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How many Premier League teams would you say are super happy with their season so far? I'd put the number at three. First there's Arsenal, which, aesthetic qualms aside, has to be giddy about its prospects of breaking the duck and winning the title. Then there's Aston Villa, ...

Daniel Jalkut blogging a story about getting a job at Apple in the 1990s:

The moment I got my foot in the door, I let management know that I was really after an engineering job. “I’m going to be the best QA engineer you’ve ever seen, but I really want to write code for the Mac.” Or something like that. Having the gall to say something affected things.

We’ve talked about Daniel’s time at Apple a bunch over the years on Core Intuition, but there are fun details here I didn’t know about.

When Gmail was released as a public beta in 2004, it “ran on three hundred old Pentium III computers nobody else at Google wanted”.

While publicly supporting protesters in Iran, Elon Musk's X appears to have been selling premium accounts to regime officials. Checkmarks were removed from certain accounts after a WIRED inquiry.

404 Media has obtained a cache of internal police emails showing at least two agencies have bought access to GeoSpy, an AI tool that analyzes architecture, soil, and other features to near instantly geolocate photos.

If you're a FeedLand user and have the technical ability to install a Docker app, even just on a local computer not on the net, you could help the project by trying the new Docker version. Think of FeedLand as something like Mastodon or WordPress. I want people to have an excellent experience installing and sharing their own instances. I am doing that now, with the blogroll on Scripting News and various news sites. That's all running on an instance of FeedLand I installed myself. Scott worked really hard to make that easier. It's an open source project, so you can feel good by helping. And if you have a few hours to give it a try, maybe much less, you would be doing a good thing.

When I was a kid I had a penpal in Scotland. It was kind of interesting but after a while it became tiresome. One time I got a letter from my penpal with the usual stuff, school, sports, the Beatles, other kids, but this time there was no mention about how stupid the adults were. I found out why at the end in a PS. "Sometimes my mom writes these for me." Obviously I never forgot this.

“Great system…now please make it 10 times cheaper.” That’s not exactly what the ShareChat team wanted to hear after completing

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As a child, my secret “cool kid” skill was the ability to eat the sourest candy—the kind that children only pop into their mouths when dared by the neighborhood bully—and shrug it off like it was absolutely nothing. The mean kids would encourage me to eat yet another Warhead...

For people in relationships, February 14 is a day to celebrate love and romance with a heart-shaped box of chocolates and a thoughtfully written card. But for those in less clear-cut dynamics, Valentine’s Day creates a difficult quandary: How to acknowledge your insignificant other without jeopardizing the carefully crafted gray area of your situationship. They’re definitely not your Valentine, but they’re still… something. And surely that something deserves a card too?

I no longer even think of debating whether the AIs are intelligent. I might as well argue about your intelligence, or even my own. We have no idea what intelligence is or how to test for it. So if you think you're so intelligent and you say things like "AIs aren't intelligent" as if it were an indisputable fact, well I'm pretty sure that proves you are not actually very intelligent, which indicates how intelligent I am (not). And if you're worried about what happens if you stop insisting that AIs aren't intelligent, you can relax, nothing depends on what you or I or anyone else thinks about that, or pretty much anything. Have a nice day.

BTW here's proof that ChatGPT, intelligent or not, actually listens to me. Which is something very few supposedly intelligent humans can say. This may be one reason why we like being fooled by these machines. 😄

Actor-style headshots from the 80s of artists like Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, and Robert Longo.

Sigh. Another tax season is upon us. I filed my taxes with TurboTax, exploring its newest features and free or low-cost filing options.

Looking to better protect your Kindle or add a little personality to your favorite e-reader? From cases and covers to page turners and even charms, this is the guide for you.

The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight.

Trust your own eyes.

“A system that makes people work like zombies to produce useless, destructive, or self-destructive things has outlived its usefulness.”

The JetBoots Pro Plus promise faster, more effective recovery by combining multiple therapies in one device. I tested whether it’s worth the $1,150 splurge.

This accessory gives your laptop three extra displays—as long as you’re prepared to lug them around.