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Weekend Reading — Wrong opinions, weekly held
Jen Gentleman “I'll never be able to unsee this”
Tech Stuff
Nxtscape An open-source agentic browser. Basically you instruct the browser what you want it to do.
It's a common misconception that types exist on computers. In reality everything is just integers, except for floating point which are integers but fancy
You're not a front-end developer until you've…
Fun fact: If you see someone at a nerd event wearing a vim-themed shirt, it's because they put it on in 2003 and couldn't figure out how to take it off
TIL that in Unicode, U+23BE through U+23CC are a series of symbols dedicated to the notation (?!) of dentistry
Last week, the vintage IBM 1401 computer at the Computer History Museum started behaving strangely: it wouldn't halt. More specifically, if you had two HALT instructions in a row, it would halt for the first, but when you continued, it crashed mysteriously. Here's how we fixed it.…
Eye for Design
Where should AI sit in your UI? There's more than one place where you can put the chat interface and where you place it depends on the specific use case — discoverability, interaction, role and capabilities, limitations.
Hey Germans, please come up with a word that means "the fear of typing
returnvsshift-returnbecause you don't know which inserts newline and which sends the message”
Bruce Lawson “In a bin near the DMA office in Brussels i just found Apple's iOS27 designs”
Peoples
Entrepreneuring Is the Best Natural Lab for Learning
School is a drug we force kids to take 180 days a year for 13 years. It is malpractice. What if we tried something that actually works?
Alongside better sleep, participants noted a subtle but important shift in serenity. While some did turn to a little more wine or beer initially, the overall trend was clear: fewer stressful journeys meant less emotional drain. This improvement in mental health wasn’t fleeting either—it grew stronger over time.
Breaking down the infinite workday They call it “the infinite workday” which sounds nefariously bad. I call it "not forced into a 9 to 5" which is more liberating when you're not a morning person or when you work from a different timezone. Unfortunately we all know it will entice people to work around the clock for the same salary, so not really an improvement.
Business Side
Employers Would Rather Hire AI Than Gen Z Graduates The University debt to Unemployed pipeline:
Nearly 40 percent of employers said they'd rather hire a robot than a recent graduate, according to the Hult International Business School report released Tuesday.
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Altogether, 89 percent said they avoid hiring recent grads.
Telegram boss will leave fortune to over 100 children he fathered Seed investing.
The SignalFire State of Tech Talent Report If you want to get hired by bigcorp you better have ample experience with ML/AI. Beats being in either design or sales role:
SignalFire’s 2025 State of Tect Talent Report reveals a sharp reset in tech hiring—entry-level roles are vanishing, elite AI labs like Anthropic are winning the retention war, and new power centers are reshaping where talent thrives.
Machine Intelligence
StormtrooperVlogs If you enjoy Star Wars and have a sense of humor, these short videos are about a couple of stormtroopers that run into all sort of real-life situations. Made with Veo 3.
Long live the em dash, fuck this "em dashes are ChatGPT-coded" bullshit. You'll have to pry this, the Oxford comma, and the interpunct from my cold dead hands
"Works on my machine", oil on canvas.
Unknown artist, 2025
Insecurity
Assaf They're getting awfully good at this 🤔
If you Google the phone number from the text message, the top search results are for that particular grooming business, and it looks very legit. Though, with 2.5 stars on Yelp it might not be the best groomer in Texas, maybe that's why it was chosen. You might want to do the courteous thing and respond with "sorry, wrong number", except you'd be responding to an 844 number which is widely associated with scammers. That’s the number this text was sent from. Scammers love talking to “do good” people who are not paying enough attention — that's how they butcher pigs.
Crypto Is a New American Religion Because the technical nonsense behind crypto confuses even the best of us, it's better to focus on the simple business premise:
Their investment is predicated on making you buy Bitcoin. In this way, it’s a little like multi-level marketing, like Avon or Amway. Given those terms, the evangelizing begins to make a lot more sense.
Everything Else
Natasha Jay “You don't have to put on the red light.” IYKYK
Wrong opinions, weekly held.
news canceling headphones
phoenix “We have been doing bananas all wrong.”
It‘s too hot to verb. All doing words are suspended until further notice.
Cease AND desist? In this economy?
Avatars are people too, South Korea court rules in Plave libel case
Despite their stylised appearance, the court found that online insults directed at the avatars amounted to defamation of the humans behind them – a view legal scholars say reflects a growing recognition of avatars as extensions of individual identity.
Related, Brooklyn judge rules pet dogs are family members.
Marked as safe from sparsely attended birthday party.
"Palette cleanser" is turpentine, or maybe acetone. Depends on the paint.
"Pallet cleanser" is nothing, nobody cares if shipping material gets dirty.
"Palate cleanser" is probably what you meant to say.
The Infamous Labubu gets its own 1,870-brick fan-made LEGO Build
Limited blind-box drops flash, scalpers pounce, and the resale tab suddenly equals a month’s rent. Now, in an unlikely twist, the gremlin leaps from vinyl and plush to interlocking plastic studs, inviting even the most brick-obsessed fans into the frenzy.
I love that cats that aren’t domesticated don’t meow when they grow up, but domesticated cats do because they learned humans don’t understand their natural communication, so they keep meowing beyond the kitten stage just for us. So basically cats made up a language just to talk to us. And that language is essentially baby talk.
Most of the people who live outside the city drive cars to work. This is far more dangerous than riding the subway. Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous. The subway? You might be tempted to buy a churro. Could be damaging to your diet, yeah. But you can work it off. Don’t make such a big deal out of it.
This $7,000 Electric Micro-Car has already overtaken Toyota’s EV sales in Japan Japan’s new “personal urban EV" is so adorable!
It’s a $7,000 single-seater that’s smaller than some American closets. The Mibot, created by Hiroshima-based startup KG Motors, has captured the imagination of a nation traditionally resistant to pure electric vehicles, and for good reason.
Though it contradicts a common perception of colonial New England, enslaved people were brought to work in northern cities in North America as well. In her book New England Bound, the historian Wendy Warren records the remarks of one European traveler who noted in 1687 that “there is not a house in Boston, however small may be its means, that has not one or two [enslaved people]”.
Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers 👍
It means that, over time, more Nature papers will include a peer-review file. The identity of the reviewers will remain anonymous, unless they choose otherwise — as happens now. But the exchanges between the referees and the authors will be accessible to all. Our aim in doing so is to open up what many see as the ‘black box’ of science, shedding light on how a research paper is made.
Dying for Sex I just finished watching this show. It’s really good, and even though you can guess how it ends, it will surprise and delight you along the way. NSFW.
Exclusive: Waymo rides cost more than Uber, Lyft But is it really more expensive? Uber Pool is the cheapest option but do you want strangers in the same car with you? Does that feel safe? Waymo gives you a “no stranger” charge, but you won’t get accosted, so in the long term you’re saving money and emotional energy.
Recent Study Finds Cycling Cuts Dementia Risk by Nearly One-Fifth Another reason to ride a bike:
Cycling preserves memory centers curbing Alzheimer’s progression even in genetically at-risk adults.
