I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

People will say it's "Tech Week" here in NYC. Well, any event run by Andreessen Horowitz is illegitimate, because the NYC tech community has values, and one of its most fundamental is its humanity. They have forfeited theirs.

this really is wild they just asked Meta AI chatbot support for access to high profile accounts and it obliged comes after Google complete broke its search results these are not serious, capable companies deserving of professional respect. they rushed shit product to market.

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

I too have canceled a recurring donation to Wikimedia in light of their shameful union-busting

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

Cars are supposed to help us get around but do you know how many adamant car users I've met who only eat at strip mall chains because they don't know how to parallel park? You'd think that folks committed to cars would feel that way because they were actually able to access things they wanted!

TIL that the Minions from "Despicable Me" are hard-wired to serve the most evil person on Earth, and also thousands of years old, so when the movie became a franchise, the writers had to strand them in an ice cave right after the Napoleonic Wars until 1968 so they wouldn't have to be literal Nazis.

This shit drives me crazy as a Jew. The more people hear that “it’s antisemitic to criticize foreign rape prisons” the larger a segment of the population will think, “Huh, I guess I hate Jews then.”

"how might we transform X into an interactive experience" is the first post-it note shat out of the mind of a midwit executive in every Innovation Workshop. The group is supposed to smile and move past it. Sad to see that Google no longer has the process rigor to filter out this kind of brain fart.

Pfizer and Valneva's Lyme disease vaccine shows 73.2% efficacy in phase 3 trials, increasing the potential for it to become the first approved vaccine for human use. The vaccine targets Borrelia bacteria, offering significant preventive potential against Lyme disease.

No love for Meta but where else but FB marketplace could I get a deal on a disco elephant.

At the nearest school to me in Somerville, MA, this is what the drop-off area looked like last Friday. This is the effect of having neighborhood schools in walkable neighborhoods with streets that are safe to walk, ride, and roll on. Your school drop-off could look like this too.

This is a pretty well-documented phenomenon and it’s one reason people die when a building catches on fire.

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

cognitive reframing: I am putting ice cream in my coffee -> I am out of milk because I am disorganized -> negative affect I am putting ice cream in my coffee -> I am making affogato, a sophisticated italian dessert -> positive affect

Some evidence coming out that major Saudi oil facilities were hit and perhaps badly damaged by Iranian missiles. Really hard to quantify this but we could be looking at a historically significant strike here. All from a country whose offensive capability was wiped out days ago.

Bsky devs: ‘HEH ignorant users, it’s not ai causing this it’s a backbone outage’ Dev at the backbone: ‘fuck I’m out of Claude tokens fuck fuck’

looked up a cheat code on gamefaqs only to find out that I had posted it to the site myself 17 years ago

imagine if i happened to be a trillionaire and bought twitter and 80% of the stuff on the site was just about big pants. you couldn't escape it. just an endless deluge of big pants propaganda

Hell of a time for a big city mayor to cancel a shovel-ready, federally-funded transit project:

just gonna once again repeat my (least) favorite statistic: us wheelchair users are 36% MORE LIKELY TO DIE BY CAR than other pedestrians gumc.georgetown.edu/news-release...

A significant fraction of LLM-coding discourse is people telling on themselves for having always misunderstood development. "Now that we have LLMs, the important thing is being able to state your requirements clearly"... oh my god, did you just admit out loud that you didn't know that all along?

At what point do the pilot unions and ATC unions strike over the dangerous understaffing?

We live in the weirdest fucking timeline where the Catholic Church is significantly to the left of the vast majority of world governments

You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.

This is a really key thing that people are just not getting: "VC" is simply *not venture capital* anymore. There is ZERO risk for A16Z and peers. They do not resemble the thing that regulators described when creating the category of venture capital. A cartel of ~4 firms runs the whole industry.

Shouldn't we be absolutely inundated with a hundreds of "build a blog in 15 minutes" style demos? Or is concretely showing the productivity boost of a tool just not the thing one does anymore? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj7...

I feel like there should be a LOT more videos of people showing off agentic coding given how much people are hyping it. Plenty of tutorials on how to use it, but very few demonstrations of it in action.

Important heads up: The feds have -publicly- subpoenaed Google, Reddit, Discord, and Meta for information (names, phone numbers, email addresses) associated with accounts that are either critical of ICE or that are tracking ICE activities. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t... 1/?

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

I wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...

Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win

Mood in minneapolis right now

Do you know how hard it is to get cops to seemingly side with people shot by a bunch of officers

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Nick Offerman singing a song about making things yourself is the little dose of positivity I didn't know I needed today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z329...

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

Halloween when your city is walkable.🎃

happy 12 years since dorkq, the best bug github.com/gruntjs/grun...

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

Big Brother wasn't an actual person leading the Party and orchestrating the Two Minutes Hate. He was a symbol. A face. Cults of personality usually die off when the personality does, or at least substantially reduce. But will they still when a facsimile of the central figure lives on as AI slop?

It’s wild to me how normalized it is among Americans that living like all our ancestors did — in small homes where a family has to share space — is impossible. This story is the metastasized version of that, weaponized against poor people.

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations. She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly! Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow: