Fun but upsetting video about a good ol' boy in Louisiana originally from Vietnam

Simon Willison is writing a book-length guide to programming with AI agents

A humanizing essay from a Minnesotan working to protect his neighbors

Tony Gilroy finally gets to say what's on his mind

Old Internet chat system is getting a new version, the plans look serious

CIA World Factbook lives as a community-managed site

American AI companies complain competitors are probing their LLMs with queries trying to figure out how they think so as to improve themselves from it.

Māori language AI tools like voice transcription and voice synthesis, independently developed in the Māori community

A 1932 short story published in Vanity Fair, entirely in the medium of bank cheques

Young tech leader, the world's youngest self-made female billionaire (from scale.ai).

Lovely jazz from the Peanuts

A UI interaction where a button will press itself after some time if not interrupted

Thoughtful reflection on the compromises Apple has made to manufacture in China

Telnet is apparently not being blocked globally in the Internet infrastructure afterall

2000 year old Vietnamese tradition of intentionally blacking and polishing the teeth

Simon talks about tools to make AI programming more effective. One helps a coding agent demonstrate what the code it wrote can do. The other is for making screenshots.

Open letter and petition from Google employees unhappy their company is following in IBM's footsteps in enabling fascism

The second map on this page has an interesting approach in the color scale to factor for population density

Nice image showing datacenters, power, and network infrastructure

New self-hosted email archive / search tool with a text UI and AI integration

Usenet still exists as social media, a leaderboard from a working web interface