Tuesday Links - 21 July

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony starts us off with an AI story. Daily News Stuff 17 July 2026: Dwarves Are Back On The Menu Edition

1Password now lets Claude use your passwords - without giving it access to the passwords themselves. (Nerds xyz)

Claude sends a request to 1Password, the user approves it, and Claude ends up with access to the desired service without ever seeing the password. It's a pretty elegant solution to a situation set up mostly by crazy people.

Crime Research Org - Major Decision: U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit Strikes Down New Jersey’s semi-automatic rifles and large-capacity magazines bans. Copy of decision is available here.

As expected, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, in an en banc decision, has struck down New Jersey’s prohibitions on semi-automatic rifles and large-capacity magazines. It is a major decision because he creates a circuit court split for the first time.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - DHS Finalizes Rule That Means Students Can’t Just Stick Around

Before Obama and especially Biden just started letting everyone in roughly 45% of illegal aliens were people who overstayed their visas. If they are closely monitored than reapplying after undergrad and grad should be no big deal.

Bearing Arms - Is China Also Meddling in Second Amendment Fight?

On Thursday night, President Donald Trump took to (most of) the airwaves to announce some disturbing evidence regarding China and its attempts to meddle in the 2020 election.

Not the Bee - Bodycam footage shows The View host Sunny Hostin trying to convince cops not to arrest her son for trespassing

Here's the host of The View, Sunny Hostin, appearing to use her fame and position to get her son out of trouble.

Again from Pixy Misa - Daily News Stuff 18 July 2026: Accidental Umpires Edition

AWS is experiencing a wee spot of bother with its billing system. (The Register)

Speculation is that it's a unit conversion error in the cost estimation tool, but all we know for sure is that people who barely use the service are being alerted to cost estimates in the billions of dollars, and for businesses that have active applications the predicted bills run into the trillions.

AWS say they are looking into it.

Clayton Cramer - New Jersey Assault Weapon & >10 Round Magazine Ban Overturned by 3rd Circuit

To my shock and pleasure they broadened the ruling to protect all the militia appropriate firearms as well as the LCMs. And yes, this is a case on which i worked.

The Other McCain - Knife-Wielding Psycho-Tranny Is Former Arizona Democratic Party Official

Just a typical Democrat in 2026:

Wombat-socho - Rule 5 Monday: Redhead in Denim

Son of Silvercon IV ended yesterday – great success! Here’s a redhead in overalls.