Thursday, August 20, 2026
ArchiveAfter Six Months of War, Trump Is Still Losing to Iran
Six months in, this reads less like a war update than an audit of American leverage. The phrase that lands is a precipitous collapse of power and prestige, and nobody quoted here argues with it.
Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center by Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure
A $1.2 billion Los Alamos project needs power, and Ypsilanti's board just banned the substations for six months. The clerk held up a photograph of one during the unanimous vote.
Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US intervened
TRON's character encoding handled 1.5 million glyphs while Unicode was still arguing over CJK. Washington listed it as a trade barrier in 1989 and Japanese manufacturers quietly walked away.
'Weird Al' Yankovic: Tiny Desk Concert
He skipped the originals this time and came with parodies, including an American Pie rewrite and the blues-rock closer from his own biopic. The band is several sizes bigger than his 2010 lineup.
This Skeleton is the First Confirmed Death by Trebuchet
One hundred sixty-seven fractures on a man in his twenties, buried at Stirling Castle after Edward I aimed a siege engine nicknamed War Wolf at the walls in 1304.