This is definitely vaguebooking, but I'm facing a weird problem where something working as hoped might be worse than something not working as intended.

One item purchased, Ten emails
100% this.

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess
"I don’t think people are well-equipped to reason about this kind of jagged “cognition”."

Scoop: Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
Funny, that.

The AI Great Leap Forward
"The Great Leap Forward’s famine didn’t arrive immediately. […] The famine came when the real grain ran out but the reported grain kept flowing upward."

Snapegiator h/t Salma (be sure to link))
h/t Salma

In Uncertain Times, Fashion Reaches for Its Armor
"At the very least, it’s clear that many of us need some form of armor to deal with modern life."

Video Game Devs Explain How Pausing Works And Sometimes It Gets Weird
I'll never not be fascinating by all the nasty hacks video game developers use.

On the 1966 Poem That Warns of Bio-Acoustic Die-Off and the Destruction of Our Soundscapes
"In Bunting’s poem, listening is the route to attunement: a practiced attention to the echoes in form and shape that reflect a larger, deeper sense of the relations that weave the living world."

Two SDNY Decisions in One Week Show Courts Are Done Messing around with Questionable Accessibility Litigation
"The legal system is beginning to reward the correct behaviors. The way forward remains the same: invest in qualified expertise, document everything, and treat accessibility as an ongoing effort rather than a one-time widget purchase."

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Delivers what it promises.

Installing every* Firefox extension
Also delivers what it promises.

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
😬

Charcuterie
Neat!

How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer
Zero matches searching the page for "Javascript".

No-stack web development
"A stack is also technical debt, non-transferable knowledge, accelerated obsolescence, and vendor lock-in."

MALUS
It's bad that I can't tell if this is satire or not.

Honda Drivers Now Have to Pay a Subscription to Open Their Garage Door
[[ enshitification intensifies ]]

Particles seen emerging from empty space for first time
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Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups
A cool and fun thing you should totally do is research chimpanzee behaviors and compare them to human behaviors.

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings
My "every CEO could be replaced with AI" joke, but make it real.

Capitol Crawl Would No Longer Elicit Sympathy From Nation’s Assholes
🫠

Viktor Orbán ousted after 16 years in power as Hungarian opposition wins election landslide
Here's some hope for you.

Why weekends are under threat
"Weekends are a technology to organize time."

Title Scream: Type + Graphic inspiration from 8/16bit games
This is just cool.

1D-Chess
I am very bad at this.

Golden tickets.
I really enjoy how time has transformed these mundane objects into something interesting and beautiful.

WeatherBug data says October 8 is the real perfect date not April 25
Controversy

The toxic side of the Moon
I think the only thing worse than moon dust is craft glitter.

Enheduanna: The world's first named author
Nice.

trainjazz.com
Delivers what it promises.

Here comes the sun: New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows
A little glimpse of the solarpunk future I crave.