Om Malik blogs about the greatest invention of his lifetime, the internet:
Like all great inventions of the past—the wheel, the steam engine, and the internal combustion engine—it has compressed time and distance. It is like a time machine. It has essentially made us question every premise.
Bram’s Thoughts
• Bram Cohen
Getting fancy with music theory
kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
Many ads in Apple News served by Taboola are clearly scams.
Stumbled across an absolutely fantastic new Reddit client, closest thing to Apollo yet I think… apps.apple.com/app/id675…
Defector
• Denise McQuade
Dan’s mom here. While I hope to thank everyone more formally, for so many of you it won’t be possible; I don’t know how to reach you. So I thought I’d reach you the way my Dan did—through the online written word. To the Defector staff and readers, former Daily Pennsylvanian staff and UPenn community,…
Defector
• Giri Nathan
WIRED
• Dell Cameron
The government has withheld details of the investigation of Renee Good's killing—but an unrelated case involving the ICE agent who shot her could force new revelations.
Defector
• Patrick Redford
WIRED
• David Gilbert
Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.”
The Texas Observer
• Tyler Hicks
After Democrat Taylor Rehmet beat the GOP’s Leigh Wambsganss in the January 31 special runoff election for state Senate District 9 , Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick called the loss “a wake-up call for Republicans across Texas.” It’s been a common sentiment in the Republican Party in recent days, especially since a Democrat hasn’t won that […]
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With 47 years of coding under my belt, and still a fascination for the new shiny, obviously I’m interested what role (if any) GenAI is going to play in the future of software. But not interested enough to actually acquire the necessary skills and try it out myself. Someday, someday. Didn’t matter; two other people went ahead without asking and applied Claude to my current code playground, Quamina. Here’s the first story. I’m going to go ahead and share it even though it will make people mad at me
WIRED
• Ryan Waniata
Forget the Super Bowl, Samsung's Fantastic S90F QD-OLED TV is on a sweet sale just in time for the Winter Olympics.
WIRED
• Julia Forbes
Saatva is providing a bedding bundle to Team USA hockey and figure skating at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games—here are my thoughts on it as a sleep coach.
WIRED
• Molly Taft
Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.
McSweeney’s
• Luke Burns
Post Reports
• The Washington Post
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