If you don’t stop in mid-sentence to check a thing and then three hours later you’ve learned the entire history of canned food but not finished the sentence, why even be a writer?!

The only thing the world needs less of than podcasts in the genre of "three straight white guys talking" is the subset where one of the straight white guys is also an idiot, but his friends won't call him on it.

Why didn't anyone tell me DTF St. Louis is a Steven Conrad (Patriot, Perpetual Grace Ltd) show?

Acting ethically in an imperfect world Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somew...

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe.

@tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here:

tante.cc/2026/02/20/a...

A few further comments, 🧵>>

A grid of 25 album covers, including artists such as Rosalía, Sudan Archives, Wednesday, Honey Is Cool, Cat Power, and others, describing last week's listening habit of last.fm user martschian

Forgot about this last week 🙃

A grid of 25 album covers, including artists such as Anna Waronker, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Broken Social Scene, 65daysofstatic, and others, describing last week's listening habit of last.fm user martschian

I don't know when last.fm started allowing you to generate these album grids for your weekly report, but I thought I post mine for chuckles.

I can finally announce:

I am in the next season (series) of Taskmaster! My favorite tv show! I’ve seen every season & some multiple times! Thrilled to be with this group of hilarious sweeties.
Amy Gledhill
Joanna Page
Armando Iannucci
Joel Dommett
And me!

Made the mistake of rewatching S04 of Stranger Things in prep for the final season. It was fine(-ish) until I got to episode 7, an hour forty of disjointed narrative with half a dozen episode-ending cliffhangers. Ugh.

Nicholas Wennö: Här är veckans bästa strömningstips Här är det bästa på SVT Play, Netflix, HBO Max, Apple TV+, Prime video, SF Anytime, TriArt med mera vecka 49, 2025.

Först uppdaterades artikeln för att ta bort stycket om Criterion Channel, men i brödtexten stod det fortfarande att det går att se Blossoms Shanghai på CC här i Sverige. Nu är rekommendationen helt bortplockad. www.dn.se/kultur/nicho...

Nicholas Wennö hävdar att "[d]et går numera att teckna en prenumeration även i Sverige" på Criterion Channel. Hoppas att nån informerar CC om det, för jag skulle jättegärna se WKW's Blossoms Shanghai.

"Get fucked Google" is the right response though.

Turning off categories too is the real biggie for me. I get like 5 emails a week that isn't part of a newsletter or some sort of update. So they'd get filtered. Right now my phone is popping a notification every 5 minutes.

Clearly designed to disincentivize people in a disgustingly aggressive way. It's incentivized me to look into moving my personal mail to another service.

"You don't want AI vacuuming up your e-mails? Well, then you don't get spellcheck either."

(Yes, this is a vaguetweet)

”I asked ChatGPT” is a very good way to make me stop listening to you.

@hoplite.bsky.social Not sure if you look at this place, but dude, your Discord got hacked 🫤

Unsurprisingly, the new Anna von Hausswolff album, ICONOCLASTS, is fantastic.

That VSC was a real cold shower though. (Really good race otherwise.)

My normal looking Home Screen on iOS 26

My iOS 26 Home Screen, looking low res and pixelated

And in exploring the accessibility options to see if any of them might have any effect on this behavior, this happened. Once I turned reduce motion back off, everything became low res. Thankfully a restart fixed this nice little bug.

This is how the iOS 26 keyboard acts in Safari if your phone is in dark mode but you’re browsing a site that triggers light mode for the controls. Seriously, WTAF?

Just had iOS 26 play an alarm – set to use a song instead of a built-in ringtone – by re-establishing a previous AirPlay session, which a) was a podcast playing in PocketCasts and b) as a result didn't make any sound at all, because the device being cast to was not the active input on my receiver.

<monkey paw curls> Here, have some Glenn Powell.

Looking forward to some day in the future when I will watch ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and discover it leaves me just as cold as 90% of PTA’s previous movies

A queue going up steps to a grand museum entrance with ionic columns either side.

A female interviewer and the artist sitting in front of a large screen showing his artwork

Went to the Ashmolean Museum tonight to see “A conversation with Stanley Donwood”.

He mentioned how he works in the studio while they’re recording, and that HE WAS WITH THEM IN ABBEY ROAD A FEW WEEKS AGO. More evidence for the new album rumours!

i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Remove Music From Streaming Services The Canadian post-rock band has pulled its discography from Spotify, Tidal, and Amazon Music, with Apple Music soon to follow

I missed this originally, because the Kranky releases of the first albums are still up and i have to admit those are still the ones i return to most often pitchfork.com/news/godspee...

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Managed to get tickets to the last (ever?) bob hund concert on the 30th, after the original allotment sold out unexpectedly fast.

Sad to see my favorite band—one that I’ve seen probably close to 40 times over the years—call it a day, but glad I’ll be there to help them close out an era in style.