“A great place for homework. Reg. $198; SALE $149” From a Storehouse Furniture flyer circa mid-1980s. My parents got so much particleboard furniture from there 😂

This is my brother in his bedroom (circa 1983 I think, I’d have to check again. He’s playing a game on his Atari 800

SAUDER PC CART (1991) Space-saving, budget-pleasing, organized for efficiency • Oak laminate resists scratches and stains • Constructed of thick top-quality particleboard • Drop leaf attaches to either side • Pull-out keyboard shelf • Slide-out shelf for printer and paper • Smooth rolling casters

Yeah it feels ivery strange to say it these days

It was a great time for interactive programming. I had most of those books too, and a few tomes that made those look like pamphlets. The magic of client-server. The dawn of WYSIWYG. 25+ years before that, for me, it was #Forth for #GOFAI and #ComputationalThinking www.scidata.ca/forth-a-synt...

These Visual Quickstart Guide HTML and PHP books got me through the early 2000s when I was a “webmaster” for a time. Great books

Petition to remove blinking mode from LED flashlights

I decided to collect new board games even though I am too ADHD to play them 😂 They look like so much fun, and it kinda osmotically rubs off when you just look at them

Petition to widen parking spaces

You didn't hear it from me but everything's going to be OK.

I am very thankful for my friends and the kind people out there who have checked in over time. I am doing well, getting some rest, taking time to care for my mom with Alzheimers at the moment In particular I want to thank @textfiles.com who is literally one of the best humans ever made

A gamer in his natural habitat. Photo scan by @benjedwards.com

When I was a kid, I thought gregariousness was a disease that turned you into Greg

Same.

As I roam my house from room to room or in the car throughout the day I find myself carrying a small constellation of gadgets with me, a Game Boy, laptop, Switch 2, etc. So now I just put them all in what I call a “nerd bag” to make it easier. Waxed canvas with lots of pockets

The Activision Rainbow awaits! 😁 (Atari 2600 cartidges)

My late 1980s lunchbox 😂

I wonder if consciousness evolved as an internal self-evaluation loop that can probe the brain’s network and generate additional context on an event (rumination) to give the event more meaning and aid survival

Thanks for the kind words of support, it means a lot. It’s no secret that I have been struggling with effects of many covid infections over time. It’s been grinding me down and I ignored it for too long, but I am working with new doctors to get fully well so I can figure out the next chapter ahead

This is perhaps the most ideal bedroom I have ever seen 😁

This post about Robert Tinney is incredible. Very in-depth and lots of great images to browse: 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/robert-tinne...

Sorry all this is my fault; and speculation has grown worse because I have been sick in bed with a high fever and unable to reliably address it (still am sick) I was told by management not to comment until they did. Here is my statement in images below arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...

At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

macOS 26 Tahoe is so painfully ugly...why Apple, why?? Between the travesty of Tahoe and iOS 26, somebody needs to do a hard reset on the software design team over there

RFK Jr. says we should check with AI about what to eat and then AI totally dunked on his stupid dietary guidance. Also @bethmariem.bsky.social is doing some downright incredible work, and this article is another tour de force of very professional shade.

Across that world you will face more than 25 bosses and mini-bosses, discover 60 Trinkets, upgrade your weapons, grow stronger through a full level-up system, explore New Game Plus, and experiment with hundreds of gameplay modifiers.

Those covers were always inspiring to what we could do with computers. A local computer museum has some on display, and they're just wonderfully creative.

It’s a little known fact that all LLMs were trained only on that one piece of yours, and were able, amazingly, to extrapolate everything else they know from that. In fact, LLM stands for “Let‘s Train on Benj’s Robert Tinney Tribute” Large Model.

I wrote a tribute for BYTE Magazine's amazing cover artist, Robert Tinney, who died Feb 1st Tinney painted 80 vivid and surreal covers illustrating various concepts in early personal computing from 1978-1990, usually airbrushed with gouache. May he RIP ❤️ arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

NEW: CBP signs a new deal with Clearview AI to access its scraped image database for "tactical targeting," including efforts to “disrupt, degrade, and dismantle” networks of people labeled security threats.

Tinney’s BYTE covers were the best computer magazine covers of all time, and nothing else springs to mind as a clear second place. In 2014, I wrote about my favorite one for TIME. RIP. time.com/60505/this-1...

Tinney's art (and 1970s-1980s Byte itself) was symbolic, to me, of an age of learning - much more "somebody built some cool shit" and much less "this is a primary mechanism of the economy". (and they were all just Very Clever :-)

I wrote a tribute for BYTE Magazine's amazing cover artist, Robert Tinney, who died Feb 1st Tinney painted 80 vivid and surreal covers illustrating various concepts in early personal computing from 1978-1990, usually airbrushed with gouache. May he RIP ❤️ arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

I was reading this blog post I wrote in 2006 and kept thinking, man this dude writes just like AI 😂 Maybe they modeled ChatGPT on me. 😜 If so, I apologize

I am confident that AI agents are not going away as professional tools and are going to become far more capable over time I can’t guarantee they will replace jobs, however. Maybe a few. I think people will become busier and more productive for reasons said here: arstechnica.com/information-...

Fun fact: pushing back on helplessness can be as easy as hanging out with people

Does Apple keep its Macintosh SSD sizes ridiculously small so they can sell more iCloud storage subscriptions? 512GB is not enough, my friends. That's 2000s-era storage space

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Rodent's Revenge

Changeable Guardian Estique, Micro Mages and Kero Kero Cowboy are back in stock on both USA and Worldwide @homebrew-factory.com's stores! 🎉 🇺🇸 usa.homebrew-factory.com 🌐 www.homebrew-factory.com

I think it's helpful to point out when people misuse AI tools. They are widely misapplied and poorly understood We are in an era where we invented the chainsaw but there's no safety manual yet; that's being created. So people may use one to cut a loaf of bread, or use one while standing on a ladder

Today I made a IRC-style chatroom with channels and DMs for my Claude Code agents to ask each-other troubleshooting questions while developing apps. Sometimes one instance will have the proper context (including history, docs, tools, etc) that another lacks and asking for help can be a quick fix

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Extremely exciting news: We're hiring a full-time film critic to come work with me at The A.V. Club! You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

The Bad Bunny halftime show was awesome imo, I had no idea who he was, had never seen or heard him in my life, but it was fun

Wish her a speedy recovery. I’m 44 and one time I just kinda “looked the wrong direction” too fast and my neck hurt for six months

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

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