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Warning: This episode discusses suicide. Hours after Jeffrey Epstein arrived at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, an employee expressed concern over his distraught state, saying in an email to the jail staff, “just to be on the safe side and prevent any suic...

Wellness influencers have stumbled onto a huge issue when it comes male fertility, though not every solution they're pitching is good advice.

Donald Trump’s ceasefire deal with Iran has now been released, and it confirms what we all expected: He got nothing of any significance. A surprising number of his allies agree. Fox News figures, visibly angry and rattled, are saying the deal “doesn’t feel like...

I’ve been reading Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff). And so has another reader of this blog who had a terrific idea for an experiment. He (or she) fed the text of the book … Continue reading →

Previously: Frontier in the Terminal With a REPL By this point, the easy parts were mostly already over. Frontier was no longer a pile of old source to coax into compiling. It was running headless. It could load old databases. It had a new REPL so I could do basic command-line interactions, and more and more […]

Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.

Josh Baer has died in a plane crash. Tragic. He founded Capital Factory and was a huge part of the Austin startup scene. Thinking of his family and friends, and so many people whose lives he must’ve impacted. Rest in peace.

This is kind of fantastic: Ribbie lets you watch actual MLB baseball games “rendered pitch by pitch in a cozy 8-bit view while they happen”. Ribbie is a simple way to keep a live baseball game nearby. It shows the score, the bases, the count, and a tiny pixel field that moves with the real game. I built it because I wanted something between a stats tab and a full broadcast. Something you can leave open while you work, cook, or do whatever else, then glance over and know what is happening. There are a few different views you can use. The image above is the fullscreen view. Here’s the fullscreen game chooser view and the room view of the game. I love this. Nice use of Silkscreen too. 😊 Tags: baseball · design · Silkscreen · sports · typography

In case you missed it, a lot has happened in the European social web community over the last few weeks. We’re thrilled about these developments and wanted to share our perspective on what ties them together. Until now, many have thought of the open social web as a technical ...

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Farewell to Venice On our way to the airport. Quote of the Day ”I don’t mind growing old. I’m just not used to it.” Viktor Borge Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Mozart | Così fan tutte, K. 588, … Continue reading →

Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom’s access to Claude Mythos over claims of alleged ties to China.

In Working With Intelligent Machines, written at the beginning of my AI-assisted coding journey, I quoted from Garry Kasparov’s The Chess Master and the Computer. The winner was revealed to be not a grandmaster with a state-of-the-art PC but a pair of amateur American chess players using three computers at the same time. Their skill … Continue reading Vibe coding as a team sport

Full set of Underworld playing live at EDC Las Vegas back in May.

So that settles it then: Iberia's Team is Andorra. And the Andorrans didn't even know they were an option. This is what happens when Spain can't get past Cape Verde and then, maybe even more shockingly, Portugal gets stymied by the Democratic Republic of Congo. That is to s...

A digital clock where the numbers are made from dozens of analog clock hands. Hard to describe…just go take a look.

Snap’s latest smart glasses, whether we’ve tried Apple’s new Shortcuts creation feature, AI-powered pets, and who wants a dumb phone?…

The 2026 Local Journalist Index, released this week by Muck Rack and the Rebuild Local News Coalition, contains a fair bit of bad news that may not surprise you: The number of working local journalists has plummeted over the last 25 years (and continued to decline last year), and the little coverage that’s left tends...

Being a NYer and Knicks fan, I don't have a good perspective on how big an event the Knicks winning is. If you're not from the area, how widely is this holiday being observed and how many share the enthusiasm. Are people everywhere asking "How about those Knicks!"