“‘CEO said a thing!’ journalism generally involves a press outlet parroting the claims of a CEO or billionaire utterly mindlessly without any sort of useful historical context as to whether anything being said is factually correct.”
“Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive...
“Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence.”
Gemini 3 Deep Think
New from Google. They say it's "built to push the frontier of intelligence and solve modern challenges across science, research, and engineering".
It drew me a really good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle! I think this is the best one I've seen so far - here's my previous collection.
Via Hacker News
Tags: google, ai, generative-ai, llms, gemini, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, llm-reasoning, llm-release
Gurman: New Siri Might Be Delayed Again
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg:
After planning to include the new capabilities in iOS 26.4 — an
operating system update slated for March — Apple is now working
to spread them out over future versions, according to people
familiar with the matter. That would mean po...
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Scott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable matplotlib Python charting library, including taking on the thankless task of triaging and reviewing incoming pull requests.
A GitHub account called @crabby-rathbun opened PR 3...
The Origins of One of the Most Beloved Video Games of...
The Origins of One of the Most Beloved Video Games of All Time. “Something I’ve heard from every Mario developer I’ve ever spoken to over the years is this: Whenever you press a button, something fun should happen.”
Michelle Zauner (Crying in H Mart) on the 30 anniversary...
Michelle Zauner (Crying in H Mart) on the 30 anniversary of Infinite Jest. “If you allow yourself to trust-fall into the barbed intricacies of the writing, you will discover soft, exquisite humanity as its perennial landing.”
More MacOS 26.3 Finder Column View Silliness
Jeff Johnson:
In today’s macOS 26.3 update, Apple implemented a “fix” for an
issue I blogged about a month ago, macOS Tahoe broke Finder
columns view. (At the behest of John Gruber and the Apple
Style Guide, I’m now using the term “column view” rather
than “columns view....
Supervisor, not overseer
In my post about my Showboat project I used the term "overseer" to refer to the person who manages a coding agent. It turns out that's a term tied to slavery and plantation management. So that's gross! I've edited that post to use "supervisor" instead, and I'll be using that going forward.
Tags: language
Climate boost as China's CO2 emissions fall
China may still be the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, but CO2 levels have been falling due to a push for clean energy. New data suggests 2025 was the first full year to show a decline. The reported drop in emissions is estimated to be around 0.3%, but campaigners...
11.02.2026
“It’s Fine If I Suck Sometimes”
Sara Hussain for Vogue India: In 2026, I’m No Longer Interested in ‘Working on Myself’, aka the exhausting “hyper-policing [of] our thoughts and language until having a personality feels like a risk assessment exercise”.
Everything began to feel like a diagnostic exercise...
“Any serious push to account for the actions of...
“Any serious push to account for the actions of this government — to abolish the president’s private army, restructure immigration enforcement and punish anyone responsible for wrongdoing — must include recompense and repair for its victims.”
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Ethereal Kites by Hai-Wen Lin Transform into Elegant Garments and Sculptures
"What does it mean to care for, drape, dress, and accommodate change and instability?"
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When Gmail was released as a public beta in 2004, it...
When Gmail was released as a public beta in 2004, it “ran on three hundred old Pentium III computers nobody else at Google wanted”.
Actor-style headshots from the 80s of artists like...
Actor-style headshots from the 80s of artists like Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, and Robert Longo.
Features | The Verge
• Gaby Del Valle
ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground
Minneapolis was not the war zone I expected to find. Depending on who you are and where you live, things can seem, for a few fleeting moments, almost normal, like a few blocks or neighborhoods over people aren't being tear gassed or rounded up by ICE or, in two tragic cases, being gunned down by […]
Polls open in first Bangladesh election since uprising
Voters cast their ballots in Bangladesh for the first time since authoritarian leader Sheikh Hasina was forced from office in 2024. They'll be choosing a new government and deciding on constitutional reforms. Also: our correspondent reports from inside Iran. We have the late...
#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger
Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that’s the fastest-growing project in GitHub history.
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