# long (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 874 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover long. Page: Feed: --- ## [Who is Who and Who is Real – Getting to Identity](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2184) _2026-08-22 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ It is getting to the point where “people” asking to connect or engage bring that uncertainty moment. A photo that looks older than their age, or looks straight out of the 2000 to 2010s stock photo collections, has odd generic postings (and very few of them). The image has AI telltale signs of touch-up or whole cloth fabrication. Is this a real account? Is this a real person? Is this a real… ## [2026 08 22 I Miss the Different Regional Cultures of America](https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-08-22-i-miss-the-different-regional-cultures-of-america/) _2026-08-22 · blog-contact@stevengharms.com (Steven G. Harms) · stevengharms.com_ As a toddler, growing up between Louisiana and Houston, I remember listening to the radio with my parents, and the announcers would tell me one critical fact about each band: where they were from. I remember learning, later, on MTV, that Journey was from San Francisco. And in the street garages of the Sunset, the docks and warehouses of South of Market and Mission Creek, in whatever it was that… ## [Who Will Control the Senate?](https://www.culturalperspective.com/p/who-will-control-the-senate) _2026-08-22 · Way Yuhl · Cultural Perspective_ Prediction Markets vs. Cultural Perspectives ## [Zhuque-3 Booster Damaged After First Successful Landing](https://www.china-in-space.com/p/zhuque-3-booster-damaged-after-first) _2026-08-22 · Jack C. · China in Space_ The first-stage was planned to fly again, but now only select parts of it might. ## [Võ sỹ 2 lần vô địch thế giới bị bắn chết bên ngoài nhà riêng](https://soha.vn/vo-sy-2-lan-vo-dich-the-gioi-bi-ban-chet-ben-ngoai-nha-rieng-198260822180613025.htm) _2026-08-22 · Võ thuật | Soha_ Zolani Tete, cựu vô địch quyền Anh thế giới người Nam Phi, vừa bị bắn chết trong một vụ phục kích ngay bên ngoài nhà riêng ở Mdantsane, tỉnh Eastern Cape. Vụ nổ súng khiến một phụ nữ 27 tuổi đi cùng anh bị thương. ## [The “Virtual Hypoxia” Hypothesis in ME/CFS](https://braininflcollab.substack.com/p/the-virtual-hypoxia-hypothesis-in) _2026-08-22 · Brain Inflammation Collab · Brain Inflammation Collab_ A new MRI study finds a critical brain region that behaves as if oxygen-starved - could this provide a mechanism for a recent hyperbaric oxygen therapy trial? ## [Packing Material](https://perpetual-rewiring.mataroa.blog/blog/packing-material/) _2026-08-22 · Perpetual Rewiring_ Packing material, without fail, I discard immediately. This mainly is from packages I receive, boxes and foam and shredded paper and bubble wrap. I've written about this before . However, the reason I write about it again is the things which I would get rid of but hesitate because they could be good for packing. Old soft clothes and towels which I don't use anymore but would be decent box filler.… ## [Long Thread Podcast: Karen Elting Brock, PieceWork](https://pieceworkmagazine.com/long-thread-podcast-karen-elting-brock-piecework/) _2026-08-22 · Anne Merrow · PieceWork_ Season 15, Episode 5: A love of words, stories, and cloth led Karen Elting Brock around the world and back to PieceWork. ## [Working on Folksonomy and Related Videos](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2183) _2026-08-21 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ I keep a master deck of prior presentation slides, which isn’t complete, yet it contains a lot of slides and history. I go through and bring many of the slides into slide styles I now use. Keynote slides are one of the tools I think in. Evergreen Folksonomy Presentation Video In the last year or so and increasingly get requests to discuss folksonomy and where it fits with LLMs and generative AI… ## [Fragile Automation Systems](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2182) _2026-08-21 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ I have a set of early morning aggregation automations I run and in the last few months I’ve run into oddities with regular automated syndication of data streams. I have quite a few things that push to a Slack channel, but it something keeps changing with Slack and it isn’t capturing anything. Much of it seems to be on the Slack end of things where inbound connections route to a Slack bot and not… ## [Trade Bitcoin & Ethereum (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pK1xn5JsT11L) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell and margin trade BTC & ETH with fiat currencies ## [Fragile Automation Systems](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2182) _2026-08-21 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ I have a set of early morning aggregation automations I run and in the last few months I’ve run into oddities with regular automated syndication of data streams. I have quite a few things that push to a Slack channel, but it something keeps changing with Slack and it isn’t capturing anything. Much of it seems to be on the Slack end of things where inbound connections route to a Slack bot and not… ## [A week is a long time: 22 August 2026](https://aniobrien.substack.com/p/a-week-is-a-long-time-22-august-2026) _2026-08-21 · Ani O’Brien · Thought Crimes_ A New Zealand Politics weekly wrap-up ## [This Is Not The Computer For You: An Appreciation of Struggle](https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-08-21-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you-an-appreciation-of-struggle/) _2026-08-21 · blog-contact@stevengharms.com (Steven G. Harms) · stevengharms.com_ Sam Henri Gold recently published a post about Apple's new MacBook Neo: a lower-power, but decidedly not less-than, version of the Apple hardware I've been loving for almost two decades now. It comes in at $599 , against the $3,000 to $7,000 you'd pay further up the line. In a surprisingly touching, insightful piece, Gold makes the case: yes, the Neo's underpowered, but for the person this machine… ## [Why The U.S. Rules And Russia And China Do Not. China's System. Friday's Edition.](https://www.culturalperspective.com/p/why-the-us-rules-and-russia-and-china-f3a) _2026-08-21 · Way Yuhl · Cultural Perspective_ The Long Chain: Three Powers, Three Systems. Series 38 #3 ## [Friday Hope: Nattokinase and the Fibrin Connection](https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/friday-hope-nattokinase-and-the-fibrin) _2026-08-21 · Walter M Chesnut · WMC Research_ There is a fascinating—and potentially very important—connection between fibrin, Spike protein, endothelial dysfunction and COVID-19. ## [Weiguang-1 Carbon Fiber Propellant Tank Undergoes Cryogenic Testing](https://www.china-in-space.com/p/weiguang-1-carbon-fiber-propellant) _2026-08-21 · Jack C. · China in Space_ China’s first launch vehicle made of the material is passing development milestones while its production facilities are being built. ## [Vượt vạn dặm sang Trung Quốc học võ Thiếu Lâm hơn 30 năm vì mê Lý Tiểu Long](https://soha.vn/vuot-van-dam-sang-trung-quoc-hoc-vo-thieu-lam-hon-30-nam-vi-me-ly-tieu-long-1982608210758396.htm) _2026-08-21 · Võ thuật | Soha_ Người đàn ông tới từ Hy Lạp, Kostas Mathiopoulos đã lặn lội sang Trung Quốc học võ thuật sau khi xem các bộ phim của Lý Tiểu Long và Lý Liên Kiệt. ## [Weird Tales, August 1925: R E Howard and N Hawthorne](http://mporcius.blogspot.com/2026/08/weird-tales-august-1925-r-e-howard-and.html) _2026-08-21 · MPorcius · MPorcius Fiction Log_ Let's take a look at the August 1925 issue of Weird Tales , one of the most important of the pulps, one of the greatest of the speculative fiction magazines, the place where so many people first encountered H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Edmond Hamilton, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, and the list goes on. Check it out with me by clicking this link , the click that… ## [Bad Bots Hall Of Shame 🤖](/naughty-bots) _2026-08-21 · Mountain Of Code_ I wanted to set up a honey pot for bots which intentionally crawl links which are disallowed in the robots.txt file. I have no idea if there are any, I bet there are. The implementation is simple, add Disallow: /bad-bots to the /robots.txt file and log the user agents which visit. Additionally, I have included a visually hidden link to the honey pot with rel ="nofollow" Now we wait... Hall Of… ## [Loads](https://perpetual-rewiring.mataroa.blog/blog/loads/) _2026-08-21 · Perpetual Rewiring_ Once you're moving a certain amount of stuff, the number of containers they're in doesn't matter. It's tempting to try to consolidate into as few containers as possible, but the limiting factor is actually how many loads you have to carry. Less loads and therefore less trips is better, but it's rare you can redistribute or cut an entire load's worth of items. Load reduction mostly comes from… ## [AI QA That Opens Fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/SazE0FKYJ0fh) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Runs browser QA, files issues with repro evidence, and opens fix PRs. ## [An AI Policy](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2181) _2026-08-20 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ Others have added AI statements on their sites to state or explain the use or non-use of AI. With AI bots popping up in group chats and Zoom, it may be time to make a declaration here. All writing and images that you read and see here are all made and edited by the human Thomas Vander Wal. With that said, I have worked with and used artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML), along with… ## [An AI Policy](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2181) _2026-08-20 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ Others have added AI statements on their sites to state or explain the use or non-use of AI. With AI bots popping up in group chats and Zoom, it may be time to make a declaration here. All writing and images that you read and see here are all made and edited by the human Thomas Vander Wal. With that said, I have worked with and used artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML), along with… ## [Grug Speak, Grug Outside, Grug Happy](https://dergigi.com/2026/08/20/grug-speak-grug-outside-grug-happy/) _2026-08-20 · dergigi.com_ Before my thinkboi days I used to be a developer. Writing code instead of words, all day every day. Like most developers, I eventually joined a team, and various startups, and so on and so forth. I slowly but surely turned myself into a “software engineer,” or at least that used to be the lingo at the time. My first love was computers. My second love was the internet. I was a bit of a laggard when… ## [Your Beta Blocker Might Be Making Things Worse... Here Is Why.](https://dysautonomiadecoded.substack.com/p/your-beta-blocker-might-be-making) _2026-08-20 · Dysautonomia Decoded · Dysautonomia Decoded_ Beta blockers are the most prescribed PoTS treatment. The evidence on when they help and when they don't is more nuanced than most clinicians communicate. ## [Why Are Autoimmune Diseases on the Rise?](https://braininflcollab.substack.com/p/why-are-autoimmune-diseases-on-the) _2026-08-20 · Brain Inflammation Collab · Brain Inflammation Collab_ How environment, lifestyle, and chronic inflammation may be reshaping autoimmune risk. ## [Chinese Firms Aim to Expand Orbital Compute Capabilities, Services](https://www.china-in-space.com/p/chinese-firms-aim-to-expand-orbital) _2026-08-20 · Jack C. · China in Space_ More capable thermal management systems will allow for a greater amount of compute, while other enterprises try to keep pace with the sector. ## [Snow Day](https://carrotandtoast.substack.com/p/snow-day) _2026-08-20 · Carrot and Toast Subsnack · Carrot and Toast Subsnack_ Webcomic #73 (2025) ## [Estimates](https://perpetual-rewiring.mataroa.blog/blog/estimates/) _2026-08-20 · Perpetual Rewiring_ When I think of how long something takes to do, I naturally reach for the tight median, i.e. the 50th percentile of time spent specifically on that task. I expect to hit this number every time. When other people ask me when something will be done by, they're usually asking for a reasonable maximum with regards to them, i.e the 95th percentile of total time. A number which should include all… ## [Join a National Parks Quilt-A-Long and Discover American History](https://pieceworkmagazine.com/join-a-national-quilt-a-long-and-discover-american-history/) _2026-08-20 · Karen Elting Brock · PieceWork_ Through weekly block releases, the Fabric of Appalachia celebration blends craft, culture, and the region’s confluence of traditions. ## [Technopolice - 1](https://www.garyhbutton.com/blogs/136) _2026-08-19 · Gary Button_ Joe A. woke up in his apartment in the Tenderloin in San Francisco. It was night outside, the streets were still, the red LED lights illuminated walkways in either direction, and a car drove past once in a while. His apartment was pitch black inside save for a little alarm clock that read ‘5:42’ in three red 7-segment pattern LEDs by his bedside. The alarm clock spoke, “Time to wake up.” Joe… ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xKYGtaLCZIO4) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [Dept of Houston](http://mischeathen.com/?p=22246) _2026-08-19 · chet · Miscellaneous Heathen_ This guy’s work is really, really nice, and is the first thing I’ve seen that tugs at my heart a little about my adopted hometown. I couldn’t go back — the heat, the Greg Abbott, the worthless mayor, the traffic, … Continue reading → ## [A Painting Exchange with Words about Hobbema's Wooded Landscape](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2180) _2026-08-19 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ This is a painting swap and collaboration that James proposed the other day where he gives me a painting to write about and I give him one. He had done this last year and wanted to do it again. Last year’s, Painting impressions with Zachary - with words, wonder . I Gave James the Tower of Babylon I gave James Pieter Bruegel‘s The Tower of Babel - Wikipedia . I have tried to see the actual work… ## [Given A Link To This Post, Can You Trust It?](https://wolfgirl.dev/blog/2026-08-19-given-a-link-to-this-post-can-you-trust-it-/) _2026-08-19 · PolyWolf · PolyWolf's Blog_ A simple threat model that provides insight into how complex the internet is ## [How Repeated Strep Infections May Drive Neuroinflammation in PANDAS](https://braininflcollab.substack.com/p/how-repeated-strep-infections-may) _2026-08-19 · Brain Inflammation Collab · Brain Inflammation Collab_ New research identifies an immune signaling pathway that may help explain how repeated Group A Strep infections disrupt the blood-brain barrier and contribute to post-streptococcal neuroinflammation. ## [mill ii](https://www.areyouelectronic.com/posts/2026/mill-2/) _2026-08-19 · justin@areyouelectronic.com (Justin Garofoli) · are you electronic_ The sky this time is gold and blue and a bit of red there too. Sunsets have the most subtle colors that shift and change slowly and quickly. Yeah, it's cliche to photograph them because it's cheating. I don't care. They shouldn't be ignored when you have the opportunity to see them. Sunsets don't put on a show every evening, each show is different and worthy of attention. You never know when the… ## [Chang’e 7 Rolls Out Ahead of Moon Launch From Wenchang](https://www.china-in-space.com/p/change-7-rolls-out-ahead-of-moon) _2026-08-19 · Jack C. · China in Space_ A three-month trek to the lunar south pole, bringing along international partners, is about to begin. ## [Why The U.S. Rules And Russia And China Do Not. Russia's System. Wednesday's Edition.](https://www.culturalperspective.com/p/why-the-us-rules-and-russia-and-china-289) _2026-08-19 · Way Yuhl · Cultural Perspective_ The Long Chain: Three Powers, Three Systems. Series 38 #2 ## [St. James’s Place awards £5,000 to support Long Covid Kids and Friends project in Charnwood](https://www.longcovidkids.org/post/st-james-s-place-awards-5-000-to-support-long-covid-kids-and-friends-project-in-charnwood) _2026-08-19 · Long Covid Kids · Long Covid Kids_ St. James’s Place awards £5,000 to support Long Covid Kids and Friends project in Charnwood, Leicestershire. ## [Henry S. Whitehead: "Sea Change," "The Thin Match," and "The Wonderful Thing"](http://mporcius.blogspot.com/2026/08/henry-s-whitehead-sea-change-thin-match.html) _2026-08-19 · MPorcius · MPorcius Fiction Log_ Here at MPorcius Fiction Log, we are reading stories from 1925 issues of Farnsworth Wright's unique magazine, Weird Tales. Today, three stories from Henry S. Whitehead, an Episcopal minister from the greatest state in the union, New Jersey, who, like myself, left the Garden State seeking education and adventure. Whereas my travels took me to New York City and the Middle West, where I explored… ## [My first Mac... 33 years later!](https://vladcampos.com/en/blog/2026-08-19-0940-my-first-mac-33-years-later.html) _2026-08-19 · Vladimir Campos (EN)_ Back in 1992, my dad bought a Macintosh IIsi to learn and master a new technology that was becoming an increasingly big part of his daily work: the computer. Since he was already living in the United States at the time, it wasn't until a trip in 1993... ## [Thinking in Public](https://dergigi.com/2026/08/19/thinking-in-public/) _2026-08-19 · dergigi.com_ I just took a nice long shower, as I often do, especially when I’m overwhelmed and stuck in some way (I’m both, as of this moment). There is too many things going on. Too much noise, too much doomerism, too much AI, and of course—how could I forget—too much LLM slop. I used to write long thinkboi pieces. People liked them, so I tried to write more of them. It was a form of audience capture,… ## [Feeds with More Elements](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2179) _2026-08-19 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ I had a callout that my RSS / XML feed is lacking links. It has been a long time since I looked at my feed other than to ensure content was in it. I haven’t really touched it much over the last 25 years, other than when I do a PHP update or take security steps. I looked at my feed reader and the raw XML output file and there were no links. I looked at my create RSS code that I run manually after… ## [Feeds with More Elements](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2179) _2026-08-19 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ I had a callout that my RSS / XML feed is lacking links. It has been a long time since I looked at my feed other than to ensure content was in it. I haven’t really touched it much over the last 25 years, other than when I do a PHP update or take security steps. I looked at my feed reader and the raw XML output file and there were no links. I looked at my create RSS code that I run manually after… ## [LandSpace Recovers China’s Second Rocket Booster, Deploys Demo Satellite \[Zhuque-3 Y2\]](https://www.china-in-space.com/p/landspace-recovers-chinas-second) _2026-08-19 · Jack C. · China in Space_ China space sector has landed another rocket booster, this time on solid ground and with a different launch vehicle. ## [Safety in Numbers](https://perpetual-rewiring.mataroa.blog/blog/safety-in-numbers/) _2026-08-19 · Perpetual Rewiring_ If you're going to put something delicate or dangerous on the floor for any reason, put it with other things. Ideally don't do it at all , but sometimes you're busy or preoccupied or feeling lazy. You're less likely to step on scissors if much more visible packages you were cutting open are around it, or step on a pile of scissors than a single stray pair. Though, you may have bigger problems if… ## [Travel blog: summer 2026](https://tofutush.github.io/posts/2026-08-19.html) _2026-08-19 · Tofutush's blog_ We went to Xinjiang again! Yes, again. Last year we went to the north. This year to the south. But before then we spent a few days around Shennongjia, where I saw this little mouse munching on grass. And then we went to the lakes, where there was this person playing fetch with his dog. He'd throw the tennis ball into the lake. And then we went to Xi'an where we rode bikes around the city wall, an… ## [The Death of an Apple Watch](https://niqwithq.com/posts/the-death-of-an-apple-watch) _2026-08-19 · niqwithq_ After going for a swim with my Apple Watch on, it stopped working the following days. Already two years ago, when I went swimming in salt water, its function to blow out water stopped working. Now, the final blow—or no blow, which might have been the culprit. Here's some last words. I've always loved my Apple Watch. Its primary selling point was to have something in my life that motivated me to… ## [Open, Do, Close](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2178) _2026-08-18 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ Today I was writing mostly for something that may post tomorrow on a sort of collaborative / swap post. One of the things I’ve been doing a lot of the last few months as I dig into a focussed task and upon completion, it is the closing of tabs, archived documents, note resources logged, and various apps for the focussed push are saved and closed. Today I mostly wrapped this writing project and… ## [Open, Do, Close](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2178) _2026-08-18 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ Today I was writing mostly for something that may post tomorrow on a sort of collaborative / swap post. One of the things I’ve been doing a lot of the last few months as I dig into a focussed task and upon completion, it is the closing of tabs, archived documents, note resources logged, and various apps for the focussed push are saved and closed. Today I mostly wrapped this writing project and… ## [New Year - Same Us!](https://carrotandtoast.substack.com/p/new-year-same-us) _2026-08-18 · Carrot and Toast Subsnack · Carrot and Toast Subsnack_ Webcomic #72 (2025)