This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Today's free newsletter is about four signs that the AI bubble is bursting: Anthropic's services and economics are decaying, AI demand is inflated, more than 50% of data centers under construction are for two companies, and NVIDIA is warehousing $150bn+ of GPUs.
www.wheresyoured.at/four-horseme...
I wanted to like Kagi, but it wouldn't let me. I feel about the same for DuckDuckGo, although I use it more.
What I want is the Google of yesteryear, I guess.
Raffles must be in the public domain by now, so I say have at it.
According to newly uncovered texts between FirstEnergy's CEO and Larry Householder, Jon Husted was actively working to make it worse for ratepayers, lobbying to stretch the $150M/year bailout from 6 years to 10. That would have been $600 million MORE out of Ohioans' pockets. https://bit.ly/4vY8fjx
Exclusive: Microsoft To Shift GitHub Copilot Users To Token-Based Billing, Reduce Rate Limits Edward Zitron Apr 20, 2026 4 min read Executive Summary: Internal documents reveal that Microsoft plans to temporarily suspend individual account signups to Github Copilot, as it transitions from requests (single interactions with Copilot) towards token-based billing. The documents reveal that the weekly cost of running Github Copilot has doubled since the start of the year. Microsoft also intends to reduce the rate limits on its individual and business accounts, and to remove access to certain models for those with the cheapest subscriptions.
Exclusive: Microsoft is reducing rate limits on GitHub Copilot, removing Opus from $10-a-month subscriptions, and plans to move users to token/API-based billing some time later in 2026 in a sign that it's looking for way to cut costs for its AI services.
www.wheresyoured.at/news-microso...
American children are *compelled* to use Google laptops with no restrictions on what they can access. They have to use it.
I asked my kid's principal if my kid could opt out. He said no. It's a fucked up situation.
www.techpolicy.press/meta-verdict...
"Callisto Vault is an encrypted platform that enables campus survivors to securely document a sexual assault and/or match with others harmed by the same perpetrator."
This is a good moment in @donmoyn.bsky.social's dive into the tech broligarchs: They keep talking about the "west" in order to feel like world-historical sages but they're just echoing warmed over white nationalist inanitites at this point:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
Really happy to have done a very small thing to help make the Supreme Court's historical records and briefs freely available. Thank you to the @archive.org for doing the hard part. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...
Five Science Fictional Solutions to Finding Your One True Love
Looking for more romance in your SF? Look no further...
reactormag.com/five-science...
“What is this class? Why do we keep going out on fishing boats? What was with the thing where we had to sort out goats from sheep? Why did we have to shove a camel through the eye of a needle? What is this class?”
The crucial thing to understand about Peter Thiel is that he adores "The Lord of the Rings" and no one in human history has ever so utterly completely missed all the salient points of what a book is about.
More research is necessary but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalised vaccine are still alive six years later.
The cover of Mike Nichols: A Life--a stark and simple shot of the director from the hips up, in a long-sleeved white dress shirt and black trousers. He is looking up and to his left.
The engrossing Mike Nichols: A Life, by @markharris.bsky.social, is available in a gorgeous (and affordable!) paperback. We carry it at @mzspress.bsky.social in the Biography section, along with some other wonderful titles: mzs.press/Biographies-...
Possibly. No one asked me for ID or anything though.
A photo of five record-sleeves for vinyl records scattered on a table: Professor Longhair, THE LAST MARDI GRAS; THE BEST OF BOOKER T & THE MGs; Jorma Kaukonen, QUAH; THE TIME OF THE ZOMBIES.
Tomorrow (4//18/26) is Record Store Day but (I realized earlier this week), you can buy records _any day you want_. No one will stop you. Proof attached.
"We have always believed in the power of imagination. In discovery. In the joy of a child pressing a button and hearing a satisfying sound. Today, we are proud to announce that we are taking that same spirit of wonder and pointing it at our geo-political adversaries."
The fate of Maine's free community college program hung in the balance. But after fierce advocacy efforts from college leaders and students, the state is permanently funding it.
Engraved plate from a 18th century book, showing on the left the detailed drawing of an armillary sphere, with many points labeled, on the upper right the drawing of a circular horizontal sundial, and on the lower right the drawing of a circular vertical sundial. Both sundials are surrounded by a sphere with circles (meridians) much like the armillary sphere, to explain the hour lines from the sphere.
Explaining the hour lines of the horizontal and the vertical #sundial (on the right) by comparing to the circles of the armillary sphere (drawn on the left).
By James Ferguson in 'Lectures on select subjects' (1775), chapter 'Dialling'.
🔭 #histsci #astrohistory
Premium newsletter: The 16k word Hater's Guide To Private Credit - a comprehensive guide to the massive, opaque and barely-regulated loan industry gambling with $1.5tr+ of retirement and insurance funds - and how software and AI may break its back.
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With the Trump administration switching into anti-Catholic overdrive this week, I wrote about a time a hundred years ago when Catholic students from Notre Dame beat the shit out of the Klan. A feel good story for the ages. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...
You’re invited to the dance. Pandemonium Waltz. 17 stories. In addition to the fiction, an interview conducted with the author by Kelly Link and art by Derek Ford.
“Jeffrey Ford is a beautifully disorienting writer. A poet in an unclassifiable genre — his own"
— Joyce Carol Oates
I don't want billionaires making large donations. I want them taxed at 90+% and then Congress--representing the people rather the whims of the few--decide how tax dollars should be allocated.
They Might Be Giants: "Get Down" #blogpost
the human made icon
I want to be a better steward for the Human Made icon. If you have any ideas on how I can get the word out for it more please let me know. Do you think game retailers would be interested in stickers they could pass out? folks interested in pins? What can I do to support you using this icon? a zine?
Republicans are starting to fear their Senate majority is on shaky ground:
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
‘We Need Your Help’: Ohio Dem leader trolls VP Vance over Hungarian election loss
Ohio House Minority Leader Dani Isaacsohn (D-Cincinnati) has an unusual request for Vice President JD Vance: Please come campaign for Ohio Republicans. https://bit.ly/4sXRKRP
