Toy Story 5 joins the fight against screentime for kids. “Toys are for play, but tech…is for everything.”
In-browser puzzle game : “Enclose the horse in the...
In-browser puzzle game: “Enclose the horse in the biggest possible pen!”
A data analysis of how women’s clothing...
A data analysis of how women’s clothing doesn’t actually fit women. “That leaves millions of people — over half of all adult women — who are excluded from standard size ranges” in their 20s and beyond.
How Finland Defeated Fascism in the 1930s
In the 1930s, a radical conservative political group almost succeeded in overthrowing Finland’s democracy:
Called the Lapua movement, it was a far-right group of Finns who sought to overthrow the republic, marginalize communists, and install an authoritarian government. ...
A list of all the media (movies, books, TV shows, plays,...
The Brattle theater is playing what they call the...
The Brattle theater is playing what they call the Ultimate Double Feature: “we play the first movie up until the point when the characters enter a cinema to watch a different film”, then play the entirety of that 2nd film, then finish up the 1st film.
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Gemini 3.1 Pro
The first in the Gemini 3.1 series, priced the same as Gemini 3 Pro ($2/million input, $12/million output under 200,000 tokens, $4/$18 for 200,000 to 1,000,000). That's less than half the price of Claude Opus 4.6 with very similar benchmark scores to that mode...
You know who else had a Greenland obsession?...
You know who else had a Greenland obsession? “Greenland appears to have been a lifelong preoccupation of Adolf Hitler’s.”
Fries Vansevenant’s Neo-Constructivist Collages
I love these collage illustrations of various celebrities and famous characters by artist/designer Fries Vansevenant: Han Solo & Luke Skywalker, Notorious BIG, Heath Ledger’s Joker, Beatrix Kiddo, David Beckham. There are more on his Insta.
Tags: art · design · Fries Vansevenant
Former Prince Andrew arrested
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is in custody over his links to the late sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. He was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Police have been looking into allegations he shared documents with Epstein when he was a British trade envoy. Office...
Why Does Cocaine Feel So Good?
Cocaine can make you feel powerful and euphoric in seconds, but it hijacks your brain’s reward system and strains your heart. Here’s what really happens inside your body when you take it.
#kurzgesagt
#inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #drugawarene...
Experimenting with sponsorship for my blog and newsletter
I've long been resistant to the idea of accepting sponsorship for my blog. I value my credibility as an independent voice, and I don't want to risk compromising that reputation.
Then I learned about Troy Hunt's approach to sponsorship, which he first wrote about in 2016. Tro...
One More Spitball Idea for Apple’s March 4 Media Event ‘Experience’: Immersive F1 on Vision Pro?
A reader pointed out that the 2026 Formula 1 season starts in Australia on March 8. You will recall from October that Apple TV is now the exclusive broadcast partner for F1 in the U.S. Apple is already dabbling with live immersive sports broadcasting for VisionOS with a limi...
SWE-bench February 2025 leaderboard update
SWE-bench February 2025 leaderboard update
SWE-bench is one of the benchmarks that the labs love to list in their model releases. The official leaderboard is infrequently updated but they just did a full run of it against the current generation of models, which is notable be...
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Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
New evidence for old life on Mars
No one wants to stick their neck out, but it's getting hard to find abiotic explanations
LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Abandon Swift adoption
LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Abandon Swift adoption
Back in August 2024 the Ladybird browser project announced an intention to adopt Swift as their memory-safe language of choice.As of this commit it looks like they've changed their mind:
Everywhere: Abandon Swift adoption
After making no progress on this for a very long time, let's acknowledge it's not going anywhere and remove it from the codebase.
Via Hacker News
Love this cool JS pattern-making script .
New from Neal Agarwal: Sandboxels . “It’s a...
New from Neal Agarwal: Sandboxels. “It’s a falling-sand game with hundreds of elements, heat simulation, electricity & a lot more. I like making little cities and then adding tons of rats.”
Paul Ford: ‘The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun’
nytimes.com/2026/02/18/opinion/ai-software.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NFA.djaw.TBlAp8kE_N-i
Paul Ford, in an op-ed for The New York Times (gift link):
All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited.
Link: nytimes.com/2026/02/18/opinion/ai-software.html?unlocked…