Newsletter intro with a link to something I've written as a way of boosting its discovery.

Scientists Create Plant That Produces Ayahuasca, Shrooms, and Toad Psychedelics All At Once
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E05/339855

BOOMPANE
…and speaking of Frinkiac!

BrowserGate - LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
YIKES

Email address obfuscation: What works in 2026?
Good to know!

Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year
Heck yeah.

Soviet CDs And CD Players Existed, And They Were Strange
William Gibson would so totally write a two chapter tangent about this in one of his books.

5 Inclusive Products That Prove Braille Design Is the Future of Every Device
"By prioritizing the senses of touch alongside vision, products can communicate function, orientation, and usability intuitively."

Philadelphians are messing with Uber Eats delivery robots. It’s hitchBOT all over again.
Philly being Philly.

How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one
lmao, what a mess

Pointy People
What a weird, cool aesthetic.

Every Easter, a Sicilian Town Builds a Cathedral Out of Bread
Bread houuuuuuuuuuse!

Kalshi Forecasts Coming to Fox News as Prediction Market Strikes Deal With Cable News Leader
Chat, is this good.

The Downfall and Enshittification of Microsoft in 2026
"Blog posts about listening are not substitutes for software that feels finished."

Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
"The song’s title was originally “In the Garden of Eden” but at one point in the course of rehearsing and recording, singer Doug Ingle became intoxicated and slurred the words, creating the mondegreen that stuck as the title."

Aunt May, Uncle Ben and the Prototypical Story of Strange Tales #97
I'm sorry, what?

Don't Let AI Write For You
"Letting an LLM write for you is like paying somebody to work out for you."

AI Shrinks the Team, Not the Problem
"The coordination problem does not change. The need for someone to own the outcome does not change. The fragility of interfaces does not change. The cost of getting decisions wrong does not change."

UsenetArchives.com
Delivers what it promises!

How Do You Find an Illegal Image Without Looking at It
Grim, but fascinating.

The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code
Yup, stealing this.

Space Propulsion Made Easy: Eat Beans
something something dollar store JPL something something

Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access
What a lovely idea.

The Seed Beneath the Snow
"You can’t do this alone. Individual resistance without mutual aid is burnout with a backstory."

Artemis II Lunar Flyby
Holy crap.

‘Backrooms’ and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic
"If traditional Gothic is about the sins of the past revisiting the present, then the Institutional Gothic echoes that trope by focusing not on the class-based horrors of 200 years ago, but on the (still class-based) corporate choices made within the 20th century."

How to load CSS (fast)
What a wild idea.