# year (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5726 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover year. Page: Feed: --- ## The Louis Theroux Manosphere Documentary _2026-08-26 · George Abbott's Blog_ This is a bit late, isn't it! Inside the Manosphere was released this year, but in March, so I'm a good five months behind the curve. Story of my life. I enjoyed it. There was a very interesting bit where he spoke to.. let me look up the name again, they're all the same... Amrou Fudl (Fresh and Fit). The interesting thing was with his girlfriend, or ex-girlfriend I guess now, who basically had… ## [PHOTOS: Elite Riders dominate Umusambi Gravel Race fourth edition](https://theupdate.co.rw/photos-elite-riders-dominate-umusambi-gravel-race-fourth-edition) _2026-08-23 · THEUPDATE · THEUPDATE - Latest Posts_ ## [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… ## [The design of AI: Making Artificial Insanity](https://www.midlandsmovies.com/the-design-of-ai-making-artificial-insanity) _2026-08-22 · Midlands Movies_ Shot entirely in writer/director Neil Evans’ own flat in Worcester, Artificial Insanity is a five-minute comedy about how artificial intelligence has infiltrated our lives. ## [Amsterdam Typography – 146](https://www.amsterdamtypography.nl/item/2791) _2026-08-22 · Amsterdam Typography_ House number on a mixed-use building. ## [Keeping up with the Gelmans](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-22-keeping-up-with-the-gelmans/) _2026-08-22 · Big Muddy_ I wrote a post a few days ago reflecting on the origins of this blog as a way to clear out my bookmarks folder. At the beginning of April, I also wrote a post on Andrew Gelman's blog schedule. Gelman has been a prolific blogger for over two decades now. And since late 2016 or so, he seems to have consistently had six months' worth of posts queued up at any given time. Until now! A few days ago,… ## [Norwich homeless project needs enrichment worker](http://www.networknorwich.co.uk/Articles/745017/Network_Norwich_and_Norfolk/Opportunities/Jobs/Norwich_homeless_project_needs_enrichment_worker.aspx) _2026-08-22 · Network Norfolk_ The Norwich REST project is focused on supporting those who are rough sleeping in Norwich and is now looking to appoint a part-time Enrichment Worker. ## [West Norfolk church to host quilt and craft show](http://www.networknorwich.co.uk/Articles/745070/Network_Norwich_and_Norfolk/Regional_News/West_Norfolk/West_Norfolk_church_to_host_quilt_and.aspx) _2026-08-22 · Network Norfolk_ Lessingham Methodist Chapel will host a four-day quilt and craft show event at the beginning of September. By Peter Bending ## [Christian mechanic offers excellent service](http://www.networknorwich.co.uk/Articles/615233/Network_Norwich_and_Norfolk/Directories/Services_Directory/Christian_mechanic_offers_excellent_service.aspx) _2026-08-22 · Network Norfolk_ Vali is a fully qualified mechanic based in Norwich and can fix pretty much any car of any age - contact him for a quote. ## [Creative writing opportunity at Norwich charity](http://www.networknorwich.co.uk/Articles/745030/Network_Norwich_and_Norfolk/Opportunities/Training/Creative_writing_opportunity_at_Norwich_charity.aspx) _2026-08-22 · Network Norfolk_ Community Chaplaincy Norfolk (CCN) are holding a creative writing course in Norwich this autumn, and there are still some spaces available. ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/JY8MbqsvJaAJ) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [Review: 21363-1 - The Goonies](https://rebrickable.com/blog/952/review-21363-1-the-goonies/) _2026-08-22 · Rebrickable - Blog_ Heeey you guuuuys... read this. Do I need to write an intro for the Goonies? The movie is one that defined many millennials childhood. We were all super jealous that we didn't have cool adventures like this. When my son got to an age where he could handle a bit edgier content (edgier than Bluey at least) it was the first old school movie I watched with him. ## [A Piece of Dating Advice I Didn't Ask For (The Real Trait To Look For)](https://canro91.github.io/2026/08/22/Dating/) _2026-08-22 · Just Some Code_ This week, a friend shared how he learned what to look for in a relationship. It was way back in college. He’s now married with kids. One day, he saw an attractive girl on campus and stared. An older student noticed him staring and said: “Hey man, I’m going to give you a piece of advice. Don’t look for big boobs or butts. When all that falls down, the only thing left is talking.” Find someone you… ## [A small collection of prints](https://aubreysambor.com/miniprints/) _2026-08-22 · Aubrey Sambor_ Another short post today, a picture of miniprints from Inciardi Prints vending machines in Boston. I particularly love the lobster print (I'm Massachusetts born and raised so of course I love lobster) and the print of the Charles, because I've kayaked on the Charles around that exact spot! I have more prints but haven't taken a picture of them all just yet. ## [Offscreen Colonies by Conspiracy](https://vivianvoss.net/blog/bytes-of-art-conspiracy-offscreen-colonies) _2026-08-22 · Vivian Voss_ Bytes of Art, on Offscreen Colonies, the 64 kilobyte intro by the Hungarian group Conspiracy that took first place in the PC 64k competition at Revision 2015. BoyC wrote the engine and the effects, Zoom did the visuals and the direction, and Gargaj built the synthesiser and the soundtrack Onwards Fading Future, later porting the production to the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. The form itself is… ## [DailyDogo 1729 🐶](https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2026/08/21/dailydogo1729/) _2026-08-21 · Martin Hähnel's Blog_ DailyDogo 1729 🐶 ## [Song of Songs - love in a time of fear](http://www.networknorwich.co.uk/Articles/745032/Network_Norwich_and_Norfolk/Events/Events/Song_of_Songs_love_in_a_time.aspx) _2026-08-21 · Network Norfolk_ Pastor John Clements from the Old Meeting House in Norwich recently discovered that many of his congregation had never heard a sermon on the Song of Songs, or even knew that it is found in the Bible. He is planning a sermon on its meaning on August 30. ## [AMAFOTO: Uwamariya yahembewe guhiga abandi muri ‘Tronc-Commun’ 2025-26 mu muhango wihariye](https://theupdate.co.rw/AMAFOTO%3A-Uwamariya-yahembewe-guhiga-abandi-muri-%E2%80%98Tronc-Commun%E2%80%99-2025-26-mu-muhango-wihariye) _2026-08-21 · MUNEZA · THEUPDATE - Latest Posts_ ## [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… ## [Antiviolence nonprofit suspends BTS leader RM from role-model list after Chris Brown photo](https://theupdate.co.rw/antiviolence-nonprofit-suspends-bts-leader-rm-from-role-model-list-after-chris-brown-photo) _2026-08-21 · Malik · THEUPDATE - Latest Posts_ The Pixel Project cited RM's silence after he attended Chris Brown's Toronto concert and appeared in a backstage photo with the U.S. singer who pleaded guilty to assaulting his then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009. ## [Amsterdam Typography – Drake](https://www.amsterdamtypography.nl/item/2790) _2026-08-21 · Amsterdam Typography_ Drake. Graffiti at the NDSM complex in 2026. ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/kDfGRHMSi00I) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [ChatGPT is not Reddit](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-21-chatgpt-is-not-reddit/) _2026-08-21 · Big Muddy_ A few months ago, I wrote a post entitled " Google AI Overviews is Reddit ". Today, I am here to bring you the news that ChatGPT is no longer Reddit. Promptwatch, an AI search monitoring and optimization company, reported that ChatGPT citations of Reddit collapsed between August 13 and August 14. Assuming the company's data are even halfway representative of typical source citation behaviour, this… ## [Journal Entry For 2026-08-21](https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2026/08/21/journal-entry-for-2026-08-21/) _2026-08-21 · Martin Hähnel's Blog_ YouTube Premium raises prices again. 14.99 € to 16.99 € for the individual plan. After we had already canceled the family plan and moved our music listening \[to Qobuz\](Journal Entry For 2026-05-09) \[1\] and me finally using my Twitch subscription I have had for years at this point not only for supporting the creators I like but also for watching VODs AND using Netflix more on my tablet AND having… ## [Encouragement and Hope in Gorleston](http://www.networknorwich.co.uk/Articles/744856/Network_Norwich_and_Norfolk/Partners/Churches_Together_in_Norfolk_and_Waveney/Encouragement_and_Hope_in_Gorleston.aspx) _2026-08-21 · Network Norfolk_ The County Ecumenical Officer visits and discusses unity with Churches in the Community in the east of the county ## [Harmonised indices of consumer prices in July](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/prices/harmonised-indices-of-consumer-prices-in-july-2026/) _2026-08-21 · News Statice_ The harmonised index of consumer prices in the European Economic Area in July 2026 increased by 0.3% from the previous month. In one year, the index has increased by 3.0%. ## [The wage index decreased by 0.3% in July](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/wages-and-income/monthly-wage-index-in-july-2026-and-related-indices/) _2026-08-21 · News Statice_ The monthly wage index in July 2026 decreased by 0.3% from previous month and the monthly basic wage index increased by 0.2%. In the last twelve months the wage index has risen by 5.7% and the basic wage index has risen by 5.8%. ## [The building cost index increases by 0.3%](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/prices/building-cost-index-in-august-2026/) _2026-08-21 · News Statice_ The building cost index in August 2026 is 129.5 points (December 2021=100), increases by 0.3% from the previous month. The price of imported materials decreased by 0.1%, but the price of domestic materials increased by 0.6%. Labour costs increased by 0.4%. ## [The Last 20%](https://vpetersson.com/2026/08/21/the-last-20-percent/) _2026-08-21 · Viktor's Tech Musings & Security Paranoia_ The other day my friend Chris pinged me on a Twitter thread . Todd Dailey was making the case that digital signage is a huge industry selling bad products with high subscription fees, and that with a $40 e-ink ESP32 board you could just go build your own conference room signage with AI. Fair point. I'd add that the security posture across the industry is pretty terrible too. ## [A shoebox is for life, not just for Christmas](http://www.networknorwich.co.uk/Articles/745033/Network_Norwich_and_Norfolk/Regional_News/Norwich/A_shoebox_is_for_life_not_just.aspx) _2026-08-21 · Network Norfolk_ Preparation for packing shoeboxes full of gifts to be sent to children around the world for Samaritan’s Purse’s Operation Christmas Child initiative, is a year-long process at Oak Grove Community Church in Norwich. By Helen Baldry ## [Nigeria: 46 dead after overloaded Boat capsizes in Sokoto state](https://theupdate.co.rw/nigeria-46-dead-after-overloaded-boat-capsizes-in-sokoto-state) _2026-08-21 · Habimana jean Paul · THEUPDATE - Latest Posts_ ## [I get faster speeds when i update my linux laptop with bpn on. Indian problems ig](https://blackpiratex.com/thoughts/i-het-faster-speeds-when-i-update-my-linux-laptop--298724/) _2026-08-21 · BlackPirateX - Unified Feed_ I get faster speeds when i update my linux laptop with bpn on. Indian problems ig ## [Follow Releases, Get Reminders (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wCoAV80ihVo8) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a genre or a name and receive reminders on release day — free. ## [Now (Aug 2026)](https://niclake.me/now-aug-2026/) _2026-08-21 · Nic Lake • Feed_ Winter is coming. Maybe. Hopefully not anytime soon. ## [I don't use mainstream social media...](https://aubreysambor.com/i-dont-use-mainstream-social-media/) _2026-08-21 · Aubrey Sambor_ ...and I feel weird about it sometimes. I deleted my Facebook account (for, like, the third or fourth time) a couple years ago, deleted my Twitter account, have never even watched anything on Tiktok, and while I still have an Instagram account, I don't use it and don't have the app on my phone. I'm 100% happy with my choices and am super happy with Mastodon as essentially the only social media I… ## Deskilled _2026-08-21 · George Abbott's Blog_ I've been recently feeling a little deskilled, or rather, like I haven't had the time dedicated to focussed activity in a given domain, that results in building skills. I think it's from really two main things. Firstly, I've been watching a lot of casual Youtube, or podcasts, or doing other things, that mean that I am more consumptive in my habits, and also I have been using AI to an extent. It is… ## Re: Re: When it rains, and, Winter is not broken summer _2026-08-21 · George Abbott's Blog_ I wrote a response-of-sorts to two entries of Bard's about rain and snow... And I got it tested a bit yesterday. On the walk home from work, the sky opened up, and it tipped it down. My clothes were totally soaked within about two minutes, and I still had fifteen minutes of walking before I could get home. It was lovely. I felt so happy. I ended up appreciating even the little things, like a… ## [Friday Links: Coding rules, weekends redefined, and digital etiquette](https://canro91.github.io/2026/08/21/FridayLinks/) _2026-08-21 · Just Some Code_ Hey there. Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week: #1. LLMs have changed how coding looks. Here are 10 rules for agentic coding (5min). #2. Before it was TLDR. Now it is AIDR: AI;Didn’t read (3min). #3. Glasses, earplugs, smartwatches… Now that everything and everyone is connected, we should embrace new rules of etiquette (11min). #4. The weekend is 100 years old (16min). Working… ## [Design Tokens, Web Components, and CSS @layer](https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-tokens-and-web-components.html) _2026-08-21 · Always Twisted| Articles_ Chris kicked off a little 'blog and response' with Thinking Horizontally in CSS @layer . The idea was that if every component's custom properties live in a weak layer, unlayered CSS can override them without a fight. It is a wonderfully simple way to make the cascade feel a little less like a negotiation. I took that idea and asked how to get the layer information out of hardcoded CSS and into the… ## [This Guy Made an ASCII Cyberpunk City Using HTML and JavaScript](https://kaigulliksen.com/blog/this-guy-made-an-ascii-cyberpunk-city-using-html-and-javascript/) _2026-08-21 · Kai Gulliksen Blog_ This is absolutely amazing. A Walkable ASCII Cyberpunk City in One HTML File ## [Six Bugs That Never Existed](https://vivianvoss.net/blog/never-existed) _2026-08-21 · Vivian Voss_ Technical Beauty Scope, the measured second look at tools this site has admired before. SQLite publishes a table of every CVE ever filed against it with its own assessment beside each one, and in 2026 that table gained six entries, CVE-2026-51296 and five more running up to 51304, marked unreproducible and attributed to AI hallucinations. The library measures roughly 155,800 lines of C against… ## [One card, many places, pay later: the Diners Club, 1950](https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/diners-club-1950/) _2026-08-21 · Things Have History_ The waiter at Major’s Cabin Grill, a midtown Manhattan restaurant in the shadow of the Empire State Building, had no idea what to make of it. February 1950: a man named Frank McNamara had just handed him a small rectangle of cardboard instead of cash. The waiter carried it to the owner, Major Satz,… ## [Elliptic curve cryptography, or how a factoring attack became the internet's key](https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/elliptic-curve-cryptography-1985/) _2026-08-21 · Things Have History_ In 1984, a pre-print from Hendrik Lenstra of the University of Amsterdam reached Neal Koblitz’s office at the University of Washington in Seattle. Lenstra had found a new algorithm for factoring large integers — the hard problem that kept RSA safe — and the key structure in his method was an… ## [The original Xbox, or how Microsoft lost four billion dollars and still won](https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/xbox-2001/) _2026-08-21 · Things Have History_ Bill Gates walked onto the Consumer Electronics Show stage in Las Vegas on January 3, 2001, with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson at his side, to introduce an eight-and-a-half-pound matte-black box. The crowd applauded. Johnson flexed. Microsoft was getting into the console business. The project had its… ## [Hope bus needs a new owner](http://www.networknorwich.co.uk/Articles/745029/Network_Norwich_and_Norfolk/Regional_News/Norwich/Hope_bus_needs_a_new_owner.aspx) _2026-08-20 · Network Norfolk_ The Hope Bus has been with Radical Church for over nine years and the church is looking for a buyer, ideally to use the bus for Christian ministry. ## [(untitled)](https://www.nicksimson.com//notes/2026-08-20-baseball-in-art-and-poetry.html) _2026-08-20 · Posts and notes from Nick Simson_ ZieherSmith gallery has a great looking baseball-themed show up called Augie Garrido or Gonfalons for the Grand Old Game . If you can’t get to Nashville before the end of September you can view all the works online and read Scott Zieher’s essay Aleatory Notes Celebrating the Baseball in Art and Poetry (PDF). We might be aware of the many peculiar binaries and quirks of baseball— the only game… ## [(untitled)](https://www.nicksimson.com//notes/2026-08-20-baseball-in-art-and-poetry.html) _2026-08-20 · Posts and notes from Nick Simson_ ZieherSmith gallery has a great looking baseball-themed show up called Augie Garrido or Gonfalons for the Grand Old Game . If you can’t get to Nashville before the end of September you can view all the works online and read Scott Zieher’s essay Aleatory Notes Celebrating the Baseball in Art and Poetry (PDF). We might be aware of the many peculiar binaries and quirks of baseball— the only game… ## [DailyDogo 1728 🐶](https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2026/08/20/dailydogo1728/) _2026-08-20 · Martin Hähnel's Blog_ DailyDogo 1728 🐶 ## [Making a notes app feels simple, Until it’s not.](https://blackpiratex.com/thoughts/making-a-notes-app-feels-simple-until-its-not-518281/) _2026-08-20 · BlackPirateX - Unified Feed_ Making a notes app feels simple, Until it's not. ## [Darkness, light, and the inequalities between them](https://www.britishscienceassociation.org/Blog/darkness-light-and-the-inequalities-between-them) _2026-08-20 · British Science Association Blog_ Over the last century, our experience of the night has radically changed. Hannah Dalgleish is investigating the consequences. She's an interdisciplinary Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. At the 2026 British Science Festival, Hannah is delivering the Social Sciences Award Lecture: Southampton and the disappearing night. In this guest blog for the British Science Association, Hannah… ## [Dark stories from deep-sea sharks](https://www.britishscienceassociation.org/Blog/dark-stories-from-deep-sea-sharks) _2026-08-20 · British Science Association Blog_ Daniel Moore (University of Exeter) loves sharks. They're the subject of Dark stories from deep-sea sharks, the Agricultural, Biological and Medical Sciences Award Lecture at the 2026 British Science Festival in Southampton. In this guest blog for the British Science Association, Daniel talks with Alan Barker about these long-lived creatures of the deep, how human activity is affecting them - and… ## [Amsterdam Typography – De Mercuur.](https://www.amsterdamtypography.nl/item/2789) _2026-08-20 · Amsterdam Typography_ Former canalside warehouse from 1869. ## [(untitled)](https://www.amsterdamtypography.nl/blablabla) _2026-08-20 · Amsterdam Typography_ I have created a new 404 Not Found page for the website.