Ok, that might have been closer to kvetching than a pet peeve. 🤔

Pet peeve: weather apps/sites that show you, 1-2 days ahead, that day X is cloudy with rain. Then you look at the hourly detail, and it's actually sunny all day with clouds and rain coming in after 7-8pm. How is that a rainy day??

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Speaking of Ezra, his interview with Naomi Klein has a couple of good nuggets (from her) about Bannon.

On parle certainement ici de Struble-Xhekaj 🙃

As we have long suspected, CEOs and business “leaders” are easily replaceable.

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@mathiasbrunet.bsky.social avez-vous pris de l'avance sur la chronique de lundi concernant les blessures inutiles à des joueurs importants qui bloquent des tirs?

Social media, AI, quantum computing-- on being clear as to the real issues: "Geist in the machine & The prospect of Butlerian Jihad" @inevernu.bsky.social
(Plus- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)

Keeping our eyes on the prize: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/10/i...

"Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what an AI tells them without question,[...] a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”

Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC.

"All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources."

blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

I mostly do the same kinds of things every day and mostly use Claude. Some days Claude seems to be a moron, some days everything runs smoothly. How about you? Does Claude's smarts vary from day to day? (It's a frickin' idiot today, tbh.)

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲

“One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.”

www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

April fools', the original slop.

(Catching up on newsletters from the last few days.)

Est-ce que ça évolue parfois le code? Ou c'est gravé dans une statue de Gordie Howe pour l'éternité?

Not surprised, at all!

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

Author of the classic novel “if you wear AR goggles out and about people won’t like it and will call you a rude word” unexpectedly negative about the idea of wearing AR goggles out and about

an example of how "the free market" is only important to them when it benefits them

🔮 The case for radical solar optimism While politics is powerful, the laws of physics will always win

"We may never use hydrogen to move a car or a truck, but at that [solar] price, we will have cheap green steel, synthetic ammonia for fertilizer and industrial heat. These are the exact sectors skeptics say renewables can never reach." www.exponentialview.co/p/solar-supe... via @inevernu.bsky.social

I can only assume discussions are already ongoing for Owen Wilson to play Jürgen Habermas in a biopic?

wow we are arriving at the exact situation every single person imagined within one second of seeing their first robot dog

Your Agent's Favorite Way to Write Documents Proof is an online document editor built for agents and humans to collaborate. Fast, free, and no login required.

Also from Every, very very Matt Webb imho. Multiplayer doc writing with your bestie agent.
proofeditor.ai

Cette famille baisse tellement les standards que c'est rendu des lignes sur le sol.

My semi-educated hunch is that the list above goes from the smallest number to the largest. By a mile.

Meta plans massive layoffs of up to 20% of the workforce to offset soaring AI costs - Tech Startups Meta is planning another major round of layoffs as it ramps up spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Three people familiar with internal discussions told Reuters that Meta is weighing jo...

I'd be really curious to see a chart with:
- Jobs lost to AI, for realz.
- Jobs lost, the excuse involved AI, but it was because business was bad.
- Jobs lost in tech companies because the inc. wants to save money to throw it all into AI training and infrastructure.

techstartups.com/2026/03/13/m...

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

Aye aye aye
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Claude Shannon - Wikipedia

I was today-years-old when I realised that Anthropic's Claude was likely named after Claude Shannon. D'oh! (Can't find an official confirmation though.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_...

Au lieu d'une belle courbe de croissance, ils ont décidé sans avertissement de partir sur une courbe "hockey stick." Innovateurs! 😅

3I/ATLAS Spraying Material as It Exits the Solar System Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS appears to have started spewing huge amounts of water and other organics into space.

I'm thinking protomolecule.
futurism.com/space/water-...