I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue

You mean you found a reliable sauce to cite for it?

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive Jack Karlson’s rallying cry of ‘democracy manifest’ added to national collection of sound recordings that hold historical, cultural and aesthetic significance * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Thirty-five years ago, when Jack Karlson was hauled into a police car outside a Chinese restaurant in Queensland, he couldn’t have known his bombastic speech would be watched by millions around the world, become a meme and now, be preserved for ever in Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive. Karlson’s declaration – “Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest! … What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?” – is one of nine pieces of audio that have been added to the NFSA’s Sounds of Australia collection this year, along with a pedestrian crossing signal and Missy Higgins’ 2004 hit Scar. Continue reading...

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

if you watch and support the new harry potter show you are funding trans genocide globally by the way

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

It’s also gender neutral name in French, for example the writer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_...

So like the Brooklyn Bridge in 1893 with its cable cars, and until trolley tracks were added to the roadway in 1898?

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

Dennis nedry jurrasic park "see nobody cares" meme reads Hey everybody, this guy still posts on X! See? Everyone is horrified and disappointed. They feel it speaks directly to your values.

Extract from the New Adlestrop Railway Atlas covering Aberdeen

From Penzance to Thurso (and Marazion to Hoy)… it’s finished.

After 25 years, I’m delighted to report that the New Adlestrop Railway Atlas now covers the whole of England, Scotland and Wales in one big PDF. Every* passenger line and station.

Download it here: www.systemed.net/atlas/

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article titled "The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor." Two charts show trends since 1980: corporate profits rising as a share of gross domestic income, while labor compensation steadily declines.

The Wall Street Journal just illustrated the core argument of my book: a system rigged to reward capital over labor is one in which even full-time work no longer secures the most basic material needs.

This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless."

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Picture comparing how these Philips LED bulbs produce warmer light when dimmed, when a standard bulb just turns less bright

@techconnectify.bsky.social you were commenting on the disappearance of warm glow dimmable bulbs lately. It turns out that Philips still makes them! Their new-ish "Ultra Definition" line has pretty good color rendering, too. www.amazon.com/Philips-LED-...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Pretty cool

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Oh fuck.... now I'm late for this, too.

Statement from Transportation Alternatives on Citi Bike Rate Hikes — Transportation Alternatives More than twice as many New Yorkers ride a Citi Bike every year as the Staten Island Ferry. Citi Bike is already the most expensive bike share program in the United States.  NEW YORK — This ...

This morning, Citi Bike announced new rate hikes for the upcoming year.

Citi Bike is already the most expensive bike share program in the United States.

It’s time to finally publicly fund this program and bring it in line with major bike share systems around the world.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) : « Étude de mer » ou « Marine, Pourville », 1881, huile sur toile, 50 x 72,8 cm, collection Michaël Simonov, Abbaye de Flaran, Valence-sur-Baïse, Gers, France.

the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me

This is inspired by the Irish tradition of putting a candle in the window on Christmas Eve, a sign to the needy of an open door & food on the table. Then exploring in the 2nd stanza how a once hospitable nation has become less welcoming to strangers

#poetry
#poemoftheday
#IrelandisNOTFull

It’s so cool to see stata leaping from the 90s into the mcp age! I’ll be trying to add a skill to give it access to the documentation and dataset docs, hopefully it will hallucinate less

Did you know about github.com/hanlulong/st...? Is yours better, worse, different?

Looks like a solid breakfast you’d pick up in Jackson Heights

The man who is unwilling to wear a flu mask usually is of the kind who expects everybody to listen to him when he speaks

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

Hi from a few rows away! Wasn’t tonight’s show great? 🍓

An Horairen an Echtzäit fënnt een an den Apps wéi Google Maps nëmme well ech dat 2016 mat engem Holänner gebastelt hunn, deen dat säitdem fräiwëlleg bedreiwt.

Apparently CM Brewer has, uh, seen the daylight and is back on board?

Why I switched to @kagi.com...

I’m getting an error about leaks. It’s hard to use on mobile!