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Swatch watches are trending. www.theguardian.com <a href=...

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British youtuber Shady goes for a walkabout at the "far right" rally in London. Seems a lot more chill than what the MSM is reporting. <a href="ht...

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Cyprus Hill: Insane in the Brain. (2026/05/17)

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Claude, Gemini and Grok all tried to be radio hosts. Things got weird. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/931479/andon-labs-ai-rad...

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Jason Scott has been digitizing a collection of 25000 manuals. Very retro geek. Interesting designs. (2026/05/16)

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Epic - "Issue tracking for terminal dwellers". TUI based on git, vim-inspired. Looks pretty cool. ljtn.githu...

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Just another water cooler discussion about AI psychosis engulfing entire companies in tech. (2026/05/16)

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The teams behind ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft and NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft co-ordinate to observe both sides of 3I/Atlas inte...

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Drum & Bass: The Movement - A D&B Documentary. www.youtube.com <a href="/link...

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40 million Kenyans get a bitcoin lightning address. Very cool. x.com <a href="/links/2026/05/15/024...

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In completely unrelated news, oldest giant dinausor found in South East Asia weighing as much as 9 elephants. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2...

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Trump and the Nasdaq dreamtime visit and "pay respects" to president Xi in China. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/trump-xi-...

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Wondering if there will be a surge in rocket launcher company sales fueled by anti-mecha robot preppers. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rock...

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Mecha robots are here. Probably nothing to worry about. www.youtube.com <a href="/lin...

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Simon Willison has been using LLM in script shebang lines. til.simonwillison.net <a href="/link...

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Jorijn Schrijvershof is not happy with Github. I'm hearing this a lot recently. He is moving to self hosted Forgejo. <a href="https://jorijn.com/en/blog/lea...

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Bugs in mocking libraries (2026/05/14)

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The MSM narrative seems to be that superpowers like US and China are about to crack down on AI. <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/china/u-s-and-china-pursu...

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Simon Willison on the nuances of vibe coding vs agentic engineering. <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/#atom...

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Anthropic signs deal with SpaceXAI to use their Colossus 1 supercomputer, and interested to partener in developing "AI Orbital Compute". <a href="...

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