I want to get a pair of real, not-$20 sunglasses and taxes need to be higher. found a company that I love tons of the styles of but they only sell in store. I did some digging and was not prepared for the price.

most honest tech bro award: harpers.org/archive/2026...

is there anything that would stop illinois from suddenly having a $20 toll on any road into the new bears stadium on game days?

New blog post: How realtime transit data gets to you, the rider! A conceptual summary of how data is published and processed to hopefully help empower riders to better understand and diagnose issues they experience. lauriemerrell.com/posts/realti...

today's incredible software innovation report: Zendesk introduced built-in spell check that will mark the customer's name as incorrect when Zendesk knows exactly what their name is

so can I get my $20 tariff fee back from the government

good article about the rise of vibe coding and an optimistic case for AI coding solving the million little failures of the software industry (I don't believe this will happen but it's nice to dream) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

must read

the 4o dead-enders are reinventing human community from scratch

we finally solved AI alignment

it's really bad that this site doesn't have a good algo feed, twitter (not x) studied this years ago and iirc like 90% of people preferred the algo feed bsky.app/profile/nick...

going for a walk to my local microcenter. brining my smelling salts because i need an SSD

LOVE IS REAL

you cannot explain the 4o freakout without sounding histrionic but it's so bad

doing this over email is the strangest part to me. why email, of all things, in *2019*?

Cook County dems sent me a spam text and the link to the voter guide is broken lmao we love our political machine don't we folks

Oh, we're all off Discord now. I use Witchhazel now. Lindworm doesn't let you stream your screen. Paprika is actually a foreign surveillance app. Dude, send me your Dingo. I can't sign up for Jester Plus. I don't like the UI for Cabinet's mobile app. Just toss me your Spork. We're on Spork now.

Discord is extremely difficult to replace because its multi-server all-in-one featureset is unique. It's not just text channels (IRC) signal/etc are built for small groups, mastodon/slack/etc are built for work (not easy/free to set up, few/no free mod tools, single server).

I only moved to this was recently but how the fuck is he considered a "progressive" he hasn't been since I've been here!

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

does anyone know if @stoat.chat has posted their plans for making money / funding sources anywhere?

this rocked god bless the french

me, stupid: i’m going to leave out this ball of pattern paper. surely nothing bad will happen to it my cats: we love this. this is greater than any toy. we love how it’s louder than that sun chips bag they stopped making because it’s too loud

I always think I can be “safe” as a pedestrian as long as I keep distance from curbs and my eyes up from my phone, but no amount of personal vigilance can protect against this

standing outside the nuclear reactor with AI-generated tips to double its generation capacity but they won't let me in because of a culture of professionalism

The futurist article on Waymo is junk and it's bad that congresspeople are falling for this crap. "Oh sure, the car can drive itself 99% of the time, but it needs a human to boss it around the other 1%" is not some devasting blow to AVs. Also,. even Tesla isn't dumb enough to have remote controls on

for your consideration this Bandcamp Friday: dkdarkly.bandcamp.com/album/daft-p...

ChatGPT is finally deprecating the model that was comically sycophantic and there’s thousands of people having a meltdown several months later. every AI model should delete your account and redirect you to eventbrite if you start talking to it like a person

Do any chicago bike shops do trade-in? #chibike

i saw a physical copy of this the other day, i didn’t realize i missed out on the chance to get a collectors item apnews.com/article/cia-...

You may read this article and come away with a lot of questions. What's going on in Pembroke Township? What's the deal with the miniature railroad in one of the old photos? The story is much longer and weirder than this one piece of coverage. Robert Ellis has basically been Loophole Man for decades.

I love getting claim denials for a test that showed exactly why I was sick. i love figuring out how to send a fax in the year Twenty Twenty Six. it's awesome. the system works. this is good. this is so much better than something else

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

you might this blog post about AI social networks is nuts, but click on the third link www.astralcodexten.com/p/best-of-mo...

everyone is assuming they're lying, but they could have just never added e2ee at all and been fine. I wonder if they really did implement e2ee and then decided they to add a client-side backdoor for themselves

despite looking better than the will smith eating spaghetti video, they obviously still haven't figured out how to fix continuity issues lol. the longest shot in the three-minute video is like ten seconds? youtu.be/sV52AUVGc6I?...

Does anyone have good examples what AI tooling / coding is good for for people who aren’t nerds? I came around on AI mainly from coding, but I have yet to find good use cases for anything outside of “Google replacement for low-importance queries”

literally laughed out loud

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

absolutely incredible

you can’t know how hard i laughed at this. “Will all of human society be revolutionized around the machine god?” CHIEF MACHINE GOD SCIENTIST: uhh according to my calculations, it’s 50/50. If we don’t get it, we’ll be closer to getting it than before

I've heard about how bad xcode/code signing is for years but I never tried building an iOS app until today and I gotta say - everyone undersold what a fucking nightmare this is

not getting my hopes up again, you can’t do this to my heart

real

I’m still transitpilled in my heart but it’s really nice to not have to deal with this anymore

people on this website desperately need to relax about twitter. they did not hear about the grok stuff or what elon posts about. millions of people are still using facebook, the social app that enabled a genocide through careless moderation