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Ernie Smith@ernie.tedium.co · 6d ago

Over on @boxed.news I ponder whether Nvidia’s bold (read: expensive) play to reinvent laptops would actually make more sense as a bold (read: less expensive) play to reinvent mini PCs. After all, it’s not like you can run those AI services when your laptop is closed. boxed.news/2026/10/23/r...

john wilson doing harry styles doc. best picture contender nathan fielder. just need to get joe pera his flowers and it’ll be awkward white boy autumn for sure.

Trump canceled plans to livestream the firing squad execution. It's not ethics. It's just that he's worried Hegseth will miss.

Come visit the all-new @cheapassgamer.com! www.cheapassgamer.com

this video of Haruki Murakami super fans losing it after the Nobel Prize for Literature announced this year's recipient is Anne Carson (spelled Ann by store staff) is what it's all about, folks

I gave Braid an A+ back in my press days. I spent 100s of hours working on The Witness at PlayStation, fighting for it, getting it into conferences, and being Jon's personal wrangler. I even coined "Metroidbrainia" after it. I will not be buying Order of the Sinking Star, and neither should you.

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

Absolutely captivating, wow

Oregon 🕎🎲@oregonthedm.bsky.social · last mo.

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

Watching tech people tremble before the awesome power of AI feels like when an actor is “attacked” by a wild animal in a movie but they are just holding a raccoon pelt to their neck and pretending to wrestle with it

I like a lot of Ed Sheeran's music. But his moral cowardice when it comes to refusing to speak up against genocide—and his decision to boot Macklemore for daring to speak up for Palestinian lives—is unforgivable. To refuse to take sides on a genocide is to take the side of the genocider.

This hour-long conversation about The Breakup I had yesterday with the remarkably smart, thoughtful, fun Connecticut NPR hist Colin McEnroe may be the best long live media conversation I’ve ever had about anything. www.ctpublic.org/show/the-col...

Had a kid out of wedlock and tried to avoid paying child support, hooked up with his brother's widow and got her addicted to crack. In any family, he'd be the asshole everyone is tired of.

hell of a piece. wooooof harpers.org/archive/2026...

Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss

Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

harpers.org

Industry Standard Tools. “Every trade has a small number of items so entrenched that they’ve become the de facto tool that nearly everyone in that trade uses.” [industrystandard.tools]

Industry Standard Tools

A community register of the products that became the default in their profession.

industrystandard.tools

In this new genre of plastic surgery apologia, cosmetic procedures are not just acceptable in polite feminist society, but feminist deeds unto themselves. slate.com/life/2026/08...

More and More Women Are Opening Up About Something That Used to Be Shameful. I Wish They’d Kept It All Secret.

I’m not sure I can take another round of pretending our actions have no effect on the world.

slate.com

I have a couple of thoughts about this... 1/4

AP Stylebook@apstylebook.com · 5mo ago

The new AP Stylebook, 58th Edition, includes an entry for couple of, which clarifies that it always means two.

Interesting choice to me: artists/labels foregoing streaming altogether pitchfork.com/news/panda-b...

Panda Bear & Sonic Boom Reveal New Collab Album

A ? of When won’t be available on streaming

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Just when you thought you'd seen it all

The fake courtesy machine is a wooden hand-cranked contraption that types “I hope this email finds you well” over and over again. Jacquard loom & player piano vibes. [youtube.com]

Fake courtesy machine.

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This is harrowing reading--an essay, in letter form, from Kevin Jack McEnroe to his mother Tatum O'Neal that is loving but spares nothing. I almost never do trigger warnings, but if you are sensitive to addiction issues, tread carefully. www.thesmallbow.com/p/dear-tatum

Dear Tatum

"When I was little, you were my mom, until your boyfriend gave you heroin."

thesmallbow.com

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

propublica.org

Praying for Rudy Giuliani. Complicated man, but he taught me that marriage and family don't mean anything. You can just do whatever you want. Humiliate and lie to everyone you're supposed to love whenever you want, or are bored. Honestly fuck them. Also he taught me everything else is like that too.

The one thing google got right when I asked it something

finally, there are games available on the playstation 5

Tom Warren@tomwarren.co.uk · 6mo ago

Your PS5 can now transform into a Linux PC. A developer has released a method to get PC games running on a PS5 console with Linux. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/920322/...

I'm Team Comey on this one

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 6mo ago

The Trump DOJ reportedly indicted former FBI Director James Comey over his social media post featuring seashells forming the number "8647."

Lego removal tool perfect for opening beers

“It sucks. Is there any other way to say it than that? It sucks. You’re watching history disappear. ... New Britain and Stanley Works are just synonymous.” As last Stanley plant closes, New Britain, Connecticut, grapples with ‘Hardware City’ identity www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-03...

As last Stanley plant closes, New Britain grapples with ‘Hardware City’ identity

The shuttering of the company’s last operating factory in New Britain will mark the first time in city history that Stanley won’t be manufacturing anything there.

ctpublic.org

aw dang. i loved all 800 pages of The Terror and just got around to picking up the Hyperion books

andy™@andylevy.net · 8mo ago

rip dan simmons arstechnica.com/culture/2026...

New CT bill would exempt ALPR data from FOIA: www.cga.ct.gov/2026/TOB/S/P...