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Monday, June 1, 2026 John C Reilly has only one audiobook, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. But it's the best audiobook I've ever read, because the narrator and the book are great, esp together. Wish he would do more. Also there's a great interview with him on the Rachel Ma...

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Second in my series of tutorials on how to use #Mastodon is now up. I go over the home feed, how to fill it up with interesting things using the trending feed and hashtags, and how to declutter it with lists. Let me know if you learn something you weren't aware of from this video 🙂

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Nick Heer, at Pixel Envy, last week published a remarkable essay surveying — with copious receipts — the rise and fall of “metaverse” hype: The obsession with the metaverse seems to have solidified in Silicon Valley after Matthew Ball published an essay in January 2020 i...

Hamilton Nolan, writing at How Things Work: There are only a few reasons why you might be hired for a prestigious job that you are obviously not qualified for. One is “they have recognized you for the genius that you are.” The urge to conclude that this is, in fact, the ...

This week I shipped an MCP so AI agents could read one of my sites. The same week, one of my hosts shipped a CAPTCHA to keep them out. Only one of us is reading the room.

This is a story about music, backups, nostalgia and, I guess, the iPod touch.

Every WordCamp program has a slide deck called something like “An Introduction to the Settings API.” It’s fine. It’s competent. It’ll be on WordPress.tv by Friday, where four people will watch it, two of them related to the speaker. No shade — we’ve all given that talk. But here’s the thing we rarely say out […]

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It’s time for our 11th annual competition regarding what will happen at Apple’s WWDC keynote! What will be announced? For the third straight year, what will Apple’s AI story be?…

Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season. “Key environmental indicators show that the nation is a tinderbox, gripped by widespread drought and with a light snowpack in the mountains.”

The safety benchmarks enterprise buyers rely on to evaluate AI models are measuring the wrong thing. That’s the finding from

The post OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Amazon, and xAI all fail on type of attack, study finds appeared first on The New Stack.

Demolition continues on 51st street.

The Rams just traded for Cleveland Browns superstar pass rusher Myles Garrett. But before you ooh and ahh at the prospect of the NFL’s reigning Defensive Player of the Year joining Sean McVay’s superteam-in-waiting, you should probably consider what Los Angeles gave up to ac...

Kath Korevec, who works at OpenAI, in a post on X:

Devs do a lot more than “just coding.” They write docs, design apps, design architecture, manage devops, work with data, etc. It’s no wonder codex is so good at “all the things.” It’s because we built it for developers.

Steve Troughton-Smith in a Mastodon post:

The best kind of WWDC is the WWDC that gives me a big grab-bag of tools to make my apps better along several axes, and doesn’t burden me with a huge amount of needless churn just to tread water.

JetBrains announced on Monday it has open-sourced Mellum2, a 12B-parameter coding model aimed at the infrastructure layer of agentic AI

The post JetBrains open-sources Mellum2 to go where Claude Code can’t appeared first on The New Stack.