#166

20 February 2026

As a hard leftist and gadget lover, the idea that my political ideology is synonymous with hating technology is confusing. Every leftist I know has a hard-on for high speed rail or mRNA vaccines. But the “left is missing out” blog positions generative AI as the only technology that matters.

Gita doesn’t miss, as per!

A novel approach to RSS that’s a little calmer. We can see this being useful for people who find the unread counts overwhelming.

Just a collection of nice images Luke Jones has found on the internet.

If you’re not terminally online like us, you’ve probably seen lots of “morging” memes/references and had no idea what they’re about. This is why and would you look at that, it’s yet another slop problem.

So many nuggets of knowledge in this rather sweat-inducing write up.

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P.S. this is a good website from personalsit.es.

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