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There’s A New Space Telescope On Its Way To Help Answer The Biggest Question In The Universe

2026-09-02T14:33:16Z

Barry Petchesky, Defector: “This time next year, we might be viewing some other star’s Pale Blue Dot.”

Is Anthropic Making Money? How Much Money?

2026-08-18T16:44:13Z

Brad DeLong: “And, I was confident, selling your soul to SEO and charging for the eyeballs your second-rate search results trapped into repeated casts of the yarrow sticks would ultimately be self-defeating. … And, I was confident, selling your soul to clickbait-rage and charging for the eyeballs your outrage-bait feeds had trapped into doomscrolling would ultimately be self-defeating. Guess what? Selling your soul to SEO was not self-defeating. Neither was becoming the master necromancer of rage-bait doomscrolling. Am I missing something similar here and now?”

Collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation would lead to substantial oceanic carbon release and additional global warming

2026-08-17T16:26:07Z

D. Nian, M. Willeit, N. Wunderling, A. Ganopolski & J. Rockström: “Arctic temperatures cool by ~ 7 °C (60 °N–90 °N), while Antarctic temperatures warm by ~ 6 °C (60 °S–90 °S).”

Astronomers discover a new kind of cosmic object – a black hole ‘star’

2026-08-14T13:38:05Z

Ian Sample, The Guardian: “They may be the nascent, swaddled phase that marks the beginning of almost every supermassive black hole’s journey’”

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

2026-08-14T13:31:53Z

Florian Herrengt: “You can’t afford bad engineers anymore.”

rent, always rent

2026-08-13T12:01:58Z

Dan Davies: “Which means that, in general, when you look at the recorded profit margins of a retailer in the accounts, what you are learning about is how good a job the real estate investment bankers did.”

The 90 day disclosure policy is dead

2026-08-04T09:02:05Z

Himanshu Anand: “Your monthly maintenance window is not a safety margin. It is an attack window.”

See also: the time it takes to fix, qualify, build, distribute, and receive an OS update.

"The Odyssey" is Actually a Rap Album

2026-08-02T13:43:10Z

Taylor Jones, Ph.D.:

The Ads on Apple News Continue to Suck, but at Least There Are a Lot of Them

2026-07-28T11:05:09Z

John Gruber: “When streaming services like Netflix let you pay more money for ad-free tiers, it’s an explicit acknowledgement that the experience with ads is worse. Apple doesn’t offer ad-free tiers for the App Store or (soon) Apple Maps because, I think, they can’t bring themselves to admit that by adding ads to these services they have made them worse.”

The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction

2026-07-28T08:07:07Z

Kyla Scanlon: “We’ve stopped expecting the real world to work. We assume it will be slow, broken, or possibly on fire. That’s just the baseline.”