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People sitting around a campfire in a post apocalyptic setting. The elder says to the others β€œYes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

People sitting around a campfire in a post apocalyptic setting. The elder says to the others β€œYes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

Working on an exciting project at work, but it’s a bit hard to feel engaged at the moment

13.01.2026 14:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t say I approve, but this feels like run-of-the-mill American β€œMonroe Doctrine” interventionism more than anything

03.01.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sittim. Sittim is the opposite of standim. But it’s also the opposite of runnin aroun, and standim on u head. This implies that Sittim exists on a complex hyper plane of locomotion. In this essay I will

18.12.2025 14:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Web developers: If you are starting a new project from scratch, what styling/css-in-js libraries would you use?

11.12.2025 18:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Why is Everyone So Wrong About AI Water Use??
Why is Everyone So Wrong About AI Water Use?? YouTube video by Hank Green

Estimating AI water use is hard and complex. It uses less than growing corn, but building a data center in the desert is still dumb
youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6...

10.12.2025 04:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mark Carney: climate friend or foe? | Front Burner | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen In 2015, as governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney’s β€˜Tragedy of the Horizons’ speech made waves in the global climate community. It was seen as a landmark call for the financial sector to recog...

Having recently read his book, I don’t think Carney is betraying his Value(s), rather he’s responding to the shifting priorities and values of Canadians since November of last year. However, he could probably do a better job at communicating his longer term vision

www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

09.12.2025 13:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Canada reaches deal to join EU’s flagship defence program Canada has reached a deal to join the European Union’s €150 billion ($243 billion) military procurement fund, David McGuinty said. Read on

Since no one’s actually shared it yet, here’s the link to the article financialpost.com/news/canada-...

03.12.2025 00:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Apple Cash balance of $420.69. Nice

Apple Cash balance of $420.69. Nice

Been saving up that Apple Cash

01.12.2025 16:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Probably best to avoid planning a vacation to Aruba now, right?

01.12.2025 00:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve unintentionally started reading MCP-UI as if it’s a Scottish name, McPooey

25.11.2025 18:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's also asking for my password inside the chat window instead of automatically focusing the actual terminal window

23.11.2025 20:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really like Warp terminal, but agents seem to have gotten worse in the latest update. Why is it opening `nano` and simulating keystrokes now? It never used to do that, and would just read and `cat >` straight into a file

23.11.2025 20:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Genuinely curious how you handle that though. Appreciate the disclaimer, but are you really gonna spend the hour+ to determine whether their code works? And if it doesn’t, how do you provide that feedback since it doesn’t seem like they really understand their code in the first place?

21.11.2025 14:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Mint Sage. Still super rough and needs work πŸ˜… github.com/TheSonOfThom...

19.11.2025 16:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a military uniform with a sash that says right to jail on it ALT: a man in a military uniform with a sash that says right to jail on it
19.11.2025 16:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Couldn’t pay for my NJ transit ticket this morning because CloudFlare is down 🀷

18.11.2025 14:06 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@gnumanth.bsky.social Will you be around at React Summit tomorrow? Would love to chat with you about embedding UI from an MCP!

17.11.2025 20:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
An ad featuring an AI generated image of a man standing in a garden in front of a solar panel array

An ad featuring an AI generated image of a man standing in a garden in front of a solar panel array

An ad featuring an AI generated video of a woman crouching in a garden

An ad featuring an AI generated video of a woman crouching in a garden

How should we market to climate-conscious people?

How about shitty AI videos of people claiming to care about the climate!

Brilliant. 10/10. Zero irony detected

13.11.2025 15:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of the NYTimes β€œHeadlines” podcast, titled β€œGovernor in the spotlight at climate talks”

Screenshot of the NYTimes β€œHeadlines” podcast, titled β€œGovernor in the spotlight at climate talks”

The irony of being sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, with the main story being Newsom going to COP30

12.11.2025 13:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Abigail Thorn once again knocking it out of the park on Philosophy Tube

08.11.2025 20:29 πŸ‘ 103 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”

08.11.2025 18:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT β€˜goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

We needed AI regulation and guard rails yesterday

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

08.11.2025 18:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#! #!
Oh, baby, when she moves, she moves

23.10.2025 14:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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MCP-UI | Interactive UI Components for MCP Interactive UI for MCP - Build rich, dynamic interfaces with MCP-UI

What are we calling the bite-sized visual interactions generated with MCP-UI? I'm going with "Micro-UI" for now (or Β΅UI for short)
mcpui.dev

15.10.2025 14:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Front Burner with Jayme Poisson: Canada’s bet on an AI boom www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

15.10.2025 12:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Prediction: the Successor to Postmodernism The defining reframe of the AI generation

Not sure I agree that β€œprediction” is the defining aesthetic of our eraβ€”gambling and markets have been around for ages.

However this does feel similar to Mark Carney’s idea that we’re moving from a market economy to a Market Society where all of life is commodified

substack.com/@danco/p-175...

15.10.2025 02:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It feels like the (unspoken) goal of all these companies is to achieve AGI before the bubble pops

15.10.2025 01:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Case Against Generative AI Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

β€œLLMs often function like a fresh summer intern…who can’t learn”

Having used AI for the last several months, this is my take as well. Actually, our summer intern was much better, and she could learn!

Great piece by @edzitron.com on the reality of the AI market

www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

09.10.2025 15:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t see a reason we couldn’t though. Sweden has a quarter of our population, but they have Volvo and Saab. Korea is only slightly larger and have Kia and Hyundai.

08.10.2025 23:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did Canada ever have any of our own car companies? I assume if any ever did exist, they were absorbed into the big auto makers in Detroit.

08.10.2025 23:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0