Today is one of those days where I have been in so many meetings that spoken words started to feel fake.

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light-dark() isn't always the same as prefers-color-scheme
I am becoming more and more convinced that light-dark() is a misstep.

New Study: Gender-Affirming Care Linked to Lower Suicide Risk for Trans Kids
I think the headline says it all here.

I Have Created A Turkey Fiend
Who amongst us.

Migrating Dillo from GitHub
I have stopped trying to get folks to talk about the trust thermocline problem at work, but this is a pattern I'm seeing with more and more frequency and engineers are a notably fickle bunch.

DWARF support for macOS and Linux
And speaking of which, here's an example of what folks are up against that is so over the top it is hard to believe it's not a bit.

Yamada to sell ‘human washing machine’ after expo popularity
Resisting the overwhelming urge to hack this into a sous vide machine.

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
No pun intended, but this idea would never get off the ground.

RFK Jr.’s new CDC deputy director prefers “natural immunity” over vaccines
The horrors of this death cult are unending.

Nintendo's Oddest Lost Media - King Koopa's Kool Kartoons
I must get my hands on this.

Solar-powered device captures carbon dioxide from air to make sustainable fuel
Neat!

Holes in the web
"Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts."

‘Sloppy’ Code and Accessibility Issues: The Trouble With Trump’s Silicon Valley-Inspired Web Design Project
Somer very cool and good folks quoted here.

Boing
Delivers what it promises.

'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore
The web platform is getting so dang good, y'all.

Bureau of Meteorology's new boss asked to examine $96.5m bill for website redesign
It's wild that this sort of thing keeps happening over and over again.

What's the loudness war?
"That’s right: the catalyst for the eventual backlash against loud music was Guitar Hero."

Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations
"That the same peculiar hallucinations are independently reported across such distant cultures indicates that these bizarre psychological effects are not cultural fabrications or coincidences, but manifestations of a shared underlying chemical and neurological basis."

Slop Evader
Pre ChatGPT information is now battleship steel.

It’s Time We Stopped Treating Corporations As People
Co-signed.

Capitalists Were Never Going To Protect Your Healthcare When Your Disablement Is For Profit
Imani does not miss.

Historic Engineering Wonders: Photos That Reveal How They Pulled It Off
Every time I see someone claiming aliens helped, or there's no possible way people could have built something I die a little on the inside.

China ‘pretend work’ firm offers shared office space for US$4 a day, promotes personal growth
"Ryan believes that behind the popularity of such companies was society’s intolerance of resting."

Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system?
I'm of the school of thought that the folks who own this tech see the risks Hidde outlines as desirable and a core part of their value.

Continuum 93
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All that is solid melts into code
"Automation never meets a task in the world and simply does it. There’s always negotiation — the invention of some new zippered relationship."

Lol I’m trying to tell you how it feels for me
"Like an exclamation mark, which adds something jovial and upbeat to a statement, ‘lol’ indicates that a sentence should be taken less seriously – but this often feels like a sort of mutually understood but unacknowledged mask. "

Is UX Dead?
"Maybe UX is dead. But if so, AI didn’t kill it. The endless, constant grind to prove design’s value in a hyper-capitalist system did."