Voted! Almost went to the board of elections on Sunday to get it out of the way but I drove by and they were so busy it looked like the line to a Taylor Swift concert out there. Was in and out of the polling place in 10 minutes today. Now we wait 👀

Finally, I can knock on wood without breaking this particle board furniture

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HackerTube: 19 years of YouTube recommendations from Hacker News

It was Friday night at 11pm, I was tired, I went to YouTube to watch something and realized that I was looking at an enshittified wall of slop. Insanely exaggerated thumbnails, dumb recommendations of the same tired topics, truly terrible idiocracy-grade content. I’m sure this algorithm works well for the median person on the internet, but it definitely does not work for me. So this morning (Saturday) I took a hold of my Opus 5.5 and gave it the task: Let’s write our own YouTube clone based on whatever videos have been recommended on Hacker News. And Opus came back with: hackertube.org!

Scrolling this website brings me back to the early days of YouTube — when it still felt like a place for curiosity instead of a marketing funnel.

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Do At-Proto Users Know This Is Public? It’s not just a Skyreader thing, I’ve noticed a few Discord clones store every message openly. There’s a Twitch clone that is the same way. I can watch as people chat all across Stream.place and even search the data. If you could easil...

Turnstile rejects Metallica's stadium tour “We wanted to get them on tour, and they said, ‘No. They’re doing good on their own already.’” Good for Turnstile. They’re absolutely blowing up from their raw talent and unique spin on hardcore music. They’re honestly turning int...

The AI writing witch hunt is idiotic In this video, I break down why AI detection tools are unreliable (OpenAI shut down their own classifier after it performed worse than a coin toss), why gut-feeling prose analysis is even worse, why “certified human” badges are just an h...

Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says

Moving to primarily logged-in will ensure our users have the best Reddit experience possible, and can find the content and communities most relevant to them. It is better for our business because we will have more signals for ads targeting, and being logged-in leads to higher engagement generally. It also allows us to protect access to Reddit’s extremely valuable corpus of data, and helps us better adapt to emerging regulations around the world.

Reddit is the textbook example of enshittification. When future historians research this era of the internet, there’ll be a picture of Cory Doctorow’s book, and a screenshot of the front page of Reddit. Hashtag fuck u/spez.

↳ via Ars Technica

Revealed: GOP Group Behind Mysterious Trans Student Messages

Following an order from a Travis County judge, the Republican Women’s Caucus (RWC) Fund and a man named John Braun have been identified as the names behind controversial text messages sent to Texans earlier this month purporting to offer resources to transgender students, confirming widespread speculation that the effort was a Republican political ploy. Some three million mailers containing similar information were also sent.

Previously…

↳ via The Texas Observer

Molly White: looks like Binance is getting drained right now I haven’t heard much about cryptocurrency in a long time, but Molly White is reporting on Bluesky that something is going down over at Binance: It looks like Binance is getting drained right now, across multiple h...

Wil Wheaton on the passing of Patrick Stewart

I wish I really were a Traveler of all of space and time, so I could go to him, one final time, and tell him how much he means to me. I think he knew, but still.

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We aren’t entitled to a good, happy life

But I think that we probably just grew up and have lived our entire lives in an extraordinarily peaceful and easy period of time. The natural order of existence is kind of shitty and destructive and hard to deal with.

This is something I’ve only recently started thinking about. We’re not in the middle of some end times bullshit. Periods of peace and stability just don’t last forever.

Everything is shit right now, but we’ll get back to a better place. Eventually. For a little while.

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Halloween is Grinch Night

Halloween Is Grinch Night (titled It’s Grinch Night for the 1992 videocassette release and Grinch Night for the sing-a-long videocassette release) is a 1977 children’s animated Halloween television special and is a prequel to the 1966 television special How the Grinch Stole Christmas! It premiered on ABC on October 28, 1977.

Saw this on Lemmy c/TIL and had to post it here. Never knew this existed! I assume it’s terrible and that’s why no one’s ever heard of it, but I’m still going to try and look it up when I get home tonight.

↳ via en.wikipedia.org

One thing Adam didn't ruin: coming out

While not a formal coming out, the actor — known for Adam Ruins Everything and his own podcast Factually! —has been increasingly opening up about his sexuality after the end of his 15-year relationship with his ex-partner, BoJack Horseman production designer Lisa Hanawalt.

That’s a really fun paragraph lol. When I was first coming to terms with my sexuality all those years ago, finding out celebrities or even people I knew irl were queer made it so much easier.

I always had a hunch though. No straight guy has that much pizzazz.

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The mustache baby was AI

In sum, we found the video displayed at several signs of either being created or manipulated with AI, including inconsistent hairs and other facial features, an AI content label on a very early TikTok post and a duration exactly matching a common AI video length. Therefore, we rated the clip as fake.

I saw this video the other day and I can’t even lie; I was sitting there trying to rationalize a baby being born with some rare disorder that makes it come out looking like a tiny Joe Dirt.

I’m turning into my parents 😕

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Neil Young Sues Trump for $10 Million Over Use of “Rockin’ in the Free World”

Young’s latest filing also argues that the song itself makes for an especially strange fit with Trump. The 1989 track contrasts its anthemic chorus with images of poverty, addiction, homelessness, and social decay. The complaint puts its position clearly: “In short, the song is the opposite of everything Donald J. Trump stands for.”

Fuck yeah, Neil Young. Artists like him, Roger Waters, and Bruce Springsteen aren’t afraid to use their platforms to stand for something.

Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran is becoming a one-man band.

↳ via Consequence

Search annnnd, merge and deploy.

CSS-Tricks has a new owner!

Just to recap: DigitalOcean purchased CSS-Tricks in 2022 from Chris Coyier, who founded the site in 2007. Chris ran it all the way up to that purchase. Here we are in 2026, and I’m taking independent ownership of the site.

Originally saw this through a post from Chris Enns on Micro.blog today and I had to share it too.

Geoff Graham just purchased the site from DigitalOcean after working there for the last 12 years and now it’s fully independent again. Love to see it.

This site was invaluable to me back in the 2010’s when I first started tinkering around with Wordpress and web design in general. I kinda forgot it existed, but now it’s got a permanent place in my bookmarks bar once again.

↳ via CSS-Tricks

iPhone Duo Users Are Already Seeing a Big Old Crease in the Middle of Their $2,000 Foldable iPhone

Apple’s $2,000 folding phone, the iPhone Duo, came out just two days ago and people are already seeing big fat creases down the middle of the folding screen, and some devices are cracked in the same specific spot too.

Wow, what an unexpected turn of events.

↳ via 404 Media

Walkipedia: Everything Wikipedia knows within half an hour on foot

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White House Floats Nicki Minaj as New Press Secretary, Trump Marvels At Her Ass

“That’s hard to miss!” he exclaimed, encouraging Minaj to stand up and show it off to the crowd.

Something happens nearly every day that makes me question whether or not we’re in base reality.

↳ via Consequence

Quxnet Is a Breath of Fresh Air

Something I appreciate about quxnet’s design is that it all feels very intentional.

Quxnet is super retro-coded, and it’s very well done. Probably the most intentional website I’ve ever seen. And it feels like it just came out of nowhere; I don’t even remember where I heard about it. Maybe Hacker News? Some random blog post? Cannot remember for the life of me. Definitely worth checking out if you miss old-school forums.

Reminds me of 32-bit cafe, but it’s really its own whole vibe.

↳ via moddedbear.com

A24's 'Elden Ring' movie reportedly has a budget around $200 million, its largest yet

I’m not tough enough to play Elden Ring, but I’ve watched enough masochistic friends play it that I could totally get into this movie.

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I won’t let my husband see my blog

The two things my husband knows not to look at is the books I read and my blog. I am very easily embarrassed and I don’t want to have to question what he would think of something I read or write.

It’s good to have at least some boundaries. I’m the same way. I would die if my partner ever went over my blog with a fine-toothed comb, but I always tell her when I add a neat feature, or when I’ve written something I’m proud of. Would never give her the link in a million years though 😅

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Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI Software engineering is the process of automating tedious tasks. It is the process of replacing human labor with the faster, cheaper labor of the machine. In other words, it is the process of putting people out of work. ...

I’ve been using SearXNG for a couple days, and it’s honestly pretty impressive! Using Brave Search API as the main provider, then Bing as secondary, a couple different sources for images and videos, and I’m patiently awaiting my API Key so I can add Marginalia Search too.

I’m Begging Matthew McConaughey to Go Back to What He Does Best

Selling Lincolns?

↳ via Culture - Slate Magazine

A few months ago, we got a call from the daughter while she was out at her grandparents’ house in the middle of nowhere. There was this feral pack of cats out by the barn, and one in particular was being bullied by all the others. She was the runt of the litter, so I assume ...

Proton moves Flock map to Swiss servers

When a Flock Safety trademark complaint filed on behalf of Flock Safety sought to remove a public map of the company’s surveillance network, Proton moved the map to Swiss servers and kept it online. The privacy company’s decision preserves public access to an inventory that researcher Joshua Michael built from data he says Flock’s own website exposed.

↳ via gadgetreview.com

Microsoft Announces Per-Hour Cost for Xbox Cloud Gaming Service

The “introductory launch pricing” at which those lucky Insiders are getting an early look is as follows: 10 hours for $3.99, 25 hours for $7.99 and 50 hours for $11.99.

Brother, you have effectively reinvented the arcade.

↳ via Gizmodo

These States Legalized Weed. More Heart Attacks Followed

This research is still observational, meaning it can only demonstrate a correlation between cannabis legalization and rising hospital visits from cardiovascular disease, not a clear cause-and-effect relationship. The data used in the study also isn’t specific enough to compare individual states to one another.

Have you ever eaten a 100mg edible? I could see that causing a heart attack out of pure fear and paranoia if you don’t know what you’re getting yourself into. I’ve also made my own scientific observation on the correlation between cannabis use and the likelihood that my caloric intake at a McDonalds or Burger King will surpass five figures, through a proprietary blend of grease and dietary carcinogens.

↳ via Gizmodo