The Blight

One of the strangest parts of getting older is all the things that people fervently insisit “could never happen” or “did not happen” that used to occur frequently and were just a normal part of life.

I think Gen Z is worse about this even than past generations because we’ve screwed them up so badly, enervated their very souls with social media and smartphone poisoning. They cannot help it because their brains have been blighted. But it’s still annoying.

After the AI boom: what might we be left with?

The web is dying, and Google Reader proved to be the canary in the coal mine.

Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend. I thought the future would be cooler.

People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads. Only a clown would buy something like that anyway tbh.

Can anything knock China off its mountain?

Major H-1B Visa Sponsor Will Not Hire a Single H-1B Applicant Going Forward. Good.

The French 75 Gun: The Secret Cannon Used for Over Half a Century.