Greetings again from my bedroom, where drywall screws are getting drilled into place right above my head. It sure is an experience!

Bandai Unveils New Mobile Stationery Line with Auto-Transforming Business Card Cases!
I NEED IT

How American Bureaucracy (Literally) Steals Years From Your Life
"Signature boxes and document portals have become costs of and barriers to transport, shelter, and medical care."

Capybaras keep their chill while crashing Brazilian legislature
I wonder if capybara mayors would be as chill as places that elect dog mayors.

afterglow - Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
Delivers what it promises.

The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
Look at all them adverbs.

Solar energy from railways shows first positive results in Switzerland
Very cool.

Why the R-Word Is the Defining Slur of the Trump Era
"When we do this, we effectively concede a dangerous point: that some people’s lives are more valuable than others’ and that a person’s productivity determines their worth."

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I don't think I'm smart enough to get this, but it sure does seem cool.

Fascists Really Believe It
This is me screaming at most Democrats for years now.

‘Starwashing’: The new space race has an environmental problem
Another good example of "so that's the name for this thing!"

How many unsolicited messages do you get a day?
This is not for me, but I thought it was clever.

Borg Complex, technofatalism and think-hostility
"When those in power embrace fatalism and the deterministic message that alternative paths are no longer available, a power game grows in which ordinary people find it increasingly difficult to have their objections heard or their concerns acknowledged"

Vellumproof
What a clever use of git.

Defrag 98
Soothing!

There's no such thing as Just a Tool
There's a lot of good writing here, but "For a human-fork gestalt, this is a prohibitive amount of chilli." is an especially good turn of phrase.

1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe
Here's a link you can use. And here's more mainstream coverage, let's keep the pressure up.

And here's some more related links on [this whole awful thing](https://brennan.day/normalized-fascism-in-open-source-12-million-given-to-dhh/], and the people behind it.

Technical note: transfer files over an ethernet patch cable
haha what

SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive
More evidence we don't need CEOs.

Consumer Rights Wiki
Bookmarked!

The Components We Don’t Talk About Enough: Snowflake Edition
I enjoyed this, as someone who has definitely made their fair share of snowflake components 😅

MotionSpec
There is definitely a trend I'm noticing where someone uses AI to create rentware for something you should just, you know, be doing as a matter of course.

"the whale does not owe us a translation"
"Understanding is not the same thing as entitlement."