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France’s Viral Ice Dancing Team Has A Dark Backstory

France’s Viral Ice Dancing Team Has A Dark Backstory
Blink and you might not have caught it. On Monday, Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry took to the rink and staked their claim to the ice dancing gold medal. Dancing to Madonna's "Vogue," complete with Blond Ambition–inspired costumes and voguing arms, ...

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Airborne Thoughts of an Olympic Ski Jumper

Good take off… time for the weird forward lean. Make the pizza with your skis, yep. Heels are the tip, toes are crust. Nice, Spencer! You’ve got this. Why is Airplane WiFi so bad? Shouldn’t it be the best up here? Isn’t this where all the WiFi is? Phew, this is dangerous. Wh...

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Works in Progress

New tunes from an old maker.

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Frontier and Apple in the early 90s

As with previous podcasts I asked Claude.ai to write the show notes based on a machine-generated transcript. It makes mistakes, so you have to listen to the podcast if you want to know what I really think. But it's pretty good, and will help search engines find this. Additio...

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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 thought it's summary was great except it added it's opinion of how much I deserved a vacation, and it was right, I did, but how did it know I deserved it? Anyway, 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.

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Vibe coding is passé. Karpathy has a new name for the future of software.

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
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Even Realities G2 Review: Smarter Glasses

These second-generation smart glasses give you superpowers—if the software behaves.

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Bidets Are Confusing Visitors at the 2026 Winter Olympics

Bidets are extremely common in northern Italy, where the Milano Cortina Games are being played. They’re less familiar to the people visiting.

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Samsung Galaxy A17 5G Review: Crippling Performance

It’' a decent value for a $200, but unreliable performance makes this Samsung smartphone tough to recommend.

WIRED
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These Hackers Are Turning Dead Vapes Into Musical Synthesizers

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.

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Hey, What Do You Think About the Internet (and What We Might Have Lost)?

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.

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Deception and Dependency: Inside the Latest Epstein Files

The latest release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein has revealed deep and intense relationships with the global elite, long after he became a convicted sex offender. Debra Kamin, Nicholas Confessore and Matthew Goldstein, Times reporters who have been covering the rel...

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The Best Smart Sleep Pads for Your Most Efficient Sleep (2026)

Get tracking, temperature regulation, and other smart features without the hassle or investment of a smart bed.

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Trump’s Fury at NFL Show Spikes amid Fresh Signs His Base is Imploding

Donald Trump was initially angry over the decision to feature Bad Bunny in the Super Bowl halftime show. But then, as he performed, Trump’s rage worsened: In a furious rant, he claimed the show was a “slap in the face” to our country, that Bad Bunny’s use of S...

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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.

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Leadership at the Peak

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

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OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware

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.

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Scripting News: Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Tuesday, February 10, 2026
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.#
Today's song: Eyes of the World. #

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Carbon Dating

This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.

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Why the infinite-scroll childhood may be coming to an end

Why the infinite-scroll childhood may be coming to an end

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