[SC 2.4.4] Make sure the right thing is centered
I wrote about my managing my feelings at work when being compelled to vibe code, and how I'm trying to make sure the right thing is centered here.
Arm Joe
I need you to understand that this is a Les Miseables-based fighting game.
Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles
And speaking of video games, dang, they put the work in.
Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time
Cool and great.
Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
This is my surprised face.
CrankGPT — A fully offline, off-the-grid AI box.
There's a lotta jokes I want to crack here.
Where’s the holistic AI productivity data?
"The lack of rigour disquiets me."
Taking on the Annoyance Economy
"For most people, the Annoyance Economy isn’t an abstract concept but a daily reality of wasted hours and drained wallets — to the tune of more than $165 billion per year."
If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort
Banger of a title.
3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing
🤘 NECROPRINTING
Please, use a link!
Here we are, in 2026, still having to write this shit.
The Largest Review of Synthetic Participants Ever Conducted Found Exactly What You'd Expect. Synthetic Users Don't Work.
Who could have forseen, etc.
The world’s first trillionaire is a killer
"The intentional destruction of the ability to save lives and reduce suffering is psychopathic behavior — the kind that would prevent any rational, kind person from giving power to anyone capable of it. But here we are."
Rejected Emoji Proposals
- h/t Edward
we were online
This is a cute idea!
Pick up just about any novel and you'll find the phrase "somewhere a dog barked."
It's true!
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
Meta having a normal one!
Solar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time: Report
Hell yeah.
Nobody clicks your share buttons
I remember back when I cared a lot more about news website design the number of battles we had over trying to get rid of these horrid little buttons.
Threads of underground fungal networks are long enough to reach beyond the Solar System
Good job, fungus!
Extinction-level Capitalism: A citizen’s thoughts
on AI risk
"Structurally, Big AI seeks to build a moat around US economic growth by normalizing AI as a cognitive intermediary where knowledge work—roughly, economically valuable thinking and creativity—will happen."
Appreciation for the small web
I've also been enjoying bubbles.town!
Hyperfascism
"Hyperfascism’s sole imperative is to produce one horrible, transfixing image after another; the images themselves may be hyperreal, but the cost of creating them is all too real."
A tale of two browsers
My feelings exactly.
new england is still a calvinist experiment
I live in New England and not gonna lie, reading this rocked me.
Sexually Rejected Flies Turn to Booze
They're just like us!
The rise of industrial software
"The open question, then, is not whether industrial software will dominate, but what that dominance does to the surrounding ecosystem"
The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust
Well, yeah.
Improvements to Web for AI Should Benefit All Users
"I hope we can all agree that user needs come before agent needs. We should keep this in mind as we consider proposals to modify the web to support AI."
The US Government Is Letting a Key Data Center Regulation Expire
oh.
Google Chrome’s next update will mark the end of popular ad blockers
I'm using Vivaldi to write this. It uses Chromium under the hood, and its been a really nice Chrome replacement, especially after their last major redesign.
Banned Book Library
Sneaky 💡
Kalambo structure
Yoooooooooo.
Heikki's Garden of Flowers
Heikki's Garden of Flowers aims to be a comprehensive catalogue of historical and contemporary pictorial letterpress works.
