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PSA: Many who have job-related or ACA health care in the US are approaching your "open enrollment" period, where you can make changes to your coverage. This video does a good job of unscrambling the terminology you'll encounter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wpH...

A reminder that the mobile web page version of Bluesky works perfectly well. You do not need to download an app that may spy on you and run your device's battery down. Unlike the app, once you close the bsky.app browser tab, Bluesky is no longer connected to your phone.

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

@inoreader.com What does it mean when your Chrome extension icon turns orange? It refused to add this page to "Save to Read Later" (I am a New Yorker subscriber logged into the site) www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

How electric VTOL air taxis will solve car traffic congestion problems.

For people wondering when the AI bubble is going to pop, I present you with this message, received by a paid-in-full customer of OpenAI. Not a good look when you have to tell paying customers you've run out of resources.

Two great books on the origin of the microcomputer revolution published this year: @davidpogue.bsky.social's Apple - The first 50 years @bzotto.bsky.social's Go Computer Now My review of both books, and how their stories are related: saccade.com/blog/2026/06...

Great profile of Hany Farid who recently left Bay Area for Vermont: "I can’t stand this place anymore... These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...

Great essay on how gargantuan AI/Space X IPOs are likely to trash the stock market as a whole. If you're expecting to sell hundreds of billions in new IPO shares, the $$$ has to come from -somewhere-. www.profgmedia.com/p/ipo-mania

Curious to know what repairability is like on the new Jony Ive designed Ferrari Luce. Knowing Ive, it's completely glued/welded shut. If it breaks down you're expected to throw it out and buy a new one. [Photo via Trung Phan]

Reuters I still trust... How Trump is moving to control U.S. elections, one state at a time

getting pretty tired of the frogs on the right out there

Setting aside all the jokes that one could make, can you imagine being asked "In your view, should 4 million people, who along with their ancestors have only ever lived here, be deported" and being like "gee, maybe?"

DLSS 5 off DLSS 5 on

One thing I like about our current tech landscape: Simplisafe: "The battery within the Key Fob cannot be replaced." YouTube: "To replace the Key Fob battery, just pry it open here with a screwdriver..."

@ronavitzur.bsky.social Saw this go by on Mastodon and wondered if you were aware of it.

I just realized there's a perfect word for the endless promotion of AI: Splopaganda!

Newsletter: With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete, the cryptocurrency industry has moved at least $288 million toward the midterms in a desperate bid to keep Republicans in control of Congress. www.citationneeded.news/crypto-super...

I found this one of the most hopeful things I've seen about the US recently. @techconnectify.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6_9...

"The year of technoligarchy" by @molly.wiki is worth your time to understand the situation we got ourselves into. www.citationneeded.news/the-year-of-...

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

feast your optical orbs on this beautiful LN3-2A aircraft gimbal! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak5S...

@amiyamato.bsky.social hackaday.com/2026/01/10/y... ?

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Important space research:

With gear like this, who needs the gym?

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

Micron ending it's Crucial consumer DRAM brand is a sign of a larger issue: Computation going from individual ownership and moving to data centers you have rent resources from. See also steadily rising prices on new GPU cards and SSDs. The future is a Chromebook and a $150/month data center bill.

Elle Cordova on the sad state of science under Tяump. youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...

YouTube, in one concise diagram.

From the people who brought you egg-based semiconductors: hackaday.com/2025/10/28/m... @jeriellsworth.bsky.social @lauriewired.bsky.social

Tim Cook's total time at Apple is three years longer than Steve Jobs'

If anybody knows somebody at YouTube, make sure they get this message. Otherwise, some McKinsey idiot will come in ignoring this fact and YouTube will go down the drain too.

SSDs are pretty reliable in a technical sense.
 That is, unless you make a really, really bad mistake in firmware. 
 HP had a line of ~20 different Enterprise SSD models for datacenter use.
 In exactly 3 years, 270 days and 8 hours, every one is irrecoverably bricked.

So, why is this measured in ml instead of GB? (Sited in Los Angeles)

happy 3²/4²/5² to ask those who celebrate

State of New Mexico Dept. of Health issues order maximizing availability of the COVID vaccine, in defiance of the the idiot running the HHS. Folks in other states: Scream at your state's Dept. of Health and state legislator reps to do the same! www.kob.com/new-mexico/n...

There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.