What a wild story.

The unceremonious end of Redbox is a reminder of how much stuff we make and buy, and how, when companies fail to plan for end-of-life or go out of business, they often leave a bunch of devices that suddenly become e-waste behind.

Lots of interesting reflections here.

It’s uncomfortable for me to think about how close my “digital traces” research is to surveillance and YOLO data mining.

This is an important take, and I appreciate that the article concludes with a reminder that indie is the answer as we move forward with the social web.

This is a question that everyone should ask—and then be infuriated by the answer.

I wasn’t sure about a retheming of Mille Bornes for this game, but this post on design decisions was actually really reassuring.

Lots of interesting stuff in here, including the difficulty of content moderation, and yet another way that generative AI is screwing everything up.

McSweeny’s strikes again.

Some strong arguments from Dash here.

The Kobayashi Maru scenario is one of the best things to come out of Star Trek, and this is one of the best takes on it I’ve read.

I’ve seen this argument floating out there, but this is the first time I looked at some of the numbers.

If there were such a thing as a good army fighting a good war, it would be the Allies in World War II. It’s wildly irresponsible to overlook the awful things done by that army in that war for the sake of holding both up as “good,” though.

It never occurred to me that you could use a Kindle in such a “de-Amazoned” way… and it also infuriates me that Amazon still interferes this much.

I agree with a lot of this post.

Interested by Ken’s take here, even if it doesn’t necessarily make me feel better about gestures at everything.

Also, this line cracked me up:

Pete Hegseth’s chief qualification to be Secretary of Defense is that Trump saw him on the teevee a lot and his tattoos are not, technically, Nazi symbols.

Excellent article that sums up a lot of my thinking on this show.

Nearly spit out my lunch while watching this!

I don’t agree with Ken on everything, but I always appreciate his perspective. I could quibble about some of his finer points here, but I think this is worth a read.

Well, this sucks.

I appreciate these thoughts from Doctorow. I understand the excitement around Bluesky, I’m happy to follow people there, and I will likely lean into it more as a POSSE vector. That said, I still don’t know that it’s what I want the future of social media to look like.

Andy is a good one.

I stopped using Strava over five years ago when the stories were about secret military bases being identified through the service were coming out.

Standing in one of these lines right now! Fingers crossed for the future. 🤞🏻😬🤞🏻

Some powerful stuff in here.

Rank hypocrisy. I don’t necessarily think Musk should have been deported way back when, but I think he should be called out on this.