How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds - Open RSS

well, this was a romp through some bad memories.

AI financial advice is surprisingly good — especially if you ask the right questions | MIT Sloan

‘The Odyssey’ Translator Emily Wilson on Nolan’s New Movie

i still haven’t found the time to read this but i’m somehow sucked into everything around it.

this is a great bit of writing and has all sorts of fun pointers around it.

AI firms must answer for rogue bots, says Hugging Face boss

LLMs these days … amiright?

dear apple -

it’s (checks watch and setting » general » about) iPadOS 26.6 …

what is this shit?

GOP Staffers Say the Party Has a Groyper Problem - POLITICO

SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks

someone finally brings this topic to the fore. even small vibe coded projects can be horrifying under the hood.

nice test coverage, but whoa!

quick personal observations on kimi 3 there are no moats. kimi k3 running at a fraction of the price of claude is impressive. i wired it up to claude-code yesterday and gave it a reasonable task to refactor some code based on some consolidation that i had spelled out in a ...

Iran Has Figured Out How to Overwhelm U.S. Air Defenses

cross reference this with some war on the rocks reading and appreciate what a top down clusterfuck we find ourselves in.

Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag | TechCrunch

microsoft clearly had a solid quarter. interesting here is the relative valuation proxy for the 2 frontier labs.

For the year, Microsoft’s OpenAI investment generated a $5 billion gain and added $0.67 on EPS, respectively, the company reported. (Microsoft reported $17.95 EPS for its fiscal year.) Still, it is noteworthy that Microsoft reported nearly as much of a gain on Anthropic in one quarter as it did for the year on OpenAI. In fact, it is so noteworthy that Microsoft disclosed it.

Release 0.12.0 · astral-sh/uv · GitHub

note that there are some changes in here that are breaking. notable here is the default directory construction and uv init.

How to Use ChatGPT and Gemini Prompts to Find Out What They Know About You - The New York Times

i ran thru the prompts they offered up, cranked opus to high and wallowed in the sad state of affairs. you should too.

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models | Claude by Anthropic

well worth the read.

Ruff v0.16.0

lots of good stuff in here. also, i’m going to have to update my baseline config.

exhibit F

dept of energy admits in court that the only criteria that was used to pull grants was state “color”.

here’s the NYT reporting on this: Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him - The New York Times the anodyne treatment of this is a clear indication of how numb we’ve become to this shit.

this is what it’s come to; the pornificatin’ of marmot research. i for one applaud this innovative approach to plugging the gaps in funding cuts. but seriously, the RBML deserves better. Marmot researchers battle record die-off with beer, body positivity — and OnlyFans | 9...

Do Smart Glasses Have a Surveillance Problem? | Vogue

– archive.is

a little part of me dies inside everytime i see someone putting these on their face.

tl;dr - yes.

though this is a pretty solid writeup from vogue business, of all outlets. i do recommend reading the article.

⊕classic spin. this, THE 40 BEST ALBUMS FROM THE LAST 40 YEARS THAT YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T HEAR (BUT SHOULD’VE) - SPIN, article from SPIN was kind of a personal breaking point for me. it starts off strong then totally shits the bed on execution. here was an article that was exp...

Puritans Wouldn’t Eat Pussy, So They Invented the Western

gotta say it was the headline that grabbed me. the balance of the article was a rollicking good read. i mean i knew the pilgrims were an uptight bunch, but seriously folks. gotta make the home front somewhat appealing.

i’m not sure what to make of this particular vein of argumentation in the “damsel in distress” trope, but i suspect there’s more going on here than folks would care to admit.

The Brand Ledger | Worse on Purpose

this is the best list i’ve seen of enshittified brands to date. the common theme here … private equity.