Jason

Living through history is weird.

No, The UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online

Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissible. But in one of the latest…

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How to be normal

Today I e-biked to an appointment in town in the same amount of time it would have taken me to drive. I was worried because I had to leave a couple minutes later than I plannedc but it worked out.

In before you ask, I drive my MT GTI fast. 😄

Pause for three minutes and soak up the grace of this man.

Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

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Payment processors caving is a slippery slope.

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Can playing video games help police combat online crimes? The team was set up in 2022 to tackle the rise in online crime in Denmark. The Politiets Online Patrulje now boasts over 787,000 followers across platforms.

Lfg

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This is the classic UX vs UI problem. Capacitive touch and software locked hardware features (behind subscriptions) also need to get lost.

If they think Superman is woke, wait until they learn about Jesus.

👀👀

Fascism For First Time Founders Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump t…

Real innovation happens when companies have to compete on merit, not on who can kiss the leader’s ass most effectively.

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oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Meanwhile: I am at the point of fatherhood where I have discovered the use case for portable gaming. I just didn’t get it before

Would (correct) predictable behaviour produce 3 errors? One for each of the last three lines?

Have since had baby! He’s doing well and Mom and Dad are adjusting pretty well too.

but getting back on the news cycle isn’t great. 🥲 so thankful my parents chose Canada.

"Only 33% of American children between the ages of 9 and 11 are allowed to bike or walk to a friend’s house alone, according to the Mott survey... They cannot move through the world without their parents there."

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YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show

This was a good watch!

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A kids room with a mural on the wall, crib in the middle, and couch against the window

[x] put the crib together
[ ] have baby

Feeling a lot like I did in early days of the pandemic these days. It is so clear what’s coming: The people that will die because of cuts in global health, because of cuts to research, because of the concerted anti-vaccine push.
It’s clear what’s coming, but we will have to wait to count the dead.🧪

There Are WayMo Of Us Than There Are Of Them And they know it.

When Jesus said “Love thy neighbor,” he meant what Los Angelenos are doing when ICE knocks.

I know this battle is lost, but:
Can we stop calling it “hallucinating”?

They’re not tripping, they’re doing what they’re designed to do: generate a series of statistically likely sentences. The technology doesn’t care whether the sentences are accurate, as long as they’re statistically likely.

There’s the joke when you ask a dev or dev team how much of the project is done:

“We’re done with 90% of it roughly.”

The correct answer is: “OK, so what I’m hearing is first 90% done, only second 90% is left”

It’s actually not a joke. It’s *often* the reality with software

Advent of code, during random times of the year, is fun actually

Exclusive: Inside the EV startup secretly backed by Jeff Bezos | TechCrunch Jeff Bezos is funding a secretive EV startup based in Michigan called Slate Auto that could start production as soon as next year, according to multiple

The “deep Amazon ties” is … you know. techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/i...

A tale of two movies:

Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.

One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.

The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.

And yet this is the coverage.

If you haven’t already seen or tried it, I highly recommend untrap.app

I don’t know if it solves exactly this problem (I think it might but can’t remember) but I think it will help some way :)