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Looks like X is juicing web visit numbers by opening a browser WebView in the background whether the user visits the link or not. They've re-invented pop-under fraud (allegedly). news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580...

quick proof they’re doing this

Another example of vibe shift between Trump’s first presidency and now: In 2017, Teen Vogue stood out for outspoken, social-justice politics. In 2025, it laid off its entire politics team, including the last two Black women journalists on staff. NBC and CBS have made similar moves.

Really surprised the GOP’s message of Trump can do whatever he wants while tanking the economy and letting people starve didn’t win over voters. Shocking.

Elon Musk is mad at Sam Altman mostly because he stole Elon’s entire playbook.

The promise of AI chat assistants: they solve 90% of the problems users have (by looking up the docs and telling them) My reality: need to spend 10 minutes trying to get to a human, to solve an issue I need customer support to look into Around minute 8 I sign up to a competitor

The first time I saw a bunny: BUNNY! The 500th time I saw a bunny: BUNNY!

Respond with the same actor as hero and villain.

It’s extremely funny to me that the only scandal conservative media can dig up about Zohran Mamdani on the eve of the election is that he has a supportive wife who doesn’t seek media attention. How terrible. 😭

on behalf of those of us who can't vote here: thanks, nyc

Reading all of today’s election results like…

May the islamophobes who crawled out of the woodwork on both left and right cry hard tonight.

Actual UI that Apple has shipped in a production operating system. Apple calls this a "beautiful new software design that makes apps and system experiences more expressive and delightful"

Historians are going to look back at this year and marvel at the fact the president of the United States posted an AI video of himself dumping 💩 on Americans and it was just a random relatively uneventful day in Trump’s America.

Oh no, Zohran Mamdani won 😭

This is how I found out.

Me when GenZ start talking about the life advice they're getting from ChatGPT.

live footage of me and @esb.lol learning about javascript’s sparse array behaviour

Predictably, EV sales tanked in October after the $7,500 tax credit ended. Hyundai Ioniq 5 down 63%, Kia EV6 down 71%, Honda Prologue down 81%. We’ll see how others especially Tesla fared at the end of the quarter. Luckily for Tesla investors, Elon’s pivoted to robotaxis and humanoid bots. 🙃

Investors woke up and decided the AI bubble is real. Palantir beat expectations and guided up yet fell -8% while Nvidia slid -4% after Michael Burry revealed puts: $187M on NVDA and $912M on PLTR tanking. If he’s betting $1B+ on an AI bubble, the market figures he might be onto something.

I have struck again.

The wild experience of trying to log into Service A on a new device. You pick OAuth Provider B, but you’re not logged in there either, so they email you a link, so you open Email Client C, but to log into Email Client C you need a login code from 2FA App D… Authentication has become an Ouroboros 😂

91-year-old mamdani voter "I'm a lifelong liberal" people think the past was "a different time" but it really wasn't. a lot of people have always wanted society to be basically good and fair.

this is a *ton* of work. very impressed, and I think it will really pay off in the long run, in terms of having a codebase that folks can understand, operate, and hack on

Chipotle cut its growth projections for the 3rd quarter in a row, citing the fact that it bet big on appealing to younger customers and they’re now broke. The stock is down -22% following earnings.

Mental health: restored

if you have local elections today reply and tell me your plan to vote!! here’s a cookie for you (you can have it after you vote)

Coming tomorrow on @pragmaticengineer.com - with Chris Lattner!

there's nothing cuter than an animal executing a plan every time rocco goes upstairs to get a toy he left up there, and comes down the stairs with it dangling from his mouth, i die

imagine if we wake up tomorrow and chuck schumer and hakeem jeffries have died of shame wouldn’t that be a beautiful day

Moonrise just now from my patio

Zohran Mamdani - the first Indian American and the first Muslim mayor of New York City!! 🎉🎉

Star Trek replicators are the ultimate prompt driven device.

My only thought on reading this is wondering why SBF hasn’t been pardoned yet? Surely he can afford it or was all his wealth seized?

THEY ARE PLAYING SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO RIGHT NOW www.youtube.com/live/hI8hCQt...

For no reason, reminder that you can mute words

this better not awaken anything in me

"Hope is alive..We chose hope together. Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. " "We won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do." www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

a true hater will be much more effective than a conciliator

no one in the history of the world has been as sore and babyish as these people

good. republicans should be glad democrats are only seeking to gerrymander them out of existence, and not revenge

at the CUOMO WATCH PARTY, they learned that mamdani won TO THE SOOTHING TONES of the PIÑA COLADA SONG

Seeing more and more people using "AI" "art" for their blog posts and podcasts and it's so horrible. Why would you advertise and adorn your hard work with reeking robot shit?

when someone vibe codes ur design

IF you have a genuine candidate willing to do the work!

Respond with the same actor as hero and villain.

thomas: it was actually THREE minutes me: omg me: i wonder what the shortest time ever to call an election was my husband: 0 me: what the software developer i married: there are elections with one candidate me: …

Dating app fatigue continues. Match saw a -5% decline in paying subscribers across its family of dating apps including Tinder, OK Cupid and Plenty of Fish. Hinge saw a massive -17% decline in paying users. Are people finding new ways to connect without apps or are people just lonelier?

Bring it on! 36% reporting.

I think I’m getting my kid’s cold, but then I remembered it’s election night and got my butt off the sofa to drop off my 🇺🇸 ballot 🇺🇸 Now, back to the sofa I go

on the one hand, yeah it's kinda dystopic on the other hand, it's wonderful that there's such a simple treatment that helps so much, for a group with a lot of exposure!

some of y'all just failed an AI media literacy test involving the bear spray :(

the followship of "tech" is just so fuckin wild ooOOohhh they're doing a car? we'll do a car! oOOOoh they're doing AI? we'll do AI! ooOOoh they're doing robots? we'll do robots!

by a minimum of 4.4 points! i’m curious to hear how this is bad for democrats

One of the best ways to get blocked here is to suggest that you don't like being blocked, trust me I know

I'm really excited about this one 🚀

people CAN learn if the stove touches them enough

tag urself, I'm this guy

Oh you’re late to a meeting? I’m not mad, I’m too busy endorsing you for “time management” on LinkedIn.

I took my daughter out to get crepes today as she has the day off. Two crepes and a latte somehow came out to $50 😬 We need to cut down on our random outings in this economy

Any picture framers following me? I want to know what this metal frame profile is called exactly so I can find hangers for it. The channel on the back is 9/16" wide and the corner L brackets in the channel are 3/8" wide. If you don't know, instead of replying please feel free to repost for reach.

Smiski glows in the dark. The only light in the photo is his own phosporescence. He's about 3cm tall.

i thought dick cheney was already dead so no joy for me 🥲

IMAGINE maybe in the future we could use any UI design we wanted for our computers!!! Just kidding, Classic Mac OS had themes about THIRTY YEARS ago, and Kaleidoscope for Mac could do it almost 35 years ago. Theme here if you're interested: macthemes.garden/themes/88bb3...

Can I get some applause, instead of writing a long-winded reply to someone who was subtly wrong I just muted them and I'm moving on with my doomscrolling

This event kicks off in about 30 mins. Here is one of the slides from the deck we will walk through today as we attempt to find a solution to the cross config problem, which requires us to build configuration consensus across multiple tools.

🔥 Hot take: I wonder if the Web’s Separation of Concerns should be about the Web platform *supporting* authors in being able to separate concerns in whatever way works for them, rather than forcing a specific type of separation dreamed up in the late 90s. 🤔 (*ducks to avoid objects thrown* 😅)

If they don’t cripple it somehow, the “smallest screen on a Mac” is gonna blow out both my iPad Pro (which is twice the price) and my MacBook Pro. “A web browser and a terminal” is increasingly all I *really* need.

i saw a AI-booster take that was essentially "if you can't do AI you must be bad with people" and brother, incorrect.

this is about dishwasher pods but it applies to so many things which are so much shittier yet ✨shinier✨

Already voted in Virginia I'd love to vote for Mamdani too 😂

LOL 😂

There I fixed it

Alright, who's at @beyondtellerrand.com this week? It's gonna be a banger

better than christmas tbh

Basically the Liquid Glass experience is like if you have smears on your glasses and also a migraine coming on

this is adorable in the 1990s, you were fancy if you bought Soft Batch cookies

Winsome losesome (I’m sorry)

there's nothing i love more than following somebody at the top of their game and learning all the little hacks they use to get their work done like learning how woodworkers use jigs neither jigs nor "XX OCCULT STUFF" in a novel would've occurred to me!

I know there's a lot going on rn but you should look at my pictures

thomas is marveling at the names of the candidates today america is a melting pot baby (and a few of the chunks are rancid but the names are neat anyway)

That's the movie with the main NASA guy using a 25-year old computer that doesn't run on batteries… on the beach.

Testing Mastodon quotes in 4.5 (rc2) + tootify

Washington is alright I guess.

there's a constitutional right to not incriminate yourself but there ought to be a constitutional right to not embarrass yourself TO DEATH

At retail prices, they can charge $800 a second to customers using this at line rate.

any picture framing perverts follow me? or do i finally have to register for the premier picture framing forum, The Framer’s Grumble, which i’ve poked around in before (surprising no one)

everyone must see this perfect skete

Congrats, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!

In case you missed this last week!

I’m sure this has nothing to do with the awful food and service. We used to love Chipotle but quit going because it sucks now.

Random question, anyone have a favorite brand of Men’s non-slip slippers for home? After a scare on the stairs this morning I really want to get something that doesn’t have a slippery sole.

DHOOM MACHALE i know what i’m watching tomorrow

I'm gutted that I can't do ffconf this year, but we attended as a team last year and it *hugely* benefitted us, especially as we're all remote ffconf.org/why-attend/

guess i have to unmute "cuomo" to see election coverage BLERG

Love how Bluesky now randomly hides completely normal replies

Yeah it seems to me that the effect was that people have seen that it's really hard to run something like this in a sustainable way, and that no other team* dared to try, because it feels like something that needs to be done very seriously and professionally or not at all?… * does Blacksky count?

omg. blast from the past.

Parties have split over less disastrous results, just saying

The cool girls for capitalism must be absolutely gutted