Politics
I don't want to answer whether the President partied with young girls
Ted Lieu: Here's a video. Like former Prince Andrew, Donald Trump attended various parties with Jeffrey Epstein. I want to know: were there any underage girls at that party or at any party that Trump attended with Jeffrey Epstein.
Long pause
Pam Bondi: This is so ridiculous. And that they are trying to
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The Future is an Empty Room
God damn, Jacob Geller is the best of us. He's an astounding essayist, and his work is consistently amazing.
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Better Siri is, yet again, a little farther off
Jay Peters: Apple keeps hitting bumps with its overhauled Siri
Nearly a year ago, Apple delayed planned features for Siri that would let it understand your personal context and take action for you based on what’s on your screen. Apple had planned to launch those features with iOS 26.4, which is set to
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Don't hold your breath for that 4 day work week
Aruna Ranganathan, Xingqi Maggie Ye: AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.
Two quick things on this.
First, this resonates with me. Because there are things you can do quicker, suddenly you can do much more
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Some are happier writing code by hand
Abhinav Omprakash: I Am Happier Writing Code by Hand
Yes, coding is not software engineering, but for me, it is a fun and essential part of it. In order to be effective at software engineering, you must be familiar with the problem space, and this requires thinking and wrestling with the problem. You can’t
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Memorizing the dictionary doesn’t make you a great writer
Samantha Cole: Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds
Chatbots may be able to pass medical exams, but that doesn’t mean they make good doctors, according to a new, large-scale study of how people get medical advice from large language models.
I think there’s something to be understood here about the difference
Just say it, you love when musicians get political
My dear conservative friends, I know you love to talk about how much you hate when musicians and celebrities get political, but we can be honest and agree that actually you freaking love it, right?
How else do you explain your apparent, and sudden love of Kid Rock? A musician who hasn’t been relevant
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Celebrating record revenue with layoffs
Maddie Agne: Bandai Namco Hits Record High Net Sales Revenue
Bandai Namco has posted record high net sales for the first nine months of the 2026 financial year despite differences in home console title lineups impacting profits.
At this point, when I hear a tech or gaming company made record revenue numbers, I assume that
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iPhones need MagSafe
Hartley Charlton: Gurman: iPhone 17e Launch 'Imminent' With Four New Features
Gurman said that the new lost-cost iPhone will feature the A19 chip first introduced with the iPhone 17 last year. The device will also address one of the most glaring omissions from the current generation and add MagSage connectivity. The device
Dragon Quest and vibe coding (stick with me here)
I was listening to the latest episode of The Besties, and they said something about the auto-battle system in the new Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined game that really resonated with me.
It is funny, as you progress through, if you're just auto battling the whole time, it will, it's just
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+ Full demo of that new app
I announced a new app last week and have made good progress on it since then. Here is a video walkthrough of everything I've got so far.
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Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show still slaps
I don't know if there's a Super Bowl halftime show I've rewatched more than this one. Obviously it helps that Kendrick has a great library to pull from, but I also really love the production value of it. It's unquestionably less bombastic than shows from The Weeknd
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A year in the life of MKBHD
I think The Studio, the behind-the-scenes channel for MKBHD, is always fun, but this most recent video, a feature-length documentary following the team as they go through all of 2025, is astounding. Amazing work from the team putting this together.
Renewables continue to thrive
I was looking for one of my old posts about energy, and I stumbled across this one from 2020 where it was expected that all renewable energy sources combined out overtake coal for energy production in the US. That was a huge milestone and definitely something to be excited about, but I was curious how
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AirDrop is coming to more Android phones in 2026
Adamya Sharma: Google just confirmed what Android fans have been praying to hear about AirDrop sharing
Speaking during a press briefing I attended at Google’s Taipei office during a Pixel Labs tour, Eric Kay, Vice President of Engineering for the Android platform, confirmed that AirDrop interoperability is set to expand well beyond Pixel phones
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Nvidia delayed gaming chips, may not deliver next gen ones until 2028
Stevie Bonifield: Nvidia’s RTX 50-series Super refresh is delayed, and the RTX 60-series might miss 2027
The Super refresh to Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs was expected at CES 2026 in January, but it didn’t make an appearance. The Information reports that in December, Nvidia managers decided not to release
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Begun, the tech pricing apocalypse, has
Edmond Tran: Steam Machine Pricing and Release Affected by Memory and Storage Price Hikes, Says Valve
Valve has published a blog post providing updates on the lineup of Steam Hardware that it announced late last year – Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame – indicating that it has postponed plans to announce specific pricing and release
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Complexly becomes a nonprofit
James Pollard: Hank and John Green's studio becomes a nonprofit as they aim to make 'trustworthy content' online
“Part of what Complexly’s trying to do is create good information on the internet,” Hank told the Associated Press. “Let’s actually just say that this is our goal. Like, our goal
