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On AI Images and Feature Images in General

When is AI image slop ok? By Gordon Mclean Gordon stumbled across a post arguing that AI-generated featured images signals laziness, even if every word you write is your own, and it made him stop a...

Vaccine Hesitancy Webinar

From questions to confidence: What changed my mind on vaccines

Spring Season 2026 at The New Leaf Journal

The 2026 spring season theme at The New Leaf Journal is spring cleaning. Admittedly not the most creative, but summer 2026 will be big.

Europa Missions

The Bottle

Today's post is a submission to the IndieWeb Carnival, a monthly event where folks on the IndieWeb write a blog post dedicated to a theme hosted by one of the members. This month's theme is "Advent...

Keep It To Yourself

A guide to digital privacy for 2026, a manifesto to refuse complying to new measures, three suggestions for this new age of surveillance

Keep It To Yourself

A guide to digital privacy for 2026, a manifesto to refuse complying to new measures, three suggestions for this new age of surveillance

For Some Reason Sotomayor Is The Only One Apologizing — See Also

Justice Says Sorry For Accurately Describing Kavanaugh's Pro-Racial-Profiling Opinion: He's yet to apologize for penning the damned thing. You Can't Just Call Renovations A "National Security Neces...

Do We Really Need Another Development Board?

It’s fair to say that there are a lot of development board form factors for MCUs, with [Tech Dregs] over on yonder YouTube on the verge of adding another one …read more

Two Hands, One Brain, Zero Extra Cashiers

Read Two Hands, One Brain, Zero Extra Cashiers Customer: "Can't you open another register?!" Me: "I could, but I could still only run one at a time." Customer: "Two registers, two hands!" Read Two ...

Potential U.S.–Belarus “Big Deal” Could Strengthen Eastern European Security

Dmitry Bolkunets

Keep It To Yourself

A guide to digital privacy for 2026, a manifesto to refuse complying to new measures, three suggestions for this new age of surveillance

Keep It To Yourself

A guide to digital privacy for 2026, a manifesto to refuse complying to new measures, three suggestions for this new age of surveillance

Windsurf 2.0 has launched with a new Agent Command Center, Spaces, and Devin integration

Windsurf has launched Windsurf 2.0, a major update for its agentic IDE. The release introduces the Agent Command Center, a new Kanban style interface that lets developers oversee multiple AI coding...

The Slowing of Fourth Amendment Law, and Now Advisory Opinions: A Comment on Chatrie v. United States

The second in a series.

Yellow-Capped Passover Coca Cola

I never paid much attention to the color of caps on bottles of Coca Cola. In fact, I do not think I bought a bottle of Coca Cola in almost two years. But thanks to a 2014 article in Food & Wine, I ...

I May Have Killed My Framework 13

I was in the office today, working away, and I often have my personal laptop, a Framework 13 next to me so I do things like check notes and emails, listen to music, etc. I reached over to grab some...

The Claude Coding Vibes Are Getting Worse

I've seen a continuous degradation to the UX of Claude Code over the last two months. Now with the release of Opus 4.7 it's really evident.

Daily News Stuff 16 April 2026

Refinery Fire Edition Top Story Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits & paid services to improve itself? Yes. (GitHub) As everyone in the attached Hacker News thread notes, this is en...

Privacy Email Service Tuta Now Also Has Cloud Storage with Quantum-Resistant Encryption

Tuta Drive is almost here, and it makes Google Drive and OneDrive look sus. I explored the early access release.