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  Anyone want to read this for me and tell me what it says? "Scientists discover the brain cells that keep you motivated | ScienceDaily" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260804034622.htm

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  This gives me a Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers sense… "Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal" https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/10/linus-torvalds-says-ai-has-made-huge-linux-kernel-updates-the-new-normal/5285268

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  It's the 1-index, should have gone with 0… "MATLAB programming language sinking in popularity | InfoWorld" https://www.infoworld.com/article/4207496/matlab-programming-language-sinking-in-popularity.html

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  Countdown to hardware fire sales… 🫧🫧🫧 "Hyperscalers commit nearly $2 trillion to secure AI hardware and memory — Google leads $811 billion spending surge while Apple trails at $57 billion | Tom's Hardware" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/hyperscalers-commit-nearly-usd2-trillion-to-secure-ai-hardware-and-memory-google-leads-usd811-billion-spending-surge-while-apple-trails-at-usd57-billion

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  Mmmm, DEF CON attendees… "Delta investigating after someone set up fake Wi-Fi network mid-flight | TechCrunch" https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/delta-investigating-after-someone-set-up-fake-wi-fi-network-mid-flight/

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  "Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90 | Space | The Guardian" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/07/margaret-hamilton-moon-computer-software

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  Um, isn't software engineering an AI thing now? "Pentagon launches ‘War Force’ campaign in push for software engineers" https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/07/06/pentagon-launches-war-force-campaign-in-push-for-software-engineers/

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  Wait until the day GPAs suffer the bubble popping… "Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% - Ars Technica" https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/

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  Spotted on LinkedIn. So do we still need to show up anymore for anything?

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  I have seen mentions here and there of AI tools used to maybe establish comms with whales and dolphins (Day of The Dolphin but without George C Scott, perhaps), is anyone working on enabling them to vibe code? 🤔

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  unionized or unionized… I thought this article was about something else entirely. "Virtual Environments Are Changing the Way We Experience Architecture | ArchDaily" https://www.archdaily.com/1054064/virtual-environments-are-changing-the-way-we-experience-architecture

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  Why learn anything anymore? "I stopped using CAD software and let Claude design my 3D parts instead" https://www.makeuseof.com/stopped-using-cad-claude-design-3d-parts/

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  Ah yes, people who know what they’re doing are finally in charge… "The Trump administration is now dictating access to frontier AI models" https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/17/white-house-ai-access-anthropic-openai.html

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  Could I get funding to create a physical space for private and semi-private social networking workout algorithms, but with coffee and snacks? I'm going to need about $10M "Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads | TechCrunch" https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/yope-raises-12-3m-to-build-a-private-social-network-without-algorithms-or-ads/

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  Guess what's legal in Nye county? Shouldn't be data centers… https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/residents-question-developers-during-pahrump-town-hall-on-proposed-data-center/

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  This may explain JavaScript framework proliferation… "Three Millennia Ago, Humans May Have Spoken Thousands More Languages Than We Have Today, During a Linguistic 'Golden Age'" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-millennia-ago-humans-may-have-spoken-thousands-more-languages-than-we-have-today-during-a-linguistic-golden-age-180989197/

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  I think this already exists, doesn't it? Customers… https://www.fox7austin.com/news/new-device-could-help-spot-problems-power-grid.amp

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  So they're going to block everybody from Nevada after their attempts to block everybody from Nevada from using the platform failed. Is there some way we can wager on this? I assume fishduck is completely legit. https://fishduck.com/2026/07/kalshi-agrees-to-fully-exit-nevada-after-geoblocking-failures-exposed/

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  Mmmmeans of Production? #USSA https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-eyes-government-stakes-in-7-more-companies

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  We can accelerate the forgetting with AI! "NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s" https://spacedaily.com/nasa-still-maintains-some-of-the-voyager-spacecraft-code-in-a-1970s-era-programming-language-that-almost-nobody-on-earth-fully-understands-anymore-and-the-handful-of-engineers-who-do-are-now-in-their/

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  Not In My Backyard, but how about in the side yard, next to my extra catalytic converters? https://www.techradar.com/pro/this-us-start-up-wants-to-pay-you-to-host-a-data-center-on-the-side-of-your-home-and-says-it-wont-disturb-you-at-all

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  Hmm, will the PostgreSQL logo be an elephant from the other end, responding in kind to Gemini Slop PRs? "Google tells database devs to lean hard on AI for PostgreSQL work" https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/05/18/google-tells-database-devs-to-lean-hard-on-ai-for-postgresql-work/5238070

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  Your good news for the day: There are about 2 billion people on the planet who still know what Friend, Like, and Follow mean, and they are the better for it. https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/27/1131780/stratospheric-internet-take-off/

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  It's too bad there isn't some markup that is like a superset of html where a schema could be defined and documents could be validated, with an existing pile of libraries and utilities that are focused on data structure over human readable documents. Bummer. "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML | Claude" https://claude.com/blog/using-claude-code-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-html

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  One of my colleagues back in the day was employee 104 at Apple, said Woz was the real deal. 💯 https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-apple-ai-graduation-speech-2026-5

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  I’ve been saying this the whole time https://engineering.grab.com/one-click-data-ingestion-platform-with-apache-flink

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  Give them time around you, marca https://www.aol.com/articles/marc-andreessen-says-ai-coding-085901000.html

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  The best time was a hundred years ago. Second best time is now… "There’s Never Been a Better Time to Study Computer Science - The Atlantic" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/computer-science-major-coding-ai/687279/

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  💩 "Amazon Introduces New Alexa+ Feature for Producing AI-Generated Podcast Episodes" https://people.com/amazon-new-feature-on-alexa-ai-generated-podcast-episodes-11978244

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  @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party Perhaps they will hold up better than have the medals… 🤞 "Olympic athletes' medals break during celebrations | AP News" https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-broken-medals-breezy-johnson-liu-bcda5ba297fe0b0da618e38f0f53d93a