Saturday, 31 October 2026

08:12Recent media coverage has raised questions about the status of a Danish government pilot project involving Collabora Office – we would like to provide some background (~tech)

Friday, 30 October 2026

21:38Coming to the Criterion Channel in November | Teaser (CRITERION)
20:47Never Underestimate What Someone Will Do to Protect Their Ego (Westenberg.)
18:53Proton’s CEO cancels AI ‘re-interviews’ (~tech)
18:39Garmin Bringing Edge 1060 Features to Older Units: Full Details! (DC Rainmaker)
17:53Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s Closet Picks (CRITERION)
15:49‘The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats’ is an exhaustive index of every feline to prowl on screen (~movies)
15:13What the Writing Was For (Christopher Butler)
08:34IBIKEBoo! Today’s the day to demand safer streets while dressed as witches, goblins and ghoulies (IrishCycle.com)
03:06/r/Seattle mods find Archive.today injected malware links into archived page (~tech)

Thursday, 29 October 2026

23:16How to Face the Long Later (Westenberg.)
22:41We Were Here (Pranav Bhasin 2026) (~movies)
21:51Changes to Limerick’s South Circular Road are a reasonable compromise, but here’s four tweaks that could improve it (IrishCycle.com)
20:52Reddit will require you to be logged in (~tech)
20:07PixPlot (barnsworthburning)
20:07Untitled (10/26/26) (barnsworthburning)
20:07Grammar, noun, verb (barnsworthburning)
20:07Design as a garden (barnsworthburning)
20:06Anthropic's financials are surprisingly strong (~tech)
19:55Popular fanfic site "Archive of Our Own" (AO3) down for 2-4 weeks (~tech)
19:54Patrick Stewart dead: 'Star Trek' captain, 'X-Men' superhero was 86 (~movies)
18:56Adult Supervision / Arkipelag | Official international trailer (~movies)
17:52Alphabet shares tumble in $500bn rout [as AI-mode search threatens advertising profits] (~finance)
16:50Design the interface for functionality not familiarity (The Desolation of Blog)
16:01Manifestos, fear, and ‘loser thinking’: inside Proton’s AI reckoning (~tech)
14:00Zwift Plus Explained: Zwift Video Routes & Zwift Coach Hands-On (DC Rainmaker)

Wednesday, 28 October 2026

21:43As God Is My Witness, I Shall Hope for the Best (Westenberg.)
19:08This Small City's LRT is so Good it Made me Angry (Not Just Bikes)
19:05“They are a law onto their own” — Cllr hits out as council plan adjustments to key active travel project (IrishCycle.com)
18:05Cybernaut (Christopher Butler)
17:51Exit Liquidity (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
16:53CSS-Tricks has a new owner! (~tech)
16:34EMACS turns 50 (~tech)
15:00The Best Milk Foamer For Coffee (James Hoffmann)
14:35What It Costs to Think (Christopher Butler)
12:56An LED candle that you turn on with a match and blow out (~tech)
10:39nikitonsky is being grumpy (Grumpy Website)
03:14Midweek Movie Free Talk (~movies)
00:00Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons? (nullpt.rs • blog)

Tuesday, 27 October 2026

21:29Proton to ‘re-interview’ staff about AI to see who gets to keep their job (~tech)
19:47Discoverable servers on Discord will have summaries, public messages will be open for search indexing (~tech)
19:45Steven Strogatz on the Humanity of Math (Grant Sanderson)
17:57Unread, Unbound (furia log)
17:49Residents to continue road-closing protest on Dublin’s Richmond Road (IrishCycle.com)
17:34Contender for the most non-viable startup: Reflect Orbital (~tech)
15:57Carnivora (barnsworthburning)
15:25macOS 27.2 fixed 263 CVE, credited 262. Who was uncredited? Me, I think. (The Desolation of Blog)
07:11Interactive digital model of the Casio F-91W watch using statecharts (~tech)
00:29English Is a Shitty Programming Language With No Compiler (Westenberg.)
00:09nikitonsky is being grumpy (Grumpy Website)
00:00Why Don’t We Live in an Art Nouveau World? (Asterisk)

Monday, 26 October 2026

21:54Fitbit Edge In-Depth Review: Worth the Upgrade? (DC Rainmaker)
21:01London Calling: Cycle paths at bus stops: Scary? Like watching paint dry? Or both? (IrishCycle.com)
19:55Scrawl: Show an agent the problem (barnsworthburning)
19:55English Setter (barnsworthburning)
19:55The residue of solving problems (barnsworthburning)
19:55Modularity that lives inside the document (barnsworthburning)
19:55New ways to look at trajectories (barnsworthburning)
18:43ChatGPT keeps telling people 404 Media can solve their tech support problems (~tech)
18:28In China, the AI bubble has already burst (~finance)
18:00Jeremy Allen White’s Closet Picks (CRITERION)
17:57What Anthropic left out of their draft S-1 (Marcus on AI)
17:28Your favorite meme icons from the early 2000s are back, and they have one question: what happened to the internet? (~tech)
13:21Generative AI’s make-or-break week? (Marcus on AI)
13:16Eric Bauza, voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and many other characters dead at 46 (~movies)
00:00Marginalia Search, Money, C++, Rust, AI, stuff (www.marginalia.nu on marginalia.nu)

Sunday, 25 October 2026

23:18My First Weekly Update! (Westenberg.)
21:38iPhone Duo Teardown: The Most Repairable Foldable Has a Huge Screen Problem (iFixit News)
20:36What the US movement against data centers can learn from everywhere else (~tech)
19:21Gardiner Street cycle route and public realm consultation expected soon (IrishCycle.com)
18:11Maintenance Futures (Christopher Butler)
16:42Denmark has quietly ended its Collabora pilot, halting a major effort to replace Microsoft software and achieve greater technological independence (~tech)
03:41I neglected to make a timely post about Desert Bus for Hope 2026! (~tech)

Saturday, 24 October 2026

22:15Should Irish politicians lead by example and wear high-vis clothing everywhere? (IrishCycle.com)
19:32Will Generative AI do more harm than good? (Marcus on AI)
17:32Safari annoyingly announces reader and translation (The Desolation of Blog)
17:20The journey of donating a body to science (~science)
16:16Inside Sean Baker’s CHRISTIANE F. Poster Collection | Special Feature (Excerpt) (CRITERION)
15:44Community (Marco.org)
15:06Elon Musk’s Power Plant on Wheels (Patrick Boyle)
15:01Why The Elizabeth Holmes Doc is so Wild (Thomas Flight)
14:58iOS 27 has some weird Dynamic Island behavior (Christian Selig)
06:56Blackberry 10 Revival (~tech)

Friday, 23 October 2026

22:34New trial asking how to “open up streets for children to more easily, more safely, play on?” (IrishCycle.com)
18:22“Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful”: Ruliobiology and the Theoretical Foundations of Biological Form (Stephen Wolfram Writings)
18:00Frederick Elmes’s Closet Picks (CRITERION)
16:59late.sh - a cozy command-line clubhouse for computer people (~tech)
16:28Premium: The Hater's Guide To Blackstone (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)

Thursday, 22 October 2026

22:03Agents Are Cheap. Agency Is Everything. (Westenberg.)
20:41Thoughts on AI in game development [from the CTO of PH3] (~tech)
17:00Royal Canal path between Broombridge and Ashtown being upgraded, kissing gates to be removed with chicane barriers added (IrishCycle.com)
16:27Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case (~tech)
15:29All the king’s horses and all the king’s men haven’t been able to put CoreWeave back together again (Marcus on AI)
15:06These snakes can cartwheel away from danger. Scientists just uncovered how the slithering creatures perform their acrobatic rolls. (~science)
13:52Breaking news: U.S. banks are taking hits from AI agents (Marcus on AI)
13:45eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business (~tech)
13:00COROS Dura 2 Solar In-Depth Review: The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly (DC Rainmaker)

Wednesday, 21 October 2026

23:39"There Really Are No Rules": Ari Aster on 8½, ROSEMARY’S BABY, and Japanese Horror (CRITERION)
22:33How Wikipedia’s editors keep the online encyclopedia human-written (~tech)
19:20The internet runs on cats and porn. It’s about to get cattier and pornier. (~tech)
19:11The Second Ambition (Westenberg.)
18:53If you use your computer in a dark environment, buy a monitor light! (~tech)
17:29Midweek Movie Free Talk (~movies)
16:00Day Pass Season 2 — Official Trailer (Not Just Bikes)
15:41Garmin Revamps and Opens Up Connect Developer API Program: All the Details (DC Rainmaker)
15:35I can kinda see why social media sites use divisive topics to solicit engagement (~tech)
15:25Kildare school objects to opening pedestrian gate, claiming it’d be a public route, but planners say it’s only for school access (IrishCycle.com)
14:37A 350 Year Old Idea Still Being Exploited For Billions (James Hoffmann)
05:38Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026 (~tech)
03:43AI proved the Quasi-Riemann hypothesis. What happens Now? (~science)
03:33How to Give Up Your Life’s Work (Westenberg.)
00:28How to rage bait Americans (~tech)

Tuesday, 20 October 2026

22:41The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of eight compromised TLS certs (~tech)
22:07Garmin Edge 1060 Cycling GPS Hands-On: Everything You Need to Know! (DC Rainmaker)
19:37Background static can carry wireless data without an actively generated radio signal (~tech)
19:10How the iPhone Duo’s Crazy Repair Prices Compare (iFixit News)
18:20eMudhra intermediate CA compromise (~tech)
16:12AI Had Better Work Out (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
16:00Norway to extend proposed under-sixteen social media ban to online games and messaging apps (~tech)
14:35Developers are using AI to strip ads and tracking from smart TVs (~tech)
14:14Andri Pol Welt (Andri Pol)
14:14Andri Pol Welt (Andri Pol)
11:36nikitonsky is being grumpy (Grumpy Website)
11:18What are your favorite local dictionaries or thesauri? (GoldenDict-ng) (~tech)
11:00Tring to Keep Up with Brendog and The Big Dogs in Lenzerheide 🇨🇭 (SAFA Brian)
02:08TheoPhysEval: Assessing AI agents at autonomous theoretical physics problem solving (~science)
00:00Six Gutenberg Revolutions in a Row (Asterisk)

Monday, 19 October 2026

23:18Why Normal People Still Laugh at AI (Westenberg.)
23:14A5 Reaches 1.0: Stable Cell IDs, Faster Operations and a Growing Ecosystem (Lat × Long)
21:47In search of the northern cassowary (~science)
19:41An evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May (~movies)
19:07Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) (~movies)
18:59Jonathan Anderson's Closet Picks (CRITERION)
14:27Maybe I hate technology (~tech)
12:41Looking for advice: How do I find out what stocks to invest into? (~finance)
12:26Tech Tidbits: Withings Adds $100/year Apple Health sync Fee, and Omata is Back! (DC Rainmaker)
11:21nikitonsky is being grumpy (Grumpy Website)
03:59Best way to setup email forwarding for a domain I own? (~tech)
00:00Verify You Are Human (Scott Smitelli)

Sunday, 18 October 2026

23:36Disk (Christopher Butler)
19:07How A24 spurred a meme craze and got the many to watch ‘You Can See Everything’: documentary opens to $15m milestone (~movies)
07:58How the Elizabeth Holmes doc 'You Can See Everything' is deceiving you (~movies)

Saturday, 17 October 2026

22:55AirTM gains ground in Venezuela despite Nicolás Maduro’s blockade (2020) (~finance)
18:11What can be done about Linux being slopified? (~tech)
18:02Why does this chart just go down? 0 once again marks the spot. (The Desolation of Blog)
17:55Dogmatic Nordic liberals versus eastern family values – culture-clash drama Fjord touches nerves in Norway and Romania (~movies)
17:11My Terracotta Heart (barnsworthburning)
16:45Speeding up code review with `small-change` (barnsworthburning)
16:45Behind the scenes of paper writing (barnsworthburning)
16:45What if they are all wrong? (barnsworthburning)
15:00This International Repair Day, iFixit and Google Have Something for Your Repair Café (iFixit News)
11:45Garefowl - Things That Vanish (declad)
11:27Putin’s Plan to Protect Russia’s Internet Backfired (Patrick Boyle)
02:13I tried to buy a stolen house (~finance)

Friday, 16 October 2026

19:19There's never been a better time to go into math (~science)
18:53Zoe Kazan’s Closet Picks (CRITERION)
16:15There's never been a better time to go into math (3Blue1Brown)
16:11Premium: Venture Capital Is Killing Itself (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
15:06nikitonsky is being grumpy (Grumpy Website)
14:12iPhone Duo sells out immediately, now backordered until next year (~tech)
09:57Ambition is a Moral Virtue (Westenberg.)
00:16Why Isn’t Everyone Turning Their Old Laptops into Mini Desktop PCs? (iFixit News)

Thursday, 15 October 2026

23:46Anthropic says revenue jumped 45% to $16.8 billion in third quarter (~tech)
22:25Steven Soderbergh to work with Matt Reeves to complete final weeks of principal photography on ‘The Batman Part II’ (~movies)
20:31Exposing AdFection - how Discover-Tech turned targeted ads into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware (~tech)
19:27Behind the Scenes at the SPARTACUS Gladiator School | Special Feature | THE COMPLETE KUBRICK (CRITERION)
16:30Why I still shun passkeys (The Desolation of Blog)
13:42The state of AI video (~tech)
13:38Suunto Race 3S In-Depth Review: A Pricey Upgrade (DC Rainmaker)
13:00We’re Creating the Strangest Forest on Earth (Planet Wild)
05:38It’s Not That Deep (Westenberg.)
01:46tylertoo: Generate PMTiles Directly from GeoParquet (Lat × Long)
01:32Generative AI in disarray (Marcus on AI)
01:30Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move (~tech)

Wednesday, 14 October 2026

19:04Jimmy O. Yang Presale is live now with code: FRIEND (Jimmy O Yang)
18:13Ngozi Onwurah’s Closet Picks (CRITERION)
17:48Midweek Movie Free Talk (~movies)
16:30macOS Golden Gate is a buggy mess (The Desolation of Blog)
15:40OpenFatigue™: Open is the new closed (~finance)
14:36A Delightfully Nerdy Coffee Fermentation Q&A (James Hoffmann)
13:30Almost everyone misunderstands Chrome extension manifest version 3 (The Desolation of Blog)
07:00Any search engines with information cards like Google? (~tech)
06:52The Time Is Never Right (Westenberg.)
02:27I deliberately bet like a problem gambler. DraftKings made me a VIP. (~tech)
01:29It remains “very difficult [to find] actual, materially measurable financial impacts” from spending on AI, per new study (Marcus on AI)
00:24Scars Can Be Mended: Repair Lessons from the USS Hornet (iFixit News)
00:00The Dream of an Aristotelian Machine (Asterisk)
00:00Living Well (Asterisk)

Tuesday, 13 October 2026

18:31Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI autoformalisation does not guarantee correct natural language proofs (~tech)
18:05Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew | Official trailer (~movies)
17:13Confession | Official teaser (~movies)
16:56Epic Games reportedly pivoting to “AI first” game development model (~tech)
16:03Annualized Enron Rate (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
15:36How to Like Things on Purpose (Westenberg.)
12:14AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter (~tech)
08:49nikitonsky is being grumpy (Grumpy Website)
07:44When I point my finger at the treat... (barnsworthburning)
06:42Dutch supermarket Albert Heijn facing cyber security incident (~tech)
00:59Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for developing economic models that help governments and central banks respond to booms and recessions (~finance)
00:28Could this be the Frontier Labs’ WeWork moment? (Marcus on AI)

Monday, 12 October 2026

20:23Over the Garden Wall (barnsworthburning)
20:18Geological block diagrams (barnsworthburning)
20:18Panelled doors (barnsworthburning)
20:18Math 2.0 (barnsworthburning)
20:18Entropy and Search Theory (barnsworthburning)
20:18Designing Michelangelus (barnsworthburning)
20:10If you were coming in the Fall (barnsworthburning)
19:13Being Heumann | Official trailer (~movies)
17:01Sebastian Stan’s Closet Picks (CRITERION)
15:49Only beautiful things (barnsworthburning)
14:37Hexed | Official trailer (~movies)
14:13‘Miami Vice ’85’ first look: Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler revive Tubbs and Crockett as reboot begins filming (~movies)
05:31For the Love of God, Don't Become Dashboard-Brained (Westenberg.)
04:00What Doesn't Get Cheaper (Christopher Butler)

Sunday, 11 October 2026

05:39Death by Upholstery (Westenberg.)

Saturday, 10 October 2026

19:20Zombie anatomy (~science)
10:54The Bond Market Has Singled Out France (Patrick Boyle)
03:40We must recall open-ended AI agents with internet access from the market, now (Marcus on AI)

Friday, 09 October 2026

22:49The Exorcist: Martyrs | Official trailer (~movies)
20:03nikitonsky is being grumpy (Grumpy Website)
19:00dang, they filmed the entire movie 12 times in a row just so that by the end they had exactly….. (CinemaStix)
17:59Aaron Sorkin’s Closet Picks (CRITERION)
16:49Optimism Is a Moral Obligation (Westenberg.)
16:00Lobbying (the singularity is nearer)
15:53Premium: The Hater's Guide To Junk (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
13:42Leap seconds have helped keep clocks synchronized with Earth’s rotation, but their time may be over – here’s why (~science)
03:47The Best Primer on Geospatial Embeddings (Lat × Long)
00:02Not Letting Go (furia log)

Thursday, 08 October 2026

19:05Grady Hendrix on THE BROOD | Criterion Channel Spotlight (CRITERION)
18:29‘Cyberpunk 2077’ movie in the works at Paramount (~movies)
17:57Association for Human Mathematics statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents (~science)
16:31A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501) (barnsworthburning)
16:31Software Design as Architecture (barnsworthburning)
16:31Paper Mono (barnsworthburning)
16:31Ferroprint (barnsworthburning)
16:31Chat is AI’s command line (barnsworthburning)
16:31A I U E O (barnsworthburning)
16:31Sky and Water (barnsworthburning)
15:44Xbox making a big push into film and TV with XP (~movies)
11:34The spectacle of AI taking over the world (~science)
09:49The Perpetual Rose and Its Reader (Inference: International Review of Science)
03:16The Pain Is Coming. Choose When You Pay. (Westenberg.)
00:00Alice Yuan Zhang on Building Things into Being (Are.na Editorial)

Wednesday, 07 October 2026

21:59The mathocalypse (~science)
20:44nikitonsky is being grumpy (Grumpy Website)
18:26Hiro Murai on BARRY LYNDON | Now on the Criterion Channel (CRITERION)
17:16Complementary remarks from Gary Marcus and Terence Tao on OpenAI’s giant math drop (Marcus on AI)
14:52The craziest road I've ever seen (SAFA Brian)
13:27Midweek Movie Free Talk (~movies)
10:212026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for groundbreaking work in the field of asymmetric chemistry (~science)
07:22OpenAI releases findings on 377 math problems, further roiling field (~science)
05:47Would You Still Want It If No One Could See? (Westenberg.)

Tuesday, 06 October 2026

19:31Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 Teardown Reveals a Gap in Right to Repair Coverage (iFixit News)
14:54Credit Crunch (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
14:36nikitonsky is being grumpy (Grumpy Website)
14:15More details about how macOS 26.4 changed the login keychain (The Desolation of Blog)
10:332026 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Francis Halzen for his work on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin (~science)
07:13Bees are capable of solving problems, using tools, forming culture, and even playing (~science)
05:48How to Stop Being Outraged (Westenberg.)
05:11Do you know the effects of using clickbait to combat misinformation? (~science)
00:06SuperSTAC Adds Aliases and Offline Caching to Multi-Catalogue STAC Search (Lat × Long)
00:00A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501) (Mitchell Hashimoto)
00:00What Will Happen to Indian IT? (Asterisk)

Monday, 05 October 2026

17:47Glenn Close’s Closet Picks (CRITERION)
16:38Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin returning for ‘Sicario 3’. Padraic McKinley to direct Steven Knight’s screenplay. (~movies)
14:33Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their research into light-gated ion channels and optogenetics (~science)
10:32The Spotlight Rule: Nobody Is Thinking About You as Much as You Think (Westenberg.)
08:10“I Used to Just Call a Guy”: The Struggle to Get Repair Information (iFixit News)
02:35Coming soon: New York City’s hearing on AI risks (Marcus on AI)

Sunday, 04 October 2026

21:35nikitonsky is being grumpy (Grumpy Website)
17:23‘Digger’ majorly bombs with $8 million opening weekend, ‘Verity’ scores $32 million debut (~movies)
16:55Yesterday, we bought two Knoll Sapper monitor arms. Most arms on the market use gas springs to counterbalance the display weight. The Sapper (Simon Uvarov)
16:19Carl Cederström, sociologist: ‘Wellness has become a corporate tool. It doesn't make you happier; just more productive.’ (~science)
14:35Meta Muse Mac first run experience (The Desolation of Blog)
02:17Are we a favourite shape of the universe? (~science)
00:30Go Out and Map This October (Lat × Long)

Saturday, 03 October 2026

16:47I Made A Film (Gawx)
11:02Turkey's $20 Billion Fund Collapse Explained (Patrick Boyle)
00:00Softly now (www.marginalia.nu on marginalia.nu)

Friday, 02 October 2026

18:46Premium: How Has AI Changed The Economy? (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
16:00Dyson CameraJet (the singularity is nearer)
14:54Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery will now be called Skydance, David Ellison reveals (~movies)
13:19Asian Dragons in the Western Imagination (Liberties)
13:13A Genial Demolitionist (Liberties)
13:10Prophets to Pundits: History into Theology (Liberties)
12:55A Culture of Counterfeit Reassurance (Liberties)
12:48Insanity and Solace at the Venice Biennale (Liberties)
12:46Paul Onditi’s Damaged World (Liberties)
12:29Words and Bombs (Liberties)
12:26The Oracle in the Opera Garnier (Liberties)
12:23The New Euthanasia and the New Liberalism (Liberties)
04:26stac-zap: Free-Text Search for STAC Catalogues (Lat × Long)

Thursday, 01 October 2026

23:15Forgiveness at a Distance (Liberties)
18:02I’m leaving Reddit because of RSS (The Desolation of Blog)
16:33Display (Christopher Butler)