Unbelievable that parents are such weenies that we need to write this on the playground equipment to make you feel better if your 3 year old can’t ride the bee at the playground.

Just discovered my latest silly (totally useless) Claude Code product is costing me $1 in API credits every time I run it. I guess I have an expensive hobby now.

I do a "she tested very positively" every time I take my kid's temperature and she doesn't have a fever.

oh word is this stuff useful when you’re using it like a tool

It's funny ("funny") that the MAHA moms are breaking with Trump over glyphosate but don't seem mad about stuff like this. Not really an evidenced-based ranking of things that are dangerous to your kids. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/c...

Clients, am I right?

Electronic shelf labels have become a flashpoint for consumer anxiety. The stores buying them say the technology makes their businesses easier to run. However, in a world spooked by dynamic pricing, ESLs appear foreboding. More from @rebheilweil.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4aAwNVK

Just reading this question fills my body with an almost painful desire to stay up til 4am playing CK3.

This is hilarious.

It's sort of a bait and switch when people argue about the uselessness of "AI" based only on evidence of bad responses from the worst chatbots, but at the same time, the only people you can blame for this are the AI companies who done so much PR around the genius of their not-very-good chatbots.

Read the Ruemmler emails in this story and then consider that she is getting a nice, relaxed wind-down from her job at Goldman and won’t retire until June 30. They’re not firing her.

Read the Ruemmler emails in this story and then consider that she is getting a nice, relaxed wind-down from her job at Goldman and won’t retire until June 30. They’re not firing her.

Perfect.

Sounds suspiciously like when my 4-year-old realizes she is losing a game and starts throwing some new rules into the mix.

Really beautiful, as always, from Paul—and hits every facet of this moment perfectly. Going to be re-reading this for a long time.

Claims about AI having climate benefits often lack scientific evidence, a new report finds. And when touting the climate benefits of AI, tech companies conflate “traditional AI” with generative AI, a form of “bait-and-switch” that amounts to greenwashing www.fastcompany.com/91493873/big...

Poor Vinay. Spent his whole life waiting to do something about an under powered control arm and when he finally gets the chance his bosses tell him it’s more complicated than that.

She did the meme!

this focus group captures the duality of the Democratic base Q: how do you feel about the Democratic Party? A: irredeemable quislings may they rot in hell Q: are there any Democrats you like? A: yes all the ones who are running for president and many others too www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A funny detail about this video is that while he leaves his jeans on for the cold plunge, he DOES remove his belt.

"Does Frances have a sister??? Does Eric have a wife???" I beg Wikipedia.

Everything you need to know on the fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon. A somewhat ironic outcome is that Anthropic being punished for being "too woke" will be really problematic for the very unwoke Palantir. www.fastcompany.com/91493997/pal...

Now when you're writing something you don't really care about, you have to make sure it's REALLY bad because if it's too mid people will think it's AI.

staring at the screen, no ideas, the empty prompt window confronting you with your own mediocrity -- welcome to the work, chump, you loser.

Microsoft currently sells, in 2026, a product that cannot even figure out how to let you upload a file with a ? in the file name, and many large companies voluntarily chose to use this product for their organizations.

One time I walked past several people coming toward me on the sidewalk who all happened to be singing Mr. Jones and I thought that was quite odd and then I got to the next corner and Adam Duritz was standing there.

There’s a genre of Claude Code criticism that essentially amounts to “learn to code, but from the left.”

Why did they put so many calories in nuts? What was the decision process there?

With Claude Code's help, I reimagined my high school text adventure for this century, complete with sinful luxuries like graphics, animation, and sound effects. Over at Technologizer, I wrote about the weird experience of collaborating with AI and teenage me. technologizer.com/home/2026/02...

Going through Robert Duvall’s filmography and picking something really weird and obscure to say is my favorite that you just haven’t heard of. You haven’t lived til you’ve seen him in…. Belizaire the Cajun.

Little prediction that shortly the unstoppable force of the (reasonable) hype of what Claude Code et al can do for creating work efficiencies is going to crash into the immovable object of (also reasonable) corporations' refusal to grant API access to employees to create those efficiencies.

I wonder how the general perception of these tools would be different if the big boosters didn’t act and talk like this.

huh, was there any time recently when a reconciliation bill devoted a giant amount of money towards investments like that

This is so good and feels right to me. It can feel daunting to try to respond to this level of nihilism in the culture personally and I think the only solution is simply trying to be kind? Being kind is the “I sleep in a big bed with my wife” for the age of nihilism.

It’s fascinating to discover in this article that the tone many Trump admin officials take in public isn’t an act to own the libs but, in fact, also how they talk to other Trump people in the government. It’s actually their personality. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

Claude gets it

Little prediction that shortly the unstoppable force of the (reasonable) hype of what Claude Code et al can do for creating work efficiencies is going to crash into the immovable object of (also reasonable) corporations' refusal to grant API access to employees to create those efficiencies.

There’s going to be a real simple choice facing Democrats when they get back into power: Pick between a Big Report and Actual Accountability.

"Tried" is very funny here. She has definitely set a fire. She "tried" to burn it down, but objectively she has succeeded in setting a fire.

You got the sense this whole time that a lot of the school board members were like "hey man, I came here to talk about algebra and now you're asking me to do real work?"

I was pretty skeptical of the balance bike dogma but after a year of balance biking my kid got a bike with pedals and she rode perfectly on her first attempt. Can't believe they were saddling us with useless training wheels for so long.

Some engagement post about your most famous high school alums has led me to learn that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is inexplicably in the Supermax instead of the usual federal death row in Indiana.

Many ostensibly smart people have failed to grasp the very simple fact that no amount of groveling or sucking up protects you.

No one will be surprised to learn that the author of the hyperviral "AI is coming for your white collar jobs" Twitter post is a scam artist. On his last viral twete: press.airstreet.com/p/reflection...

There's a podcast ad for some dog food company I've been hearing a lot where they cite—approvingly—a poll in which something like 40% of dog owners say they'd let a stranger die instead of their dog. I find this to be incredibly instructive about a big slice of our society and our current situation.

It's worth noting that something replacing Google—the foundation of the modern internet for most users and businesses and the most visited website in the world—would actually be an very big deal.

We’re going to need to close this airport for anywhere from two hours to 10 days is exactly the kind of precision you like to have from your airline safety regulator.

Just want to say that I learned this news from checking my own website—that took me 10 minutes to make—in the middle of the night. Can’t believe it worked right but it did.

Some soccer related vibe coding: frank-sacked.vercel.app

There's sort of no way to rebut it without bragging, but I am going to accomplish more physically at 44 than I have at any point previously in my life, and I am doing nothing special except deciding to do so. You can too! You don't need to accede to this stuff! www.thecut.com/article/midd...