Irony is dead.
🔗 The Youth AI Safety Institute Has Margrethe Vestager’s Backing
I love that the dickpanel is titled “We value your privacy” and then begins with the sentence, “With your agreement, we and our 399 partners use cookies or similar technologies to store, access, and process personal data like your visit on this website, IP addresses and cookie identifiers.”
💬 John Gruber
🔗 Wired on the Dark Mood Inside Meta
Unanswered remains my question from earlier this week: is MCI installed on Bosworth’s computer too? (And Zuck’s?)
💬 John Gruber
Given that Zuck keeps sticky tape over his computer camera - I am going to go with no.
Not so much the article (🔗 1Password is stepping on the rake again)
.. as his close 😂
Please note: If you have come here to recommend a different password manager, I implore you to not do that, as I just do not care. This is what I did. If something else works for you, good for you. Write it up on your own blog.
💬 Jamie Zawinski
"Oh Well (Live)" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Talking of superb covers … as I wrote 🖇️ here not even a month ago - a glorious cover of track by Fleetwood Mac. Before John and Stevie. Even before Christine. Bonus Round ... 🔗🍎🎵 PartONE that Tom covered. 🔗🍎🎵 PartTWO that Tom did not cover - totally different and Peter Green's favourite part.
👁️ Problem of the day .. why is it so hard for Paste to keep it all in synch❓
Really? Is this right? I know nothing to be able to question - but it does seem to be an extreme that I would have heard about before?
The real problem is that Vercel doesn’t let you set a spending limit. Someone could DoS your app while you’re asleep and you’d wake up to a $10,000 bill with no recourse. It’s 2026 — AI crawlers and bots are everywhere, constantly hitting endpoints, triggering serverless functions. Vercel charges for CPU execution time, not bandwidth, so every bot visit costs you money. This isn’t a theoretical edge case. I couldn’t justify the risk anymore.
💬 Assaf Arkin
🔗 coolify-deploy — Vercel-style deploys on your own hardware — Labnotes
Nearly time to switch them back on. ➡️ Originating at SourceFeed ... part of 'canonical john' ... for now.
Roger Lynch reveals that Condé Nast’s survival isn’t about scale or content volume, but about brand authority and direct audience relationships, he suggests that when Google search collapses and AI platforms commodify content, only publishers with deep trust and “taste” that machines can’t replicate will make it.
All my life I’ve suffered from ‘MOBS’. As the name suggests, it only affects males, and in my case is particularly severe.
So when Jax asked me last night to get her AirPods from her desk, I immediately said yes, while my internal alert system moved into overdrive.
I searched the desk, surrounding area, even where they would normally be charging, eventually returning to the kitchen, head hung low - to report an ‘F2F’ - that would be Failure to Find to you rookies.
She was quick to reply: “On the right-hand side of the desk, by the journals.”
Back upstairs I went. Nope. Not there. I searched the whole room. Nothing. Nada. Null.
Back downstairs I came.
“Still not there,” I reported.
“Good grief, do I need to go?”
“Yes,” I said. “Clearly I am incapable.”
She downed tools, walked two steps, and announced: “They’re in my pocket.”
Of course to Jax it was hilarious. Me? Still working through the emotional roller coaster that I typically ride in these situations.
MOBS? I hear you ask … Male Object Blindness Syndrome
🔗😂📼 Fridges tend to be the first experience of a man experiencing MOBS