I had two really nice interactions with internet strangers this week. It's nice how putting things out on the internet usually comes back to you in nice and fun ways.

they told me the internet was forever
"The physical and the digital are always morphing closer together, we need to make sure that neither world, in its infinite ouroboros, swallows us whole."

Six Solutions to Fix the Supreme Court
Aaaaaaaarticle threeeeeeeee

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
oh.

AI data centers, already harmful, appear to be creating their own microclimates
ah.

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere just hit a ‘depressing’ new record
eesh.

Your website is not for you
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

Unpaired word
Language is a ton of fun…

Language used to describe homelessness influences attitudes, survey finds
…and commands a ton of power.

The 1960s Art School Experiment That Redefined Creativity
I guess I can call myself an artist, because boy howdy do I seek out problems.

The New York Times Quotes Trans People Less Often Than Other Major News Outlets
Once again, the best time to divest from the NYT was yesterday.

The ‘age of electricity’ is here. No one knows what comes next.
If there's anything positive to come of the horror that is the Iranian war, it might hopefully be a mass-investment in renewables.

The “correct” attitude
"It is hard to maintain the “correct” attitude to work in light of such apocalyptic claims. Which begs the question, what attitude is taking its place?"

Who Are the Unexpected Friends in Your Life?
We need more Jesses.

The importance of people who care
"Tech is full of people who care deeply about their area of chosen specialism, and we’re all struggling in a world where doing lots of stuff really fast has become the most important thing."

Artemis
I had the delight of being shown an RSS reader someone is building that only updates once per day. The invite code is coffee.

Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks, report finds
lol

Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets
lol, lmao

100% CSS: repeat(--n, anything)
w-what

Netizen
"Slowly the culture around me changed, so now it seems I need to explain my strange behavior — why I don’t monetize everything like everyone else."

Dead White Man's Clothes
"This expression comes from the idea that someone would have to die to give up so much stuff, implying that the concept of excess was foreign."

Reminder: You Can Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages With Navigations For Interactions
This!!!

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.
If someone other than Google tried this they'd likely get their app marked as malware and pulled.

Gourmand syndrome
Brains are weird.

Exclusive: VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti
What the fuck.

How a Houston company got its art on the walls of stoners across America
So that's where they came from!

A Denver music icon saw herself on a bus. She wasn’t happy
Hey, maybe don't tokenize people. Especially without their consent.

Solving the problem of kerosene fungus
Hell yeah, fungus.

The Time Coke and Pepsi Brought Their Rivalry to Outer Space
The Russians simply used vodka.

International Mollusk of the Year
Make your vote count!

Close a bar, gain a far-right voter
Makes me wonder about the collapse of third spaces.