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No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

If you have ever read a book to a baby, you will realize it's not a linear experience. The baby wants to turn pages backward, wants to ask questions (if they're old enough), wants to examine the pages and get really excited if they can say "bear!" even if the word "bear!" is not on the page.

don't be nice.

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

the whole entire era is making me rethink my love of both technology and sci fi and I hate it

Can we please stop doing this? I made a comic about it and everything!

Reading novels for fun increases empathy, intelligence, relaxation, critical thinking, happiness, and general life satisfaction and is totally free through your local library

This is probably the right policy to adopt if you want to create great projects/products. The idea that you can let your codebase become a big ball of spaghetti and have coding agents bail you out is a helluva gamble. You can move much faster now while still maintaining quality and understanding.

with times being what they are, it seems like you basically can't have a public open source repo without receiving LLM-written PRs. thus, after a great deal of thought, i have adopted the somewhat idiosyncratic Mycelium AI Policy in my personal projects: github.com/hawkw/myceli...

@news.sky.com Im interested to know the rationale for constantly showing US news during prime time when lots of UK news stories are relegated to the side bar on the TV. Can we not report on politics in the UK?

"Piece of paper"… like a passport… or a visa application? 👀

Gabby: What was your highlight of the half time show? Wayne Rooney: When it finished. I thought it was crap. 10/10 punditry. No notes.

So far this is the worst World Cup Final ever

Nuxt 4.5 is out, and it's a big one. 🚀 - ⚡️ Vite 8 - 🦀 Rspack 2, now powered by Rsbuild - 🌊 experimental SSR streaming for faster TTFB - 🩺 a new stable error code system - 🎨 useLayout, named views, and more ... plus a lot of groundwork for Nuxt 5! 💚💚💚

Messi goes super saiyan in the last 20 of every match and every opposing coach is like, what if he didn’t and we could just defend a narrow lead until the whistle

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Good read - I see this happening leaddev.com/ai/ai-produc...

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

I look forward to the day when I no longer have to see issues and pull requests with blatant obvious AI slop. I hate it so much. It makes me not want to code anymore.

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

The Carnival Against Fascism crowd on the left, vastly outnumbering the right wing on the right. Brighton brought the noise! Love and solidarity X Pic courtesy of Sussex Police

Credit to the residents of Brighton wholeheartedly. Criticise it all you want but you're wrong. The people of this city are the most welcoming and least willing to put up with this shit of anywhere in the UK. Come try it, it always ends up like this.

Love this city. The racists are all stuck in a shit pub rn being yelled at by *checks notes* Fatboy slim?

I fucking love Brighton 🤩

I'm basically interacting regularly with gen AI tech as if I'm a massive AI booster a lot these days. Low energy local model but that's what I'm doing. Partly due to it being mandatory in my work, partly I want to test my skepticism and better qualify what it does do not just what it doesn't.

If you use LLMs to do your data analysis, or if you listen to people who do, you should read this kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

🚀Rolldown 1.0 is here!🚀 Rust-based high-performance JavaScript bundler. 🏎️ Runs at native speed that’s up 30x faster than Rollup 🤝 Compatible with existing Rollup & Vite plugins ⚡The underlying bunder for Vite After 2 years, Rolldown is officially stable and has 20+M weekly downloads.

Brevity is the skill

I think everyone who thinks that it is no longer necessary to understand software engineering principles because of AI should spend a few minutes every day browsing /r/vibecoding. It's so so clear that technical skills are still worthwhile.

Something shocking and out of the ordinary is happening in the UK. While in most comparable countries, healthy life expectancy is rising, here it is plunging steeply. Q. So what marks us out? A. 47 years of extreme neoliberalism, culminating in austerity. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

AI will take over all developer jooooo… **system error: you have run of tokens — please try again after 3d 6h 12m**

Generating software faster, or automating busywork, doesn't guarantee success in business.

One of the hardest things to get across to most software people with great intentions is *how strong defaults are* and how tired everyone else is of dorking around trying to get things to work, but this understanding is the thing that made Apple, for all its many flaws, such a giant.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

This is half the point of Ursula K Le Guin’s The Dispossessed! Being a leftist or even living in a utopian society doesn’t free you from the everyday pettiness and social conflict that come with just being a human being who exists around other human beings, especially when ambition is involved.

Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process. The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail. So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.

Is this… an allegory… for life?

I don’t know who needs to hear this but listening to an audio book absolutely counts as “reading” a book. In fact, I’d argue that listening to an author read their own work aloud is an exceptionally magical and even holy experience. I love it so much. Especially as my eyesight gets worse.

Do not copy/paste AI-generated answer to a PR review comment. Use your own reasoning and understanding. It’s both disrespectful and unprofessional to the reviewer ☹️. If you can explain why that AI-solution works yourself, how do I trust you know what you are doing?

now that Git 2.53 is out, the Git data model @omarieclaire.bsky.social and I wrote is on the official Git website! git-scm.com/docs/gitdata...

Last decade is the cognitive dissonance of discovering that a good chunk of the populace is far worse than you feared, and a good chunk are better than you might have hoped, but that most people just aren't paying much attention.

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

Momentum is self-fulfilling prophecy

"Quantity has a quality of its own." 🔥