There's something about the week after Thanksgiving... as a colleague said to me in a meeting on Monday: it gets kind of sad when you're at the "microwaving…
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…
Warehouses: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Opinion | 5-Hour Workdays? 4-Day Workweeks? Yes, Please (Published 2019)
Sick of round-the-clock work emails and Slack messages? Here’s some hope.
Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Serving the For You Feed - AT Protocol
How the maintainer of the popular For You feed serves it from their living room!
Grok Becomes ‘MechaHitler,’ Twitter Becomes X: How Centralized Tech Is Prone To Fascist Manipulation
This week, Elon Musk’s Grok AI started spewing extreme antisemitism, responding with conspiracy theories about Jewish people, and for a brief period telling people to call it “MechaHitl…
NSFW Days of the Week (/c/NSFWDOTW) - OddsRabbit
Celebrating the naughty, everyday of the week!
Taste Is All That's Left | Blog
On what is left to do once the machine can make anything, and why taste is the last craft worth keeping.
Nobody Knows, by Rebecca Solnit
After a few weeks of these unwelcome surprises, I made sure that the next time the cook came for me, I was holding a tray of clean glasses. He grabbed me; I yelped and let go of the tray. The shattering glass made a cacophony. The owner, another middle-aged man, rushed over and chewed out the cook — the glasses were audible and valuable in a way I was not.
Could a shorter workweek be in your future? - Inside Atlassian
Conversations about a shorter workweek are happening in some surprising places. Here's what's happening, country by country.
BIG MEAT MAIL 💌🍋 | Substack
Back from its crispy demise in '98, BIG MEAT STUDIO '97 is back baby! BIG MEAT MAIL is run by one sad little clown who'll give you the rundown of art and gabs, that's ME! come check back each month for some treats! see ya! :-). Click to read BIG MEAT MAIL 💌🍋, by 🍋 BIG MEAT MAIL 🍋, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
For the "release on a Friday because we're invincible geniuses" crowd — we have a So Big(!) new PDS, piping hot out of the oven. We've got UI customization, OTel monitoring, session reporting fixes, bigger blobs... our whole summer roadmap! Enjoy. atproto.com/blog/pds-customization-and-me…
Make the PDS Your Own: Customization and Metrics
atproto.comToday we’re releasing the first version of kich.io 🎉 It’s a household app for pantry tracking, recipe management, and grocery planning. The focus is practical: less waste, less planning overhead, and knowing what you can cook at a glance.
some thoughts about the shenanigans this weekend I thought maybe we should all read.
I got banned from Bluesky last weekend, let's all have a talk about it
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