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Post #231683 4.03K Sep 6, 2026, 09:38 UTC

You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules
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Mother Jones You Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.

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Post #231682 2.82K Sep 6, 2026, 09:07 UTC

Play GTA III in the Browser
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Quenq The Quenq Apps - Digital Artifacts & Web Preservation Welcome to The Quenq Apps. A curated archive of high-fidelity simulators, internet culture artifacts, and historical software preserved for the modern web.

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Post #231681 2.54K Sep 6, 2026, 08:35 UTC

Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
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Isar Aerospace History for European spaceflight: Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight - Isar Aerospace By enabling access to space, we contribute to humanity’s progress and our planet’s sustainable technological and economic development. Select your journey to orbit and launch with us.

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Post #231680 2.5K Sep 6, 2026, 07:54 UTC

AI, Tools and Transformation
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Benedict Evans AI, tools and transformation — Benedict Evans It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people think and where software actually…

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Post #231679 2.55K Sep 6, 2026, 07:26 UTC

Site Is Closed on Sundays
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Robweychert Rob Weychert | Art & Design I make art and design, obsess over film and music, hoard trivial archival data, and share it all on this here website. Enjoy your stay.

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Post #231678 2.56K Sep 6, 2026, 06:57 UTC

AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded
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𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗 AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded My previous AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop is still up and running – it will now be my kids computer … so I needed a new one … but not a bigger one :) I spent way too much time finding…

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Post #231677 2.51K Sep 6, 2026, 05:03 UTC

Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke
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Post #231676 2.65K Sep 6, 2026, 04:48 UTC

Trump signs order to remove endangered species protection for grey wolves
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Bbc Trump signs order to remove endangered species protection for grey wolves The US president says the move will help ranchers, but conservationists say it could derail efforts to recover populations.

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Post #231675 2.51K Sep 6, 2026, 02:29 UTC

GPT-6 Astra on robot arms
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Robocurve GPT-6 Astra on robotic manipulation OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1 controlling a pair of YAM arms under the same agent policy: 19/20 vs 8/20 on block-into-bowl in interleaved blinded pairs, 2/20 vs 2/20 on the puzzle, with 80% fewer output tokens.

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Post #231674 2.47K Sep 6, 2026, 02:10 UTC

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
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Post #231673 2.51K Sep 6, 2026, 01:04 UTC

America's two largest school districts impose AI moratoriums
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Tech Policy Press America’s Two Largest School Districts Impose AI Moratoriums The New York City Department of Education and the Los Angeles Unified School District announced new policies this week, reports Chris Mills Rodrigo.

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Post #231672 2.33K Sep 6, 2026, 00:23 UTC

The revolt of the reader
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The Observation Deck The revolt of the reader Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life. And because reading is important to me, writing is too: writing not only allows…

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Post #231671 2.57K Sep 6, 2026, 00:16 UTC

Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
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Cloud in a Bottle Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone | Cloud in a Bottle Your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job.

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Post #231670 2.31K Sep 6, 2026, 00:08 UTC

How AI is breaking the British state
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The Economist How AI is breaking the British state Equipped with models and agents, citizens could bring government to a halt

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Post #231669 2.39K Sep 5, 2026, 23:56 UTC

South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones
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The Wall Street Journal Diamond Mines Are Closing and South Africans Have Few Alternatives Weak sales and lab-grown stones are threatening the livelihoods of thousands of the country’s workers in De Beers’ mines.

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Post #231668 2.34K Sep 5, 2026, 23:21 UTC

OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents
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GitHub GitHub - okf-memory/okf-agent-memory: Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents. Implements Google OKF v0.2 with sub-300µs… Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents. Implements Google OKF v0.2 with sub-300µs in-memory BM25 search, embedded MCP server, and progressive disclosure. Slashes token bloat by 80% with ...

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Post #231667 2.37K Sep 5, 2026, 22:47 UTC

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs
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robin’s page Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs A list of things that are not reliably true about the local network.

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Post #231666 2.45K Sep 5, 2026, 22:13 UTC

Lazygit
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lazygit lazygit - Simple Terminal UI for Git Commands lazygit is a simple terminal UI for git commands that makes complex git operations easy. Stage lines, interactive rebase, cherry-pick and more — all from your terminal. Free for Windows, macOS & Linux.

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Post #231665 2.45K Sep 5, 2026, 21:10 UTC

Space industry lacks workers needed to rebuild satellites lost in war: report
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Defense News Space industry lacks workers needed to rebuild satellites lost in war, report says The U.S. does not have enough engineers, technicians and assemblers to rebuild military space assets destroyed in a war with China or Russia, per RAND.

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Post #231664 2.46K Sep 5, 2026, 21:00 UTC

LLMs as a Cognitive Virus
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arXiv.org Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood...

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