Many of my favorites on this list and some new films to check out. Bookmarked!

Picard dating tip: Don't fall in love with holograms, even if your friends do.

If in 2026 you can reach a customer support that is not an AI agent, you will undoubtedly talk to a person copying and pasting AI answers back to you. Receiving decent customer support is the one metric I use to grade product and service quality nowadays.

Vain LinkedIn-jutut: Ilmeisesti vuoden 2022 miesten jääkiekon MM-kulta katkaisi koronan ja tämän vuoden voitto on varma tae siitä, että Suomen talous kääntyy nousuun. Enää puuttuu vain tekoälyn mainitseminen joka toisessa lauseessa. Edes Petteri Orpo ei kykene näin sakeaan ulosantiin.

Teuvo Hakkarainen aikoinaan maalaili uhkakuvia, jossa Suomessakin kohta "ukot huutaa tolpassa". Näyttää siltä, että se on käynyt toteen.

Tampere ilman fasismia -mielenosoitus sujui hellesäässä niin rauhanomaisesti, että melkein nukahdin seisaalleen, kun jazzbändi alkoi soittaa. Niin, näin väkivaltaisia me antifasistit olemme. Ainoa näkemäni häiriötekijä oli yksi rotvallin puolen huutelija, jonka poliisit ohjasi sivummalle. Hyvä!

If you're a cinephile like me, you'll probably be aware of just rapidly the quality of movies improved in the 1960s and early 1970s. One important contributing factor was "video assist", because it enabled actors and directors to check takes immediately codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/f...

Have I got this right? The reason the franchise you loved in your childhood is attracting smaller audiences is because it went all "woke". Even though audiences are being sliced smaller and smaller as media is too? Even though it was "woke" the whole fucking time and you just never noticed?

Kurt Vile's impeccable style could be described as "watching a sunset on a street in an American small town stoned and shitfaced yet still pulling off stunning guitar melodies". In other words, perfect summer tunes. tidal.com/album/526967...

As LLM usage prices rise, the CFO is going to enter the chat and ask a simple question - what value is the company getting from this? And you're not going to have a good answer, because you didn't ask that question yourselves.

hey if you were a woman in technology over the last ten years your highest accomplishment is probably being harassed and dragged practically out of your career for making expertise-informed warnings of things that are a part of daily life now

Pick a bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone.

Looks like one of those terrifying 2050 #climate projection graphics, but no, that’s a short-term forecast for France until… May 29th.

Oscar Isaac deserves credit for being, as far as I know, the first major actor to capture the tech bro CEO, in Ex Machina. Those guys were all over the news by then, but movies were still doing the "babbling nerd with a pocket protector" thing. Also accurate: what he really wants is slavery.

I'm always utterly confused when a website only works from the "www" subdomain to an extent I declare the said website does not exist. No redirects from the root domain, nothing. I would suspect even your average advertising agency can pull off the rudimentary redirect rules for DNS, no?

There's something strange about seeing Meta employees complain about their employer imposing surveillance capitalism on them

Made a meme. I think I'll be using it quite a bit.

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: - Kraftwerk - Manic Street Preachers - Paradise Lost - Judas Priest - Nick Cave & Bad Seeds - Sun Ra Arkestra - Master Boot Record - Tuomari Nurmio - Ismo Alanko - Pelle Miljoona Pure gold all.

The reality of my AI-assisted dev workflow is that I take small steps - write a failing test, write the simplest code to pass the test, review, refactor, review again, etc. Each step gets a fresh, task-specific context. And I am very much in control on every step. I'm the agent. I am Ralph.

I'm not surprised. Writing code plays a much smaller role in the overall software lifecycle than most people understand.

Axel's tech and programming posts have been genuinely insightful. The AI slop fatigue is completely understandable and has also raised the barrier for me to publish new writing. We need to reinvent tech culture now.

Witchcraft is pretty impressive 2000s Black Sabbath revival music for those lazy days off from work. tidal.com/album/470789...

"I have decades of experience from software development, and I built this personal project in a matter of hours using AI. Fear for your jobs!"

I'm prepping for Ted Lasso's fourth season with a re-run of the first three seasons. Just watched S3E6 (Sunflowers) and — oh, man — isn't it a gem of TV writing and character building. I'm extremely tempted to book a flight to Amsterdam now. Perhaps, I shall make it so for Christmas.

AI-assisted development is the death blow to pull requests with mandatory review gates I've been looking forward to.

The original version of the Finnish "Kotkan Meripäivät" meme. If you know, you know.

Mortal Kombat II was the injection I craved after a long week. Not a masterpiece of its genre, but great clichy fun with Karl Urban having almost as much fun as Johnny Cage as Monsieur Charcuter in Boys. Looking forward to next 90s revival treats such as He-Man, Street Fighter, and Spider-Man.

Over the next few days, I'll be breaking down my CRESS principles for context engineering, starting today with "C". Imagine trying to deliver groceries using a 1971 street map... codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/c...

Reminder that large language models parse your string, recursively match it against their training data, and predict what plausible string would come next. That's not thinking.

The LinkedIn algorithm tends to reward high engagement on posts, and the best way to get lots of engagement is to post something most people think is completely wrong. In case you were wondering what a LinkedIn "Top Voice" is.

Time for another dose of AI reality? Does more context produce better results? Yes. And No. Information that clarifies (e.g., examples) produces more accurate predictions. But too much context drives accuracy of a cliff. And "too much" is a lot less than you might think.

Onko vappu taas? On! #NowPlaying

I'm surprised to notice that not only is Todoist the best personal note-taking app but also a very no-nonsense personal calendar with their calendar view. All calendar apps ever needed to do was let me draw a thing taking place between points of time. Digital version of a paper calendar, you say?

Got a two months free pass to Apple Music. It's time to test their high resolution lossless audio quality by firing up Pink Floyd at Pompeii live album. The production on that album is stunning. Doesn't sound worse than in Tidal, so far.

Enshittification, as described by Cory Doctorow, in his book describes the phenomenon as follows: 🧵

we all know I have no life, so:

Deleted my Mastodon account for good. Every time I logged in there I witnessed nothing but holier-than-thou attitude, alt-text policing, and a swarm of reply guys with inane and sarcastic remarks. Bluesky isn't perfect, but people here are generally more amiable. Thus, I'm sticking to it.

Love wearing this shirt when I travel… Had someone ask to take a picture at the Frankfurt Airport train station (at first in German, who then switched to English, but I knew he wanted a pic 😉).

On this day in 1985 'tant' Danuta Danielsson showed us what do do when you see (neo) Nazis marching again: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wom...

Published: Don’t Let AI Invert The Testing Pyramid AI has not changed a single thing about the mechanics of software delivery. The fundamental principles, including the Testing Pyramid, are still valid and necessary. thinkinglabs.io/articles/202...

Let's not forget that LLMs got fed with an ever decreasing quality of work our industry has been producing over the last 15 years as a result of cheap money with ever decreasing central bank interest rates. And both of these reinforcing loops are accelerating with LLMs dogfooding.

Overton xkcd.com/3230/

"The AI Great Leap Forward" leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0... > The mandate today is identical, just swap the nouns. Every company, every function, every individual contributor is expected to close the AI gap. Ship AI features. Build agents. Automate workflows. 👇 > The Famine Comes Later

Stay in the know, but remember to practice self care and touch grass and seek laughter and whatnot.

Let Sun Ra share a mantra of perpetual wisdom: Nuclear war It's a motherfucker Don't you know? Nope, they don't know. tidal.com/track/180562...

Plans are not roadmaps; they are sea charts. Chart your current position, your destination, and the known hazards; the route changes with the wind. Plans are experiments that need to be validated as they unfold. Plans are questions, not answers.

The more I use AI tools, the more I have to admit that I'm not that much more productive... I simply FEEL that much more productive. In reality, the context switching of kicking several things off wipes out my perceived productivity gains. At least in many/most cases!

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