2025-02-28
Re: fighting back against this criminal & corrupt administration: AOC sent a...
Re: fighting back against this criminal & corrupt administration: AOC sent a letter to the US Attorney General asking whether she’s under investigation for “educating her community about their constitutional...
Antarctic Research Stations in Chaos
Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency has been rampaging through the US federal government at an alarming pace, and it's leaving no stone unturned. As Wired reports, even scientists...
Grand Central Dispatch, Once and for All
This article breaks down Swift's Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) by explaining threads, queues, and code blocks, along with sync vs. async execution, QoS, and deadlock issues—using practical exercises to solidify...
Dana Milbank responds to the WaPo’s pivot to focusing on “personal liberties...
Dana Milbank responds to the WaPo’s pivot to focusing on “personal liberties and free markets” with a piece *in the Post* calling Donald Trump “the single greatest threat to ‘personal...
From Zeynep Tufekci, a reminder that people who get the measles “lose...
From Zeynep Tufekci, a reminder that people who get the measles “lose much of their immune memory”, which leaves them “more vulnerable to many other diseases for years afterward”.
Trump Claims to Have Spoken With Starmer Regarding Apple Encryption Backdoor Demand
Ben Domenech interviewed President Trump yesterday in the Oval Office, after Trump’s meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The Spectator has published the entire transcript, and I read it...
World's Largest Call Center Deploys AI to "Neutralize the Accent" of Indian Employees
A French company that owns the largest call center in the world is using artificial intelligence software to "soften" the accents of its India-based agents in real-time as part of...
Best Online Reputation Management Companies in 2025
Online Reputation Management (ORM) companies specialize in suppressing, counteracting, and reshaping online narratives. We've analyzed the best ORM companies based on effectiveness, technology, and industry reputation. Here are the top...
AI Just Took Over Ad Targeting—And It’s Smarter, Faster, and Less Creepy Than Ever
The modern advertising ecosystem operates at unprecedented scale, with billions of ad impressions served daily. Every user interaction a click, a view, a conversion generates an immense amount of data...
Behind the Blog: Stunt Blogging and the 'Fuck It' Paradigm
This week, we discuss stunt blogging, Signal pains, and murderous Reels.
More good reporting from Wired on white nationalist Stephen Miller’s role the...
More good reporting from Wired on white nationalist Stephen Miller’s role the ongoing coup. “Miller is carrying out the daily work of governance while Trump serves as head of state,...
Jeff Bezos Takes Control of the Washington Post’s Opinion Pages; Asserts Exclusive Focus ‘In Support and Defense of Two Pillars: Personal Liberties and Free Markets’
Jeff Bezos, in a memo he shared publicly on X: I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning: I’m writing to let you know about a change...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Why Natural Language Coding Isn’t for Everyone—Yet (2/28/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 28, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you...
Tesla Owners Now Disgusted By Elon Musk
Elon Musk has long been the linchpin of Tesla's appeal, commanding unbelievable hype that has elevated the automaker to a stellar stock position while giving it cultural staying power. But...
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy
This is excellent reporting by the Times (although at times it makes Musk’s actions sound heroic rather than unconstitutional, criminal, and treasonous) on how Elon Musk took over a huge...
What If, Indeed
Hamilton Nolan, in a 2021 piece for The Columbia Journalism Review, under the headline “Bezos Has Been Hands-Off. What if That Changes?”: Bezos has given the paper the resources to...
Gene Hackman Dies at 95
Loved this remembrance by Manohla Dargis in The New York Times: When Clint Eastwood needed a performer who could persuasively go boot-toe to boot-toe with him in his brutal 1992...
From Rolling Stone, a list of 20 essential movies starring Gene Hackman....
From Rolling Stone, a list of 20 essential movies starring Gene Hackman. The French Connection, The Conversation, Superman, No Way Out, Mississippi Burning, The Royal Tenenbaums. Phew. 💬 Join the...
[KONKURS] Product Pro Summit 2025: Dla tych, którzy mają dość produktowego bullshitu
To będzie chaos – ale taki, który wreszcie ma sens.
Touch Grass is a screen time limiting app for iOS that requires...
Touch Grass is a screen time limiting app for iOS that requires photographic evidence of you actually touching grass to unblock apps on your phone. (Is there a “touch snow”...
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