incredibly sad. i saw him play several times, a fantastic performer and song writer

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.

Breaking News: Glen Hansard, the Irish musician who won an Oscar for the song “Falling Slowly” from the movie “Once,” has died at 56 in a motorcycle crash.

this post is for subscribers but it’s so 🔥🔥🔥 i’m reposting it anyway

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · 2w ago

In the wake of OpenAI's autonomous attack against Hugging Face, I wrote about the promise and limitations of Congress' proposed AI kill switch www.platformer.news/openai-agent...

Xcode 27.0 beta 3 added updates to XCUIAutomation, so that you can now drive VoiceOver in the simulator. You've always had to test VoiceOver focus and navigation issues on device and there was no way to automate it: now you can! Just confirmed this all works in the simulator. Huge for a11y.

Apparently norwegians claim to eat the second most tacos in the world per capita after Mexico? 🌮

waiting to find out that Jimothy also enjoys milkshakes

incredibly awful race yesterday

Defector@defector.com · 2w ago

Jonas Vingegaard felled yet again by the cruelty of his sport: defector.com/jonas-vingeg...

mmm…weasel riding a woodpecker seems like it should be a metaphor for something

ContempraInn 🌹@contemprainn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Photographer Martin Le-May was walking through a London park with his wife, hoping to show her a green woodpecker for the first time, when he snapped this incredible photo: a weasel riding a flying woodpecker.

I’m pretty disappointed to learn that along with the Cursor acquisition SpaceX also acquired Graphite, which was useful.

I found a check in my garden today in perfect condition belonging to someone on my street…dated June 4th, 1981. Weird!

Stage 1 of the Tour de France — what a great start!! Love this every year 🚲🚲🚲

Just a reminder: We do not accept AI music submissions (e.g. Suno, etc) as SomaFM is a human-centered radio network. We especially hate AI agents repeatedly submitting AI music to us. If you're a developer, don't do this.

I found this episode of @masnick.com’s TechDirt where he interviews @ericries.bsky.social about corporate governance structures (inc new models), the “enshititfication” of products, and the history of shareholder primacy to be really good! Check it out. www.techdirt.com/2026/06/09/t...

Techdirt Podcast Episode 452: How To Stop Good Companies From Going Bad

Support us on Patreon » The concept of “enshittification” has helped illuminate why companies and their products so often get worse over time, but the causes of this process …

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what your sandals say about you: a helpful guide

i have to admit “too many raw illegal characters” is a spam subject that is enticing

The Bezos/Washington Post Editorial Board out this morning arguing to not tax the wealthy in San Francisco 🤔 archive.is/EgDpE

the last time scaffolding was this exciting was when they took that idiotic blinking X off the twitter building

there's a guy who occasionally emails me haikus about my stories but today he went with a big time poem on my pieces about SpaceX here is his art

I don't know if Dan, the amazing Apple accessibility engineer who helped me today, or anyone who knows him, will see this. But hopefully he does: I got iOS 27 beta 1 installed and it fixes the VoiceOver focus issue I was seeing. Incredible! Thanks again for all your help today. #wwdc26 #wwdc

It’s a weird time to be any kind of software developer. Thrilled to get to reconnect with old friends and talk about it at this year’s #wwdc

Drop off ballots at election locations or boxes, do not drop in the mail due to recent usps postmarking changes

League of Women Voters of San Francisco@lwvsf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You hear that sound, San Francisco? It's coyotes howling for you to VOTE 🔥 Ballots due by 8pm TODAY🔥 Get our San Francisco voter guide at lwvsf.org/vote

election day here in california! looking forward to dropping off my ballot

thanks to @adafruit.com I finally swapped out the broken jack on this guitar. sounds great!

whatever religion this is, i’m joining

Ash Preston@theashpreston.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

From The Tech back in December: “According to Institute spokesperson Kimberly Allen, MIT’s budget shortfall is estimated to be $300 million a year, mostly due to an increased tax on investment returns and national cuts to scientific research.” thetech.com/2025/12/04/m...

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

looking forward to this one

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 3mo ago

New Ctrl-Alt-Speech with guest host @granick.bsky.social: Message in a Bottleneck. This week, we talk about the various bottlenecks and chokepoints on the internet: payment processors, app stores... some gov't regulators. podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...

read another think piece about how all the major twitter clones are all failing and therefore text is dead so i’m pretty sure it’s 2016

BOO listening to BBC Americast repeating the untrue talking point that San Francisco is riddled with crime

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while working yesterday afternoon i turned on the Artemis II livestream. It’s amazing that the world was able to watch live video from the spacecraft as it returned to Earth. Stunning images!

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF is Leaving X

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

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