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• Massive Qi chargers for cars! https://electrek.co/2026/09/18/its-finally-here-porsche-puts-wireless-ev-charging-into-production-video/ I can see the utility of using this for slow charging. But is it really that much of a faff to plug in a cable? I wonder how perfectly aligned the car needs to be. Still, interesting to see whether this gets picked up or standardised.

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• Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

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• There are moments where I wonder if I’ll run out of jokes. And then I see posts like this.
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• BlueskyNew novel from Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven): Exit Party. “Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted.”

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• The iPhone 18 Pro is a transcription monster

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• I wonder if at this point there couldn't be a very of MCP that is literally codemode + openapi + RAG for openapi docs instead. The reference Radius skill is just OpenAPI and it works so well.

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• armin is on austrian tv. dying.

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• I will never stop feeling extremely smug when I look around at a landscape and think “huh, I wonder why it’s like this?” and later find out that there’s a very interesting historical reason it’s like this and actually it underlies the entire history of the region.

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• “Every night I close my eyes And there is something that I visualize I hear a voice, say, ‘I love you’ I picture all things that we're gonna do And I wonder who he'll be Wonder if he'll be good to me Wonder, gosh oh gee Wonder if he'll love me forever”

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• x.comWhen an “honest mistake” by an insurance company is so commonplace it can be fixed with a checkbox, yet fixing it requires a paid consultant, you have to wonder whether insurance companies exist to deliver healthcare at all.

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• MastodonWhen an “honest mistake” by an insurance company is so commonplace it can be fixed with a checkbox, yet fixing it requires a paid consultant, you have to wonder whether insurance companies exist to deliver healthcare at all.

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• If you ever wonder where I get ideas for my videos that get 500k+ views it's from idiots like this:

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• Boooo. I did try and get it back once. I wonder if we could still make that work. chriscoyier.net/2024/02/28/w... I’m down to find a win-win situation, DO. Call me. 🤙
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• You can run git on object storage if you re-make packfiles

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• I'm fascinated by the laurel forests of La Gomera, one the Canary Islands. They're full of different species of trees with shiny, waxy leaves. Mosses and lichens grow on the branches, and the ground is covered with a green mantle of dripping ferns and liverworts thriving in the permanent damp. The place has a mysterious, prehistoric air. The lower altitudes of this island are deserts, but the upper parts catch fog, known locally as "horizontal rain" (lluvia horizontal). Near-constant northeasterly trade winds carry moist Atlantic air that condenses into a persistent low cloud layer. This "sea…

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• I wonder if the call for AI to slow down happened because they asked it and claude was like you're right to push back

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• I wonder if houses are like the backrooms to bugs

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• What Are We Doing to Our World of Wonder? https://t.co/9S23FZsYD5 via @NYTOpinion

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• It's going to be an interesting screen adaptation. I wonder who wil play the main character.

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• I get a lot of questions about "marketing," and people usually ask a granular technical question, but I think they usually miss the forest for the trees. Perhaps "What exactly is 'marketing'?" is the question I don't get asked. My answer: "Marketing" is knowing exactly who your reader or customer is, and making a product exactly for them. Kevin Kelly's "1,000 True Fans" is a great read that helps this type of thinking. People should spend 80% of their time on product, and the so-called "marketing" largely takes care of itself later.

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• "Good Timber", a poem I keep going back to: the trees that fight for light in rough weather become the strong timber; the ones with easy sun and rain stay scrubby. People and teams seem to go the same way. Comfort is nice. It just doesn't build much.

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• Huh, I was at Apple.com and glanced at the Mac Studio page - https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/ - I notice they're explicitly pitching it for LLM on the desktop. I wonder how realistic that is… Hmm, let’s ask @simon, he’s closer to this stuff than most of us. I’m pretty convinced that irrespective of all the issues, the economics of #genAI just don’t work with the current compute infrastructure requirements. Open models and what’s left of Moore’s law could be a really big deal. #apple

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• "Multiple people now literally have the wealth of nations, or at least that of large government agencies. No wonder public policy is in shambles."

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• One startling thing nobody ever expected an agent to do was to take notes about what it was doing for future agents to read. And, again: look at these tree-traversing programs, traversing trees!
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• Look at these tree-traversing programs traversing trees!
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• Non-ironically this sort of factor is an underappreciated vector for policing reform, because cross-departmental onmbudsmen willing to intervene against a sworn officer without someone dying are very rare in the U.S. legal/political system.
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• My favorite CarPlay feature is when it's reading a text message to me and I go to tap the "Done" button and it suddenly turns into a "Call” button underneath my finger and I have to wait for all of the animations to finish before I can actually end the call and then I wonder (a) did the person notice that I called them for a few seconds and (b) do I need to explain that now and (c) are they going to call me back now and (d) HOW DID THIS INTERFACE EVER SHIP oh my god

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• We are very close to 7% mortgage rates yet again We've now had mortgage rates >6% since late-2022 And still no housing market crash I do wonder if housing is the shock absorber for the economy if/when AI causes an economic slowdown (and rates fall)

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• 52% Across the 6 Founders Weekends this summer, 52% of the students attending, 253/484, made their first dollar within 48 hours. I wonder what percent of adult entrepreneurs make their first dollar that fast? Or ever?

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• Whenever you are told “Trust the experts” you are better off doing the opposite. Remember when Covid “Trust the experts” led to a civilizational hoax that broke our economy and retarded our children? The AI “Trust the experts” version will make that pale in comparison. I’d encourage all of you to approach this with wonder but also a healthy dose of skepticism.

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• I think I’ve realized that GUIs, even though they have much better primitives for displaying all sorts of information and interacting with it, are also very restrictive. There’s usually only one way of doing things in a UI. You either love it or hate it. Which brings me to terminals and multiplexers. When you think about it, a terminal is basically a small GUI builder, letting you create your own environment from small, well-crafted tools that each do one thing well. So it’s no wonder people keep coming back to terminals.
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• Spent a good part of the day repairing my electric lawnmower. It would be easy to find someone to do small engine repair on a gas one, and it would be easy to throw out a ~8 year old mower and get a better replacement that uses the same large batteries as my chainsaw. This does make me wonder how environmentally friendly this kind of electric tool really is. Anyway, it seems to be either a hall effect sensor problem or an off balance blade that's causing the hall effect sensor to think the mower is overloaded or has hit something. Runs fine without the blade it turns out. So I'll try replacin…

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• There are entire articles written around the problem of why the prevalence of type 1 diabetes has risen - nutrition? toxins? - that don't even consider whether it might be because fewer patients are dying young & continue to be in the numerator. This should be step 1

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• How was this show not on adult swim I'm dying lol
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• New Universes Can Form Inside Dying Stars, Physicists Show

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• I wonder if Amazon has ever considered launching a simple storage service.

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• “Living and Dying with Peter Singer,” Psychology Today, 1999. #PeterSinger #Ethics #Philosophy #Empathy #Indifference

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• Looks like Bangalore's Metro website is built on @nextjs and running in Dev Mode. Sourcemap is exposed and I can see the dev loader at the bottom. I wonder which agency is doing this, the city is flooded with talent yet the government gave the project to someone who messed up.

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• kjvstudy.org — A modern KJV Bible study platform with interlinear Hebrew/Greek, Strong's Concordance, AI commentary, family trees, topical studies, and full-text search. Built with FastAPI and Tufte…

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• The Washington Monument on the Potomac River, Kawase Hasui, 1935 - depicting the cherry trees that were a gift from the Japanese government and planted in 1912.

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• Nowadays, I often see people say they have access to unlimited tokens. Usually for work, although in response to https://t.co/BuzKs79xk5, someone from Microsoft said they have unlimited tokens for personal projects. I wonder what this means in practice. Surely there's a limit?
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• "The game of technology is defined and controlled by the United States of America. Local governments can impose rules that moderate the impact, but genuine limitations on technology are impossible. Or, they used to be." https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old-world-of-tech-is-dying/ Via @pluralistic

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• Over the last 3 months I lost 300 followers (about 10%). I wonder if these were bots. I feel like within the last year Twitter engagement has gone from quite good to almost nothing. It sometimes feels like I'm shadow banned. Has anyone noticed the same?

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• https://t.co/JQTg7cNIIe happening right now! I'll be on at 2:45 PM ET with @starkness and @AlexLi98 to talk about The Forest and the Trees: Bitcoin's Future in the Era of Quantum and AI

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JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.

• jeresign instead of jeresig in Claude Code (w/ Opus) - I wonder how often this happens and how many tokens I end up burning due to this? 🫠 Pretty funny 😆

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• Learning how many kids were dying from diarrhea back in 1997—when I never worried about it with my own kids—led me to get involved in global health.

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• Thanks to vaccines, fewer children are dying from preventable diseases around the world. Cutting funding for them would reverse that progress and put millions of children in danger.

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