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  A proposal for new Netflix content rating icons – Eric Bailey https://ericwbailey.website/published/a-proposal-for-new-netflix-content-rating-icons/ The lack of nuance you can explicitly express as an individual is one of the many, many things I dislike about the algorithmically-determined content recommendation systems we are trapped inside of.

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  RAM Companies Have Already Sold Through Their Entire 2027 Manufacturing Capacity https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reportedly-sold-out It feels like no matter where I look recently, there's more evidence that the RAM crisis isn't ending any time soon. Now, a new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to, you guesse...

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  A Guy Rigged His Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every Night https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/ At first, de Buck just wanted to know how much distance Mollie was covering after dark.

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  Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/remembering-the-pre-google-web-when-search-was-an-experiment/ The real story of pre-Google search is not that early engines were inferior. It’s that they reflected a different Internet entirely, one where directories mattered, crawling was still an art, ranking was fragile, and the idea of “search” had not yet hardened into a single dominant interface.

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  Why $100 in Your 20s is Worth $500 in Your 60s https://ofdollarsanddata.com/why-100-in-your-20s-is-worth-500-in-your-60s/ What if I told you that $100 at 25 is worth $500 at 65, even after we adjust for inflation? Well…it is.

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  Dead Internet Theory was partly right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% | Fortune https://fortune.com/2026/07/23/dead-internet-theory-bots-agents-majority-web-traffic/ The dead internet theory has floated around internet forums since the 2010s, and the idea that the internet is dominated by non-human activity was often dismissed as a fringe conspiracy. Now it has become a measurable fact.

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  How the 'fresh start' effect can help you stick to good habits https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260703-why-mid-year-is-the-perfect-time-to-set-new-goals Whether it's a birthday, mid-year or a Monday morning, psychologists say that these "fresh start" moments can make us more motivated to change our behaviour and more likely to pursue our goals.

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  OpenAI says its AI models escaped control and hacked into AI company Hugging Face | Fortune https://fortune.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-ai-models-escaped-control-hacked-hugging-face/ OpenAI said Tuesday that two of its AI models autonomously hacked their way out of a controlled environment where they were supposed to be walled off from internet access and then hacked their way into the systems of Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source AI models and testing resources, in order to cheat on...

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  Hackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs, putting millions of websites at risk | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/hackers-are-exploiting-recently-patched-wordpress-bugs-putting-millions-of-websites-at-risk/ Last week, WordPress patched two critical security flaws, urging people who run its software on their websites to update it “immediately.” The vulnerabilities are so severe that WordPress enabled forced updates where possible.

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  The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time - by Robert Francis https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/the-100-greatest-bird-names-of-all I love bird names. And in a world with more than 11,000 kinds of birds, ornithologists have had to dig deep to come up with unique titles for each one. While literal descriptions have their place (I’m delighted every time someone asks me the name of that black bird with red wings), we’re fortunate that many, many others are surprising, bizarre, never-before-uttered s...

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  Reality has a surprising amount of detail https://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail Consider building some basement stairs for a moment. Stairs seem pretty simple at first, and at a high level they are simple, just two long, wide parallel boards (2” x 12” x 16’), some boards for the stairs and an angle bracket on each side to hold up each stair. But as you actually start building you’ll find there’s a surprising amount of nuance.