[SC 2.4.4] The podunk image hosting service
To my great embarrassment I was informed that the podunk image hosting service I used in my last newsletter was not powerful enough to show a picture of my dog.
To make up for it, here's a Dropbox folder with some bonus photos of her included as a make-good.
On the semantic web
This one Weird Trick™
OpenSourceLowTech.org
I was explaining what swamp coolers were a lot in Europe and the UK last week, so, uh, yeah. This is good stuff to know about.
BitTorrent’s disastrous, legendary, and controversial story
In a very Jimmy Stewart voice: The data’s not here. Your data is in Joe’s house... right next to yours. And in the Kennedy house, and Mrs. Macklin’s house, and a hundred others!
Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time
Uhhhh.
Bring Back Crappy Forums
I miss forums.
How Blizzard coped with World of Warcraft's blood plague and other early disasters
I recently explained this to someone who hadn't heard about it, so sharing it here too.
Make the logo^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsomething bigger
Greasy.
Artwashing
So that's what this is called!
THE DESCENT · what happened to the frontend
"The frontier of 2026, the stuff the sharpest people are most excited about, is render the HTML on the server, ship almost no JavaScript, and use the web platform instead of fighting it."
Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat
oh.
Colleges Have Paid Nearly $3 Million to Employees Fired for Comments About Charlie Kirk
🤌
AI Data Centers Use Far More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report
I am shocked. Shocked.
I'm just so bored of AI
"I can't fucking wait for this bubble to burst so we can go back to chatting shit about literally anything else."
A windowless concrete tower 40 stories tall on the China coast stacks 35-ton blocks to store a wind farm’s power, lifting them when the wind blows and dropping them through generators when the grid needs it, no lithium inside
Good job, 35-ton blocks!
Africa CDC says Ebola outbreak is 'fastest-growing ever' after 600 deaths since mid-May
It is sad and shocking how little coverage this is getting.
We've been here before!
"Zooming out, there is much you can do and think about — even just refusing to accept industry frames and rejecting their products is non-negligible. "
Meta’s Teen Safety Case Just Became a $1.4 Trillion Existential Threat
I hope this toxic, evil company is shattered.
The Naturalist's Library
Including a great making of post!
How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization
I keep catching myself anthropomorphizing it at work. I don't like it.
We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
I should make some stickers for this.
Can It Run Doom? An Archive of All Known Ports.
Finally! All in one place!
Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
Starve 'em.
German court holds Google liable for fake AI answers
And also this.
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
Bookmarking this for the "I have nothing to hide" arguments.
The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn’s “thought leadership” content mill
Virtual assistants writing for virtual assistants, for more assistants to respond to.
It's Okay to Speak Ill of the Dead
Sharing for ~ reasons ~
Consciousness Researchers Are Tripping
"Even if a convincing evolutionary or neuroscientific explanation for consciousness was found, it would still only get us halfway."
Family Blames AI Hospital System After Woman Dies Waiting for ICU Bed
The more we delegate responsibility to this technology the more harm it will cause.
The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed
"For those still unimpressed, keep in mind these near-fullscreen cutscenes run on a 12.5MHz m68k CPU, use 16 colors, and consume 150 KiB/s."
Opinion: The Black Response On The Matter Of ShotSpotter In Cambridge
Every hand-wringing NIMBY op-ed in the Globe is a lost opportunity for something like this.
On Access Trauma
"The email subjects soon became a repeating question. What access hell would I need to endure in order to read this email?"
Why default Tailwind is not always an accessible choice
Tailwind: Don't use it!
Building accessibility into a canvas-based product
This is a huge challenge. I was happy to get a peek behind the curtains.
98% isn't very much
"If a fancy new feature can’t degrade gracefully, then 98% isn’t “widely supported”. It failed to meet the basic minimum for 2% of the people out there."
Space jam: astronomers detect ‘raspberry sugar’ on dust cloud in Milky Way
Sweet.
Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
Delivers what it promises.
Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
Also delivers what it promises.
Microsoft announces major Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes clearer, local results, and removes ads: Huge effort to fix search on Windows is finally happening
It turns out bullying works.
