Year: 2026

Everybody’s Weirded Out by AI—Except the People Who Foist It on Us

Everybody’s Weirded Out by AI—Except the People Who Foist It on Us

💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: They foresee an Idiocracy-like future where technology is treated like magic. Society survives entirely through extreme automation, but the everyday population has completely lost the understanding of how or why anything works, relying purely on habit—i.e., AI generates mountains of code, but no one is left who can understand it.There is a rare consensus between Democratic and Republican voters that they dislike data centers using up their water, creating heat domes and noise pollution in their neighborhoods, raising electricity rates, and making it more expensive…
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The best modern crime and thriller films – Review Report | books

The best modern crime and thriller films – Review Report | books

💥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Crime fiction,Thrillers,Fiction,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The Runner by Scarlett Thomas (Scribner, £16.99)Part thriller, part romantic suspense, Thomas's latest novel begins in Cyprus, where 34-year-old Guy is on the run from someone who wants to kill him. Jay (not his real name) is used to evading killers: his assassination attempts began at university, when a Japanese man arrived at his apartment carrying a samurai sword. People have tried to kill him ever since, and the contract for his life has been traded as a commodity in Bitcoin.…
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Flock CEO Apologizes For Calling Activists ‘Terrorists’

Flock CEO Apologizes For Calling Activists ‘Terrorists’

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is contrite over failures of communication, telling Forbes, "I'd love to be perfect, but I'm still human."Jamel Toppin for ForbesFor the last two years, Will Freeman has been advocating against Flock Safety, an $8.3 billion surveillance company that tracks vehicles with a network of over 80,000 cameras. His organization, DeFlock, crowdsourced a map that shows where the company’s cameras are located, and helps local grassroots movements organize against Flock deployments. In an interview with Forbes last year, Flock CEO Garrett…
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Shaughraun Review – Comedic antics and sinister magic in a divided Ireland | stage

Shaughraun Review – Comedic antics and sinister magic in a divided Ireland | stage

🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Festivals,Ireland 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: DIon Boucicault's comic melodrama from 1874 holds a place in the history of theater for its playful upending of national stereotypes and expectations. Finding a delicious balance between whimsy and sincerity, Garry Hynes's innovative production for Druid Theater Company celebrates Boucicault's gifts as a playwright and master of the theatrical spectacle, whose creativity dazzled 19th-century audiences in New York and London.This show takes the style of miniature, with Sligo landscapes, clifftops and Gothic spiers depicted as picture book illustrations that can be…
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Why the People Who Could Fix It Are the First to Leave

Why the People Who Could Fix It Are the First to Leave

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: By month 12, Northstar has a VP of Engineering named in this installment only by her role, because what happens to her happens to a role more than a person. She came up through the company, she is good, and she has watched the last three stages from close enough to name them without the vocabulary. She sees the escalation latency that became a designed path. She sees the enterprise pod producing customizations as a default. She sees that her best people have started routing…
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Amadigi di Gaula review – inflatables and appoggiaaturas as Handel takes a trip to Love Island | Opera

Amadigi di Gaula review – inflatables and appoggiaaturas as Handel takes a trip to Love Island | Opera

🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music,George Frideric Handel ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IDay 7 at Melissa Island. Melissa vaccinates Hottie Amadiji but he keeps stealing her. Oriana the bird turns Amadiji's head, but Dardano the serpent tries to go after her too and she becomes nauseous. It gives toxic energy to the relationship.The absurdity of Handel's magical operas can be a headache for directors. But not for Olivia Fox, whose Amadigi for Buxton festival takes the delicate four-handed character of the composer and replaces magic with TV illusions, witches for powerful…
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Learning a few things about running SQLite

💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally fine, but what I did not fully appreciate is that SQLite is still a database, databases are complicated, and I do not know a lot about…
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“I dreamed of a show where the audience would get horny”: a Swedish doll play starring funny Barbie dolls | Dolls

“I dreamed of a show where the audience would get horny”: a Swedish doll play starring funny Barbie dolls | Dolls

🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Puppetry,Jackie Collins,Theatre,Stage,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: eRick Holmstrom holds a naked, headless Ken doll. Most of the figure is as you would expect: lean muscles, smooth skin. But underneath, something is different. Between those hairless thighs is a small plastic rod nestled in a tuft of hair. “It's real poetry,” says Holmstrom, director of Malmö Dockteater (which means "puppet theatre" in Swedish). Artist and puppeteer Kajsa Eriksson steps in Pubic “Hair,” she explains.This doll isn't just a prop for the company's new show; He's one of…
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How design, data and AI shaped Google’s Noto 3D emoji

How design, data and AI shaped Google’s Noto 3D emoji

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The way we use emoji has changed. In the early days, we were literal: You sent a nail polish emoji (💅) because you were, in fact, getting your nails polished.Today we lean on emoji to break down the barrier of our screens and inject a shrug, a wink or that highly specific “it’s fine but it’s actually not fine” subtext. They’re the language within the language that keeps a blunt message from accidentally killing the vibe.On World Emoji Day, here's a closer look at…
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‘No stuffiness…just good books’: Matt Hague opens bookshop in Brighton | books

‘No stuffiness…just good books’: Matt Hague opens bookshop in Brighton | books

💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Booksellers,Retail industry,Shops and shopping 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Matt Haig, bestselling author of books including Midnight Library and Reasons to Stay Alive, is opening a bookshop in Brighton.The writer plans to open the store, called Golden, by Christmas. It is located in the Seven Dials neighborhood, a part of the coastal city that currently does not have a library.“My belief, as someone who grew up in a town without a library, is that all communities should have a library, because libraries save civilization and make life interesting,”…
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