Thursday, August 27, 2026

Today's news and jokes







(As I understand it, the $10 billion Russia-China project wasn't in operation yet, and this is believed to be an accident, not an attack)







(Guesses include warning against attacking NATO countries and/or against using nukes against Ukraine)















(The registrar of voters "whose name was on the ballot, in a race he lost — has sequestered primary ballots in a room in the elections office in Redding, sealing the doors with locks, duct tape...has told reporters that the ballots did not look, feel or smell right and that he had directed facilities workers to put a lock on the room and destroy the keys so that if anyone tries to gain access, they will need a warrant and bolt cutter")







A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵

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— Reese Richardson (@reeserichardson.bsky.social) August 25, 2026 at 6:06 AM
(Science's write-up of the blog post)







(This also prompted an unusual statement from the authorities in the Puntland region, where the piracy takes place in Somalia. It is a semi-autonomous and rebellious region. The leaders are said to have issued a “decisive warning” against yielding to the pirates' demands or paying any ransom. The report says the Puntland officials said paying the pirates would “inevitably fund and encourage a new and dangerous wave of armed piracy along the coast.”)







My thesis on every South Asian crisis of note is that we learn almost nothing contemporaneously and much after the fact. This little disclosure from India that a loitering munition hit Kirana Hills seems to keep with that: www.ndtv.com/india-news/o...

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— Ankit Panda (@nktpnd.bsky.social) August 25, 2026 at 10:01 AM
(Suggesting last year's exchange of fire between India and Pakistan was nearly dangerously escalated when an Indian drone ran out fuel and inadvertently struck a Pakistani nuclear site)







NBC news projects that Dan Sullivan Jr will advance in the Alaska Senate race. This means there will be two Dans Sullivan on the general election ballot.

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— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) August 26, 2026 at 6:51 AM




































El ‘boloencierro’ vuelve a rodar por las calles de Mataelpino (Madrid), una alternativa a los tradicionales encierros que sustituye los toros por una gran bola de más de 3 metros de diámetro shorturl.at/AvVwS

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— Europa Press (@europapress.es) August 23, 2026 at 6:01 AM








indie dev: am i creating a dark pattern if my game is enjoyable mobile game dev: 5% of users are accidentally clicking the spend $50 button. we can get those numbers much, much higher

— zaratustra (@zaratustra.bsky.social) August 20, 2026 at 7:45 AM
























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