp;#39;s new book.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://reason.com/volokh/2026/10/11/fusionism-in-the-twenty-first-century/</guid>
      <source url="https://reason.com/volokh">The Volokh Conspiracy</source>
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      <title>Sixth Circuit Affirms Universal Injunction Against Tennessee "Abortion Trafficking" Law that Does Not Reach Plaintiffs' Conduct</title>
      <link>https://reason.com/volokh/2026/10/11/sixth-circuit-affirms-universal-injunction-against-tennessee-abortion-trafficking-law-that-does-not-reach-plaintiffs-conduct/</link>
      <description>This is a case in which Judge Sutton may agree that the decision is not merely wrong, but also en-banc-worthy.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://reason.com/volokh">The Volokh Conspiracy</source>
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      <title>Littelfuse Announces Retirement of the EZ80</title>
      <link>https://hackaday.com/2026/10/11/littelfuse-announces-retirement-of-the-ez80/</link>
      <description>Although the demise of the Zilog Z80 processor has long been predicted, it would seem that this moment has finally arrived. The owner of the Zilog name – Littelfuse – …read more</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://hackaday.com/2026/10/11/littelfuse-announces-retirement-of-the-ez80/</guid>
      <source url="https://hackaday.com">Hackaday</source>
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      <title>Forever 21 Questions</title>
      <link>https://notalwaysright.com/forever-21-questions/425804/</link>
      <description>Read Forever 21 Questions Me: &amp;quot;No, I&amp;#39;m sorry. You&amp;#39;re in the wrong store; this shirt is from Forever 21.&amp;quot; Customer: &amp;quot;Aren&amp;#39;t you sister companies?&amp;quot; Me: &amp;quot;No. We have a Forever 21 in the mall if you want to—&amp;quot; Customer: &amp;quot;—I can&amp;#39;t walk all the way there; you can&amp;#39;t just take it and put it in the store?&amp;quot; Read Forever 21 Questions</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://notalwaysright.com">Funny &amp; True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com</source>
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      <title>Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-11-26</title>
      <link>https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-10-11-26/</link>
      <description>After a nine-day work/NLJ/newsletter-induced lull in the Pook-Emu Bee, I return with my sometimes-regularly-scheduled daily links. Speech 1 | Foul Call: New York Times Calls for Canceling Sophie Cunningham in The Athletic (Jonathan Turley. Oct. 11, 2026.) I largely agree with Mr. Turley. But more material to Ms. Cunningham’s immediate future career prospects, I suspect […]</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://social.emucafe.org">The Emu Café Social</source>
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      <title>Literal Blood Money</title>
      <link>https://notalwaysright.com/literal-blood-money/425999/</link>
      <description>Read Literal Blood Money Me: &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m sorry, but I can&amp;#39;t accept that coin.&amp;quot; Customer: &amp;quot;Why not?&amp;quot; Me: &amp;quot;Because it&amp;#39;s covered in blood.&amp;quot; Customer: &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s still money!&amp;quot; Read Literal Blood Money</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://notalwaysright.com">Funny &amp; True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com</source>
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      <title>Book Lovers</title>
      <link>https://notalwaysright.com/book-lovers/425118/</link>
      <description>Read Book Lovers Patron: &amp;quot;Dear Madam, you know that I do not like to complain…&amp;quot; I confirmed that he was indeed a most tolerant soul and forgiving of our shortcomings. He nodded: Patron: &amp;quot;Thank you. I do not like to complain, but this time I feel I must. There is a couple making love on the mezzanine.&amp;quot; Read Book Lovers</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Cut a mammoth tusk across and a pattern appears that nobody drew. Rings like those of a tree trunk mark how the ivory grew, and are known as Owen’s lines. Crossing them runs a web of curved lines that looks like the mesh of a net, the Schreger lines. About 18,000 years ago, in a […]</description>
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      <title>Thorium Clocks Start Ticking with Lasers</title>
      <link>https://hackaday.com/2026/10/11/thorium-clocks-start-ticking-with-lasers/</link>
      <description>Atomic clocks are super accurate. But, unsurprisingly, some atomic clocks are better than others, depending on your definition of better. Researchers at Vienna University claim to have a superior thorium-based …read more</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Read No Cents Of Irony I work in one of those dollar stores where everything is… you guessed it… a dollar. Customer: *Holds out a $50 bill.* &amp;quot;Can I get fifty ones with this?&amp;quot; Me: &amp;quot;Uh, I don&amp;#39;t have that kind of change in my drawer.&amp;quot; Customer: &amp;quot;This is a dollar store!&amp;quot; Read No Cents Of Irony</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Box That Goes Ping Edition Top Story AI models and agents are security risks and should be banned from your corporate network, or at a minimum, air gapped and restricted to a lead lined Faraday cage biocontainment unit to preclude Van Eck phreaking and accidental bowls of bat soup. (Twitter) Says... Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Tech News Why did already massively inflated prices on the RTX 5090 suddenly spike recent? If you guessed that NVidia stopped making them, you&amp;#39;re probably correct. (To...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Read Ginger Snapped A customer wearing leopard-print skintight leggings and a shirt that said &amp;quot;daddy&amp;quot; on it, rather than approaching me, stood in place from another department and screamed: Customer: &amp;quot;Excuuuuuuse me. I need help! Hello!? Someone help me!&amp;quot; Read Ginger Snapped</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A Cave That Gave Us Two Ice Age Venus Figurines May Have Hidden Chambers Next Door</title>
      <link>https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/10/a-cave-that-gave-us-two-ice-age-venus-figurines-may-have-hidden-chambers-next-door/</link>
      <description>Near Parabita, a town in the province of Lecce, in the heel of Italy’s boot (the region of Apulia, also spelled Puglia), a limestone cave holds a piece of Ice Age history. Two small bone figurines found there in 1966 belong to the group known as the Palaeolithic Venus figurines. Now a new survey suggests […]</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Those Little Moments That Make Parenting Worth It</title>
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      <description>Read Those Little Moments That Make Parenting Worth It I am having a discussion with my four-year-old kid. Please note that we are not Christians. Four-Year-Old: &amp;quot;Mom? What is paradise?&amp;quot; Me: &amp;quot;Paradise? Oh. That&amp;#39;s the world&amp;#39;s best place, the best place you can imagine.&amp;quot; Read Those Little Moments That Make Parenting Worth It</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Inside a Mystery 1980s Filter IC Featuring Switched Capacitors</title>
      <link>https://hackaday.com/2026/10/11/inside-a-mystery-1980s-filter-ic-featuring-switched-capacitors/</link>
      <description>Recently [Ken Shirriff] got handed a mystery IC by [CuriousMarc] who had found said IC in a box of various old chips. Labelled only with a date code of the …read more</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Read Park It Forward, Part 2 Me: &amp;quot;Hey, I have about ninety minutes left on this ticket; does anyone want it?&amp;quot; Older Man: *First in line.* &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m not falling for it! This is a scam!&amp;quot; Me: &amp;quot;How would it be a scam?&amp;quot; Read Park It Forward, Part 2</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Just Let It Bee</title>
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      <description>Read Just Let It Bee A customer handed me a lip balm. Customer: &amp;quot;Does this have any bees?&amp;quot; Me: &amp;quot;Beeswax? No, it—&amp;quot; Customer: &amp;quot;Not beeswax. Bees.&amp;quot; Read Just Let It Bee</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Read My ex-wife confinced me that I had a fourth kid. The kid is more into sniffing stuff and pooping outdoors than the previous ones we had, but I guess this can happen. She’s a canis lupus familiaris jackrusselitis, so both highly energetic and codependent. We get along just fine, although she sometimes finds me a […] Read</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Campaign Against ‘New Qing History’ Reinforces Ethnic Unity</title>
      <link>https://jamestown.substack.com/p/campaign-against-new-qing-history</link>
      <description>John Dotson</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Read I’m sure every country has a version where if you see a certain make of car in a certain colour, you get to slap your sibling. In Brazil it is blue beetles (fusca azul) and my husband and I still play. One day we are travelling around town and I sigh Me: damn, that blue […] Read</description>
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      <description>The woman whose name keeps showing up in the last few posts was the wife of three powerful men in 6th-century Iran, one of whom was her brother.Born to one of the Seven Great Houses of Iran, Gordiya&amp;#39;s father was a military officer under Emperor Khosrow I (531 - 579). She had three brothers, one of whom was Bahram Chobin, who later started a civil war against Khosrow&amp;#39;s son (Hormizd IV) and then grandson, Khosrow II. She was married to Bahram; it is not known for certain, but they may have been...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Read In about 2010, my partner and I were travelling in Thailand. We wanted to take a train to the coast which was leaving that evening but the ticket officer was refusing to sell it to us. Armed with a dictionary and no Thai, we stood our ground resolutely and, finally, impatient and angry, he somewhat […] Read</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Today in Supreme Court History: October 11, 1972</title>
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      <description>10/11/1972: Roe v. Wade argued. The post Today in Supreme Court History: October 11, 1972 appeared first on Reason Magazine.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <source url="https://reason.com/volokh">The Volokh Conspiracy</source>
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      <title>Improving an Autorouter with a Hexagonal Grid</title>
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      <description>Despite the recent leaps forward in other forms of computer-driven design, the reliability of PCB autorouters remains questionable; on the positive side, though, the lack of massive training data makes …read more</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Read Customer: “You don’t have any more of this jam that my friend got me for Christmas. Since I can’t exchange it, can I get it refunded instead?” Me: “Do you have the receipt?” Customer: “Are you deaf or stupid? It was a GIFT. For CHRISTMAS. Why would I have a receipt? You clearly aren’t a […] Read</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Satire ist tot</title>
      <link>https://blog.strangerthanusual.de/blogposts/satire_ist_tot</link>
      <description>April 2026: Satire-Artikel in The Onion, dass das US-DOJ Hinrichtungen live-streamen will. Oktober 2026: Pete Hegseth kündigt an, eine Hinrichtung zu live-streamen.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>AI Companion Keeps Bringing Up Old Memories? Set a Topic Boundary</title>
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      <description>An accurate memory can still be an unwanted topic. Choose what you want to discuss now, state a clear boundary, and check what your app&amp;#39;s memory controls actually do.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Northern Spain’s Iron Age Hillforts Emptied Out Around 400 BC and No One Knows Why — Rebuilding Took at Least Two Centuries</title>
      <link>https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/10/northern-spains-iron-age-hillforts-emptied-out-around-400-bc-and-no-one-knows-why-rebuilding-took-at-least-two-centuries/</link>
      <description>Around 400 BC, Europe was changing, though not in a single direction. Athens had just lost the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), and Roman tradition says the Gauls would sack Rome around 390 BC. Farther north, Iron Age communities reacted in almost opposite ways. In the south of the Netherlands and the southeast of Gaul, people […]</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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