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Kevin Marks
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Reading your thoughts, as long as you tell me where you're writing them first this week. https://xoxo.zone/@kevinmarks
Sheffield, UK - Don't try direct messaging as I am blocked by daft UK legislation unless I'm on a VPN.
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drkatedevlin.bsky.social
"Kate, you should use AI to handle your terrible email inbox!"
Microsoft Copilot: "Sorry, it looks like I can’t respond to this. Let’s try a different topic. Suggestions: Write a rap song. Show me some cool facts. Teach me a new word!"
Me: "What emails do I still need to reply to that I have flagged?" Co-pilot: "Sorry, it looks like I can’t respond to this. Let’s try a different topic. Write a rap song. Show me some cool facts. teach me a new word!"
January 21, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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monkchips.com
just leaving this here.
Wind turbines seen beyond the Ming Dynasty Huguo Temple in Guizhou Province. Weimin Chu.
January 21, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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matttomic.bsky.social
Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
January 20, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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fraying.bsky.social
I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:19 AM
kevinmarks.com
Skyrdle 222 4/6

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January 21, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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ewacat.bsky.social
years ago when i was working in casting during my gap year i was queueing for a sandwich in soho wearing a long old stripey scarf when a voice behind me boomed "I LIKE YOUR SCARF" and when i (and everyone else there) turned around it was only Tom bloody Baker. a truly fine moment of my life
andymack.bsky.social Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 1d
Tom Baker is 92 today
January 20, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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greatdismal.bsky.social
I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22h
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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sirpepe.bsky.social
The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button

👉 paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shad...

#react #webdev
January 19, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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philipjcowley.bsky.social
Latest piece for @thehousemag.bsky.social, on the 1954 British government report estimating that the deaths of women in road traffic accidents had benefited the UK to the tune of just over £1.2m.

Yes, benefitted.

www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
The Professor Will See You Now: Road deaths
Lessons in political science. This week: road deaths
www.politicshome.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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robfordmancs.bsky.social
DUTCH WARN TULIP BOOM COULD FALTER WITHOUT WIDER ADOPTION
January 20, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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lying.bsky.social
Social media and the Internet are absolutely crucial technologies for marginalised communities and especially young individuals who otherwise would spend their adolescence feeling isolated and wrong. Which I can attest to because that was my adolescence under Section 28. And the OSA reinforces that.
January 19, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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January 20, 2026 at 6:32 AM
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roguechieftan.bsky.social
On MLK Day, it’s important to remember why MLK Jr. was in Memphis when he was assassinated. He was there to support Black sanitation workers striking for better working conditions and higher wages. This, for me, a critical moment in the emergence of the environmental justice movement.
January 19, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Its Charlie Stross's functional telepathy problem: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...
“we're becoming used to a constant background roar—the global id in full throat, blasting us with the prejudices, rumors, superstitions, bigotry, and (less obviously) love and passion of the entire human species.”
As Damien Walter noted recently on twitter, some time between 1995 and 2010, the human species began to develop functional telepathy. (Actually, the first sign of this became real on October 29th, 1969, but exponential growth from a small base takes a long time to become noticeable.) We now have over a billion human beings on the internet, and so many devices that the IPv4 address space is saturated: within the next decade we can expect multiple new satellite internet constellations (such as OneWeb and rivals) to bring pervasive internet access to the globe. Smartphones are pushing down into the sub-$50 space where they're affordable even by those living just at the global poverty threshold (and the decline in global poverty over the past decade is working away at the other end). It no longer looks implausible to suggest that almost everybody will be online by 2025. A side-effect of this process is that we're becoming used to a constant background roar—the global id in full throat, blasting us with the prejudices, rumors, superstitions, bigotry, and (less obviously) love and passion of the entire human species. Everyone being online means that anyone can in principle yell in your ear at any time, be it encouragement or rape and death threats.
January 20, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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weeder.bsky.social
It's that time again!
January 19, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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julie.radiantarray.io
i don't think we need a global town square. i think the fact that town squares previously had to be localized was a load-bearing pillar of their function
January 19, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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taliabhatt.itch.io
Brianna Ghey was targeted by classmates who knew her offline. Online, she made friends and a community, and was making content to help other trans kids like her.

This is a grieving mother pushing for legislation that would have further isolated her trans child, that is supported by transphobes.
January 19, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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hels.bsky.social
Sometimes someone writes to my intermittent @newyorker.com advice column and sets me up in a manner resembling Payton alley-ooping Kent www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
THE FOOD SCENE HELEN, HELP ME: ON THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF CHEESEBURGERS A New Yorker food critic answers questions about burger toppings, beef tallow, and the subjectivity of memory. By Helen Rosner January 18, 2026 How do you approach the sweetness of pickle relish on a cheeseburger? Does it complement or compete with ketchup? There was a legendary place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that used to do mustard, relish, and ketchup, and I can't for the life of me decide if I loved it, or if I just loved being there in the middle of the night eating it. — Brian K., N.Y. C. Honestly, I've never really considered pickle relish to be one of the hamburger's totemic toppings. Sliced pickle rounds, certainly; spears on the side, without a doubt. But relish, that finely chopped, neon-hued, marmalade-textured stuff? To me, that's a hot-dog thing-which I mention here not to issue judgment but rather to illustrate how distinct my own personal associations are from your own. Herein, I think, lies the answer to your real question, which is not actually about the sweetness of the relish. The question of what toppings make a burger great, while we're eating it, is both technical and trivial, having to do with the nature of the patty and the bun, the mood of the establishment serving it, the sensibilities of the person eating it, even the time of day or night or life. Regarding the substance of the burger itself, the same accoutrements that might show a slim, lacey-edged smash patty in its best light—a little slick of mustard, a few circles of raw onion, and a melty cap of American cheese, say-might be too flimsy against the brawny heft of a half-pound bar burger that can sustain degrees of sweetness, richness, and piquancy (your barbecue sauces, your secondary meats, your nontraditional cheeses) that would suffocate a smaller patty. But what you're really asking, I think, is what makes a burger great not as it's being eaten but as it lives on in memory. Or, more to the point, how can we know that our memories of happiness are true? I spend an inordinate portion of my professional life creeping around in my own psyche, untangling knots of nostalgia and pleasure and, god, so many emotions, not least self-love and self-loathing, all of them unavoidable colorants of any bite I take. I give myself the task of locating some sort of unassailable, uncontaminated truth: that this dish of dumplings, or that cocktail, or such-and-such restaurant is actually, inarguably, wonderful. It's impossible, of course, and more than a little absurd, but it's so irresistible, isn't it, to attempt to discharge the burden of our own experience? Was that burger you ate from the Tasty, in Harvard Square? I think it must have been, and it's been nearly thirty years since that perfect little sandwich shop closed forever. I imagine it was a simple construction: a bun, a patty, a slice of cheese, ketchup, mustard, relish. But you created it, just as much as the white-capped guy standing at the grill did. The mouth and brain and cascade of sensations were yours. There is no true burger per se, lurking behind your experience of it; it didn't become the burger you ate until you ate it. It's a ludicrous idea, this notion of an objective culinary truth, but it's even more ludicrous that we're so quick to doubt our own taste in pursuit of it. Just as I go looking for proof that my rapture— or, at times, misery—at a given meal has nothing at all to do with me, here you are wondering whether you should append an asterisk to your reminiscence of a long-ago cheeseburger, one that you could never eat again, even if the Tasty were still up and running. Why question a recollection of sweetness, even of the pickle variety? You did love the relish. And you love the person you see in your memory: a young man, awake in the middle of the night, a burger topped with relish in his hands.
January 19, 2026 at 12:30 AM
kevinmarks.com
So I just read 3 Steve Yegge blog posts trying to work out what he's been up to and as far as I can tell he has found an entirely new form of AI-induced psychosis — he created an entire corporate town of AI coding minions for him to be the dictator of, complete with his own Stasi to help him rule.
January 19, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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notlikewe.bsky.social
what a legend lmao
January 14, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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lukesteuber.com
I've been experimenting with particle effects to make decent looking fire, water, and snow without crashing your browser. That led to making something that looked like a fuse, and I though "I should use climate data"

Honestly, I think this one worked out well. Love any feedback. Source in comments
FUSE - Global Temperature Anomalies
140+ years of climate anomalies as a particle system. NASA GISTEMP data from 1880-2025.
dr.eamer.dev
January 18, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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niedermeyer.online
The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that woke, for lack of a better word, is good. Woke is right, woke works. Woke clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
Gordon Gekko giving the "Greed is Good" speech from Wall Street
January 18, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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danabra.mov
formats over apps
A Social Filesystem — overreacted
Formats over apps.
overreacted.io
January 18, 2026 at 7:05 AM
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marawilson.bsky.social
I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare | Mara Wilson
I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same danger
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:20 AM