Open for Business
Apple's Skating in the Right Direction, But the Puck is Still Ahead
After years in the wilderness, with this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), I’m...
19 hours ago
After years in the wilderness, with this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), I’m cautiously optimistic Apple is finally seeing what some of us have been saying for years. Having fumbled its big unveilings for years straight while letting AI whiz past it, there is at...
Marcus on AI
Accenture: Then and now, and how it may signify things to come
Blip, or one more data point that is on trend?
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Blip, or one more data point that is on trend?
Some Bits: Nelson's...
Bear Blog
Free, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging, a nice little new community
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Free, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging, a nice little new community
Archinect
Architecture schools are hiring: Explore 9 academic job opportunities featured on Archinect...
The latest edition of our curated career highlights from Archinect Jobs features eight universities...
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The latest edition of our curated career highlights from Archinect Jobs features eight universities and schools currently seeking faculty, academic leadership, staff positions, and fellows.
Preparing for a new job? Be sure to follow our Archinect Tips series to improve your...
Krebs on Security
‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm
For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of...
2 hours ago
For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded...
WHAT'S ANU
GLOBAL TREND LENS :: THE VIEW FROM SÃO PAULO
A Trend Dispatch from Brazil
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A Trend Dispatch from Brazil
The Diff
The Megacap Era
Plus! Acquisitions and Divestitures; Bots and Delegation; Leverage; Margin Cadence; Strategic...
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Plus! Acquisitions and Divestitures; Bots and Delegation; Leverage; Margin Cadence; Strategic Investors
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: AI digital sovereignty risk doesn't exist (18 Jun 2026)
Today's links AI digital sovereignty risk doesn't exist: If 'risk + AI = risk – AI', then 'AI = 0'....
4 hours ago
Today's links AI digital sovereignty risk doesn't exist: If 'risk + AI = risk – AI', then 'AI = 0'. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Napster x librarians; Flickr API reciprocity; KFC's Mega Jug v diabetes research; Hambone virtuoso; Google fiber x...
weird medieval guys
All about The Wordspotter's Guide, my new book for language lovers and fun fact hoarders
Become a wordspotter this November!
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Become a wordspotter this November!
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
Amsterdam is famous, but the Netherlands has countless hidden gems just a short drive away. These 10...
6 hours ago
Amsterdam is famous, but the Netherlands has countless hidden gems just a short drive away. These 10 historic small towns offer canals, cobblestone streets, and centuries-old charm, perfect for a quick escape from the city. 1. Broek in Waterland (7.46 Miles from Amsterdam) If...
AI for Software...
How to Know What to Learn in AI
There's a disconnect in AI as far back as knowing what to learn—this is how to overcome it
6 hours ago
There's a disconnect in AI as far back as knowing what to learn—this is how to overcome it
The Works in...
Why we should vaccinate wild animals
Vaccinating wild animals can protect human health, and spare animals from extinction and suffering.
6 hours ago
Vaccinating wild animals can protect human health, and spare animals from extinction and suffering.
NeuroLogica Blog
Echochambers and Rabbit Holes
To what extent do social media algorithms, and YouTube’s specifically, contribute to user’s views...
6 hours ago
To what extent do social media algorithms, and YouTube’s specifically, contribute to user’s views becoming more extreme and even radicalizing? That’s a complicated question, but researchers tried to tackle it and have come up with some interesting results.
First let’s define some...
Don't Worry About...
AI #173: AI Pauses
A lot of things are always happening.
6 hours ago
A lot of things are always happening.
Retail Design Blog
Juncture Space fragrance by Hellocean
JCTURE SPACE 香水设计 Juncture Space’s fragrance line plays with a striking material contrast:...
7 hours ago
JCTURE SPACE 香水设计 Juncture Space’s fragrance line plays with a striking material contrast: liquid-metal caps that look poured and pinched,...
Arduino Blog
Running local LLMs on the Arduino® UNO™ Q board: a practical guide
When talking about large language models (LLMs), people usually imagine a general-purpose assistant:...
7 hours ago
When talking about large language models (LLMs), people usually imagine a general-purpose assistant: something that can answer questions about weather, politics, software, history, travel, cooking, electronics – and almost any other topic. The model is expected to know a little...
The Elysian
Yes, let’s abolish federal governments
And replace them with international governments we can join à la carte.
8 hours ago
And replace them with international governments we can join à la carte.
Jakob Nielsen on UX
From AGI to ASI: DeepMind’s Roadmap as a Comic Book
DeepMind outlined 4 paths to superintelligence: scaling, paradigm shifts, recursive...
8 hours ago
DeepMind outlined 4 paths to superintelligence: scaling, paradigm shifts, recursive self-improvement, and multi agent collectives. I explained this dense 57-page report in a 31-page comic book, including a section on the UX implications.
Atoms vs Bits
Push Things That Roll
not things that don't
8 hours ago
Building Optimism
The Pragmatic Side of Romanticism
Projects that don't pencil are as good as vacant lots
9 hours ago
Projects that don't pencil are as good as vacant lots
Old Structures...
Throwing Garbage As A Sign Of Respect
Ticker tape, as such, has been defunct for more than 50 years. The machines were a form of telegraph...
9 hours ago
Ticker tape, as such, has been defunct for more than 50 years. The machines were a form of telegraph connected to printers: since they wasn’t carrying general messages but only a constrained set of letters and numbers in series, a simple printer onto a roll of paper was...
Slow Boring
What New York used to be
Plus the Ottoman Empire, the realities of polarization, and where the left is struggling
10 hours ago
Plus the Ottoman Empire, the realities of polarization, and where the left is struggling
Stratechery by Ben...
An Interview with Michael Morton About E-Commerce in the Age of AI
An interview with Michael Morton about e-commerce and AI, including the challenges of unfalsifiable...
10 hours ago
An interview with Michael Morton about e-commerce and AI, including the challenges of unfalsifiable bear cases, distribution versus referal models, grocery, and autonomous vehicles.
Farnam Street
Dr. Giulia Enders: How to Nourish Your Gut (And Keep It Thriving for Life)
Dr. Giulia Enders has changed the way millions of people think about the human body. As a physician,...
10 hours ago
Dr. Giulia Enders has changed the way millions of people think about the human body. As a physician, microbiome researcher, and bestselling author, she has spent years studying the surprising role the gut plays in everything from digestion and immunity to mood, sleep, metabolism,...
Londonist
London Museum Announces Reopening Date Later In 2026
The new Smithfield site is almost ready to go.
10 hours ago
The new Smithfield site is almost ready to go.
Seth's Blog
Promotion, activation, conversation
[A long riff on book publishing with (perhaps) wide applicability to your work as well.] Publishing...
11 hours ago
[A long riff on book publishing with (perhaps) wide applicability to your work as well.] Publishing is different from writing—it’s the hard work of creating the conditions to help people get in sync, move forward, and get to where they’re headed. The best reason to publish a...
Works in Progress...
How abolishing the stakeholder state caused the Industrial Revolution
In 1688, England swept away the encrusted vetocracy that had held back economic growth for...
11 hours ago
In 1688, England swept away the encrusted vetocracy that had held back economic growth for centuries. Could we do the same today?
Maps Mania
How Much Room Does a Mushroom Need? - About 110 Quadrillion Kilometres
12 hours ago
Jorge Arango
Becoming a Principle-Driven Leader
Charles Koch is on a mission to foster more principled behavior in the world. He’s written several...
13 hours ago
Charles Koch is on a mission to foster more principled behavior in the world. He’s written several books on principle-based management, and co-authored this one — the first I’ve read — with his son Chase. The goal: help businesses, societies, and individuals thrive by adopting a...
the singularity is...
You don’t understand, prices can’t go down
Since at least 2008, every time there’s an option to either make the money track real value or make...
13 hours ago
Since at least 2008, every time there’s an option to either make the money track real value or make sure things don’t go down, they chose the latter. As a result, money is increasingly uncoupled from reality.
From Cory Doctorow’s blog:
The actual dead economy risk is that our...
diamond geezer
The Heights of Olympia
A new street has opened in Kensington, 50 feet off the ground.
on top of the roof of the Olympia...
14 hours ago
A new street has opened in Kensington, 50 feet off the ground.
on top of the roof of the Olympia exhibition halls.
[12 photos]
Olympia has been a building site for the best part of a decade, and still is in places, but the wraps have just come off the premier new feature which...
Anecdotal Evidence
'And Mailed This Guy Gold Every Time'
“By all accounts,” writes Erik Bader, “[Guy Davenport] wrote a legit stack of letters every single...
15 hours ago
“By all accounts,” writes Erik Bader, “[Guy Davenport] wrote a legit stack of letters every single day,
and would respond to literally anyone -- and here’s an anecdote to confirm.” Dave
Lull alerted me to Bader’s account of Davenport and an unlikely correspondent
that mirrored my...
Astral Codex Ten
Waiting For The Miracle
...
15 hours ago
Least I Could Do
How many Bells is that?
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Christopher Butler
Signals #005: Where the Seams Are
One of the more interesting moves in the writing about AI right now — visible across pieces from...
16 hours ago
One of the more interesting moves in the writing about AI right now — visible across pieces from designers, researchers, and a critic of computers — is the rediscovery of the seam.
For most of the last decade, the dominant design instinct around digital technology has been to...
Caitlin’s Newsletter
Humans Create Empires For The Same Reason They Create Egos
Reading by Tim Foley:
17 hours ago
Rubenerd
PSA for web designers: flags have ratios!
I was more than a little interested with flags as a kid. I loved learning about the history of their...
17 hours ago
I was more than a little interested with flags as a kid. I loved learning about the history of their designs, what they represented, their aesthetics, and how they’re used in different settings. Point out a national flag (and even some supranational and subordinate flags), and...
Birchtree
Tim Cook announces price increases coming soon(ish)
Juli Clover: Tim Cook Says Apple Price Increases Are 'Unavoidable' Due to Memory Costs
Apple is...
18 hours ago
Juli Clover: Tim Cook Says Apple Price Increases Are 'Unavoidable' Due to Memory Costs
Apple is raising its prices to offset the high cost of memory and storage, CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal. Apple is no longer able to absorb the increased prices and will
The Universe of...
Egyptian fraction multiplication
(Very much previously: Egyptian Fractions)
Back in March, I had been reading
On the Egyptian method...
19 hours ago
(Very much previously: Egyptian Fractions)
Back in March, I had been reading
On the Egyptian method of decomposing into unit fractions
by Abdulrahman A. Abdulaziz, and I reported that:
There is some indication that Ahmes preferred fractions with even
denominators, because they...
Strong Towns
Where Do I Start?
The challenge isn't seeing the problem. It's deciding what to do next.
20 hours ago
The challenge isn't seeing the problem. It's deciding what to do next.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Finding active GitHub forks from the command line
I maintain SumatraPDF on GitHub. People fork it and make their own changes. I want to know which...
20 hours ago
I maintain SumatraPDF on GitHub. People fork it and make their own changes. I want to know which forks are active and what they’re working on.
GitHub has a Network tab for this. I find it lousy.
It’s hard to see active forks at a glance. Panning and zooming the UI is slow and...
Craig Mod — Writer +...
[RIDGELINE] Walking New York POPS
Ridgeline subscribers —
Alex Wolfe walks. He walks weird walks and I like weird walks, so when Alex...
20 hours ago
Ridgeline subscribers —
Alex Wolfe walks. He walks weird walks and I like weird walks, so when Alex reached out to do a little walk (not a weird one, really, just a little one with a sprinkle of weird), I — of course — said: Sure.
His pitch: “A short walk through privately owned...
MIT News - Civil and...
QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2026-27
Ranking at the top for the 15th year in a row, the Institute also places first in 12 subject areas.
21 hours ago
Ranking at the top for the 15th year in a row, the Institute also places first in 12 subject areas.
CrimethInc.
Gays, Crazies, and Motherfuckers: Anarchists in the Stonewall Uprising : Towards a Queer History of...
What can today’s rebels learn from the Stonewall riots? Why did the uprising have such an impact? To...
21 hours ago
What can today’s rebels learn from the Stonewall riots? Why did the uprising have such an impact? To answer these questions, we explore the previously unacknowledged significance of at least two anarchist groups—the Motherfuckers and the Crazies—in the rebellion and the movements...
Win Vector LLC
Is it the box or the “yes” that does not fit?
There is a famous puzzle where a boy takes a 5 foot fishing rod on a bus that doesn’t allow objects...
23 hours ago
There is a famous puzzle where a boy takes a 5 foot fishing rod on a bus that doesn’t allow objects taller than 4 feet on by packing it in a 3 by 3 by 3 box (which has a long diagonal over 5 feet). The idea being: such a […]
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spooky
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Kelly told me this one was too weird, so please...
4 hours ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Kelly told me this one was too weird, so please make it popular so she has to roll her eyes.
Today's News:
Working Theorys
slop is a bad story
there are all kinds of slop
2 days ago
there are all kinds of slop
Least I Could Do
The Scientific Method
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6 days ago
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The Deleted Scenes
Undervalued Cities
Which places should we be thinking about?
a week ago
Which places should we be thinking about?
Noahpinion
Are you finally ready to admit it's the phones?
We didn't evolve to live our lives as terminals of a digital hive-mind.
a week ago
We didn't evolve to live our lives as terminals of a digital hive-mind.
AI as Normal...
Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
Coding agents as normal technology
a week ago
Coding agents as normal technology
Val Sopi
It's all in the Name
Time and again I think that the name of the business matters a ton.
I am not saying that the name...
a week ago
Time and again I think that the name of the business matters a ton.
I am not saying that the name itself makes a business successful. However, the way that people respond to a brand name, and the way that brand is presented, can have a cascading effect in that business' success....
Stat Significant
How Does Our Taste in Movies Change With Age?
How aging shapes our movie-watching habits, genre preferences, and relationship with the past.
a week ago
How aging shapes our movie-watching habits, genre preferences, and relationship with the past.
anderegg.ca
WWDC 2026: weird but better than I feared
This year’s WWDC keynote was an odd one. It was relatively short at around 76 minutes, for one...
a week ago
This year’s WWDC keynote was an odd one. It was relatively short at around 76 minutes, for one thing. It also eschewed the usual OS-by-OS structure, but I think that’s for the best. The biggest change was that there was really only one major thing Apple wanted to talk about:...
Uncharted...
Islamismophobia
Support Islam, Oppose Islamists
a week ago
Support Islam, Oppose Islamists
The Works in...
Good design is ruining American flags
Most flags used to be ugly. They were probably better that way.
a week ago
Most flags used to be ugly. They were probably better that way.
Not Boring by Packy...
Expanding the Radius of Daily Life
How to Make Flying Cars an Everyday Reality
a week ago
How to Make Flying Cars an Everyday Reality
Cal Newport
Why Isn’t AI Taking Our Jobs?
The leaders of AI companies often compare their technology to industrial automation: just as...
a week ago
The leaders of AI companies often compare their technology to industrial automation: just as machines eliminated jobs that depended on human brawn, AI will eliminate ... Read more
The post Why Isn’t AI Taking Our Jobs? appeared first on Cal Newport.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness
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Hovertext:
From an idea in Aguera y Arcas' recent book What is...
a week ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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From an idea in Aguera y Arcas' recent book What is Intelligence?
Today's News:
Atoms vs Bits
Internet I Still Think About: The Tim Tebow Chronicles
a thing I don't exactly recommend but also still think about
a week ago
a thing I don't exactly recommend but also still think about
Permanent Style
The style of Tintin and Hergé
By Bent Van Looy. I could be wrong, but I doubt many PS readers could pull off a pair of tobacco...
2 weeks ago
By Bent Van Looy. I could be wrong, but I doubt many PS readers could pull off a pair of tobacco knickerbockers. God knows, at some perilous point in my personal style journey I tried (and failed, of course). Come to think of it, I only know... > Read more
Anecdotal Evidence
'An Appreciation of Words Is So Rare'
Most forgotten writers are
deservedly forgotten, of course. Writing talent is unfairly distributed...
2 weeks ago
Most forgotten writers are
deservedly forgotten, of course. Writing talent is unfairly distributed among literary
aspirants. Sincerity and hard work count for nothing if you have no
gift or fail to develop what little you’re given. Agnes Repplier writes in “Words”
(Essays in...
Raptitude.com
Do Things You’ll Love Yourself For
The night before you travel somewhere, order your favorite pizza, eat some of it for dinner, and...
2 weeks ago
The night before you travel somewhere, order your favorite pizza, eat some of it for dinner, and seal the rest in a bag and put it in the freezer. A week later, when you get home unexpectedly late, wiped out and ravenous, you’ll open your fridge to find only eggs, pickles, and...
Val Sopi
Never make it
I was walking back from the gym to my car the other day, when I ran into an old friend of mine who...
2 weeks ago
I was walking back from the gym to my car the other day, when I ran into an old friend of mine who runs a successful SaaS with a small team.
He has it made.
We go far back and used to hang out and talk shop, but I hadn't seen him since he switched offices and moved a bit farther...
Atoms vs Bits
The Great Disaster
it comes for almost-all of us
3 weeks ago
it comes for almost-all of us
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Lea Lloyd
Describe your printmaking process.
My work is abstract, bold, and graphical, focusing on simple...
3 weeks ago
Describe your printmaking process.
My work is abstract, bold, and graphical, focusing on simple geometric shapes, patterns, and vibrant colours. I primarily use screen printing but my practice also includes digital patterns, hard-edge painting and graphic design. I love how a...
Least I Could Do
The End of The Beginning
I think, that in my heart of hearts, I really believed that Trump was an anomaly. Whatever secret...
3 weeks ago
I think, that in my heart of hearts, I really believed that Trump was an anomaly. Whatever secret sauce this ignorant grifter possessed that made people follow him blindly and aggressively, it was unique to him. And when he finally […]
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The post The End of The...
Letters of Note
You don't breathe, you bubble
When it's almost too hot to stay in touch
3 weeks ago
When it's almost too hot to stay in touch
Seth's Blog
Which one do you want?
Not, “what do you think you can get?” Not, “what you’d be willing to live with…” Instead: If you...
3 weeks ago
Not, “what do you think you can get?” Not, “what you’d be willing to live with…” Instead: If you were willing to be on the hook for the responsibility (if it works out) and the disappointment (if it doesn’t), which one do you actually want? It’s harder to answer than it sounds.
One Useful Thing
Choosing to Stay Human
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look...
3 weeks ago
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:
The Elysian
America created the world order—what happens when it leaves?
A new world order is emerging.
3 weeks ago
A new world order is emerging.
Cal Newport
On God and LLMs
The second chapter of Genesis poetically describes the beginning of the human story. “The Lord...
3 weeks ago
The second chapter of Genesis poetically describes the beginning of the human story. “The Lord formed Adam from the dust of the earth,” it reads. ... Read more
The post On God and LLMs appeared first on Cal Newport.
The Honest Broker
What I'm Hearing from Readers
It’s painful to admit, but the comments emails from readers are sometimes better than my articles....
3 weeks ago
It’s painful to admit, but the comments emails from readers are sometimes better than my articles. Here are some recent responses.
Birchtree
+ Three things watching The Crow made me think about art and artists
3 weeks ago
Atoms vs Bits
Measures We Need Now
units that don't exist
3 weeks ago
Slow Boring
Ideas are still big but books got small
Plus Cameron Boozer, the Colin Powell campaign that didn’t happen, and why I’m out on Vienna
3 weeks ago
Plus Cameron Boozer, the Colin Powell campaign that didn’t happen, and why I’m out on Vienna
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Shopping isn't politics (21 May 2026)
Today's links Shopping isn't politics: The personal isn't political. Hey look at this: Delights to...
4 weeks ago
Today's links Shopping isn't politics: The personal isn't political. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Neither arphid nor RFID; Gor novel sex slave cult; Violent economist sex criminals; Vade et caca in pilleum et ipse traheatur super aures tuo; "We...
Some Bits: Nelson's...
Scrapers vs Wikis
Person who runs a bunch of custom Wiki websites writes about abuse from scrapers
4 weeks ago
Person who runs a bunch of custom Wiki websites writes about abuse from scrapers
Scarlet Ink
The Ten Commandments of Maintaining Legacy Code
Writing new software is fun but a minor part of the software engineering job. Let's talk about the...
18th May 2026
Writing new software is fun but a minor part of the software engineering job. Let's talk about the real meat of the job. Legacy code.
oftwominds-Charles...
We've Optimized Fragility, Failure, Denial--and Rage
What happens when optimization is itself the point of failure?
In today's zeitgeist, everything...
17th May 2026
What happens when optimization is itself the point of failure?
In today's zeitgeist, everything must be optimized or we'll fail: our time, productivity, fitness, diet, supplements, career, income, wealth--everything must be constantly optimized lest we fall behind or...
The Honest Broker
The Hottest Musician in 2026 Is 'Problematic' Michael Jackson
And that's exactly what the music business wants
17th May 2026
And that's exactly what the music business wants
Anarchy Unfolds
What if being literate actually hurts our ability to remember?
Reading and writing against civilization
17th May 2026
Reading and writing against civilization
Herbert Lui
Five conditions that amplify your best efforts
Try jumping on a trampoline, on concrete, and on a sofa. You’ll quickly see different results, even...
17th May 2026
Try jumping on a trampoline, on concrete, and on a sofa. You’ll quickly see different results, even with the same effort. Those are conditions. Each condition helps you achieve something different. Is your goal to get as high as possible, as steadily as possible or to create the...
Seth's Blog
“Here’s a pillow the cat didn’t pee on”
Highlighting the non-existent negative is confusing. “Don’t be late,” isn’t as useful as, “We’re...
16th May 2026
Highlighting the non-existent negative is confusing. “Don’t be late,” isn’t as useful as, “We’re going to leave on time.” “I don’t want to be rude, but…” can easily be replaced by simply saying something that isn’t rude. And of course, “with all due respect…” is often the preface...
Wrong Side of...
Suicidal Tendencies
Empathy as societal self-harm
15th May 2026
Empathy as societal self-harm
Anecdotal Evidence
'Enliven This Vale of Tears With a Little Fantasy'
I defy you to identify the
writer being described:
“[A]ll he really wanted to
do in company was to...
15th May 2026
I defy you to identify the
writer being described:
“[A]ll he really wanted to
do in company was to make jokes, to turn the world upside down and laugh at it,
to enrich and enliven this vale of tears with a little fantasy. The important
questions of man’s relationship to God and...
Raptitude.com
How to Just Do a Thing
I keep reading books from the 19th century and earlier, fiction and nonfiction, because I envy...
14th May 2026
I keep reading books from the 19th century and earlier, fiction and nonfiction, because I envy something about the lives of the people in them. I don’t think I’d want to trade places. I’m too accustomed to hot showers and modern dentistry. But people back then seemed to live with...
Jakob Nielsen on UX
The 80-Year History of AI
Humans have been dreaming of thinking machines for more than 2,700 years, but real work on building...
14th May 2026
Humans have been dreaming of thinking machines for more than 2,700 years, but real work on building them started in 1943 with the first neural networks.
Atoms vs Bits
Working Hard, Hardly Working
the space between
14th May 2026
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Mari Hunt
Mari is an artist and printmaker who lives with her family at the foot of the South Downs in West...
13th May 2026
Mari is an artist and printmaker who lives with her family at the foot of the South Downs in West Sussex. She has no formal art training but has always loved to draw - anything and everything! Her work is bold and distinctive with a vibrant use of colour.
For Mari, everything...
Software and Tech...
Software Engineers are Obsolete
In my first interview for a developer position, I shared a link to my personal project with the...
13th May 2026
In my first interview for a developer position, I shared a link to my personal project with the interviewer. It was a website for learning how to program. I created it from the ground up. I built the PHP app, designed the database schema, made a nice design to tie it all...
Flashbak
People of Penn Station, NYC in 1958
“I celebrate the human condition” – Louis Stettner’s people of Penn Station It began in 1957,...
13th May 2026
“I celebrate the human condition” – Louis Stettner’s people of Penn Station It began in 1957, when Louis Stettner saw a girl in party dress skipping across balls of light playing on the stone floor at Pennsylvania Station. Stettner returned a year later to capture the people...
The Works in...
How ASML took over the world
The strange path to global monopoly
13th May 2026
The strange path to global monopoly
Not Boring by Packy...
Riding the Leopard
You are here to experience, or: why differentiation is a moral obligation.
13th May 2026
You are here to experience, or: why differentiation is a moral obligation.
Infinite Scroll
Let Loose the Memes of War
Why is America losing the online propaganda war with Iran?
13th May 2026
Why is America losing the online propaganda war with Iran?
Common Edge
If Everybody’s Using AI, What’s An AI Design Studio For?
Architecture and design education is being fundamentally altered.
12th May 2026
Architecture and design education is being fundamentally altered.
NeuroLogica Blog
NYT Epic Fail on Acupuncture
Dozens of people have e-mailed me about a recent article in the New York Times Magazine on the...
12th May 2026
Dozens of people have e-mailed me about a recent article in the New York Times Magazine on the interstitium. The reason is not because of the interstitium itself, but because it is being used to retcon an alleged explanation for acupuncture. The discussion of the interstitium...
Uncharted...
What Do Muslims Believe ?
Around the world, about the Values Westerners Are Worried About
12th May 2026
Around the world, about the Values Westerners Are Worried About
The Honest Broker
How to Tell If You're Living in a Binary Crisis
And how to get out of it
11th May 2026
the late review
fear of breakdown
a psychopolitical theory
11th May 2026
Explosm.net
Comic for 2026.05.11 - Last Thing
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
11th May 2026
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
Marcus on AI
Misplaced panic over AI progress
Breaking down what METR’s latest “time horizon” graph does and does not show
10th May 2026
Breaking down what METR’s latest “time horizon” graph does and does not show
Winnie Lim
the meaning of my life
For the longest time I had been pondering what is the meaning of life – specifically mine. After...
10th May 2026
For the longest time I had been pondering what is the meaning of life – specifically mine. After pouring through countless books on philosophy, religion and psychotherapy, I’ve decided there is no...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Premium: AI's Circular Psychosis
In this week’s free newsletter, I explained how bad the circular AI economy is in the...
8th May 2026
In this week’s free newsletter, I explained how bad the circular AI economy is in the simplest-possible terms:
Anthropic not have money to pay big cloud bills, because Anthropic company cost lots of money, more money than Anthropic make! So Anthropic only PAY cloud bills if...
Least I Could Do
Off To See The Wizard
Read More
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8th May 2026
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Open for Business
I Want People To Agree With Me, Not Die
Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either...
6th May 2026
Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either President Trump or other members of the administration.
Many people are unhealthily and dangerously angry, and it seems like it’s getting worse.
Stat Significant
Should You Trust the Netflix Top 10? A Statistical Analysis
Netflix’s Top 10 helps us choose faster. But does it help us choose better?
6th May 2026
Netflix’s Top 10 helps us choose faster. But does it help us choose better?
The Pudding
Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise
An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.
4th May 2026
An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.
Nabeel S. Qureshi
What Makes Art Great?
Some notes toward an answer
3rd May 2026
Some notes toward an answer
Internal Tech Emails
Musk v. Altman begins
This is a bait and switch
2nd May 2026
This is a bait and switch
The Honest Broker
12 New YouTube Videos I'm Recommending Right Now
Including the trendiest band of the current moment
2nd May 2026
Including the trendiest band of the current moment
Rare Historical...
These Vintage Alcohol Ads Are as Bizarre as They Are Fascinating
There is a certain kind of discomfort that comes from flipping through old magazines from the 1960s...
1st May 2026
There is a certain kind of discomfort that comes from flipping through old magazines from the 1960s and 1970s. Not because they feel foreign, but because they don’t, entirely. The clothes changed. The hairstyles changed. The alcohol ads, though, reveal something rawer about that...
Probably...
Planning for your midlife crisis
Yesterday I presented a talk at ODSC East 2026, called “Counterfactual Analysis with Bayesian...
1st May 2026
Yesterday I presented a talk at ODSC East 2026, called “Counterfactual Analysis with Bayesian Models: What Drives the Life Expectancy Gap?” Here’s the abstract Across nearly every country in the world, women live longer than men—but the size of this gap varies from about two...
Seth's Blog
“The most exciting mobile trend is full Qwerty keyboards”
The creators of the Blackberry were sure that customers loved the keyboard. That’s what they heard...
1st May 2026
The creators of the Blackberry were sure that customers loved the keyboard. That’s what they heard all day from their users, and it must have been right since they had a huge share of the mobile phone market. When the iPhone came out, it wasn’t seen as a threat because it had no...
Buttondown's blog
What email will look like in the future
On patching a 1981-era system mid-flight
1st May 2026
On patching a 1981-era system mid-flight
Software and Tech...
Have You Seen the New Excel?
Stop coding. Stop hiring. Stop building.
While the tech world obsesses over large language models...
29th Apr 2026
Stop coding. Stop hiring. Stop building.
While the tech world obsesses over large language models and neural networks, I discovered the real disruptor that has been hiding in plain sight. Mine was originally installed on my desktop in 1992. And now, it's about to change...
High Signal
$117k MRR for Dropmagic 💰
$117k MRR for Dropmagic 💰 Plus, all the week's best indie startup news
29th Apr 2026
$117k MRR for Dropmagic 💰 Plus, all the week's best indie startup news
Asterisk
Are Prediction Markets Good for Anything?
We all know they’re casinos. It’s time to look at the data behind the froth.
29th Apr 2026
We all know they’re casinos. It’s time to look at the data behind the froth.
The Elysian
The Internet has no benches
The case internet neighborhoods we can hang out in.
28th Apr 2026
The case internet neighborhoods we can hang out in.
oftwominds-Charles...
Sex, Money and Demographics
Maybe focusing on next quarter's profits and reaping short-term gains from financializing everything...
27th Apr 2026
Maybe focusing on next quarter's profits and reaping short-term gains from financializing everything under the sun with debt weren't such great ideas after all.
Traditionally, the two taboo subjects are sex and money. Perhaps we should add demographics, as sex and money...
Overcoming Bias
Where You Are Most Wrong
What are you the most wrong about?
27th Apr 2026
What are you the most wrong about?
UX Collective
The beginning of a fantastic voyage?
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
27th Apr 2026
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Retail Design Blog
Airbnb Market Ready, Building 2 by Studio G Architects Inc
Studio G Architects Inc. designed the Airbnb Market Ready, Building 2 in Santa Clara to foster...
27th Apr 2026
Studio G Architects Inc. designed the Airbnb Market Ready, Building 2 in Santa Clara to foster collaboration through hospitality-inspired spaces,...
The American Scholar
The People’s Critic
Michael Steinberg’s profound insights on music transcended the ephemeral world of daily newspaper...
27th Apr 2026
Michael Steinberg’s profound insights on music transcended the ephemeral world of daily newspaper journalism
The post The People’s Critic appeared first on The American Scholar.
Balancing Act
The Mess Is the Work
The 99.9% just became the whole job
26th Apr 2026
The 99.9% just became the whole job
Looking Through the...
Tobacco: a Stimulant That Made the Modern World
Tobacco is like love?
26th Apr 2026
bookbear express
some things I've learned about dealing with people
:)
26th Apr 2026
SatPost by Trung...
Tim Cook's Apple
A breakdown of Tim Cook's 15-year CEO run, taking Apple from $350 billion to $4 trillion: The Good,...
24th Apr 2026
A breakdown of Tim Cook's 15-year CEO run, taking Apple from $350 billion to $4 trillion: The Good, The Bad and the Apple Intelligence
Noahpinion
Why shoplifting is bad
It may feel like a small act of rebellion, but it hurts a lot of people who don't deserve it.
24th Apr 2026
It may feel like a small act of rebellion, but it hurts a lot of people who don't deserve it.
Infinite Scroll
The Death of Gatekeepers
And the most enraging thing about our clout-chasing media system
24th Apr 2026
And the most enraging thing about our clout-chasing media system
Never Met a Science
in the belly of the MrBeast
Editor’s note: This one, empirically, my most successful attempt to condense my academic theorizing...
24th Apr 2026
Editor’s note: This one, empirically, my most successful attempt to condense my academic theorizing for a broader audience: when I posted it the first time it hit number 2 on the front page of Hacker News.
Classical Wisdom
Calm in the Storm
Essential perspective for navigating a turbulent world...
23rd Apr 2026
Essential perspective for navigating a turbulent world...
Some Bits: Nelson's...
Claude postmortem
Details on why the AI acted dumb the last few weeks
23rd Apr 2026
Details on why the AI acted dumb the last few weeks
the singularity is...
Positivity
Today is a good day for positivity. Sometimes I get so focused on the negative that I forget how...
23rd Apr 2026
Today is a good day for positivity. Sometimes I get so focused on the negative that I forget how good things actually are.
We are alive to see the birth of machine intelligence. Something that would have entirely displaced Google 10 years ago runs on your laptop. The best AI...
NeuroLogica Blog
A Unique Case of Psychogenic Blindness and Multiple Personality
This interesting case was reported in the literature in 2007. For some reason it was then widely...
23rd Apr 2026
This interesting case was reported in the literature in 2007. For some reason it was then widely published in the mainstream media in 2015. Now it is making the rounds again on social media to support a false narrative about brain function. The story is of a 20 year old German...
Stat Significant
How Kids' Movies Became Hollywood's Most Reliable Bet
How children’s entertainment took over Hollywood.
22nd Apr 2026
How children’s entertainment took over Hollywood.
Farnam Street
Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI
The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-founder and...
22nd Apr 2026
The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-founder and President of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and GPT-5. He was the first engineer at Stripe before leaving in 2015 to help start OpenAI. In this rare conversation, Greg goes...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Standard
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21st Apr 2026
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Rare Historical...
These Studio Portraits Show Exactly How Young Men Dressed in the Early 1990s
Most of what we think we remember about 1990s fashion comes from movies, music videos, and magazine...
21st Apr 2026
Most of what we think we remember about 1990s fashion comes from movies, music videos, and magazine spreads. But those were costumes. These portraits are something else entirely. They show what regular young men actually pulled out of their closets on an ordinary day, and the...
Caitlin’s Newsletter
Biden Official: Biden Was Preparing To Bomb Iran If Re-Elected
Reading by Tim Foley:
21st Apr 2026
Atoms vs Bits
I got scammed on a refurbished iPhone and it was probably net good for me
just documenting
20th Apr 2026
Birchtree
+ Argue more effectively
You can't cast a whole group of people as "evil" and then be surprised when they don't come around...
20th Apr 2026
You can't cast a whole group of people as "evil" and then be surprised when they don't come around to your side.
Looking Through the...
Sugar: a Stimulant That Made the Modern World
Chasing that sugar high
19th Apr 2026
Least I Could Do
Earn and Redeem Points!
The post Earn and Redeem Points! appeared first on Least I Could Do.
18th Apr 2026
The post Earn and Redeem Points! appeared first on Least I Could Do.
Cremieux Recueil
I Don't Believe In 'Gluten Intolerance'
There's no convincing evidence for 'non-celiac gluten sensitivity'
16th Apr 2026
There's no convincing evidence for 'non-celiac gluten sensitivity'
Marcus on AI
Peak absurdity, Part II
You can’t make this up
15th Apr 2026
Stat Significant
Has New Music Become Less Popular? A Statistical Analysis
Are newly released songs losing their grip on popular culture?
15th Apr 2026
Are newly released songs losing their grip on popular culture?
Ed Zitron's Where's...
I Will Never Respect A Website
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14th Apr 2026
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It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000
Wanderingspace
Total eclipse of Artemis
From NASA: The Moon, backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse, is photographed by NASA’s Orion...
14th Apr 2026
From NASA: The Moon, backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse, is photographed by NASA’s Orion spacecraft on April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II mission. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly...
Software and Tech...
Back button hijacking is going away
When websites are blatantly hostile, users close them to never come back. Have you ever downloaded...
14th Apr 2026
When websites are blatantly hostile, users close them to never come back. Have you ever downloaded an app, realized it was deceptive, and deleted it immediately? It's a common occurrence for me. But there is truly hostile software that we still end up using daily. We don't just...
The Honest Broker
How to Be a Serious Reader
Henry Oliver on developing literary taste in an age of TV binge-watching and dumbed-down mass...
13th Apr 2026
Henry Oliver on developing literary taste in an age of TV binge-watching and dumbed-down mass culture
RhysTranter.com
The Meaning of Logos
Taken from Fr John Nepil‘s To Heights and Unto Depths: Letters from the Colorado Trail: “Creation...
11th Apr 2026
Taken from Fr John Nepil‘s To Heights and Unto Depths: Letters from the Colorado Trail: “Creation felt symphonic Everything from the wildflowers below to the stratus clouds above spoke of order and design. The ancients had a word for this-one that would in time become intensely...
oftwominds-Charles...
Automating Our Dependence Will Cripple Us
The rush to monetize automation / AI is self-liquidating.
Dependence is easy but crippling....
9th Apr 2026
The rush to monetize automation / AI is self-liquidating.
Dependence is easy but crippling. When we're children or advanced in age, we're dependent on adults for our care. This is the normal flow of human life. But when we're dependent as adults, it cripples us, for it...
Herbert Lui
Creative enfeeblement
You and I are using AI. Maybe a lot, and that involvement is only increasing. One of the...
9th Apr 2026
You and I are using AI. Maybe a lot, and that involvement is only increasing. One of the consequences of using it so much is relying on it, potentially to the point of our minds growing feeble. A useful question to ask: What would you do if it disappeared tomorrow? Would you be...
matduggan.com
You can absolutely have an RSS dependent website in 2026
I write stuff here. Sometimes the stuff is good. Sometimes it reads like I wrote it at 2 AM after an...
9th Apr 2026
I write stuff here. Sometimes the stuff is good. Sometimes it reads like I wrote it at 2 AM after an argument with a YAML file, which is because I did. But one decision I made early on was that I didn't want to offer an email newsletter.
Caitlin’s Newsletter
The Empire Backs Down, For Now
Reading by Tim Foley:
8th Apr 2026
Krebs on Security
Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens
Hackers linked to Russia’s military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet...
7th Apr 2026
Hackers linked to Russia’s military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon...
Least I Could Do
Just Asking Questions
The post Just Asking Questions appeared first on Least I Could Do.
7th Apr 2026
The post Just Asking Questions appeared first on Least I Could Do.
The Diff
Uncanny AI
Plus! Organic Content; Inconsistent Candor; Liquidity; Return to Office; Long-Lead Time Hacking
6th Apr 2026
Plus! Organic Content; Inconsistent Candor; Liquidity; Return to Office; Long-Lead Time Hacking
Noahpinion
Roundup #80: All AI, all the time
Growth; Biosecurity; Cybersecurity; Pseudonymity; Quant trading; AI adoption
5th Apr 2026
Growth; Biosecurity; Cybersecurity; Pseudonymity; Quant trading; AI adoption
The Honest Broker
How to Read the Great Books in 52 Weeks
A conversation on my humanities reading program
5th Apr 2026
A conversation on my humanities reading program
Wrong Side of...
The city of luxury beliefs
San Francisco
4th Apr 2026
Seth's Blog
Where do bad choices come from?
We all make them from time to time. You might not know what you need to know. This is where...
4th Apr 2026
We all make them from time to time. You might not know what you need to know. This is where experience is created. You might have an identity that pushes you to make those choices. If you’re determined to act like the person you have assumed you are, the choices come with the...
Cremieux Recueil
When Did Poor People Get Fat?
Are poor people fat because of the welfare state? Probably not
3rd Apr 2026
Are poor people fat because of the welfare state? Probably not
Flashbak
An Invitation to The Rats Wedding And Vietnam’s Ðông Hồ Folk Paintings
Often used to illustrate Vietnamese New Year, Ðông Hồ paintings are bright, witty riffs on society...
1st Apr 2026
Often used to illustrate Vietnamese New Year, Ðông Hồ paintings are bright, witty riffs on society and human desire. The traditional themes of Đông Hồ painting and woodblock prints are good luck signs, historical figures, folk allegories, popular stories, and social commentaries....
Yale E360
More Than 110 New Species Discovered In Deep Waters Off Australia
Scientists have identified more than 110 new species found in deep water beyond the edges of...
1st Apr 2026
Scientists have identified more than 110 new species found in deep water beyond the edges of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Classical Wisdom
How Do YOU Walk?
The Surprising Importance of Your Stride
31st Mar 2026
The Surprising Importance of Your Stride
The Quanta Podcast
Why Do Humanoid Robots Still Struggle With the Small Stuff?
Humanoid robots can run, crawl, and sort objects in flashy demos. So why can’t they reliably climb...
31st Mar 2026
Humanoid robots can run, crawl, and sort objects in flashy demos. So why can’t they reliably climb stairs or open doors? On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, host Samir Patel speaks with contributing writer John Pavlus on why robots still struggle with the messy physics of the...
Rare Historical...
Rare Photos Reveal the Underground Punk Scene in 1980s Communist East Germany
Beneath the gray concrete and rigid control of the German Democratic Republic in the 1980s, a quiet...
27th Mar 2026
Beneath the gray concrete and rigid control of the German Democratic Republic in the 1980s, a quiet rebellion pulsed through cellars, abandoned factories, and dimly lit basements. The underground punk scene in East Germany was more than a musical movement; it was an expression of...
The Works in...
Did status signaling ruin architecture?
Episode 15 of the Works in Progress is about ornament, taste, and modernism.
25th Mar 2026
Episode 15 of the Works in Progress is about ornament, taste, and modernism.
Works in Progress...
A brief history of instant coffee
Instant coffee seems unremarkable. It’s just powder and hot water. But making it work took decades.
25th Mar 2026
Instant coffee seems unremarkable. It’s just powder and hot water. But making it work took decades.
Trying to Understand...
Plans, Platforms And Projectiles.
The longer-term meaning of the Iran war.
25th Mar 2026
The longer-term meaning of the Iran war.
A Collection of...
Miscellanea: The War in Iran
This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader...
25th Mar 2026
This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any special information, so I am going to treat that all with a high degree of uncertainty....
Caitlin’s Newsletter
The Problem Isn't "Kings", The Problem Is US Presidents
Reading by Tim Foley:
25th Mar 2026
The Deleted Scenes
Nostalgia and NIMBYism
Meeting our need for meaningful, enduring places
24th Mar 2026
Meeting our need for meaningful, enduring places
Paul Cudenec
A shadowy shaper of global tyranny
[I read the article here]
24th Mar 2026
[I read the article here]
bookbear express
conflict is the art of checking underneath the rocks
avoidance, etc
23rd Mar 2026
Some Bits: Nelson's...
DMARC statistics
Data on email signatures. About 30% of domains now are saying "if the mail is not signed right treat...
22nd Mar 2026
Data on email signatures. About 30% of domains now are saying "if the mail is not signed right treat it as spam". More than I'd guess!
Stat Significant
The Billion-Dollar Business of ABBA
How ABBA turned joy, nostalgia, and musical IP into a billion-dollar enterprise.
18th Mar 2026
How ABBA turned joy, nostalgia, and musical IP into a billion-dollar enterprise.
Stratechery by Ben...
An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang About Accelerated Computing
An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about his GTC 2026 keynote, navigating China and DC, and...
17th Mar 2026
An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about his GTC 2026 keynote, navigating China and DC, and remembering Nvidia's true nature.
Build In Public...
Your AI forgets everything when the session ends. XHawk is fixing that.
Puneet Singh spent years watching engineering knowledge evaporate between coding sessions. He built...
16th Mar 2026
Puneet Singh spent years watching engineering knowledge evaporate between coding sessions. He built a system to stop it.
Obsolete Sony’s...
Last chance to get Sony: Year by Year before the reprint closes
The final window to order a copy.
15th Mar 2026
The final window to order a copy.
The Intimate Mirror
Intelligence: A User’s Guide
Read before operating.
15th Mar 2026
Winnie Lim
wet blanket
A long while ago I told a friend I didn’t feel like I was up to catching up because I have become a...
15th Mar 2026
A long while ago I told a friend I didn’t feel like I was up to catching up because I have become a very cynical and “negative” person since the pandemic started...
Software and Tech...
You Digg?
For me, being part of an online community started with Digg. Digg was the precursor to Reddit and...
14th Mar 2026
For me, being part of an online community started with Digg. Digg was the precursor to Reddit and the place to be on the internet. I never got a MySpace account, I was late to the Facebook game, but I was on Digg.
When Digg redesigned their website (V4), it felt like a slap in...
Tech and Tea
A Day in the Life of a Solo-ish Builder
What my days actually look like right now, AI workflows, and some random tangents.
12th Mar 2026
What my days actually look like right now, AI workflows, and some random tangents.
Marcus on AI
Is the US military actually afraid of Claude? A new theory of why Anthropic was labeled a supply...
Unpacking a perplexing argument from the Pentagon
12th Mar 2026
Unpacking a perplexing argument from the Pentagon
Birchtree
I waited on this rumor so long we already know it's wrong
Joe Rossignol: Apple's Upcoming Studio Display 2 Rumored to Have an Unusual Feature
The tipster...
11th Mar 2026
Joe Rossignol: Apple's Upcoming Studio Display 2 Rumored to Have an Unusual Feature
The tipster believes that a 90Hz refresh rate would make sense due to bandwidth considerations. Thunderbolt 5 can support 5K resolution at 120Hz without any compression, but they think Apple...
oftwominds-Charles...
Paging Nostradamus: You Have a Margin Call
If conditions change beneath the surface, the folks behind the curtain will be powerless to do...
11th Mar 2026
If conditions change beneath the surface, the folks behind the curtain will be powerless to do anything but make it worse.
This just in: predicting is hard, especially about the future. One solution is ambiguity: couch predictions in poetic allusions that are open to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Learn
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10th Mar 2026
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Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5
It feels good to get back to some of the fun stuff.
9th Mar 2026
It feels good to get back to some of the fun stuff.
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Nice Name
Gwen Stacy – AKA Spider-Gwen, AKA The Ghost Spider – sits on a building sign: The top of the Hotel...
7th Mar 2026
Gwen Stacy – AKA Spider-Gwen, AKA The Ghost Spider – sits on a building sign: The top of the Hotel New Yorker on west 34th Street: ‘Nuff said.
NeuroLogica Blog
Scientists Grow Chickpeas In Lunar(ish) Soil
If we are going to have an enduring presence on either the Moon or Mars, or anyplace off of Earth,...
6th Mar 2026
If we are going to have an enduring presence on either the Moon or Mars, or anyplace off of Earth, we will need to grow food there. It is simply too expensive, inconvenient, and fragile to be dependent on food entirely from Earth. In fact, any off-Earth habitat will need to be...
Contraption Co.
Sync, phone numbers, and webhooks
A couple of weeks have passed since I last posted. If this were an email, it would start with "Sorry...
5th Mar 2026
A couple of weeks have passed since I last posted. If this were an email, it would start with "Sorry for the slow response."
Sync
A project I built just shipped at Chroma. I added Amazon S3 sync support to Chroma Cloud. This service lets people easily add
Uncharted...
Iran: The Day After
What's going to happen in the coming days and weeks?
3rd Mar 2026
What's going to happen in the coming days and weeks?
Obsolete Sony’s...
Why PlayStation 6 Still Has No Release Window
How the PS3 Era Rewrote Sony’s Rules
3rd Mar 2026
How the PS3 Era Rewrote Sony’s Rules
Slow Boring
Lobsters and the limits of neoliberalism
We don’t need an abundance agenda for *everything*
2nd Mar 2026
We don’t need an abundance agenda for *everything*
Caitlin’s Newsletter
US Calls Iranian Retaliatory Strikes "Unprovoked", And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley:
2nd Mar 2026
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