The recording of my talk, Newly Acquired Powers of the Web Platform, which I presented at @dddperth.bsky.social earlier this month is now live on YouTube. It is all about great features in HTML and CSS that have reached or are reaching the web. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsnG... #DDDPerth
Declan Chidlow - Newly Acquired Powers of the Web Platform
YouTube video by DDD Perth
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Barclays is cutting 5,000 jobs after reporting £2.3B in quarterly profit. American Express is cutting 3,500 despite strong earnings. Both cite AI. AI lets companies do more with fewer people. Will AI also create enough new companies and jobs to offset the layoffs as businesses need fewer people?
🎙️ ep 256 of @whiskey.fm w/ guest Denver Cramer: industrial designer, distiller, photographer, and creator of Denver and Liely 🛠️ craft 💻 code 🥃 whiskey ✅ whatnot nerdy.dev/www-ep256-de...
Designing Whiskey Glasses with Denver Cramer · October 21, 2026
Denver Cramer on designing whiskey glasses, Starward x Lagavulin, kids and AI, and the banjo.
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Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
Ossoff: "Tech titans dig bunkers while warning us the AI they're creating risks human extinction. Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom ... I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become"
Russia is now exempt from the Lindsey O. Graham Russia Sanctions Act. The US government is clearly allied with Putin against Ukraine. Vote Republican enablers out.
Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't be sassy [Jan Luyken, after Cornelis van Dyk, Skeleton of a Man, 1680 etching, 139 mm × 86mm (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)🎃💀]
I built a Claude Code plugin for generative art. It teaches Claude the actual craft: determinism from a hash, same piece at 400px and 4000px, honest rarity — plus tools to verify a sketch before minting. Free & open source 👇 github.com/camilleroux/genart-skill
The United States government gave him tons of money from Obama on, has done nothing to rein in his continual push against legal and ethical boundaries to accumulate global power, and now we're here, globally fucked by the US again.
Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com · yesterdaySpaceX now launches about 90% of all mass sent into orbit, and the Pentagon is the biggest customer for Starshield, its military satellite network. Experts told Yahoo Finance that Elon Musk’s resources now rival that of most nations. Read more: https://yhoo.it/4BoBcaL
“Texas is not for sale.” - New campaign ad from James Talarico featuring the world’s first trillionaire
OpenAI is joining Anthropic in cutting off internet access when evaluating its latest frontier models following dozens of hacking attempts and successful hacks by its models during cybersecurity training. The only question is why this wasn’t the default?
Instacart was valued at $39B during the pandemic. Five years later, it’s reportedly exploring a sale to Uber or DoorDash, with a potential price of $16–17B. Grocery delivery didn’t disappear after COVID. But the idea that Instacart would become a dominant commerce platform hasn’t played out.
TypeSafe spent two years building Jev. Within five weeks of launch, OpenAI, Cloudflare and others shipped competitors. OpenAI repurposed an existing model and claims it cuts decision times from seconds to milliseconds. The lesson? Effort to build isn’t a moat, especially in the agentic coding era.
Total respect for NBC's Monica Alba, who asked Trump exactly the question he needs to answer. By refusing to answer, and attacking her, he has effectively told the world that no, sexual abuse allegations do no mean a thing to him. Imagine if she wasn't there. We'd be the poorer for it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?
A close-up view of the ancient statue of Ramses II inside the museum in Egypt. Original post
Ken Paxton voted against a state budget to increase the salary of police officers. Nearly every other member of the Texas legislature voted yes.
*Everyone* needs to pay attention to what’s happening in Brazil re: US big techs legit trying to manipulate an election in the 7th largest economy on the planet in favor of the extremist fascists anti democratic authoritarian candidate.
Mwisk - Gamewisk@mwisk.bsky.social · 4d agoBrazil is proving how manipulated everyone in the world is by tech giants. People have united to do mass Google search on true news on former president. Now Google's AI doesn't show up with the real result and instead the top result now shows slander on the current president's campaign.
These fascist creeps absolutely want to do this to humans.
Futurism@futurism.com · yesterdayThey're calling it a "Captain America program for dogs."
🏛️ The future of the Library of Congress and U.S. Copyright Office is at a turning point. Join the live Future Knowledge #podcast to discuss what’s at stake for copyright and public access to knowledge. 📅 Thurs. Oct. 29 🕙 10 AM PT to 11 AM PT 📍 VIRTUAL 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future... 🧵
As always, if you're voting in NYC, please vote for Democrats on the Working Families Party line. The @nywfp.bsky.social is great - and voting on that line sends a big message that you want progressive policies, not garbage centrism. (And your vote counts exactly the same!)
NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union
NYPD arresting an ICE goon for trying to steal someone off the streets of NYC. RESPECT!!!
