The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Barn Owlet Watch 2026 is now live, giving viewers 24-hour real time video and audio to all the happenings in a barn owl nest box in the western part of the state.
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For those of you playing along with the AI Bubble/Paramount-WBD merger home game, Big Daddy Oracle surprised 30,000 of its favorite employees this morning with pink slips in order to free up cash because their mounting debt and banks refusal to keep loaning to them:
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The End of the Berger Era: Why is Phil Berger's loss such a big deal? 🔗 ⤵️
#ncpol #statepolitics
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Google attributes the supply chain attack on HTTP client Axios to a suspected North Korean threat actor it calls UNC1069 (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
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“What made the attack impressive was the next move: The scammers… contacted Apple Support themselves, pretending to be me, and opened a real case…” ma.tt/2026/03/gone...
“… the case put the spotlight on how social media services were designed… deliberately built to be addictive and the companies' executives knew this and failed to protect their youngest users.” www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...
"...landing pages are built for human users ... [but] your job is no longer to build a destination. It's to build a parts library." What a wild take. I hate this. The hits are coming hot and fast, and the dead internet theory is looking more and more realistic.
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As the length of video game productions has swelled to 6+ years, many people are trying to figure out how to reverse that trend.
Here's some food for thought from the always-insightful Josh Sawyer, director of Fallout: New Vegas and Pentiment.
This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
All the indie authors who use AI for their covers because “what am I supposed to do, I can’t afford an artist” would probably have a melt down if artists did paintings and had AI write books to go with the paintings.
Anyway, shout out to indie authors who have really bad photoshop covers.
As LLM use expands, “the models’ outputs…are reabsorbed into human discourse & shape users’ own expression & reasoning and, in turn, influence the data used to train future models, transforming homogenization from a passive bias into a structurally reinforced influence.”
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Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages Amazon's ecommerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a "deep dive" into a spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools. The online retail giant said there had been a "trend of incidents" in recent months, characterised by a "high blast radius" and "Gen-AI assisted changes" among other factors, according to a briefing note for the meeting seen by the FT. Under "contributing factors" the note included "novel GenAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established".
“Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages
The online retail giant said there had been a ‘trend of incidents’ in recent months, characterised by a ‘high blast radius’ and "Gen-AI assisted changes"
We’ve been saying this for years, Gen AI is not a reliable engineering tool! 🥲
Spectacle website in 1996
Urban Diary website in 1997
Conscience Records website in 1998
p2 output website in 1998
Grunge Web Design Style in the 1990s
– Spectacle in 1996
– Urban Diary in 1997
– Conscience Records in 1998
– p2 output in 1998
#WebDesignHistory
This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses.
Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.
“Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes… Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk’s platform X…” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about
Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵
“A curated directory of the web's finest Indie Type Foundries.” #design #typography #fonts www.thepunch.studio
Seems to be accurate now.
Don't forget that you have many alternatives!
“Are these tales of AI harms anecdotal outliers or signs of a frighteningly common problem?” #ai #tech arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/h...
BREAKING NEWS: Two more oceanfront homes collapsed in Buxton, with one falling Sunday night and another falling on Monday morning ahead of the approximate 7:30 a.m. high tide. More from The Island Free Press:
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(Brian Harris photo)
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
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We’re entering the age of AI slop that people believe en masse.
This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares.
Journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…
Let 2026 be the year you draw your weird cringe sci-fi/fantasy webcomic, don't let that shit die with you having never left your head.
Moebius amazing concept art for Alien (1979)
As of the end of 2025, more than 97% of state-maintained roads damaged by Helene have reopened, according to NCDOT statistics. But about two dozen roads remain impassable — and those remaining road closures continue to make life challenging for some local communities.
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Carrboro-based All Day Records has opened a second location in Pittsboro.
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A must-read for everyone in North Carolina.
6 breathtaking bike trails in Raleigh for every enthusiast
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lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE
So, I'm really kind of fucking annoyed and disappointed with Mozilla enabling AI in Firefox by default and not giving users a simple opt out switch.
I have disabled it in my firefox via 'about:config' , if you want to too, here's how to disable it completely or enable certain bits you find useful