I was going to send this out yesterday, but was blocked by Buttondown pending an account review. I guess my links are too powerful.

FDA approves 1st mRNA flu shot, from Moderna
Yoooo.

New images of the sun show its surface in the finest detail yet
That's hot.

Grokipedia Stopped Reviewing Edits in April. It Didn’t Tell Anyone.
oh.

The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you.
"Just fix your fucking code. Pour some concrete. And stop trying to upgrade my body when the problem is your design."

Generative design of bacteriophages with genome language models
I too watched Jurassic Park.

Hello Local Business, Your AI Ads Are Costing You Customers
The title says it all, but I'm also glad someone is saying it.

Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
GEE, I FUCKIN' WONDER WHY

What happens to our blogs when we die?
I've thought about this one some. In the same vein as you are only truly dead once everyone stops remembering you: I'll try and leave a healthy donation to archive.org, and then just let the blog fade away.

Executable Emoji
I love that there are people out there thinking thoughts like this and acting on them.

Massachusetts prosecutors run their offices on software from the dial-up era
"You do not need to share my politics to care about whether prosecution records are public. Right now the offices get to describe their own work on their own terms, because no one outside the offices can check the description against the record."

Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning
Ayyyyy

2 Alberta food banks adopt grocery-style model to give families more choice and dignity
More like this, please.

What My Life Would Be Like If All of Those Spam Texts Were Legit
The modern rendition of Skee-Lo's I Wish.

REPRINT: What's up with the internet's fascination with disabled animals?
"Such projections do both animals and humans with disabilities a disservice. Disabled animals deserve to live full lives—-not to just be “inspiring” objects at which to be gawked."

Deadly fungal storms are now sweeping the US – and spreading a disease few doctors recognise
Extremely not a good job, fungus!

Synthetic Users Are Influencing Your Design Decisions. New Research Says They're Right About as Often as a Coin Flip.
"On complex stimuli like dashboards, it got worse, latching onto a random visual element and building its whole argument around it even when that element was irrelevant."

Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
oh.

Someone built a browser that generates every website from scratch, and it impressed me more than it should
Well, this was both inevitable and terrifying.

50,000 boat names
Delivers what it promises.

Toggles Considered Harmful
In my experience most toggle usage boils down to the designer thinking it looks cool, and being unable to articulate a reason for using it past that.

Parametron, 1954
Imagining an alternate future where this form of computing took off.

If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe
I'm glad someone wrote this so that I can reference it.

Emotion Explorer
Look at all these feelings I can't access!

Deterministic Core, Agentic Shell
I fuckin' love me a state machine.

99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots
[[ dead internet theory intensifies ]]

A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets.
lol

There's a dungeon under this blog
This is really cute, and well-architected too!

Funistrada
"Funistrada […] was inserted "to provide an estimate of how much someone will respond to a word which sounds like a food name or will answer without reading."

Private prisons announce $1.4 billion in revenue as immigration detentions climb
Creating profit incentives for incarcerating people is a horror that must be undone.

The risk of weather data sabotage is rising
"As long as there are financial (or other) incentives to manipulate observational data, adversaries will search for new opportunities, and it is our task to stay one step ahead."

Did poop enable the evolution of complex animals?
Oh shit.

Swarms of tiny robots remove microplastics from soil and water
Good job, swarm of tiny robots!

Behold the ‘glueball,’ a strange new form of matter
Anyways, here's glueball.

Freenet
I really love the idea of decentralized networks and computer operation, and am so irritated that crypto stole attention away from what it is really capable of.

Collective labour and sustainability of pre-Hispanic field systems in La Mojana
We don't need pyramidal leadership structures that attract and cultivate sociopaths to make big decisions, and there's proof.

React's architectural accessibility gaps
We can do so much better than React, part Y in an sadly unending series.

Astronomers discover a new kind of cosmic object – a black hole ‘star’
Georgia O'Keeffe would love this.