Greeting from Denver, Colorado. Every third guy here looks like he's a local hardcore scene legend, and I kinda love it.

Uber employees have an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — and use 'Dara AI' before talking to the big boss himself
More evidence that you can replace CEOs with automation.

DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media
The kids are all right.

Teens Are Over Superheroes, Want To See More “Connected Masculinity” Onscreen, Says Survey
The kids are all right, part 2.

The Asoh Defense: “As you Americans say, I ** up”
Definitely pulled this one before not knowing it had a name.

Why isn’t LA repaving streets?
Definitely some crossover for how digital accessibility plays out.

How a Dungeons & Dragons meetup turned into mutual aid during ICE operations
Heck yeah.

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’
Cruel and unnecessary.

How to downgrade from macOS 26 Tahoe on a new Mac
lol even Ars is on it

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast
"With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of ‘dark breakfasts,’ breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?"

Rando Sans — a handwritten font that cycles variations as you type.
This is wild.

How US tech giants supplied Israel with AI models, raising questions about tech’s role in warfare
"Still, one intelligence officer said he had seen targeting mistakes that relied on incorrect machine translations from Arabic to Hebrew."

The rise of end times fascism
"Gone are the old colonial fig leaves of spreading democracy or God’s word – when Trump covetously scans the globe, he is stockpiling for civilizational collapse."

How to stop a dictator
"To defeat an authoritarian project, people — in courts, legislatures, the military, business, civil society, and the mass public — must choose to fight rather than collaborate in democratic decline or ignore it altogether."

Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it
Ugh.

World is entering an era of 'water bankruptcy'
We're so cooked.

There is a Climate Emergency, and It’s Called Colonialism.
…and speaking of.

Stevo's GenAI Blocklist
"Set of uBlock Origin filters intended to block generative AI features on various websites."

The Disability Caste System: Who Gets to Be “Disabled Enough”?
"If we want to lead differently, we must stop replicating these dynamics."

Design Systems Are the Accountability Layer for AI-Generated Software
"In every one of these contexts, the design system reduces time to accountability."

Meditations on well-designed things: the rice cooker
"The old style rice cooker, while lacking explicit options for multiple features, is so conceptually simple that it doesn’t need multiple features. The design is self explanatory, and further flexibility is limited only by the user’s ingenuity."

New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue
Yooooo.

Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure
Get em.

Yugoslavia’s secret weapon against Soviet influence: YuMex culture
"I am always amused about how rich and intricate Mexican history is and how little we seem to know about how far its influence reached."

Photos show China’s low-cost lifestyle in vast, semiabandoned housing complexes
This is so ironically surreal.

Deterministic vs. idempotent
Instructive!

Parakaryon
Good job being you, you weird little guy.