[SC 2.4.4] Why the hell did I sign up for this
I'm working on a talk and am currently in the "Why the hell did I sign up for this?" phase of things.
It's been heartening to know that other people I know who give talks also experience this phase at about the time I'm facing it.
Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
"Our problems are solvable. It just takes trust."
the html review 05
It's out! It's out!
FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms
oh.
Some People’s Brains Can Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field—but No, It Doesn’t Mean We Have Magnetoreception ‘Superpowers’
HELLO CHARLES
The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and associations with workplace outcomes
Shane Littrell woke up and chose violence for however long it takes to get something like this published, and I am here for it.
Desire Paths for Wikipedia
What a cute idea.
Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie
"So okay, Marc Andreessen is even shallower than our standard philosophical zombie — but still, I think there is a strong case he should be hunted and captured by the Stanford philosophy department so they can try their thought experiments out on him in real life."
Record deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failures
"As more are detained, the death toll rises."
A Japanese Glossary of Chopsticks Faux Pas
I have deffo unwittingly broken more of these rules than I care to admit.
Walmart digital price labels are coming to every store shelf in U.S. by end of 2026
A functioning society would have regulated away dynamic pricing. We don't live in a functioning society.
Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching
ah.
PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading
"Third, this is a whopping 37MB webpage on initial load. But that’s not the worst part. In the five minutes since I started writing this post the website has downloaded almost half a gigabyte of new ads."
AI Slop Is Infiltrating Online Children’s Content
Adding "brain stunt" to my lexicon.
The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces
"It feels a shame to see the character sapped from interfaces."
Mark Zuckerberg builds AI CEO to help him run Meta
Another entry into the "you can replace most CEOs with a LLM" files.
A Top Google Search Result for Claude Plugins Was Planted by Hackers
"The fact that hackers are targeting Claude users reflects the growing popularity of AI tools and the hackers’ hope that users are not careful enough to check what they’re clicking when using them."
Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows
Bullying works.
Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating
Related, I like that the author was so rightfully angry at this that they made a quiz.
Nuclear pasta
I must taste this forbidden pasta.
The Old Internet is Still Here
"But Good Internet is still here. We’re still making stuff we care about and sharing that stuff on our websites. We’re making it for ourselves first, but we’re also making it for you."
I spent a week living with Mario’s Talking Flower and it tormented me nonstop
"Talking Flower doesn’t have a practical function like the Alarmo; it’s just there to bug you until you can’t take it anymore."
AI Added ‘Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
Ah.
Canadian Court elevates thumbs-up emoji to signature status
✅
Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case
Get 'em.
