Oh look they’re making a sequel to Practical Magic, full title Practical Magic 2: Women from the 90s who don’t age and also all new ideas stopped after 2016 variety.com/2026/film/re...

‘Practical Magic 2’ Review: Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman Don’t Quite Cast a Spell in an Overlong, Predictable Sequel

With Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, Susanne Bier's 'Practical Magic 2' rehashes what earned the first film a fandom, but fails to correct its flaws

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Tech companies don't even tell you what they do anymore, they just look at you like this

OpenAI president says we're in the AGI era now. Thank you for telling us. What's AGI again? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’

According to OpenAI president Greg Brockman, we’ve likely entered the AGI era.

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Let their imminent deaths be a lesson to you all

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“Teams will race to navigate three of the planet’s most unforgiving landscapes — the jungle, the desert, and the Arctic — using Gemini to help them identify dangers, survive brutal weather changes, and stay one step ahead.”

Maybe the end of Woke 1 was when Reply All couldn't finish their series on Bon Appetite...

Why did mortality have to come for Dolly too this sucks

I lurked in AI writing subreddits for a couple of weeks, before and after Anthropic announced their watermark, and let me tell you: they all lost their damn minds. I wrote about it here www.horrific-terrific.tech/p/you-cannot...

You Cannot Optimise the Thing you Love

The pirates have made their own piracy label

horrific-terrific.tech

I'm making a thing that emulates how posts get made and shared across different online platforms. Each symbol is one post and each colour represents a different platform. The trailing ones are reposts; the ones that grow big have a lot of engagement. Can you guess which is which?

Amazon will now use Twitch streams to train their AI and it's opt-out, because no one would ever opt-in. How much longer is this going to last lolol? We weren't put on this earth to train AI so it can make worse versions of what we already do very well aftermath.site/twitch-ai-am...

Twitch Says Quiet Part Out Loud: Amazon AI Is Opt Out Because ‘Nobody Would Opt In’

"If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in. That’s honestly the answer"

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I was looking for something in my blog and I found this thing I wrote like a year ago where I complained about dumb phones for some reason. This is why having a blog where I write about anything I want is good and healthy www.horrific-terrific.tech/p/why-is-my-...

Why is my phone the wrong shape?

Here are some devices that give you magic permission to go to the beach

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It's not writers block, it's just 35 degrees outside ffs

I have felt so weird for the past 2-3 weeks and I would like it to somehow be the fault of a major celestial event rather than anything I might be doing wrong

feel so sorry for the copywriters at M&S who came up with 'This is not just food...' because that just sounds like AI now

Wakanda tariffs going to get doubled now

US government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner

Officials say it was an error to add the fictional nation from Black Panther to the list.

bbc.com

Cut to drones dropping hot soup on people’s heads

The Verge@theverge.com · 2mo ago

DoorDash is going airborne with new drone delivery division

Wtf is this, it’s like we’re going backwards

I saw someone post this earlier, lost the post, then went mad going into the Writing With AI subreddit, and now I've screenshotted a bunch of ridiculous posts that illustrate the kind of things people talk about on there...

Sony are discontinuing physical game discs which is making gamers question the notion of ownership and making me laugh at the fact that PlayStation’s motto is ‘play has no limits’ open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...

Monopoly Round-Up: Video Gamers Rebel Against Sony, Microsoft, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Sony will no longer ship physical copies of games, prompting widespread anger from customers at how their ownership rights are being stripped by powerful monopolies. Plus, SpaceX craters...

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The bbc advert they just played at half time made me want to pay for six tv licences at once

While writing this piece I realised that in techno-solutionism, I'm much more afraid of the solution than I am of the problem -- because the problem is as much of a fantasy as the solution is www.horrific-terrific.tech/p/the-age-of...

The Age of Manure

I’m not afraid of problems; I’m afraid of solutions

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Another example of how 'open source' in AI isn't really a thing. Thinking Machines say AI shouldn't be controlled by a handful of companies -- but also their model "needs to run on a cluster of specialized chips". Which effectively doesn't feel very open. www.wired.com/story/thinki...

Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model

Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open source model, was trained to understand video and audio. It could help Thinking Machines establish itself among competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI.

wired.com

Tbh this makes sense, Robert Kennedy looks like the vitamin density of any vegetable would kill him

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What happens in a world where everyone who eats lettuce is incapacitated with diarrhoea, leaving everyone who's never touched an apple to be in charge? It's like a very specific kind of nightmare fodder

New case for the Xteink just dropped. I love makers.

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Xteink X4 is underpowered, flawed, has no backlight, and no touch screen. But it's tiny, cheap, magnetically snaps to your phone and has a devout community loves it. It has bloomed into something special thanks to open source firmware. For @aftermath.site aftermath.site/xteink-x4-ch...

Sorry to give more attention to a ridiculous story but this is basically like ‘fake inventor is upset that another fake inventor stole their fake invention’ www.cnbc.com/2026/07/10/a...

Apple sues OpenAI alleging trade secret theft, says scheme was 'at every level'

The two companies entered into a high-profile partnership in 2024 when ChatGPT was integrated into the iPhone's operating system.

cnbc.com

Maintainers of open source repos are now overrun with bullshit vibe-coded PRs -- 'democratisation'? www.ft.com/content/cec8...

Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

ft.com

We're iterating like men in a billionaire group chat over here

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Everything about AI development would be better if people called models things like "Lipstick on Mirror v. 0.0.1"

why don't we just call AGI what it is? E.g. a conspiracy theory

@benwhitelaw.bsky.social thanks for the shoutout! and nice to be mentioned alongside the legend that is @georgiaiacovou.com

I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call