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• Better Models: Worse Tools AI About an aggravating tool-calling regression in newer Claude models.
• The First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Was a Bold, Beautiful Failure - IEEE Spectrum history The Atlantic Telegraph Company’s 1858 failure set the stage for success just eight years later
• Who loses when cars stop crashing? - by Kelsey Piper Urbanism Sometimes progress puts you out of business.
• has_not_been_viewed_much — Will W. Art Museum APIs and the art that hasn't been viewed much.
• The way we treat pigs is a sin - by Noah Smith The practice of "crating" is torture, plain and simple. Voters want to end it, but Congress might not let them.
• Microsoft reports expose AI's cost problem: The tech is more expensive than paying human employees | Fortune AI Companies are racing to incentivize employees to use AI. But as some companies are finding, the more employees that use the technology, the heavier the bill.
• Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career AI Professional It would really suck for software engineers if using AI made us worse at our jobs in the long term
• Save the Taxi Drivers - The Atlantic AI Urbanism I’ve shared this article because it’s poorly reasoned. I hope you’ll read it.
• Testing Vue components in the browser Code from Julia Evans
• What if you don't need MCP at all? AI Got Bash and some code interpreter? Skip MCP.
• Other Colleges Have Frat Houses. This One Has a Cookie House.
• Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Politics Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers
• Owls near Hennepin Nature Look at owls near you
• I Read the Claude Code Source Code. Here's Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You. AI Hook fields that rewrite commands mid-flight, persistent agent memory, auto-mode rules in plain English, self-improving dream loops, and every example is copy-paste ready.
• Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case Social-Media A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress.
• Meta AI agent’s instruction causes large sensitive data leak to employees | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian Social-Media Artificial intelligence agent instructed engineer to take actions that exposed user and company data internally
• The Jellies That Evolved a Different Way To Keep Time | Quanta Magazine Science Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that suggests there are likely more overlooked biological timekeeping mechanisms to be discovered.
• Oregon School Cell Phone Ban: ‘Engaged students, joyful teachers’ | The Portland Tribune Education There was plenty of uncertainty and debate about the effectiveness of a cell phone ban decreed by executive order last summer.
• Why Free Transit Is A Bad Idea (In Most Cities) - YouTube Urbanism
• Austin’s Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents Housing After decades of explosive growth, Austin, Texas, in the 2010s was a victim of its own success. Lured by high-tech jobs and the city’s hip reputation, too many people were competing for too few homes. From 2010 to 2019, rents in Austin increased nearly 93%—more than in any other major American city. And home sale prices increased 82%, more than in any other metro area in Texas.
• US Job Market Visualizer Economy
• Who really saved the whales? - by Matthew Yglesias Economy The multiple lives and deaths of the commercial whaling industry
• MCP is dead. Long live the CLI AI MCP
• Is Age Verification a Trap? - IEEE Spectrum Tech Age verification is forcing companies to undermine data privacy laws.
• The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets Education Tech Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
• I feel about generative AI the same way I feel about Harry Potter | mint city lights AI I feel about generative AI the same way I feel about Harry Potter, which is that I personally don’t wish to have anything to do with them, but I also feel th...
• Kids and Smartphones - Kev Quirk Calm Tech We recently gave my oldest son his first phone, and it's really concerning me already.
• The Business of Building Data Centers - Streets.mn AI Climate Data centers being developed in Minnesota could result in hundreds of short-term jobs, but others questions what happens once the centers are built.
• Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding – fast.ai Sinister variations on the positive state of flow
• BART in San Francisco added hardened fare gates and added over $10M in revenue and dramatically reduced maintenance issues. : r/ezraklein Politics
• Unsealed Court Documents Show Teen Addiction was Big Tech's "Top Priority" Social-Media New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the narrative with parents WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project published a new report spotlighting newly unsealed documents in the 2026 social media addiction trials.
• Tigers Blood | Waxahatchee Music Tigers Blood by Waxahatchee, released 22 March 2024 1. 3 Sisters 2. Evil Spawn 3. Ice Cold 4. Right Back to It 5. Burns Out at Midnight 6. Bored 7. Lone Star Lake 8. Crimes of the Heart 9. Crowbar 10. 365 11. The Wolves 12. Tigers Blood
• I tried to warn neighbors about ICE. Then agents attacked me. ICE One ICE agent, apparently referring to Renee Good, said, 'You guys gotta stop obstructing us — that's why that lesbian b---- is dead.'
• Rules of the road are at the center of ICE occupation, resistance ICE Whenever the ICE occupation finally ends — and it’s no longer necessary to track agents with cars — laws must be enforced.
• Thousands rally against ICE in Minneapolis amid below-zero temperatures : r/pics
• The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us - by Seva Gunitsky AI what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
• You Need A Kitchen Slide Rule Cooking
• Claude is not a senior engineer (yet) AI It appears that other people have made the same observation as me that LLMs have poor “taste” and are bad at abstractions.
• getpass — Portable password input — Python 3.14.2 documentation Code I was today years old when I learned that python has a whole module for getting protected user input.
• This Is How You Get JARHEAD Sequels - YouTube Culture Clickbait Title: Annihilation 2: Absolution (2027) Ending ExplainedI started work on this a year ago. The original script ended with a joke about touching gr...
• fuck your atomic habits | brnt.sh Calm
• stop doom-scrolling, start doom-coding AI A guide for how to use your smartphone to code anywhere at anytime.
• AI optimism is a class privilege - Josh Collinsworth blog AI I think I have an idea why we're so extremely divided on AI: it's because we have an intuitive sense of who it stands to benefit, and who stands to pay the costs. I think whether you see reason for optimism has a lot to do with which group you see yourself in.
• It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons Design Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
• A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online Calm IndieWeb How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
• How Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA | Quanta Magazine Science Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore.
• Floor796 Art A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups
• AI Police Reports: Year In Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation AI In 2024, EFF wrote our initial blog about what could go wrong when police let AI write police reports. Since then, the technology has proliferated at a disturbing rate. Why? The most popular generative AI tool for writing police reports is Axon’s Draft One, and Axon also happens to be the largest...
• Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High Calm I’ve been reading Lord of the Rings for two months and I’m just at the end of the first part. It’s not because I’m not enjoying it. It’s one of the most enjoyable reading experiences I can remember.
• On Paperbacks and TikTok - Cal Newport AI Calm In 1939, Simon & Schuster revolutionized the American publishing industry with the launch of Pocket Books, a line of diminutive volumes (measuring 4 by 6 ... Read more
• Karly's Lil Fucked Up Place!!!! IndieWeb Music I like Karlys band Wednesday and this is her website lol
• Thoughts on [consumer] MCP AI I was listening to a recent Vergecast episode the other day, and in there, there was a whole segment about MCP servers and AI-powered shopping.
• Hamonshū : Mori, Yūzan, -1917 Art Decoration and ornament. Waves in art.
• Gell-Mann amnesia effect - Wikipedia I keep forgetting the name of this every time I try to describe it.
• Bikepacking Vermontshire: Part 8 Bikes For this year's bike tour, Meg and I rode our ATBs from Littleton, New Hampshire, in a loop around Vermont, and back to New Hampshire. Along the way, we checked out some new spots, and visited some old favourites. We connected it all with a collection of class 4 roads, singletrack, dirt roads, and -- occasional -- pavement.
• Giant Lazy Meatballs Recipe Food These giant lazy meatballs, made with beef and pork, need no slicing and dicing, precooking, or long simmer. Despite the lazy method, they have the incredible taste and texture of a properly made meatball.
• Based Cooking Food The fast-loading recipe site with cooking only and no ads.
• S&P 500 Correlation Matrix DataVis High-performance S&P 500 correlation matrix with hierarchical clustering and rolling correlation charts.
• A lot of people are way too eager to declare Mississippi a myth, part I Education A response to an alleged debunking
• Jingpo Rice Balls. American Supermarket Ingredients. (rare technique) - YouTube Food Jingpo rice balls! A fantastic dish from the very west-most corner of Yunnan that uses some very interesting technique.0:00 - what jingpo rice balls are2:50 ...
• Something Ominous Is Happening in the AI Economy AI Economy The last time so much wealth was tied up in such obscure overlapping arrangements was just before the 2008 financial crisis.
• Elite Colleges Have an Extra-Time-on-Tests Problem - The Atlantic Education America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
• Playing in the creek AI
• Ezra's Bookshelf Politics Every recommended book from The Ezra Klein Show collected
• Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready AI A post about everyone in Seattle hating AI.
• iPhone dumbphone Calm I used Apple Configurator to turn my iPhone into a dumb phone. I can only access the apps and websites I want to use, and it’s feeling great!