Hello, here's a video of a mushroom playing a synth. It is super freaking weird to me that the music mushrooms make sounds like what we think the music mushrooms would make, but hey, here we are.

MBI – The Tie Club Exclusive
lol

Solitaire Alone Together
Delivers what it promises.

150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped in The Atlantic. Decades Later, It's Visibly Oozing.
"This presented the researchers with an unexpected problem. The barrels weren't simply containers slowly releasing radioactive material into an empty abyss. They had become part of the ecosystem."

Make Money to Make More Websites
"If you ultimately prioritize making money, then what’s going to be ultimately great about your company is you make a lot of money […]. Conversely, if you ultimately prioritize making movies, than what’s going to be ultimately great about your company is your movies."

Search the tax lists
So apparently in Norway anyone can look up anybody else's income, but also that person can also see that you've looked.

The Ridiculous Reason Why the U.S. Enacted a Wartime Ban on Sliced Bread Sales—and Why It Didn’t Last Long
"New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia argued that the order wasted bread and created demand for steel knives, even as other government agencies declared a steel shortage."

The Publisher of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Is Now Aiming for Adult Readers
hon hon hon

Why No One Wants to Date Tech Bros
Get 'em, Wired.

Malleable software
There's a lot to quote here, but this is just generally a very good essay.

I don't want the details
Man, this kind of culture is sadly very rare.

Engineering Animals to Grow Human Organs — But Not Human Minds
I, um. Wow.

Why is the human body so crap except for the liver?
Shoutout to when my art school sculpture professor yelled at me because I laughed when he said the human body was a beautiful masterpiece.

Every Object an Archive
"A research project about what it was like to live with once-ubiquitous technologies and what happens when they disappear."

Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
"Disastrous experiment" is too kind a phrasing for this.

‘Pink Slime’ Is Infecting AI Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms
One of the reasons that I'm grouchy about AI—that is often left out of most critique—is the black box relationship we have with their mainstream providers and how that affects what we know.

Trippy Fractal
Also delivers what it promises.

All Major Social Networks Refusing to Promote Documentary That Made Elon Musk Mad
Streisand Effect: Do your thing.

Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
I am firmly convinced that nearly any attempt to improve performance via CSS is time better spent removing JS.

A Trump team wants to automate U.S. Web Design System accessibility testing. Experts are worried.
I hate these technoableist engineer dorks that think accessibility is something you can "solve" via automation.

These AI Companies Should Be Responsible For Everything They Do, And The Fact Nobody Is Holding Them Accountable Is Driving Me Insane
Yuuuuuuuup.

Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests
Funny, that.

Jumbo opens ‘chat checkouts’ to combat loneliness among the elderly
It's cool what you can do when you're not so psychopathically focused on maximizing profit that you get tunnel vision.

The science of Monkey Island: can grog actually dissolve a metal mug that fast?
NEWS YOU CAN USE

Dox for Me, O Muse: Meta’s New AI Agent Built Lists of People in Vulnerable Groups on Request
oh.

The Commenters
The call of the true poster is one that is difficult not to answer.

McDonald's is reportedly using AI to "dynamically" price its burgers
🎵 This should be illegal 🎵

Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use
It's so cool how you can just… ignore laws without consequence.

Websites for designers who want to work on hard problems
Fuck your unsolicited Spotify redesign, give me more of this.

The death of web development education
"The web is a radical democratic medium. Right now, tech oligarchs and fascist movements are trying to dismantle its radical potential. We must ensure that everyone can shape the web."