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A little bit on Voyager's golden record. newsletter.foxinmotion.com/p/the-record...

The New Wizards of Code Have a Feeling They Can't Debug The new wizards of code are faster than ever. They also feel worse than ever. Someone finally named the feeling.

Chess has fans. Fans who care that a person is doing it. Software has users. Users want the thing to work. Nobody is rooting for the developer. newsletter.foxinmotion.com/p/the-new-wi...

Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Is Actually Here, and It’s Not Terrible

NYT OpEd asked me to explain vibe coding to a general audience, and I took a swing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Different models work better for different purposes, too. You might find different benchmarks map to your experiences better, so look past the defaults.

EQ-Bench is good for creative needs: eqbench.com

A good overview if you want to go deeper:

bsky.app/profile/emol...

The New Wizards of Code Have a Feeling They Can't Debug The new wizards of code are faster than ever. They also feel worse than ever. Someone finally named the feeling.

The new wizards of code are faster than ever. They also feel worse than ever. Someone finally named the feeling.

New Fox In Motion on this vibe coding/agentic coding stuff. newsletter.foxinmotion.com/p/the-new-wi...

my only notes to people under 30: your 30s aren't for ditching fandom, they're for re-evaluating all the "cringe" stuff you liked as a teenager through the lens of someone who can appreciate it fully, going, "that owned, actually," and becoming even more unhinged about it. please look forward to it.

I had a phase where I felt silly for enjoying science fiction and turned away from it. Now I treat references to 90s space operas like a language. Very Darmok.

We don't need irony. Just make it good YouTube video by Jessie Gender

New video! About cynicism, hope, and how we fight back against fascism - and more importantly, the power that seeks to push us to dehumanize others, and by doing so, ourselves. youtu.be/SXNanAMWgE8

Lura/Nahla have an evolution on the "don't do the thing"/"I'm going to do the thing" dynamic that made Spock and Kirk work so well. The shippers must be delighted. #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy

Beehiiv's little LLM agent website builder thing did the two things I asked of it in one shot. I'm not excited about depending on chatbots on the free plan, but at least they put the work in to make it usable.

MAGA Trekkies and Their Meritocracy Myth YouTube video by Steve Shives

I vaporized the subscribe button after watching this. youtu.be/aw7FrJmiQWk

#StarTrek

It's a good thing Krypto can't read or he would be very pupset at his intro.

I'm looking forward to finding out why the Betazoids we see are so different. ~1000 years since the last major canon entry (as far as I can recall), 100 out of the Federation. The things they had to do to survive post-Burn. #StarfleetAcademy #StarTrek

The main canon is all chosen one this, chosen one that. Andor beats some random dude who's just minding his own business down until he can't take it anymore. Both are valid ways to tell a story but it shows Star Wars has more range.

The last thing on Earth before Sol expands and consumes it will be a roach's email newsletter.

1966: Protestors clash with white supremacists over civil rights as a spacecraft prepares to launch to orbit the moon

2026: Protestors clash with white supremacists over civil rights as a spacecraft prepares to launch to orbit the moon

NASA's Artemis II moon rocket moves to the launch pad NASA’s giant new moon rocket headed to the launch pad Saturday in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more than half a century.

To the moon! apnews.com/video/nasas-...

PC speaker - Wikipedia

The PC speaker wiki might be of interest: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_spea...

It might have some details that help you figure out how to find what you're looking for.

I have taken a couple of artistic liberty raptor orders in the past, but they all had a fantasy element to them, this is my first time taking a crack at making an "actual critter" of a dinosaur, how did I do?

They built the terrifying geological scale transmutation circle to make the Philosopher's Stone from the television program and manga "Don't Make The Terrifying Geological Scale Transmutation Circle To Make The Philosopher's Stone"

Am I ... Good? YouTube video by vlogbrothers

I had the same realization as John when rereading some of my first fiction from the 2010s.

Was it great? No. Was it bad? Also no.

youtu.be/JFN7LK35roE

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

Throw Stick. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, second half (ca. 1400–1295 BCE). Hippopotamus ivory (tinted). From the MET collection.

On the topic of Ancient Egyptian games, please look at this adorable ivory throw stick, carved on one side like the head of a fennec fox!
Throw sticks were the Egyptian version of dice, used in games like Senet. Five were thrown, and depending on which side they landed on, a number was obtained.

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Waking up as a meme-hero | Andras Arato | TEDxKyiv YouTube video by TEDx Talks

He did a TEDx talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=FScf...

Always increase the thing