How to raise children. “It’s wild to me that we parent our children to fit into society, then get together with our friends and talk about how broken society is.”
Team Pursuit speed skaters used to trade off leads like...
Team Pursuit speed skaters used to trade off leads like cyclists but the sport has been revolutionized by the US team’s invention of the “bump drafting” technique.
Vintage Art House Movie Posters by Peter Strausfeld
The excellent Poster House museum in NYC currently has an exhibition up of posters by Peter Strausfeld.
Between 1947 and 1980, Peter Strausfeld, a German refugee interned on the Isle of Man during World War II, created unique, compelling posters for London’s Academy ...
Song Exploder
• Hrishikesh Hirway
Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth
This week, I wanted to go back and revisit the episode that I made with Iron & Wine in the fall of 2022 about the song "Flightless Bird, American Mouth." And there are a couple of reasons. One, there’s a new Iron & Wine album that’s coming out this month, called Hen’...
Paul Ford on AI and the Infinite Software Era ....
Paul Ford on AI and the Infinite Software Era. “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.”
Current is an interesting new RSS reader that...
Current is an interesting new RSS reader that doesn’t function like an email inbox. “There is no count because counting was the problem.”
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
North Carolina’s Hellbenders
A giant salamander has been lurking in the rivers and streams of Appalachia for more than a hundred million years. And in just the last few years – after surviving one of the worst hurricanes in decades – they've become a local symbol of pride.
This episode was produced in partnership with Visit North Carolina.
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Apple Invites Media to Special ‘Experience’ in New York, London, and Shanghai on March 4
macrumors.com/2026/02/16/apple-announces-special-event-in-new-york/
Hartley Charlton, MacRumors:
Apple invited select members of the media to the event in three
major cities around the world. It is simply described as a
“special Apple Experience,” and there is no further information
about what it may entail. The invitation features a 3D ...
Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6
Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6
Sonnet 4.6 is out today, and Anthropic claim it offers similar performance to November's Opus 4.5 while maintaining the Sonnet pricing of $3/million input and $15/million output tokens (the Opus models are $5/$25). Here's the system card PDF.
I ...
Rodney v0.4.0
Rodney v0.4.0
My Rodney CLI tool for browser automation attracted quite the flurry of PRs since I announced it last week. Here are the release notes for the just-released v0.4.0:
Errors now use exit code 2, which means exit code 1 is just for for check failures. #15
New r...
Reimagining the Origins of Winter Sports
A New Winter is a project from Colombian-American photographer Sofia Jaramillo that seeks to
This project revisits the early depictions of skiing, which often portrayed Eurocentric ideals and a narrow vision of who belongs on the slopes. By reimagining the first images...
🎬 Good Boy
Such a good boy! Really! Best dog ever! :) Very much enjoyed this unique horror drama from a dog's perspective.
👍 Recommended!
The goal of the Trump Action Tracker is to...
The goal of the Trump Action Tracker is to “document how the trajectory of Trump’s presidency is aligned with the authoritarian playbook”.
16.02.2026
The K-Shaped Economy
I think I’d heard the term “k-shaped economy” somewhere before but didn’t really know what it meant until I watched this video:
American Airlines is changing the layout of some of their aircraft to add 31 first class and premium seats while cutting out 73 economy seats. ...
Why AI Writing Is So Generic, Boring, and Dangerous:...
Why AI Writing Is So Generic, Boring, and Dangerous: Semantic Ablation. “The AI identifies high-entropy clusters — the precise points where unique insights…reside — and systematically replaces them with the most probable, generic token sequences.”
★ Apple Releases iOS 26 Adoption Rates, and They’re Pretty Much in Line With the Last Few Years
Speaking of iOS 26, here’s Joe Rossignol reporting for MacRumors:
Apple has shared updated iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 adoption
figures, revealing how many iPhones and iPads are running
those software versions. These adoption numbers are based on
iPhones and iPads that transact...
Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street in 1971 doing a...
The 19 richest Americans hold more than 2% of the total...
The 19 richest Americans hold more than 2% of the total US holdhold wealth. That figure has roughly doubled in the past 5-6 years. “The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering.”
How to Force Restart an iPhone
support.apple.com/guide/iphone/force-restart-iphone-iph8903c3ee6/ios
Apple Support:
If iPhone isn’t responding, and you can’t turn it off then
on, try forcing it to restart.
Press and quickly release the volume up button.
Press and quickly release the volume down button.
Press and hold the side button.
When the Apple logo appears, relea...