Greetings from a rental house with god-awful internet. We're redoing our bathroom, so I'm trying to take advantage of the change of scenery and slow down a bit. It ain't easy, I tell you what.

Pipes CSS
That screensaver you might remember: now in CSS!

VA launches psilocybin trial for Veterans with treatment-resistant depression
Nice. I hope it can help.

Accessibility Bugs Are Often Architecture Bugs
"Developers still need to understand accessibility, but the codebase should not depend entirely on memory, good intentions, or last-minute review comments."

Ordinary Abundance
"All the items in this room were once out of reach; some not yet invented, others too rare or costly for the vast majority of people."

Backyard Designer's Club
Hero worship kills communities, and shit like this irritates the crap out of me.

There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
"Good writing is a tool to clearly communicate ideas from your brain into someone else’s."

‘A mouse can’t tell us what works’: UK scientists to grow miniature human organs for drug testing
Yooooooo.

Twitch Won’t Label Which Streams Are And Aren't Using AI, So Streamers Are Doing It Themselves
Nature is healing.

I recently sat down for coffee with one of my oldest friends in the industry
Been here.

What a dead salmon reminds us about fMRI analysis
"The work is, however, a compelling and humorous demonstration of the problem of multiple comparisons."

noRecognition Adversarial Clothing
Well, this is neat.

Seeing Black Scholars Targeted, Noticing What Too Many Miss
"Obsessing over whether a person of color deserves a spot prevents everyone from noticing that white people get and keep positions without needing to be impressive at all."

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
Hey, remember when browsers used to be for the people who used them?

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Let These Avengers Radicalize You
I gotta get my hands on a copy of this.

Memories Mysteriously Survive After Brain Shutdown, And Scientists Don’t Know Why
Windows 98 shutdown noise

Meta Smart Glasses Empower Blind People to Participate in Corporate Surveillance
Man, I love the Squeaky Wheel.

A Collection of Vintage New York City Drug Dealer Bags
Delivers what it promises.

Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?
"Natural efficiency is, perhaps, innately appealing to us."

The System From Nowhere
"This incompetence goes beyond some scapegoat engineer. It is an industry orientation: what OpenAI calls ;research velocity' is what social media once called 'move fast and break things.'"

The Economy Has Spoken: Stuff That’s AI-Generated Has Almost Zero Value
wow you don't fuckin' say

Coin-Op and Console Game Promo Tapes
Hook it directly into my veins.

AI’s Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds
Reading this, I'm thinking of the sin eater scapegoat environment guy that was hired to help greenwash all this shit. He was annoying as fuck.

Meta faces a $1.4 trillion reckoning in latest trial over social media addiction
The world would be better without Meta in it.

GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement
Said it before and I'll said it again: Most of the internet's infrastructure should be co-ops.

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
Privatized healthcare is a choice we make, and we suffer for it over and over and over again.

This Extremely Rare Neurological Condition Makes Faces Appear Distorted or ‘Like a Demon’
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All the concerns that make me a boring civil servant
What a lovely post.