Manifest-declared protocol handlers just landed (behind a flag) in Chrome 146 🎉 This is how ipfs:// or atproto:// can become first-class citizens of the browser!
The web that's coming is built on keys, hashes, and verifiable data. Browsers need to meet it there. ipfsfoundation.org/protocol-han...
“Even more troublingly, other researchers say, the fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature. Osmanovic Thunström says this suggests that some researchers are relying on AI-generated references without reading the underlying papers.”
Being Black in America is wild because there’s always a white person willing to volunteer their services to act as a supervisor.
Nice!
Sketchplanations sketch of the Peter Principle - "Employees rise (get promoted) to their level of incompetence".
For all the folk using AI to automate away everything, including things you might actually enjoy doing yourself if you gave yourself the chance…please don't forget the Peter Principle.
(Hat-tip to the amazing @sketchplanations.bsky.social)
you could keep googling “why does my cron job not work”
OR
you could get 15 Linux books for $60 and become the person with answers
Linux, The Good Stuff on @humblebundle.com:
www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-good-stuff-n...
Proceeds benefit @eff.org
Wheat paste by railroad tracks reading “Palantir is watching you”
Seen just now in Tacoma
The forced global adoption of puritanistic American cultural norms vis sexuality and nudity via app store/payment processor rules is one of the least-discussed free speech issues of the last decade and this lack of attention is going to hurt online expression so much in the years to come.
At just 12, Yashoda D. Shenoy from Kochi, Kerala decided reading should be free after questioning a late library fine. She went on to open Yashoda’s Library with no fees and no fines, growing her collection to over 3,500 donated books in multiple languages. magazine.1000libraries.com/meet-indias-...
I think I was 19 when I started studying US history for real and learned about the many cruelties the state visited upon people.
Reading about how folks had picnics around burned and hung bodies and how people were murdered for knowing how to ready was hard, but necessary.
It gave me perspective
Stylised picture of fungi in soil sharing nutrients
This is a lovely short video from the Royal Society on why soil is one of the most amazing things on Earth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmJU... Beautifully done.
And soil is our topic for this week's Rare Earth, so lots more on the joy, importance & surprises of soil will be coming soon. 🪱🌱🍄
Over the years, the same tools that were once celebrated as tools of dissent have become instruments for tracking, harassing, and prosecuting dissenters. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...
Empire of AI wins the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction
Omg???????
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/b...
Vite's new plugin registry is live! 🎉
Browse @vite.dev, @rolldown.rs, and Rollup plugins from the teams and the community.
Filter by version compatibility to find plugins that work with your setup.
And if you are a maintainer, you can add your plugin easily too
registry.vite.dev
To offset a bit, here's another comment:
You are awesome. Keep being yourself. Thanks for spreading nerd enthusiasm, humanist values and little joys of life that make you smile...
It's not yet a formal proposal and it's still some uncertainly months away, but
I talked with @prisonculture.bsky.social, Alison Macrina, and Katie Clark about libraries as public infrastructure, contested political terrain, and spaces of possibility—and about what it means to fight for them in this fascistic moment.
Thrilled to be speaking about #Prophecy at the TED2026 conference in Vancouver — check it out! #TED #authors
Join me!: tedtalks.social/carissav%C3%...
Paul's article prompted a long one from me: What is the purpose of protocols?
connectedplaces.online/the-purpose-...
I bust out laughing because this is so absurdly racist.
Cops attacked Fro, but the lawyer is trying to get him to sympathize with the cops who robbed him.
The US is such a ridiculously nonsensical place.
This is a highly detailed, hand-drawn style physical map titled “PHYSICAL MAP OF GREAT BRITAIN,” rendered in black ink with red typography and geographic labels on an off-white background. It's in the style of JRR Tolkien's maps from Lord of the Rings. It depicts the British Isles—including England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and numerous smaller islands—with topographic shading indicating mountains, hills, and lowlands (e.g., Grampian Mountains, Southern Uplands, Lake District, Pennines). Major bodies of water are labeled in red: Atlantic Ocean, Celtic Sea, Irish Sea, North Sea, English Channel, Bristol Channel, and St. George’s Channel. Key regions and features are annotated in red serif font, such as “SCOTLAND,” “ENGLAND,” “WALES,” “IRELAND,” “NORTHERN ISLES,” “SHETLAND ISLANDS,” and “ORKNEY ISLANDS.” A small inset in the upper right shows the Northern Isles in greater detail. A compass rose appears in the upper left, and a heraldic lion-and-unicorn emblem sits above the title at the bottom left. The map evokes a vintage or fantasy cartographic aesthetic, resembling historical atlases or maps from fictional worlds, though it accurately represents real geography. No modern political boundaries are shown—only physical features and traditional regional names.
Beautiful hand-drawn map of UK in Lord of the Rings / Tolkien style
by Reddit user: u/NACHODYNAMYTE
www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comme...
Joyce Ng has gone missing. She is an open source and open hardware advocate and fights peacefully against the rise of Christian right-wing nationalism. There is reason to fear she has been apprehended by authorities: social.coop/@cwebber/116...
So, it’s still fuck all of y’all that voted for him. I don’t care about your new feelings and your new life epiphanies or new frontal lobe developments. You saying this is not what you voted for; you absolutely did. All of this shit was public information. You still let him sit in office today.
Heading into conference abstract / presentation season, I 100% recommend Kathryn Langin's (@kangin.bsky.social) "Tell me a story! A plea for more compelling conference presentations". It's short, sweet, and not just for ornithologists. I can get behind every word!
🔒 academic.oup.com/condor/artic...
Mohamed @MohamedSkandari ... Reading books is so profound because it denies you the ability to speak when confronted with an idea. You must listen. It isn't a conversation. Sometimes it shouldn't be a conversation. Sometimes we should just listen. & st listen.
All this. Yes.
In case you missed my RE//verse keynote about compilers and reverse engineering, it's now available online!
