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A declaration signed by 25 Fields medalists : “The...
A declaration signed by 25 Fields medalists: “The goals of the AI companies and the goals of the mathematical community are severely misaligned.”
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LG TVs Snoop Your Local Network, Listen To You When ‘Off’
LG hasn’t been making many friends lately. It annoyed some LG “smart” TV users recently when it tried to force them to use Microsoft’s Copilot AI system. It’s also been force-installing surveillance bloatware on many LG user’s monitors as it ramps up data surveillance and monetization. Now LG is in hot water again, after YouTube […] -
It's Never Too Late to Learn
Last weekend my wife called me over to show me something on her phone. She was going through her old emails and came across some emails we had passed back and forth, from when we first met.
She and I met in a club and went on a couple of dates, but then I deployed to Afghanistan with the Army. We continued to converse via email mostly, and phone where possible - this was before the days of FaceTime etc. - and the rest is history. That was in 2006, and 20 years later we're still very happily married with a couple kids.
Anyway, upon reading the emails I immediately wanted the ground to swallow me up. Not because they were overly mushy or lovey dovey (they were), but because the spelling and grammar were horrendous. I was never a particularly academic kid - in fact, I was mostly disengaged in school and really didn't try. I was clever, but I never applied myself. I was too busy being a stupid teenager. As a result, my written English was awful (it's still not great now, but it's better).
For example, I didn't know the difference between "there", "they're", and "their". And you can forget about "your" versus "you're". "Too" vs "to"? Not a chance. Where, were, and we're baffled me. I had no idea where a comma was supposed to go in a sentence, and I'd never even heard of an Oxford comma.
You get the idea.
Fixing the problem
During my time in the Army, written English wasn't really needed, so I wasn't too concerned. But after getting out and finding a job in IT, it quickly became apparent that my lack of basic English knowledge would hold me back. So I decided to fix it, and enrolled in a night school course.
To my surprise I really enjoyed it. It turned out that writing and learning are a lot of fun, and I was constantly looking for ways to practice my new found writing skills. I think that's part of why I still love typing - I just find creating words on a screen a lot of fun. Yeah, I'm weird. I know.
So I completed the night school course and came away with much improved grammar and a desire to write all the things. But replying to emails and writing reports in work wasn't scratching the creative itch for me.
Discovering blogging
One of the services the IT company I worked for offered was web hosting. I'd never really got involved in any of that, so learning about DNS, web servers, MySQL etc. was really interesting. I'd done a bit of basic web design during my college IT course, but never anything more.
"College" in the UK is different to college in the US. We call that university here. In college we do our A-levels, which are intermediate qualifications between high school and university. I don't have a degree.
A few of our customers had WordPress sites, and it blew my mind. Here is a web application that I can host myself, on my own server, with my own domain name. Furthermore, I can write what I want and publish it on the web for anyone to read. This was the creative outlet I'd been looking for!
So in 2010 I registered
kevquirk.com, set up WordPress on a shared host, and started writing. Sixteen years later I'm still here, and still thoroughly enjoying writing on the web. Albeit no longer on WordPress.Final thoughts
It's funny how these seemingly unrelated things connect together in retrospect and take us down a road we never thought we'd walk. Back in 2000, when I was leaving high school, if you'd have asked my high school English teacher (hi Mrs Daniels!) if she thought I'd be producing creative writing on the web for 16 years, she'd have laughed in your face. Hard.
But I am. And it's all thanks to a basic written English course that I attended for a couple of months, just to improve my writing to help me with work.
I'm not really sure how to wrap this one up. I suppose my final thought is that it's never too late to learn. And you never know where it will take you. A simple thing like a basic English night course could end up forming the longest running, most enjoyable hobby you have in your life.
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Artificial Intelligence, Actual Idiots
Trump dismisses the AI CEOs at Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI who are calling for a "global slowdown" of AI development, saying the only government regulation the industry needs is a "high IQ" president.
Jon, Tommy, and Lovett break down the "sick conspiracy" claim the administration and tech investors have leveled at AI makers, the recent developments that united Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk, and the chances that meaningful AI regulation could pass before the election or in a lame-duck Congress.
Then they turn to AI's impact on the 2028 presidential election, a Russian oligarch's unusual involvement in Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding festivities, and the worst Republicans on and off the ballot in Texas. Then, Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, stops by the studio to talk to Jon about her new book, "How to Eat an Elephant."
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‘End Times Fascism’ with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
Is the apocalyptic mood in our culture today just in our imagination, or are we witnessing the rise of a dangerous new political reality? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor co-authored ‘End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World' to help answer that question. They join WITHpod to discuss how the far-right has shifted from climate denialism to weaponizing ecological and economic crises, creating an ideology built on survivalism, tech-oligarchy and authoritarian control. Plus, they talk about what can be done to resist.
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The Cult of Shrek
Grab your onions, this week, Reese and Iman are entering The Cult of Shrek, a fandom that somehow evolved from a beloved children’s movie into an online religion (or dare we say... cult). Joining them are Bechdel Cast hosts (@bechdelcast) Caitlin Durante (@caitlindurante) and Jamie Loftus (@jamiechristsuperstar), two certified Shrek scholars whose devotion includes transatlantic Shrek tourism, academic conferences, a $200 themed dinner, and, in Jamie’s case, selling roughly 200 green-painted Shrek nudes for Planned Parenthood. Together, they get into why Shrek inspires such a uniquely sincere brand of irony, why Shrek 2 may actually be a feminist masterpiece, and how fans apparently bullied DreamWorks into reconsidering Chad Shrek. Is Shrek love? Is Shrek life? We're heading far far away into the swamp to find out. Subscribe to Sounds Like A Cult on Youtube!Follow us on IG @soundslikeacultpod, @amanda_montell, @reesaronii, @chelseaxcharles, @imanharirikia. Pre-order Iman's new book, Once in a Timeline, here! Your pre-order helps make more books possible! Sounds Like A Cult is coming to you LIVE from The Elysian in LA on October 15th! Get tickets at soundslikeacult.com! Thank you to our sponsors! Use code CULT at https://jonesroadbeauty.com to get a Free Gift with your first purchase! #JonesRoadBeauty #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicespdst.fm -
Adult Woman Dies From Measles Complications In Pennsylvania
Despite RFK Jr.’s assurances that he’s absolutely killing it combating this pesky measles thing that resurfaced after decades under his leadership, the only thing that is being killed are American citizens who contract measles. While we first eclipsed the measles case count of 2025 in mid-summer of 2026, there has also been no slowdown of […] -
Veuve à 27 ans
Mélissa a 23 ans quand elle rencontre Kevin*. Très vite, leur histoire d'amour est rattrapée par les troubles psychiatriques de Kevin, les hospitalisations et des années de combat pour retrouver une vie normale.
Quelques années plus tard, alors qu'ils construisent leur vie ensemble, Kevin décède brutalement. À seulement 27 ans, Mélissa doit apprendre à vivre avec l'absence de l'homme qu'elle aimait et sa reconstruction à démarrer.
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Following: The government doesn't want to regulate AI
The leaders of AI labs agree that the United States to act, and soon. But the president and the speaker of the House aren't interested -
👁️ I really do not like the new Safari icon.
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Reeder Classic still good? (Podcasts)
I’m starting to get back into RSS readers to keep in touch with everything with algorithmic feeds on social media. I started with NetNewsWire, which I love, but I do listen to a few podcasts. I read that the newer Reeder app has a great in-app player for videos and podcasts, but it’s a subscription model. Not a big deal, but I’d like to stick with a one-time-purchases.
How does Reeder Classic (aka preciously Reeder 5?) hold up in comparison? I like to keep all blogs, news pages, podcasts, some occasional videos that get released in one place. I think I’m ok with a subscription, but I’d rather not. Also, im in the Apple/iCloud ecosystem
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Appeals Court Sees Nothing Wrong With Terrorizing A 14-Year-Old To Obtain A Confession
It’s easy to get submerged by the wave of bad news generated by the current administration on what often seems to be an hourly basis. Ask me how I know. My time is pretty much split between whatever ICE is doing and whatever Flock is doing, which results a whole lot of bad law enforcement […] -
I'll follow your linkblog Mastodon account from my linkblog Mastodon account if you agree to follow mine from yours.
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👁️ 'Flapping Shoe' - great new name for POTUS 47 - so symbolic, and an honest representation of this once great nation.
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Started reading Alchemised by SenLinYu and was surprised that it felt pretty dark, because for some reason I thought it was YA. Nope, just regular adult fantasy. I tend to read books that sound interesting while ignoring most of the back-cover blurb. 📚
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Day one at Pantheon: good docs, good company
Today is my first day as a Technical Writer at Pantheon.
On August 17, I published a list of the roles I wanted next. Technical writing and documentation were right there. I wanted work that helps people understand software, solve problems, and get back to building.
Four weeks later, here we are. Apparently, sometimes the next chapter comes with a README.
Good docs, good company
Pantheon helps teams build and run WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js sites. I’m joining its developer relations team, where documentation and developer advocacy work together.
That last sentence is doing a lot of happy work for me.
Chris Reynolds shared a lovely story on DevRelShow episode 31. Before joining Pantheon, he discovered developer relations as a job through the team’s work.
I love that. Good developer relations can help someone figure out their next step with a tool—or, apparently, their career. Now I get to join that team too. A pleasing plot twist, with excellent documentation potential.
Pantheon values documentation, developer education, and relationships with the people using its platform. That’s a big part of why this role appeals to me. Here, I get to give that work my attention alongside people who care about it, too.
My new colleagues bring different expertise, notice different things, and help improve the work. For example, an advocate might hear a question at an event. A teammate can reproduce the problem. Together, we can turn that experience into a clearer path for the next developer.
One question is particularly close to my heart: “What happens if someone follows these instructions exactly?” Finding the answer is a fine team activity. Occasionally, it needs snacks.
The work I love
My path here runs through classrooms, curriculum, WordPress, open source, and developer relations. Across all those roles, I’ve helped people turn an idea into something they can do. That “Oh! I did it!” moment never gets old.
Sometimes that takes a workshop. Other times, a better example or a screenshot makes the difference. Even one sentence, placed where someone gets stuck, can give that person their afternoon back. That’s a pretty good use of words.
In 2021, I joined GoDaddy Pro as a Web Designer and Developer Advocate. I’m grateful for the colleagues and community members who helped me grow along the way. Those years sharpened my interest in how education, product feedback, and developer relationships support each other.
At Pantheon, I’m looking forward to putting that experience to work with the team. By sharing what we’re hearing and testing ideas together, we can improve things for developers. Shared curiosity, thoughtful feedback, and time to do useful work well: sign me up.
The documentation lives at docs.pantheon.io, with its source on GitHub. My approach starts with trying the thing and checking the result. From there, I write down what helps the next person. Then comes listening when they tell us what we missed.
A fresh notebook and plenty to learn
Ryan Miller and Courtney Robertson attended Evolve Digital’s meetup
WordPress, PHP, and React are familiar territory. Next.js offers plenty to learn. So does Pantheon’s platform, from its development workflows to Terminus, its command-line tool.
Being new gives me a useful window into what a new user notices. While those unfamiliar bits are still fresh, I’ll ask questions, try things, and take notes. After all, “Wait, how did you know to do that?” is research. I intend to get some mileage out of it.
This week, I’m headed to Chicago for in-person onboarding and time with my new teammates. I met one of my coworkers just 2 weeks ago at the EvolveDigital meetup. My notebook is ready. Its future organizational system remains an ambitious proposal.
And my WordPress people?
You may be wondering what this means for WordPress contributions and in-person events. Will there be more of either?
The honest answer is that I don’t know yet. As I settle in, I’m looking forward to exploring what’s possible with the team. Contribution time and event travel are still taking shape. Once there are concrete plans, I’ll be happy to share them.
WordPress is still my community, and you are still my people. I’d love more opportunities to build useful things together and catch up in person. For now, thank you for caring enough to ask—and for cheering me into this next chapter.
If you use Pantheon, tell me about a doc that helped something click. Questions you’d like the docs to answer are welcome, too. My new notebook is full of curiosity, and now I have a team to share it with.
I work at Pantheon. Opinions on this site are mine.
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From a curator at the Getty, ratings of every...
From a curator at the Getty, ratings of every “framed picture” emoji. “A total rejection of nature and reality. Why is the horizon rounded? Has this artist seen planet earth before?”
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Elon Musk’s SLAPP Threat Over ‘Space Lasers’ Doc Sort Of Admits The ‘Space Lasers’ Part
By now, calling Elon Musk a “free speech absolutist” is a joke. We have so many stories of him suppressing speech, or threatening, or suing people for their speech. At this point, anyone who still claims that Musk supports free speech is either (1) lying, (2) stupid, or (3) employed by him. So, it’s little […] -
For the last week in Codex, I've been using a single pinned thread for each app instead of deciding when to start new threads. Basically just let Codex compact its context whenever it needs to. Seems to work well.
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The 2026 winners of the Ig Nobel Prize include papers...
The 2026 winners of the Ig Nobel Prize include papers on “a more precise definition of kissing”, “An Aerodynamic Study of the Nose Blowing”, and the discovery “that milk proteins from cockroaches pack 3X as much energy as milk proteins from cows”.
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Rocky Sleep, You Watch, Question?
Project Hail Mary is already on my list of movies that I can just throw on in the backround while I do a bit of work or puttering around. (Not sure whether that’s an endorsement or not…I like the movie!) Anyhoo, if you get tired of the movie, you can watch Rocky sleep for 2+ hours with the PHM soundtrack playing in the background.
Tags: movies · music · Project Hail Mary · video
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Reflecting Pool Contractors: Alleged ‘Vandalism’ Was Just Our Own Botched Repair Job
The truth continues to come out, and not via Truth Social. Everything former Olympian David Hearn might need to pursue a malicious prosecution lawsuit against the Trump DOJ has been leaking more steadily than the botched Lincoln Reflecting Pool repair job itself. This time, it’s the contractor admitting its repair job didn’t go as planned, […] -
Daily Deal: The Complete Photoshop Master Class Bundle
It’s no secret that Photoshop can be a bit dense when you’re first getting your feet wet with it. That’s why it pays to have a expert instructors show you the ropes. Led by a Photoshop pro, the Complete Photoshop Master Class Bundle will help you master Photoshop CC and become an expert—no prior experience […] -
I think those that have some education and did not voted for Trump know it very...
I think those that have some education and did not voted for Trump know it very well…?
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I meant it in the sense “not doing enough” to resist while people from outside a...
I meant it in the sense “not doing enough” to resist while people from outside are ?
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Now open for business in Nyack, NY: Busman’s Holiday , a...
Now open for business in Nyack, NY: Busman’s Holiday, a stationary store run by (former?) graphic designer Sam Potts, who announced the shop back in March in a KDO open thread. Lots of nice touches here, including a used pencil exchanger.
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New York Seizes 12 Celebrity Deepfake Websites
New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a press conference on Monday that the sites included 1,200 people’s likenesses in “hyper-realistic” sexual imagery. -
Federico Viticci's iOS 27 review is out, with a very good chapter on Siri AI. That is the perspective I've been most interested in reading about.
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Ok wait, the NES Tetris world record is now 40.26...
Ok wait, the NES Tetris world record is now 40.26 million??! It took 2 hours and 20 minutes and the previous record was 29 million. At level 255, you hit “rebirth” and the pieces slow down to level 0 speeds again. Totally bonkers.
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This quote from Craig Federighi fits the discussion Daniel Jalkut and I had on last week's Core Int about the Duo replacing the need for both iPhone and iPad. Just makes sense unless you need a big iPad or shared iPad for the whole family.
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Trump Told Supporters To “Cheat Like Hell.” The NY Times Went With “A Bit Tired Of Politics.”
By now it’s old hat to point out that the mainstream media bends over backwards to pretend that Donald Trump is a “normal” president. The number of times you could point to the coverage and question how the media would cover things if a Democratic president did anything even remotely similar is impossible to keep […] -
Just discovered this IndieWeb starter pack on Bluesky and followed a few more people from it. It includes some accounts bridged to Mastodon too, so you can follow everyone in one place on Bluesky or Micro.blog.
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Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
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A Deep Dive Into the Full Bayeux Tapestry Story
From Deep Down History, an entertaining hour-long explainer video on the Bayeux Tapestry.
This video tells the Tapestry’s story in full, using Charles Stothard’s early colour reproduction, presented here as a seamless scroll for the first time. We follow Harold Godwinson’s fateful journey from Edward the Confessor’s court to Normandy, his later seizure of the Crown, and William the Conqueror’s invasion. Beyond its political messaging, the Tapestry is also bursting with medieval history, including jokes, fascinating technical details, and a warning for those who break their promises…
Completed within a decade or two of the events which it depicts, the tapestry is back in the news & public consciousness because it’s back in England for the first time since it was made and on display at the British Museum.
Tags: Bayeux Tapestry · video
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I'm not sure I agree with all the implications in the closing of today's Stratechery update, but like all good essays it is forcing me to really think about my own view:
... it’s worth noting that the very idea of a national or — worse! — global regulatory regime on intelligence is so deeply off-putting that I’d rather roll the dice and bet on humans figuring it out. Surviving isn’t everything; living freely counts for an awful lot as well.
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Fighting for the Future of Libraries (With Jennie Rose Halperin)
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I did built a RSS Reader for the Kindle browser
I built a way to actually read news on the Kindle browser
The Kindle's browser technically works, but every news site is a zoom-and-scroll nightmare. So I built Extrablatt: you open one URL in the Kindle browser, follow sites via RSS, and articles render as clean, page-at-a-time text instead of an infinite scroll. You can also send any article to your library as an EPUB.
Try it out: extrablatt.app
It's open source and self-hosting is free: github.com/Philipp0205/extrablatt
On the hosted version, browser reading is free. Send-to-Kindle is included for the first week, then there is an optional subscription. Email delivery and hosting aren't free and I'd rather charge than run ads.
Happy to answer anything :)
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Congrats to Lex Friedman on the release of a new version of Strategery, taking over development after the game was going to stop working. So cool to give an old app new life.
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John Gruber blogged about XCancel shutting down yet again, adding this in a parenthetical:
...let’s admit it at this point, there’s not just a lot posted on X, it’s resurgent in popularity
It's true. Just telling folks what we're against has not been enough to rebalance the web to open platforms.
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I’ve linked to Summoning Salt’s videos before (they make...
I’ve linked to Summoning Salt’s videos before (they make some of the best video game explainer videos out there — hell, some of the best YT videos period) and here’s their newest one: The Tournament That Changed Tetris Forever.
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Birthday Lunch
Ate
fish & chips
Birthday lunch
Birthday lunch
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American Obituary
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My Brilliant Career
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media. -
In 1992, Canada declared a moratorium on Northern cod...
In 1992, Canada declared a moratorium on Northern cod fishing due to overfishing. It was devastating for Newfoundlanders. This year, for the first time since then, the govt has “upgraded the cod stock’s status from ‘critical’ to ‘healthy’”.
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The next milestone will be installing Atlantis on my new macbook, and hooking a monitor up to it, a really nice one, and move my work to that desk. then Berkeley, the name of the system I've been using for eight years, will be here as a backup and source of truth and prior art. That was the goal of the Atlantis project. I could probably do the switch right now. It's like moving out of an old house that you did good stuff in, into a replica, but built out of the latest bits. Honestly I never thought in a million years I'd get here. -
Two-Hour Mix of the Jazz in Haruki Murakami Novels
From NTS, this is a two-hour mix of jazz music featured in the books of Haruki Murakami.
‘Somewhere along the line Coltrane’s soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it’s McCoy Tyner’s piano solo I hear, the left hand carving out a repetitious rhythm and the right layering on thick, forbidding chords. Like some mythic scene, the music portrays somebody’s — a nameless, faceless somebody’s — dim past, all the details laid out as clearly as entrails being dragged out of the darkness. Or at least that’s how it sounds to me. The patient, repeating music ever so slowly breaks apart the real, rearranging the pieces. It has a hypnotic, menacing smell, just like the forest’ —Kafka On The Shore
The playlist features tracks by Ornette Coleman, Coltrane, Dizzy, the Bill Evans Trio, Monk, Mingus, and Miles Davis. Some of the video’s comments:
I had just prepared a light meal and hit play on this playlist when the telephone began to ring.
about to make my morning matcha, a spring breeze is flowing through the open windows, the air smells of optimism
Early morning, sun shining to balcony, having espresso and writing.
Studying the day before the exam with a bittersweet optimism while playing this and holding on to my hopes
Canned cold beer, windows open on a warm summer night, just after finishing a simple dinner of rice and salmon and sitting next to my cat
See also Classical Music from Murakami Novels. Both of these are going straight into my Underscore collection.
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We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys ....
We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys. Today’s tech titans took all the wrong lessons from the science fiction of their youths and now they’re each building their version of the Torment Nexus.
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Streaming TV Prices Rising Faster Than Cable Ever Did
Now that streaming subscriber growth has slowed, we’ve noted repeatedly how the streaming TV sector is falling into all of the bad habits that ultimately doomed traditional cable TV. That has involved chasing pointless “growth for growth’s sake” megamergers, imposing bottomless price hikes and new annoying restrictions on customers, undermining labor, and cutting corners on product quality in a […]
