Tuesday, 01 September 2026

16:09Coming to the Criterion Collection in September | Teaser CRITERION
15:57La Bola Negra | Official teaser ~movies - Tildes
15:07[psychology] How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’ ~science - Tildes
11:28MapQuest’s Growth Hack: Don’t Rename the Lake Lat × Long
07:23geoparquet-io 1.4 Adds Curved Geometries, STR Sorting, and Grid Aggregations Lat × Long
00:00Recently Tom MacWright

Monday, 31 August 2026

20:37The Age of the Third Brain Westenberg.
18:03Joan Chen’s Closet Picks CRITERION
15:24Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident Marcus on AI
15:03The Last Photograph | Official trailer ~movies - Tildes
14:51Coming to the Criterion Channel in September | Teaser CRITERION
14:26The Real Villain of The Backrooms Thomas Flight
14:10WaveSmith — SNES Music Studio ~tech - Tildes
09:05Government resistance to affect D4 motorists slows level crossing removal, group claims IrishCycle.com

Sunday, 30 August 2026

22:37The Orchestrator's Dilemma Westenberg.
19:21‘Coyote vs. Acme’ snags no. 2 with $15.4m as ‘Spider-Man’ nears ‘Avatar 2’; ‘Dog Stars’ put to sleep ~movies - Tildes
16:12Make a Movie. Gawx
15:50Copycats in Apple Books The Desolation of Blog
10:46Part of Carlingford Lough Greenway to close until February 2027, diversion via regional road IrishCycle.com
04:22Bug blindness ~tech - Tildes
04:05California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt ~tech - Tildes

Saturday, 29 August 2026

22:59Claims against Carlow active travel stink: Why do “straight-talkers” keep saying they support things they don’t? IrishCycle.com
21:54Chimpanzees have been hurling rocks at the same trees for more than a decade ~science - Tildes
18:15Scott Bessent Is at War With Prices — and Prices Are Winning! Patrick Boyle
16:04nikitonsky is being grumpy Grumpy Website
02:11An environment where multiple AI agents pursue scientific discovery and build a shared literature ~science - Tildes

Friday, 28 August 2026

23:40What are your current pain points with Linux? ~tech - Tildes
22:45Would you let your children cross here? When an active travel route is built on an 80km/h road IrishCycle.com
18:245 lessons from the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident Marcus on AI
17:47Adam Scott’s Closet Picks CRITERION
15:55Premium: The Hater's Guide To Circular Financing (Part One) Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
12:00Placemark Switches From Mapbox to MapLibre Lat × Long
08:00Visual Explainer of Zarr Lat × Long
05:05Congratulations on Your Unprecedented Crisis Westenberg.

Thursday, 27 August 2026

22:21Navan TD claims cycle lanes “massive and taking over” streets, but they are normal-sized and only 2km of active travel routes delivered in 10 years IrishCycle.com
21:39Compact phone in the works for the fans of small phones ~tech - Tildes
21:12Technology is over ~tech - Tildes
19:28“I Always Like to Play Tricks”: John Woo Re-Watches THE KILLER CRITERION
17:22Fjord | Trailer ~movies - Tildes
15:34Peter Cullen dead: 'Transformers' Optimus Prime voice was 85 ~movies - Tildes
13:48China’s YouTube, Bilibili, plans global expansion, English-language site ~tech - Tildes
10:00Why I Ride Speedplay my blog - rik de voogd
07:21The Art of Agency Laundering Westenberg.
00:00Reverse Engineering My ADHD Test nullpt.rs • blog

Wednesday, 26 August 2026

22:33Operation Bluebird launches Twitter.now ~tech - Tildes
18:06Norway is planning to clamp down on the use of smart glasses and similar devices in response to concerns over privacy issues ~tech - Tildes
17:05Stop Killing The Internet: No digital ID and no age verification ~tech - Tildes
15:50Tim Curry, outlandish star of ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ dies at 80 ~movies - Tildes
15:24Excellent new Bill Gates essay on the urgency of having a coherent AI plan Marcus on AI
14:47Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement ~tech - Tildes
13:20nikitonsky is being grumpy Grumpy Website
11:21The Island – August 2026 Blog – Three Rock Books
07:04X corp is taking down Nitter instances and demands takedown of project repository ~tech - Tildes
04:28Midweek Movie Free Talk ~movies - Tildes
01:17Existing Garmin Watches Will Get Fenix 9 Features: Here’s the Full Details! DC Rainmaker

Tuesday, 25 August 2026

23:54Work starts on two-way cycle path between Connolly Station and the south quays IrishCycle.com
23:43Anthropic’s $30 trillion fantasy Marcus on AI
23:39What is the oldest file you still have? ~tech - Tildes
22:34Young adult teenager knocked off bicycle and killed in hit-and-run as van driver flees IrishCycle.com
22:00Target Specifications for the enough phone Enough - News
20:01James Gray on Making His First Film (ft. Sean Fennessey) | LITTLE ODESSA | Special Feature (Excerpt) CRITERION
18:34How to Build a Roadmap for the Life You Actually Want Westenberg.
16:57The AI Hater's Manifesto Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
14:40Rail users welcome progress on ‘transformative’ plan for a Dart every hour to Wicklow town IrishCycle.com
13:44Ali G: Who Iz I? | Official trailer ~movies - Tildes
12:55Tech (or political?) choices ~tech - Tildes
12:53Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World (2003) ~movies - Tildes
10:21Summer Cycling in Europe - but it keeps getting more intense SAFA Brian
07:50Google Says It Improved GPS Precision on the Pixel 5, but Won’t Say How Lat × Long
06:09Are others finding themselves spending less and less time online? ~tech - Tildes
05:32Motorola’s GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels ~tech - Tildes
04:32You Are Not An Idiot for Believing Things Can Get Better Westenberg.
00:00Placemark is now fully open source Tom MacWright

Monday, 24 August 2026

19:25An AI researcher writes about his crisis of faith ~tech - Tildes
17:5180% of children never cycle to school when 70% of parents want them to after “generational decline” IrishCycle.com
17:40Terry Zwigoff’s Closet Picks CRITERION
16:03Alex Cox on THE PRISONER: Who Runs the Village? | Now on the Criterion Channel CRITERION
15:50Multi-instance templates [in MediaWiki] and var_final ~tech - Tildes
15:27Two ways it might all fall apart Marcus on AI
15:00Life’s ‘last universal common ancestor’ may predate life itself ~science - Tildes
14:10I beg the news media to talk to me before publishing stories about my blog posts The Desolation of Blog
13:01Imagine an Organism Inference: International Review of Science
02:00‘Serverless Vector Tiles on AWS Lambda’ Lat × Long

Sunday, 23 August 2026

22:53Artists built a site to escape AI. Scrapers are coming for it anyway. ~tech - Tildes
22:31Hunting for a movie ~movies - Tildes
22:00What exactly is “common sense” when it comes to headphones and cycling? IrishCycle.com
20:39Small things like these Robin Rendle
20:08Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it ~tech - Tildes
17:07Cybernetics and Ghosts Robin Rendle
16:36A few words about Canada and the US Marcus on AI
15:39BREAKING: More bad news for the frontier AI companies Marcus on AI
14:52Garmin Cirqa In-Depth Review: Reality vs Expectations DC Rainmaker
03:30Why am I left-handed? ~science - Tildes

Saturday, 22 August 2026

19:58Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games ~tech - Tildes
19:47ARR vs ARR. Watch out for this one sly trick. Marcus on AI
19:15How Much Would an AI Crash Destroy? Patrick Boyle
16:00"I Wish I Wrote That": Terry Zwigoff, Daniel Clowes, & Lianne Halfon Re-Watch GHOST WORLD CRITERION
13:36RG Rotate QWERTY mod by DIY Dr. K ~tech - Tildes

Friday, 21 August 2026

21:42The Odyssey (no, not that one) | Official trailer ~movies - Tildes
21:19Data center madness Marcus on AI
20:54How Asian Dads Give Pep Talks Jimmy O Yang
17:52Matthew McConaughey’s Closet Picks CRITERION
17:39Insta360 X6 In-Depth Review: Worth The Upgrade? DC Rainmaker
15:13Guess the daily mystery human bone in five tries ~science - Tildes
14:29The making of Spider-Man was a sh*t show ~movies - Tildes
14:24nikitonsky is being grumpy Grumpy Website
04:04Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened ~tech - Tildes
01:30FixHub Soldering Tips: How to Clean, How to Use, and Tip Tips in General iFixit News

Thursday, 20 August 2026

23:31OpenAI is becoming a surveillance company Marcus on AI
22:15geojson.io Gets a Complete Rebuild on Placemark Play Lat × Long
20:13The Intellectual Circle Jerk and Why We Can't Stop Westenberg.
17:44US Federal Communications Commission abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies ~tech - Tildes
17:16Leopold’s Folly Marcus on AI
14:33Coffee Like A Local Ep1: Lima, Peru James Hoffmann
07:03Founder of collapsed Chinese property giant Evergrande sentenced to life in prison ~finance - Tildes
04:38Breaking: The Republican party is panicking over its ties to Big Tech Marcus on AI
01:15Neo-Etiquette Basics: The New Rules of Being Human Westenberg.
00:50Young adults in the US are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs ~tech - Tildes
00:42JupyterGIS Is Now Citable in The Journal of Open Source Software Lat × Long

Wednesday, 19 August 2026

23:57‘It finally feels like we’re back in 2019’: US movie theater owners rejoice over $4 billion summer. Can the fall keep the momentum? ~movies - Tildes
20:56Ploopy A+ | Open source trackball ~tech - Tildes
18:25Lee Unkrich on the Two Versions of THE SHINING | THE COMPLETE KUBRICK CRITERION
16:58More incredible tales of App Store curation The Desolation of Blog
15:03Postmortem retrospective on "redditp", the Reddit slideshow website ~15 minute read ~tech - Tildes
12:55Midweek Movie Free Talk ~movies - Tildes
06:43BREAKING: OpenAI’s unraveling has begun Marcus on AI
04:42Sara Wickström: ‘Cells do not just follow chemical orders; they also sense the forces around them’ ~science - Tildes
04:32AI usage patterns in software teams ~tech - Tildes
04:12Guyana’s oil-driven economy has seen the world’s fastest growth in GDP per capita in recent years ~finance - Tildes

Tuesday, 18 August 2026

20:48Google’s biggest mistake? Marcus on AI
20:32Fixing a Framework laptop bricked by a BIOS update ~tech - Tildes
18:02Breaking: U.S. young adults are now more concerned about AI than enthusiastic Marcus on AI
17:11A Criterion x Wes Anderson Weekend of Discovery at the Hollywood Bowl CRITERION
16:51Fairphone Gen 6+ now available in the US ~tech - Tildes
15:50What server location should I use for a VPN? ~tech - Tildes
15:23What Happens If OpenAI Dies? Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
14:00Swiss Epic GEAR CHECK 2026 | What I'm using for 5 days in the Alps SAFA Brian
13:26Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful ~tech - Tildes
05:40We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way ~finance - Tildes
02:42McDonald’s built a 515-page dossier on me ~tech - Tildes
00:00What To Expect When You’re Expecting (A World of Multi-Agent Systems) Asterisk

Monday, 17 August 2026

23:37Kant’s Adult Is Extinct. Westenberg.
23:29farewellm furia log
17:35Danny McBride’s Closet Picks CRITERION
16:59Head of Norway's sovereign wealth fund warns that soaring AI-driven stock valuations could trigger a sharp correction ~finance - Tildes
16:49KPop Demon Hunters Criterion Collection release ~movies - Tildes
16:02Alex Cox on THE PRISONER: Who Is Number One? | Now on the Criterion Channel CRITERION
14:56No, Dario Amodei, we will not be curing cancer and “most human disease” in five to ten years Marcus on AI
14:40Apple’s statements about its developer program in the Epic trial The Desolation of Blog
05:10Hayden Panettiere dies at 36 ~movies - Tildes

Sunday, 16 August 2026

22:51Epictetus Ran a Better Productivity System Than Any App You’ve Bought Westenberg.
19:25The hyping of Anthropic’s IPO Marcus on AI
19:09Yeti audio-animatronic coming back to life inside Expedition Everest at Disney's Animal Kingdom ~movies - Tildes
18:10nikitonsky is being grumpy Grumpy Website
15:36‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ becomes second-fastest to cross $2b at global box office ~movies - Tildes
02:04Neo: A novel-writing tool created by a novelist ~tech - Tildes
01:40Patterns and problems in multiagent systems ~tech - Tildes

Saturday, 15 August 2026

21:00Vellamo declad
19:10The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group ~science - Tildes
17:59Avengers: Doomsday | Special look ~movies - Tildes
17:12Two Movies That Had an Impact on Fred Armisen & Carrie Brownstein | Adventures in Moviegoing CRITERION
16:12The day of small things Robin Rendle
15:14In 1990, a writer had a funny idea. Now it’s a movie - Coyote vs. Acme. (gifted link) ~movies - Tildes
14:47Which privacy-friendly home appliances exist? e.g. robot vacuum cleaners. ~tech - Tildes
14:44Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down ~tech - Tildes
13:45The Insane US-Japan Currency Bailout Patrick Boyle
12:25Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker ~tech - Tildes
08:00Argentina's Crazy Plan to Save Jaguars From Extinction Planet Wild
04:21‘X-Men’ finally unveils its cast, including Adam Driver, Inde Navarrette, Christopher Abbott ~movies - Tildes
03:35A Mind That Stops Beginning Starts to Decay Westenberg.

Friday, 14 August 2026

23:02The Tyranny of “Ongoing Harms” Westenberg.
22:08Taiwan targeted in AI-driven hacking campaign ~tech - Tildes
19:00It’s dirtier than Star Wars CinemaStix
18:30Olsen Banden - Elverhøj ~movies - Tildes
17:01A list of independent internet forums ~tech - Tildes
15:57Ken Russell’s The Devils | Official trailer ~movies - Tildes
15:48Premium: How Much Money Does AI Need? Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
14:45hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate The Desolation of Blog
14:12Looking for an effective self-block application for Android ~tech - Tildes
12:31Unforgetful Marco.org
10:01AI data center developers begin suing local jurisdictions behind bans and moratoriums — claims range from officials exceeding authority to violations of due process and equal protection laws ~tech - Tildes
07:55Zarrista Makes Reading Zarr 1.9×–2.7× Faster in Python Lat × Long
02:17US tax law is funding the AI infrastructure boom, not creating it ~tech - Tildes
01:33Don't Become a Productivity Tourist Westenberg.
00:00Technology optimism hour Tom MacWright

Thursday, 13 August 2026

18:35Not Raising the Gates The Desolation of Blog
15:23The Fellow ES1 Espresso Machine Review James Hoffmann
15:15App Store allows developers to spam the submission and review process The Desolation of Blog
14:47Galaxy Z Fold8 Teardown: Samsung’s Best Foldable Still Has a Hinge Problem iFixit News
13:28Another week on Linux ~tech - Tildes
08:11nikitonsky is being grumpy Grumpy Website
01:59‘Barbie 2’ in crisis: sequel could be shelved amid pay battle and crumbling deal talks ~movies - Tildes
01:58The Heretic's Guide to Conviction Westenberg.
00:34Make Maps in R with Geovizr Lat × Long
00:00Emily LaBarge and Sara Magenheimer in Conversation Are.na Editorial

Wednesday, 12 August 2026

22:11I Deleted My Calendar Link. And I’m Never Going Back Westenberg.
17:04I'm starting a small business: any advice? ~finance - Tildes
16:58Inside David Ellison’s desperate fight for Warner Bros ~movies - Tildes
14:00Google Pixel Watch 5 Accuracy Deep-Dive: Most Accurate GPS Watch Ever? DC Rainmaker
12:19nikitonsky is being grumpy Grumpy Website
12:10Spicy tale of an App Store fraud The Desolation of Blog
05:35Midweek Movie Free Talk ~movies - Tildes

Tuesday, 11 August 2026

21:10The Film That Launched a Thousand Tweets Inference: International Review of Science
20:485 Rules for a Second Brain You’ll Actually Use Westenberg.
20:34The tantalizing possibility of locating consciousness in the brain ~science - Tildes
20:32An intramarital communication system ~tech - Tildes
19:40Neuroscientists find logical reasoning does not involve language-processing parts of the brain ~science - Tildes
19:14Don't Look Up Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
15:02Jeff the Killer movie in development from TikTok creator Savanah Moss and Tongal ~movies - Tildes
13:52The one issue unifying the American public Marcus on AI
13:29BREAKING: Circular financing reaches new heights Marcus on AI
10:15Honey gets terminated as lawsuits proceed ~tech - Tildes
10:00Lack of Trust | Sella Pass - south SAFA Brian
05:55Help with Amazon Glacier (original) data retrieval ~tech - Tildes
00:00Why We Like Things Asterisk

Monday, 10 August 2026

20:29Apitode Games now available in Google Play store ~tech - Tildes
19:56Heretics for Hire Westenberg.
19:15We Need To Talk About Leopold Patrick Boyle
18:33Help with troubleshooting PC hardware ~tech - Tildes
16:45Paper Tiger | Official teaser trailer ~movies - Tildes
15:27Open-source is NOT the same as open-weight Marcus on AI
15:10Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) ~movies - Tildes
15:05The real energy use of agentic AI ~tech - Tildes
14:35A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer The Desolation of Blog
14:00Tool Abuse: All the Non-Screwing Things You Can Do with a Screwdriver iFixit News

Sunday, 09 August 2026

22:58Why 500 Words Beats 5,000 in the Age of AI Westenberg.
08:13What is your Mandela effect moment? ~movies - Tildes
03:18Spirit Halloween parent company to acquire Hot Topic ~finance - Tildes
00:48Night of the Living Dead (1968) ~movies - Tildes
00:00How do you describe Are.na at a party? Are.na Editorial

Saturday, 08 August 2026

22:51Your Book Body-Count Is Worthless Westenberg.
16:08Japan imports 60% of its food: why a weak Yen is triggering a crisis ~finance - Tildes
14:01The AI bailout could be baked into the AI bubble ~finance - Tildes
00:00Getting off the Modernization Treadmill Unplanned Obsolescence

Friday, 07 August 2026

22:09Never Let Yourself Graduate. Westenberg.
21:17‘The Odyssey’ surpasses $1 billion, Christopher Nolan’s first movie since ‘Dark Knight Rises’ to reach coveted box office milestone ~movies - Tildes
17:30Premium: The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA (Part 2) Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
14:02Why Once-Great Brands Are Making Their Products Worse on Purpose iFixit News
13:27nikitonsky is being grumpy Grumpy Website

Thursday, 06 August 2026

20:42Apple Could Give “Obsolete” iPads New Life with This One Weird Trick iFixit News
18:44An AI created viruses not found in nature ~science - Tildes
13:00The Surprising Things We Discovered In The Cost Of A Cappuccino James Hoffmann

Wednesday, 05 August 2026

18:41News: Microsoft Disclosures Suggest OpenAI Sales Account For Around 70% Of FY26 AI Revenue, More Than 7% of FY26 Revenue Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
17:59Hawaiian caterpillar patrols spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts ~science - Tildes
16:55We went to National Print Museum. Seeing Univers in metal and Linotype/Monotypes machines was surreal Simon Uvarov
14:01Midweek Movie Free Talk ~movies - Tildes
05:01Inside Google’s $200bn Wall Street finance machine for Anthropic ~finance - Tildes

Tuesday, 04 August 2026

15:49The AI Demand Bubble Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
11:15Why Wall Street is Ignoring Big Tech's Debt Patrick Boyle
00:14Bingebuster: a fully explorable 3D recreation of a Blockbuster Video store that you can visit from your browser ~movies - Tildes
00:00How Diplomats See the World Asterisk

Monday, 03 August 2026

16:56Garmin Cirqa Accuracy Deep-Dive Review (vs Whoop 5.0, Fitbit Air, Amazfit Helio, Polar Loop) DC Rainmaker
14:25Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email? The Desolation of Blog
13:40Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother | Official trailer ~movies - Tildes
12:10Apple unpublished old Mac OS X release notes The Desolation of Blog
08:15nikitonsky is being grumpy Grumpy Website

Sunday, 02 August 2026

22:23Reading matters deeply Robin Rendle