I wrote a blog post about the dangers of small pieces of self-reproducing code shaped by natural selection infesting the internet of tomorrow. idlewords.com/2026/10/clou...

A new, fun substack post on the discovery of microbial dark matter and the implications for a Mars landing. mceglowski.substack.com/p/microbial-...

Microbial Dark Matter and the Search for Life on Earth

On the joys and tribulations of living through a golden age in microbiology

mceglowski.substack.com

I started a new substack on Mars exploration, called Mars For The Rest of Us. The first post is up, on the Martian housing crisis (for microbes). Hope to see my fellow space nerds in the comments! mceglowski.substack.com/p/is-mars-ha...

Imagine being this rich but you still can't afford to buy a vowel.

Forbes@forbes.com · last yr.

The CEO of a Polish paving company, Piotr Szczerek, said in a statement Monday morning he thought the player had offered him the hat for his sons.

Demand to be buried with a stone tablet saying “Detailed descriptions of our political, phonological, and economic systems in Tomb Two”

Tade Thompson@tadethompson.bsky.social · 2y ago

Aspire to be a person about whom future archaeologists will say "is probably apocryphal".

They used this to weed out the stupid ones

Joe Walsh@walshfreedom.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wishing this site was a little less "Subaru bumper sticker".

Since this place has API access, I'm considering adding Bluesky support to Pinboard, but I'd like to hear about people's needs. Do you want an archive of your own stuff? Something that collects stuff you like or retweet? A way to bookmark individual posts on here? I'm all ears about use cases.

Does this site have a business model? Am I allowed to ask?

Use Pinboard.