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Early on in the promotional period for season two of Andor, a series explicitly about fascism that depicted a genocide, Disney asked creator Tony Gilroy not to use the words “fascism” and “genocide”. Now that promotional period has passed and he can speak freely. Here’s Gi...

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

From MacStories: Apple announced today that it is expanding its manufacturing operations in Houston, Texas where it will make Mac minis. The company also said it will expand its AI server production and training in Houston later this year. Sounds good to me. Also perfect t...

Now that the Olympics are over and their two most noteworthy gold medals, the men's and women's ice hockey championship, have been clawed by the gangrenous mitts of politics, we can now embrace the awfulness by association of the next two large-scale sporting events to be he...

A Meta employee who works on AI safety let an AI agent named OpenClaw loose on her inbox and it deleted all her email. (This tracks; companies like Meta actually don’t care about AI safety and hire accordingly.)

Dear Zettlers, In today’s newsletter, we will discuss a fairly technical aspect of the Zettelkasten Method: How to link. The Archive encourages you to link using only the unique identifier. The Archive utilises link-as-search. What you see in the double brackets is not a d...

I Hate Trump’s Awful Policies, but I Love That He’s a Huge Asshole. “I don’t like Trump’s immigration laws; they’re racist and economically disastrous. But I do love how evil he is.”

It took me a while to realize..

1. Agentics are server software.
2. The things you used to write in Node.js and before that PHP and Perl, and in my case Frontier.
3. I had been trying to get ChatGPT to do exactly that for months.

We're going to spend a while reimplementing all our server software.

It would be super helpful if the whole thing could be packaged up so we can write our servers in English or whatever our preferred Really Simple Language is, and have it compiled to whatever internal language it likes, and not have to learn too much new jargon.

Brands like Chipotle, Dunkin, and Starbucks have started offering new protein-dense menu items. Here are more companies making exciting protein-based revamps. Jamba Juice This sweet smoothie brand is branching out into savory, high-protein options. Try the “shepherd’s pie” s...

Tide’s Evo Tiles are lightweight, fibrous squares of detergent that simplify the laundry process—and also act as a slightly more eco-friendly alternative to the Tide Pod.

Writer Lauren Groff on how she works. “After she completes a first draft, she puts it in a bankers box — and never reads it again.” And: “We all need to fill ourselves with the ghosts of other writers.” Her new book is out now.

New on Jottit: blogrolls. Shows site avatars and latest posts, ordered by most recently active.

Here’s mine: simonbc.com/blogroll

Time to bring blogrolls back.

A reflection on the internet's impact on patience and learning. It highlights how instant answers have reshaped our experiences, often sacrificing depth for speed in knowledge acquisition.

Fellow’s new espresso machine offers capabilities previously seen only in commercial machines. Some of those are still being fleshed out.

It’s a drop-bar electric mountain bike! It’s a full-suspension electric gravel bike! It’s everything at once, and it’s awesome.

Somewhere in the organization, there’s a Jenkins job that nobody wants to touch. The job is mission-critical and deploys to

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Fisker went out of business in 2024, but its biggest fans want to bring the “right to repair” to the masses.

In his new book, A World Appears, Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person.

From small art schools to large public universities, the new DOJ release of emails reveals just how deep the financier’s influence in academia went. Students are demanding accountability.

The United States has been building up a military presence around Iran for weeks, even as negotiators from both countries plan to meet later this week in hopes of finding a diplomatic solution to the escalating tensions. David E. Sanger, a national security correspondent for...