Tonight I went to a bar near a collision center, and it warmed my heart to see, parked on the curb, a wrecked Cybertruck

The enthusiasm of software developers for generative A.I. stands in stark contrast to how other Americans feel about the impact of large language models. Polls show a majority are neutral or skeptical; creatives are often enraged. But if coders are more upbeat, it’s because their encounters with A.I. are diametrically opposite to what’s happening in many other occupations, says Anil Dash, a friend of mine who is a longtime programmer and tech executive. “The reason that tech generally — and coders in particular — see L.L.M.s differently than everyone else is that in the creative disciplines, L.L.M.s take away the most soulful human parts of the work and leave the drudgery to you,” Dash says. “And in coding, L.L.M.s take away the drudgery and leave the human, soulful parts to you.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...

A screenshot of a push notification for ComingSoon.net that says "All TV Shows Canceled in January 2026"

This seems extreme but I guess the industry was trending that way already. It was a good run!

screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."

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I’m really cutting it close with my reading challenge this year… I need to finish 4 more books in the next week and a half!

Someone has clearly turned the Josh O’Connor dial all the way up and now he’s softly emoting his way through every single movie releasing now and in the near future

A panel from a manga showing a woman flying through the sky, riding on the back of a tardigrade

Box of Light, volume 3

I accidentally ate a sugar-free cupcake

A Busy Little Bee – Jeff James – Screenwriter for Camp Camp and The Leet World Hi, I'm Jeff James! I write strange and unsettling stories. As a screenwriter, I wrote episodes of Camp Camp, The Leet World, and Web Zeroes.

I wrote a little bit about my contributions as a developer for the new Script Hive website: unsquare.com/blog/a-busy-...

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

Wild how I can still remember the lyrics to albums I loved when I was fourteen but not what I did yesterday

R.E.M. - Bittersweet Me (Official Music Video) YouTube video by remhq

Good News: New Adventures in Hi-Fi still slaps.

Bad News (for me specifically): It's almost 30 years old. ☹️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R2h...

I don't know why capers have to come in jars too narrow for a fork or spoon

Credit Card Companies Are Hurting the Future of Video Games By going after Itch.io, “we’re really hamstringing the future of arts and communication.”

Payment processors should not get to decide artistic merit

www.404media.co/credit-card-...

Update: this month I bought a top-up so I could listen to the last fifteen minutes of Lords and Ladies

‘Akira’ Rights Up for Grabs as Japanese Sci-Fi Leaves Warner Bros. (Exclusive) After 20 years, a dozen creatives attached and millions spent on development, Warners is moving on from the seminal property.

Probably for the best that the live-action adaptation of Akira is dead, but what I really wish would happen instead is a series adaptation (preferably animated) that covers the material in the hugely divergent manga. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

The main thing I’ll miss after my trip to Paris are the water bottle caps: they all had an extra piece of plastic that kept the cap attached to the bottle so you could hang it off to the side and never lose it. Simple, genius, obvious… and we don’t have it here.

GitHub - iamtraction/ZOD: This is a decompression bomb (also known as zip of death or zip bomb) designed to crash or render useless the program or system reading it. This is a decompression bomb (also known as zip of death or zip bomb) designed to crash or render useless the program or system reading it. - iamtraction/ZOD

I just learned about the "zip of death" and had to restrain myself from downloading it just for the hell of it github.com/iamtraction/...

Listening to the new Black Country, New Road and it's kind of fascinating how they're essentially a completely different band on every album

A bag of “human grade organic” cookie pal treats for dogs that probably taste fine if you’re in a post-apocalyptic situation

Stocking up for any potential Road Warrior situations

Severance is one of the best arguments for the creative failure of the binge streaming model: episodes that stand alone, have wildly varying tones, require time to unpack, and people fucking love it!

Also *spoilers* but in Guards! Guards! a shadowy cabal accidentally installs a dragon as king and must satisfy its desire for gold and imperialist expansionism so uh yeah

Listening to audiobooks on Spotify is great because the selection is fantastic but terrible because 15 hours a month is not enough to satisfy my desire to binge Discworld

Now I guess we have to watch The West Wing or something so we can fantasize about a functioning government.

I also find it hilarious that "don't be suspicious", possibly the most iconic meme I'd ever seen from the show, is from the *series finale*.

We finished watching Parks and Recreation last night (both of us had only seen bits and pieces here and there) and maybe more shows should have a victory lap season that serves as a capstone and also makes you cry every other episode.

I’ve been re-reading the Discworld books in publishing order - the new audiobooks are all on Spotify - because they’re comfort reads for me, but I’m also remembering that they’re pretty consistently about fighting fascism from the street level. And that’s a comfort too, in a different sort of way.

i need a few million dollars so i can buy a warehouse and slowly go insane building a miniature golf course inside by hand

Laid (TV Show) | Peacock Watch Laid, a new comedy starring Stephanie Hsu about the mysterious deaths of a woman's former partners, which forces her to retrace her sexual past. Stream now on Peacock!

Laid on Peacock is very entertaining - it improves immediately after the pilot, which is a little slow - but it's also fairly bloody/violent for what is essentially a fantasy rom-com premise. Made me wonder how it compares to the Australian version.

www.peacocktv.com/stream-tv/laid

Pavement- "Harness Your Hopes" (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Pavement

When I watched this, I was very confused about why an actress who looked so much like Sophie Thatcher was in what I assumed was a remastered Pavement music video youtu.be/w2Ww_O3ceKU?...