We had a hack week at work and focused on centralizing our documentation. This means I got to migrate some deep-dive content on HTML semantics into a public place. It also meant I got to sneak in a reference to Sir Mix-a-Lot.

We Might Not Be So Strange
"If Mills and colleagues are right that there are indeed no truly hard steps to intelligent life, then why didn’t we appear on Earth much sooner?"

In 2025, I thought a lot about the things I want to say to my boss
Yeah.

Using Calibri on .gov sites
Your CSS is an interface, and it can be an interface to counteract petty dipshits.

Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers
oh.

Meta allegedly buried research showing its products are harming users
I don't know why people are surprised about things like this.

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Oh-ho!

Orangutan seen treating wound with medicinal plant in world first
Good job, little guy!

Need laundry folded? Don’t ask a robot
"That challenge is easier for people, because we are sensory sponges."

The Asahi Illusion
"Interestingly, the pupils of both primates and rats constrict when viewing the figure, evidence of similarity in perception between humans and animals."

Amazon Pulls AI Recap Video After ‘Fallout’ Mess
More evidence that bullying works, and by bullying I mean enforcing the smallest shred of accountability.

Doom Studio id Software Unionizes To Secure AI Protections, Benefits: ‘We See The Direction The Industry Is Headed’
There are so, so many quotable lines here.

Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner
"Gartner’s fears about the agentic capabilities of AI browser relate to their susceptibility to “indirect prompt-injection-induced rogue agent actions, inaccurate reasoning-driven erroneous agent actions, and further loss and abuse of credentials if the AI browser is deceived into autonomously navigating to a phishing website.”"

Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages
If only there was some way to prevent this.

The Rise And Fall of Queer Cartoons
"Fiction is inherently destabilising because it cannot help but force viewers to see things outside of their perspective."

During Helene, I Just Wanted a Plain Text Website
Remembering when a coworker got chewed out for building a text-only version of the newspaper we worked at, and how petty and short-sighted upper management was.

Dissent
"Because ‘want’ doesn’t mean ‘uses’."

The true story of Nintendo's most coveted game
I freaking love that this story is being told on ESPN of all places.

Freakpages
A site made just for me!

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die
A sane, healthy, and functioning society would scatter OpenAI to the four winds and salt the earth where it grew.

This is not the future
"NFTs were not inevitable. The Metaverse was not inevitable."

The Tech Industry Is Forcing Employees to Choose a Side
Tech is rediscovering both "making things people actually want to use" and also "doubling down on being horrible".

Oilwell
Pitch-perfect.

The Scourge of Arial
Here are a lot of words about not-Helvetica.

Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes And Travis Kelce’s Steakhouse
Every sentence of this roast is a gift.

Gmail Email Sent - Chrome Web Store
Sometimes the web is very, very good.