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Third Republican US President in a row invades a sovereign nation without good reason (it's oil)
Anatoly Kurmanaev and Tyler Pager with live updates for The New York Times: Explosions Are Reported in Venezuela’s Capital
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Clean energy had a baller 2025
Kathryn Krawczyk from Canary Media: Clean energy is still winning. These 10 charts prove it.
Solar’s monumental rise is the main reason for the shift: The source more than doubled its share of global electricity production from 2021 to 2025. And while coal still remains the world’s largest source of electricity, it’s
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Let stories end
Amanda Hess for The New York Times in 2018: The End of Endings
Didn’t endings used to mean something? They imbued everything that came before them with significance, and then they gave us the space to reflect on it all. More than that: They made us feel alive. The story ended, but we did
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What if we ended the "podcast"?
Andru Marino writing for The Verge: It’s finally time to retire the word ‘podcast’
In 2026, instead of trying to define what a podcast is, I think we need to stop using the word altogether. “Podcast” is becoming an outdated or even a potentially cringe internet relic, similar to how the phrase “web series”
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LLMs can be poisoned
From the Anthropic blog: A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
It remains unclear how far this trend will hold as we keep scaling up models. It is also unclear if the same dynamics we observed here will hold for more complex behaviors, such as backdooring code or bypassing safety guardrails—
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When your Apple ID gets banned…
Last Friday, Paris Buttfield-Addison posted 20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple, which kind of blew up.
A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account,
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Ghostty goes non-profit
Mitchell Hashimoto: Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit
I believe infrastructure of this kind should be stewarded by a mission-driven, non-commercial entity that prioritizes public benefit over private profit. That structure increases trust, encourages adoption, and creates the conditions for Ghostty to grow into a widely used and impactful piece of open-source infrastructure.
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Streaming music is the lie we tell each other
Stephanie Vee: Delete Spotify? Sure, But Don't Just Replace it With Another Subscription
streaming music sucks for almost everyone involved. I believe we only do it because we’ve allowed ourselves to be convinced that renting music indefinitely is cheaper than purchasing it outright – especially since streaming companies grant us the equivalent of
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The Information has some information on Apple's 2026 lineup
The Information had a new report out this week that has a bunch of info about some upcoming Apple products. I'm not one to shy away from paying for news, but I still haven't been able to justify $1,000 per year, so thankfully MacRumors summarized the news for me. Here&
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Times New Roman, Calibri, and who accessibility is for (hint: all of us)
In what might be a first for the platform, Jonathan Hoefler posted an insightful thread on Threads about a topic in which he is an expert and didn't make it vapid engagement bait. It's about the Times New Roman vs Calibri debate and how asinine basically all of it is, but
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Bye, bye, Face ID
There are some new potential leaks about the upcoming folding iPhone, and this bit stood out to me:
The leaker claims Apple has chosen not to include 3D Face ID hardware or a 3D ultrasonic under-display fingerprint sensor, as both systems would add internal volume and complicate efforts to slim down the device.
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Why hasn't the desktop UI evolved in years?
I really enjoyed this talk by Scott Jenson, who did UX at Apple and Google, and now works with Mastodon. Here's a few choice quotes I jotted down while watching:
There are already 36 window management systems, we don't need a 37th.
And this about iPadOS 26:
The fact that they
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It's just technology
Richard Stallman in Reasons not to use ChatGPT
I call it a "bullshit generator" because it generates output "with indifference to the truth".
We are three years into the ChatGPT era, and I feel as confident as I have at any point in those last three years that, while Large Language
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My favorite terminal emulator, Ghostty, is now a non-profit
Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator of Ghostty, wrote about this last week:
I believe infrastructure of this kind should be stewarded by a mission-driven, non-commercial entity that prioritizes public benefit over private profit. That structure increases trust, encourages adoption, and creates the conditions for Ghostty to grow into a widely used and impactful piece
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Generative AI use continues to rise
I recently discovered the Generative AI Adoption Tracker and it's a really interesting look at the data on how often Americans specifically are using AI tools such as ChatGPT both at work and in their personal lives.
Above is a snapshot of results from August 2024 through August 2025. The notable trend on
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Here's why Threads fucking sucks and Meta knows it
Another banger from Hank Green on why Threads fucking sucks. His benign attempt to get attention from his followers for his charity-oriented store during Black Friday was served to basically none of his audience. It wasn't rage bait and it included a link off the platform: the poison combination for Threads to
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Financial freedom's step 1: get a $400k salary
Mike Winters: writing for CNBC about a woman who has "mini-retired" at 37 years old:
In April 2024, Florence Poirel left her $390,000-a-year job at Google for what she calls a “mini retirement.”
I know these posts are easy rage bait, but I still find it fun to find
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Indulge a bit
In reality, lines are never so straight. There are no lines. We stumble and spiral, haunted by doubt and ambivalence. That's the curse of modernity. Or maybe that's too harsh, it's the challenge of modernity. And while we all face it, who can begrudge us a few fantasies here
