Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

"I stand with you, I am your brother": Legendary actor Richard Gere supports Ukrainians and recites a poem by Ukrainian poet Yuriy Izdryk.

"By writing, you are literally firing up your brain and therefore stirring up your conscious thoughts and something new emerges. You are not, or at least not always, transcribing something already present in your conscious thoughts.“ LOVE this piece. www.historians.org/perspectives...

How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.

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Oh, Devs.

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

Officeworkers: we want to work from home! CEOs: Sorry, the world economy is dependent on you sitting in traffic every day and sitting at a desk while you work

matt damon is the only person in the world who is generation x and also generation z because he was born in the 70s and also bourne in the 2000s

the existence of progressive web applications implies the existence of centrist web applications

Women-led DeepTech startup, has launched the indigenous NIKA2 Kisan Medium Drone for agriculture and field-intensive industries. NIKA2 supports a 16-litre spraying payload. Read Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/17/news... #DroneTechnology #AgriTech #DeepTech #WomenInTech #deccanfounders

AgathaTrack — Field Notes #01 I’m building a pet health app as a testbed for what changes when AI is genuinely in the development loop. Let me know your thoughts on the first one here. frederiqueprevost.com/agathatrack/...

The One Where the AI Made the App Less Modest

AI made implementation cheap. Now the hard part is deciding what not to build.

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It is more boring. It’s formatting. Let a programmer explain it, if you want to understand why. Or maybe aliens did it. youtu.be/SVVnkNZWJhk?...

Why Epstein emails have so many ='s

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People, it’s not that complicated.

The job of engineers is not to deploy some technology but to build robust, reliable and sustainable (in all meanings of that word) solutions for real world problems based on requirements directly derived from people's needs. Even for an engineer technology comes second at best.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

Every day I think Elon Muck can’t possibly get more unlikable and every day I am wrong

Sometimes a few words you've already heard a hundred times make you cry for the very first time, and I don't presume to know what greatness is but that's gotta be pretty close

We have reached the “knowledge is trauma” portion of the program