Defector
• Diana Moskovitz
France’s Viral Ice Dancing Team Has A Dark Backstory
Defector
• Diana Moskovitz
McSweeney’s
• Jesse Kubanet
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
• L. Jeffrey Zeldman
New tunes from an old maker.
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Darryl K. Taft

The vibe coding guy is back, and this time he’s talking about “agentic engineering.” Andrej Karpathy, who last year this
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WIRED
• Chris Haslam
These second-generation smart glasses give you superpowers—if the software behaves.
WIRED
• Paolo Armelli
Bidets are extremely common in northern Italy, where the Milano Cortina Games are being played. They’re less familiar to the people visiting.
WIRED
• Julian Chokkattu
It’' a decent value for a $200, but unreliable performance makes this Samsung smartphone tough to recommend.
WIRED
• Boone Ashworth
Instead of throwing that spent Elf Bar nicotine vape into the trash, you can pull most of the guts out, plug in a circuit board and some controls, then suck on the mouthpiece to play digital sounds.
Open Channels FM Podcast Network
• Bob Dunn
Nathan and Bob reminisce about the "good ol' days" pre-internet, lamenting over lost patience and tactile experiences while praising modern conveniences. It's a nostalgic roast of technology's double-edged sword.
The Daily
• The New York Times
WIRED
• Nicole Kinning
Get tracking, temperature regulation, and other smart features without the hassle or investment of a smart bed.
I know it's a long shot but if someone who sees this found their way to Mastodon through one of the leaflets we distributed at #FOSDEM, I want to hear from you--what did you think of the leaflet? I need to generalize those for other events.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for encouraging me to step away from the endless work of being CEO of Automattic to focus on training and development. Ann, as one of this generation’s great leaders, did it herself before recommending it. She took the course … Continue reading Leadership at the Peak →
WIRED
• Maxwell Zeff
A court filing in a trademark lawsuit reveals OpenAI won't use the name “io” for its AI hardware device, which isn't expected to ship until 2027.
Scripting News for email
• Dave Winer
Podcast: It occurred to me yesterday that there are a lot of parallels with Frontier on the Mac in the early 90s and WordLand and WordPress in the 2020s. So I told the story in a podcast and I think it came out really well. I did some editing at the beginning and end, and as usual my audio editing is pretty crude, but otherwise the story is exactly as I told it. I also asked Claude.ai to do a third-person summary of the podcast, as I did with the previous three shows, and it's getting better. I encourage anyone who's involved in the WordPress community to listen. I think WP has a bigger role to play in the web than it currently has, which imho is saying a lot. 15 minutes.#
Platformer
• Casey Newton
A lawsuit that begins in LA this week, along with a new investigation into TikTok by the European Commission, could change social apps forever. PLUS: AI ads at the Super Bowl and in ChatGPT