Damien Solimando

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia

Starting my day making some art.

We’re now at the “finding out” portion of the equation, and I’d be almost excited, except that a lot of good people lost their jobs over this bullshit, more than a few people died using this shit, and there won't be any consequences for the assholes who crammed it down everyone’s throats.

I want Custom Attributes to exist - think Custom Elements (Web Components) but Attributes. I've been working on a proposal, specs, and now a polyfill: www.keithcirkel.co.uk/custom-attri... More coming soon!

“Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell – Pivot to AI” https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/17/anthropic-watermarks-ai-output-and-the-ai-bros-yell/ Watching all of this unfold has been kind of funny.

If you are producing scholarship with AI and your work could plausibly be accessed in the EU, you are now legally compelled to disclose the nature and extent of your AI use. A tremendous win for scholarly integrity. www.lexacademic.com/blog/the-sta...

A teacher in Kansas was arrested for clapping for speakers who spoke up against a data center. Now, the city of Emporia is moving to virtual only meetings, citing "public safety." In their own words, Lux Claridge, tells us what happened. @mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/city-that-ar...

“Changes to our Contribution Policies – Godot Engine” https://godotengine.org/article/contribution-policy-2026/ > AI cannot take responsibility, and we can’t trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it.

Hummm well…

There's a far better case for banning social media for people 65+ than for people 16-18

"The scarce thing is not the ability to create more. The scarce thing is the ability to recognize what matters, what is beautiful, what is useful, and what is worth pursuing." --ChatGPT

look how they massacred my boy

We made a fake repo with fake bounties, and the bots are applying fake PRs, so we know who is fake, and we can ban them from the Coolify repo. IQ over 1000

If you have suddenly unlocked a superpower that allows everyone you employ to be 2x (4x, 10x, whatever) more efficient and your response is to lay off a bunch of people instead of *doing more stuff*, why do you even run a company?

Brazil: "Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that high-frequency ultrasound waves similar to those used in medical exams can eliminate viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and H1N1 without damaging human cells."

I wrote about everything I've felt, feared, and experienced about using AI for code over the last few years, and my opinions on where we stand. It's the most personal thing I've ever written. And I'm putting it out there to share with all of you. blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2026/05/ai-t...

Screen Reader HTML Support – Lookup updated 7th May 2026 #JAWS #TalkBack #VoiceOver #NVDA #Narrator #HTML #accessibility tetralogical.github.io/screen-reade...

Mark Zuckerberg built a massive data center in Georgia just hundreds of yards from people’s homes. Now the water pressure is gone. Sinks don’t run. Toilets won’t refill. Homes shake nonstop. Power outages are routine.

When I was at Microsoft, we were trying to find ways around some of the pain points of #WebComponents, so I did an exploration on what Declarative Custom Elements could potentially provide us. #html #css #javascript dev.to/stuffbreaker...

one chatbot told a participant in this study to go lay down in the dark when he was presenting with a brain hemorrhage... what are we even doing www.404media.co/chatbots-hea...

Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

Wild how far you can push "customizable select" with just #CSS nerdy.dev/nice-select

🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️pop 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

CSS module scripts landed in Firefox 147, so you can import CSS directly into JavaScript.

Trump: "NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything." Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.

Another proud day for America.

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

“ when people accumulate mass wealth and power, they begin to believe the rules no longer apply to them, and their behavior often drifts toward domination, exploitation, cruelty, violence, and the outright most vile and abhor.”

In 1943!!! “Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun famously gave his Nobel medal and diploma to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as a gesture of admiration for the Nazi regime, following his support for the occupation….”

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

SHOCK CELL PHONE VIDEO: Renee Good's final words to her murderer: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.” ICE agent Jonathan Ross after shooting and killing her seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.” Via Alpha News

The works of Plato are now being banned at schools in the United States. Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

Make it viral.

The EU is working on what is in essence a new Open Source strategy for Europe, and the call for evidence is now open. If you're a European hippie communist, you can provide input: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... for details on how to contribute.

✏️ 5 accessibility checks to run on every component zeroheight.com/blog/5-acces... I guest-posted on zeroheight's blog about accessibility of components! (note: WCAG compliance is claimed on full pages/processes only)

Guys, we did it. We invented the Commodore 64

Safari 26.2 is here with 65 features + 165 bug fixes — including field-sizing, Navigation API, Largest Contentful Paint, command & commandfor, CHIPS opt-in partitioned cookies, scrollend event, random(), WebGPU in WebXR, scrollbar-color, hidden=until-found and much more! webkit.org/blog/17640/w...

BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.

Facebook's Static Hermes is kind of incredible. It can compile JavaScript into C, which is then optimized into native machine code. I just compiled the Less.js source code into a C library. Then I called it from Rust as a native Parcel plugin (no Node). Wild. 👨‍🔬 devongovett.me/blog/static-...