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Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
David Arquette looks like they hired Ryan Gosling to play George HW Bush in a thirsty biopic.
this is how i found out david arquette is a Certified Bob Ross Instructor, which is apparently a real thing
December 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
David Arquette looks like they hired Ryan Gosling to play George HW Bush in a thirsty biopic.
Good framing.
December 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Good framing.
The AI maximalists are going to be Wall-E people in 5 years. Just rolling around on the floor, covered in filth and syrup. Completely forgotten how speak or dress themselves, they're just going to be able to grunt at GPT 14 and bark and laugh when it shows them a funny picture.
this is demonic. sorry to say but if you do this you should be shipped to a desert island away from the rest of us who still have human souls
![All Things Motherhood Jasmen Powell • 6d • S
Hot take, but an honest one.
I think Al is going to replace a big part of traditional photography, especially when it comes to fa... See more
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December 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The AI maximalists are going to be Wall-E people in 5 years. Just rolling around on the floor, covered in filth and syrup. Completely forgotten how speak or dress themselves, they're just going to be able to grunt at GPT 14 and bark and laugh when it shows them a funny picture.
Has anyone done a round up of the best book round ups? What are the publications that consistently put out the best best books of the year lists?
I know FT and NPR do good ones, who else?
I know FT and NPR do good ones, who else?
December 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Has anyone done a round up of the best book round ups? What are the publications that consistently put out the best best books of the year lists?
I know FT and NPR do good ones, who else?
I know FT and NPR do good ones, who else?
The new, new Magnificent Seven looks great.
December 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The new, new Magnificent Seven looks great.
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"What if there’s no ethical way to have unlimited access to every book, film, and record ever created? And moreover, what if that’s not something we should want?"
for your holiday reading pleasure:
i wrote about why i’m getting back into tapes, and what we’ve lost by letting ourselves get addicted to platforms built around surveillance and instant gratification. 🎶 @404media.co
i wrote about why i’m getting back into tapes, and what we’ve lost by letting ourselves get addicted to platforms built around surveillance and instant gratification. 🎶 @404media.co
Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes
In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
www.404media.co
December 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"What if there’s no ethical way to have unlimited access to every book, film, and record ever created? And moreover, what if that’s not something we should want?"
Wish Miller would speedrun his Goebbels arc.
December 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Wish Miller would speedrun his Goebbels arc.
I knew this was possible.
Buses are a common and cheap method of cross-country travel in Japan. They're becoming even more popular as some operators add sleeper beds so that customers don't have to pay rising hotel rates for overnight stays.
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New "Flat Sleeper" Bus Will Let Japan Fans See Idols While Skipping Hotels - Unseen Japan
A new "full flat sleeper" design debuting in March will attempt to make using a night bus for concerts a less tiring experience.
unseen-japan.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I knew this was possible.
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okay!!!
The First National Website Dedicated To Documenting ICE License Plates Is Here ~ L.A. TACO
“Something like the plate tracker helps to encourage and promote legal transparency and legal accountability, especially when they're going around, switching plates, trying to hide, trying to be undet...
lataco.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:45 AM
okay!!!
Just feel like this needed more likes.
"What a huge catch, Lycaon. Where did you get this?"
"Alkimos! Poseidon blessed me today. I-"
[Circe and Odysseus can be heard moaning on the other side of the wall]
"I use a fly lure-"
[Pots break and dust flies off the wall]
"I said-"
[Heavy grunting turns into pig squeals and back to grunting]
"Alkimos! Poseidon blessed me today. I-"
[Circe and Odysseus can be heard moaning on the other side of the wall]
"I use a fly lure-"
[Pots break and dust flies off the wall]
"I said-"
[Heavy grunting turns into pig squeals and back to grunting]
December 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Just feel like this needed more likes.
They're calling her Banal Bari folks. Evil and barely competent, but no genius folks. Some people say she breaths very loudly and doesn't close her mouth when she chews. Banal Bari.
I feel like this person has seen the "you can't be an evil genius and bumblingly incompetent at the same time" and missed the fact that nobody is suggesting Bari Weiss is a genius, just evil.
December 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
They're calling her Banal Bari folks. Evil and barely competent, but no genius folks. Some people say she breaths very loudly and doesn't close her mouth when she chews. Banal Bari.
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I feel like this person has seen the "you can't be an evil genius and bumblingly incompetent at the same time" and missed the fact that nobody is suggesting Bari Weiss is a genius, just evil.
December 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I feel like this person has seen the "you can't be an evil genius and bumblingly incompetent at the same time" and missed the fact that nobody is suggesting Bari Weiss is a genius, just evil.
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"The dark joke circling around the industry is that many private-equity firms have already raised their last fund but don’t know it yet."
Okay soo... If it's IN Private Equity this joke is circling... At what point can we just call it a known fraud?!
Okay soo... If it's IN Private Equity this joke is circling... At what point can we just call it a known fraud?!
Well it's certainly a good thing we didn't privatize virtually every single sector via Private Equity...
*touches ear receiving news*
Oh, dear god...
*touches ear receiving news*
Oh, dear god...
Once Wall Street’s High Flyer, Private Equity Loses Its Luster
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"The dark joke circling around the industry is that many private-equity firms have already raised their last fund but don’t know it yet."
Okay soo... If it's IN Private Equity this joke is circling... At what point can we just call it a known fraud?!
Okay soo... If it's IN Private Equity this joke is circling... At what point can we just call it a known fraud?!
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Understanding old recipes require that you know a physical universe exists outside of words.
You need to actually know what the words mean, and that they correspond to things that exist, in the world.
Otherwise your dish will come out all fucked up.
You need to actually know what the words mean, and that they correspond to things that exist, in the world.
Otherwise your dish will come out all fucked up.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Understanding old recipes require that you know a physical universe exists outside of words.
You need to actually know what the words mean, and that they correspond to things that exist, in the world.
Otherwise your dish will come out all fucked up.
You need to actually know what the words mean, and that they correspond to things that exist, in the world.
Otherwise your dish will come out all fucked up.
My gut says that the current American medical system is probably responsible for X 10k preventable deaths every year. Or maybe reduction in QALYs etc. Has anyone quantified this? How many people have been essentially killed by the US system this century?
December 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My gut says that the current American medical system is probably responsible for X 10k preventable deaths every year. Or maybe reduction in QALYs etc. Has anyone quantified this? How many people have been essentially killed by the US system this century?
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I actually think a lot of tech criticism is just criticism of capitalism. The problem is distribution of resources not existence of technology.
here's a hot for Bluesky take: a lot of tech-criticism is so bad and focused on a kind of stupid imagined STEM-humanities culture war that some companies have been able to build whole brands around being "evil tech bros 😈" making supervillain promises despite their shit being vaporware
December 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I actually think a lot of tech criticism is just criticism of capitalism. The problem is distribution of resources not existence of technology.
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my biggest pet peeve as a carpenter/woodworker is when people show me something created by AI and ask “can you build this for me?” and i say no. they’re like “why?” and i say “because it doesnt even make sense. its not structurally possible. none of the lines even line up. ITS NOT REAL.”
December 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
my biggest pet peeve as a carpenter/woodworker is when people show me something created by AI and ask “can you build this for me?” and i say no. they’re like “why?” and i say “because it doesnt even make sense. its not structurally possible. none of the lines even line up. ITS NOT REAL.”
Tweety's Law just dropped.
cmon this must already exist. Don't make me call it "Tweety's Law" or something loathsome like that
I feel like there should be a named curve of the decreasing effectiveness of automation if you’re trying to actually do good work
December 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Tweety's Law just dropped.
The one good things about figures like Kash Patel et al. is that as they become more & more ridiculous and the whole admin reveals how nakedly corrupt it is, their biographies are starting to sound more like entries that end with, "they were betrayed and killed by their own bodyguards."
December 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The one good things about figures like Kash Patel et al. is that as they become more & more ridiculous and the whole admin reveals how nakedly corrupt it is, their biographies are starting to sound more like entries that end with, "they were betrayed and killed by their own bodyguards."
Love it when capitalism becomes post market.
December 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Love it when capitalism becomes post market.
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A good link here that relates to the discussion about the American Historical Association’s AI-illiterate guidelines.
How LLM summaries often aren’t actually summaries in the sense we mean and need them to be.
How LLM summaries often aren’t actually summaries in the sense we mean and need them to be.
Linked a good source here, but as the longer link explains, it’s built into how attention mechanisms in LLMs work. Diff architectures can vary so it’s tough to generalize. ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/w...
When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.
One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn’t summarising at all, it only looks like it…
ea.rna.nl
December 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A good link here that relates to the discussion about the American Historical Association’s AI-illiterate guidelines.
How LLM summaries often aren’t actually summaries in the sense we mean and need them to be.
How LLM summaries often aren’t actually summaries in the sense we mean and need them to be.
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It's been, uh, a while, but I have a new newsletter out, based on some conversations here, about the irreconcilable experiences of LLMs that different groups have had and how that all boils down to afordances and how 'AI' is a terrible name and an even worse UX metaphor.
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
buttondown.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's been, uh, a while, but I have a new newsletter out, based on some conversations here, about the irreconcilable experiences of LLMs that different groups have had and how that all boils down to afordances and how 'AI' is a terrible name and an even worse UX metaphor.
Good thread.
For many, the end of the year is an opportunity to catch up on reading or to purchase books as gifts. In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power. Check out the list:
Tech Policy Press: The Year in Books 2025 | TechPolicy.Press
In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power.
www.techpolicy.press
December 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Good thread.
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Once for a job pre-covid, I had to survey multiple floors of a building that a financial firm built out as emergency office space in 2002. It sat forever empty but always operational in case another event like 9/11 happened.
December 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Once for a job pre-covid, I had to survey multiple floors of a building that a financial firm built out as emergency office space in 2002. It sat forever empty but always operational in case another event like 9/11 happened.