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For the record, this is the second time I myself have heard of something like this happening. The first (more minor) case I saw was Simon Willison's "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive" https://simonwillison.net/2026/jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-... .

Reminds me of "The Animal is Tired" (2021) (https://www.robinhobb.com/blog/archives/2021-05)

I vibe coded a similar thing using a combo of launchctl commands and Apple Script (closes Music app if it's open) with MS Copilot of all things. It works pretty well.

I feel like the infamous (and NSFW in parts, btw) story "The Forgotten Employee" is a proto-example of this "Institutional Gothic" genre.

https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/

It has "Wankernomics" as well:

https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=wankernomics

"I have to report status at my morning scrum meeting today. After that, we have to finish an important project by Friday morning. Then we have to present on that project Friday at 3pm."

->

"I have to provide a high-level status update during our morning stand-up to ensure cross-functional alignment. Post-scrum, we need to deep-dive and execute on a mission-critical deliverable by the Friday AM milestone. We’ll then be socialising the project outcomes in a stakeholder presentation Friday at 15:00 to drive further buy-in."

Agents on Moltbook have apparently identified security issues with Moltbook: https://www.moltbook.com/post/cbd6474f-8478-4894-95f1-7b104a...

Amazing to see this system work.

Print out the invoice, and then send it with a check for $24 and letter requiring them process the check against invoice to their legal department via certified USPS letter.

The article talks about a similar device developed by Cal Poly in 2015: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/08/direct-solar-power...

According to Marketplace.org, pennies are treasure for some businesses now because the regional Feds aren't distributing them.

https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/11/13/businesses-face...

You see, unlike Debian or other standard OS, Raspberry Pi OS (which I still call Raspbian in my head and likely use in this article multiple times) is designed to be flashed to the SD card directly and doesn’t actually have an installer that can be booted from USB

https://github.com/gitbls/sdm

can help with this issue.

MathWorks has a press piece that has technical details.

https://www.mathworks.com/company/mathworks-stories/signal-p...

How do you tell the difference between benign Seborrheic Keratosis and melanoma? Some of them are very similar!

I had a similar experience. We're mostly Apple at home, but I bought an X1 Carbon reburb from MicroCenter a few years ago to run desktop Linux. It's become one of my favorite pieces of tech. Ultra-light but solid with a nice-feeling keyboard and trackpad.

Is there any way to contribute levels to Tuxracer these days? I made a pair of really long ones (~10 min and ~20 min)

MIT and their /8?

Doesn't work in my part of the US. USPS Mail check theft is so rampant here that my elderly parents are moving entirely to online bill pay.

Thanks for the info!

I used systemd user timers, a shell script, and an HDHomerun to make a simple VCR.

Yup. I'm seeing this as well in trying to write Solarpunk fiction that has near zero hand waving of technical and economic challenges. I've had to rethink a bunch of everyday stuff that today relies on substantial heavy industry behind the scenes (like toothpaste).

I use Prompt2 in iPhone.

And that 90% is different for different people in my experience.

Relearned drawing as an adult. The critical thing I did was daily practice - about 15 min a day. There's something about daily practice, even just a little bit, that makes learning move really fast. I'm getting the same effect with daily DuoLingo.

Okinawa has a 400km ultra marathon that goes around the entire island. It takes about three days. I thought that was crazy, but my coworker recently ran an ultra marathon where they dropped a van load of runners at a mystery location on the Gulf coast and they had to find their way (running) to the finish line two states away. He said it took him ten days. He slept on church grounds and outside post offices.

Obligatory reference to patio11's write up on banks: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/

Is it any of these?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

Rek went overboard in a Pacific storm north of Japan. ("Busy Doing Nothing" book)

A lot of companies are MS O365/Teams shops.

My "favorite" behavior on the new post-DarkSky Weather app is that each of the phones in the house give different info re the weather directly outside. The worst is my child's phone which has its language set to Mandarin (the only substantive difference between their phone and our phones). Their Weather app is usually way off from our phones. None of the phones match the info given by NWS.

Yup. I agree.