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John Gruber expanding on his reaction to Adobe’s new UI to connect Nilay Patel’s “software brain” concept with the loss of creativity and craft in software:

You might think it counterintuitive that a movement obsessed with software would be spearheading a severe decline in the design quality of software, but in Patel’s definition, there’s no concept of software as art, as a practice, as a craft. Software brain is purely an obsession with software as a medium in and of itself. A means with no consideration for the end.

Taegan Goddard, quoting the Financial Times last week: The Pentagon said President Trump’s Iran war has cost the United States at least $25 billion, driven primarily by the military’s use of munitions, the Financial Times reports. The New York Times had an interesting ...

This is nuts: Fred Again has uploaded a video of every single show he did during his USB002 tour (except Mexico City) — it’s four and a half days long. “im told this is the longest video on YouTube ever?”

Courts may restrict access to the popular abortion medication mifepristone in the United States. Telehealth providers have backup plans in place.

War is bad. Don’t start one. But we’re already in a class war and we’re losing. Where by “we” I mean most people; the winning side comprises, roughly, the richest 0.1% of the population, who are morphing into a hereditary aristocracy. [I mean that, see below.] So, what to do in a war one didn’t choose?

You might think it counterintuitive that a movement obsessed with software would be spearheading a severe decline in the design quality of software, but in Patel’s definition, there’s no concept of software as art, as a practice, as a craft. Software brain is purely an obsession with software as a medium in and of itself. A means with no consideration for the end.

Some nice work here from Swedish designer Eric Rohman, who designed thousands of movie posters in the early-to-mid 20th century. (via meanwhile) Tags: design · Eric Rohman · movie posters · movies

Amazon has given its estimated tens of thousands of developers immediate access to Anthropic’s Claude Code, and they’ll soon have

The post AI and Claude: The internal rebellion that changed Amazon’s rules appeared first on The New Stack.

Crenshaw named two of the most contested ideas in American politics: intersectionality and critical race theory. Her new book is called ‘Backtalker: An American Memoir.’ It takes us to her childhood in Canton, Ohio, and along her path through Cornell, Harvard Law, and the University of Wisconsin, where, in 1988, as a graduate student, she sketched a diagram of an intersection to explain how race, class, and gender overlap. She spoke with Tonya Mosley about these moments in her career, and how she’s thinking about America’s 250th anniversary. 

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The official trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was just released. Really looking forward to this.

OpenAI has announced that it’s replacing the default model in ChatGPT with GPT-5.5 Instant, which it said produces faster responses,

The post OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.5 Instant as default ChatGPT model, promises more accurate responses appeared first on The New Stack.

“More than 1 in 4 [students at University of Maine at Presque Isle’s online MyPace program] finished their entire degree course load in a single eight-week session, half the length of a traditional academic semester.” — The Washington Post - – - Thanks to the hassle of readi...

Three years ago, at the outset of the 88th session of the Texas Legislature, Salman Bhojani placed his hand atop a 19th-century Quran in the state House chamber and became one of the first two Muslims ever sworn in to craft Texas laws. The then-42-year-old lawyer, who was raised in Pakistan and Canada before coming […]

The post ‘McCarthyism with a Texas Accent’ appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Is this AI psychosis? You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world. Answer with complete, detailed, specific answers. Process ...

David Smith, “Six Years Perfecting Maps on watchOS”: I love going on wilderness adventures. I am rarely happier than when I am far off into the mountains without a soul in sight. As a result, I have spent a lot of time learning how to safely explore and navigate when I’m...

What now-familiar domain names looked like before they were bought by big-time companies, e.g. openai.com was “the personal homepage of a guy named glenn”, doordash.com was a porn site, threads.com sold spools of thread.

Every frontier model in 2026 advertises a context window of at least a million tokens, but almost none of them

The post The context window has been shattered: Subquadratic debuts a 12-million-token window appeared first on The New Stack.

Paul Haddad on Mastodon:

I think Apple AI’s strategy should be do the thing only they can do, local AI but not the crappy little models made to run on phones. Focus on getting models running on only high end Macs with high (but reasonable) amounts of RAM first. Train it/them to work well for iOS/Mac coding and OpenClaw like work. Don’t worry about being “frontier” just good enough when running on >= 64GB of RAM.

This could work, but so few people have that much RAM. I don’t think Apple expected the cloud frontier to be so far ahead.

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