Joe Ross

Earnest question: Why can’t AI companies slow progress despite the lack of regulation?

This is neat: The idea behind the Picard maneuver comes from the way a faster-than-light spaceship would outrun its own light.

I’m not sure who’s more gross, Netflix or Wilder’s estate: Titled Wonka’s The Golden Ticket, the unscripted series uses the re-created voice of actor Gene Wilder, who played Willy Wonka in the 1971 movie, as a key part of the game.

Today my four-year-old son said, innocently but not without an unintended sting, that he is faster than me because he has less weight than me.

Norton Yields No Ground to Members Who Deny D.C.

Of course, just as I consider going all-in on Tapo and Kasa, they abandon one of their most useful features, IFTTT support, for more AI garbage. 🔗 tp-link.com

Ben Folds spends a non-stop hour swinging wildly between being virtuosic on, and literally violent, with a capital V, to, the piano, while he and his bandmates tear through 15 absolutely unskippable 90s bangers as if they share one brain, twelve limbs, and

Facebook has been caught with its hand in this cookie jar over and over again.

Mike Masnick of Techdirt: But at a time when the Supreme Court keeps telling us we shouldn’t believe that they make decisions on partisan grounds, it sure would help if they actually stopped doing things differently depending on the partisan valence of ea…

Paul McCartney, in an interview by The Rest is History’s Tom Holland: You would know certain chords.

Jeremy Yurow, writing at Courthouse News Service about Hawaii’s new “anti-Citizens United” law: The bill takes aim at the U.S.

Matthew Haughey, who has a masters degree in soil chemistry, writes about why some farms plant red clover in the spring.

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The fact that there is no statutory ban on the government commercially sourcing personal location data without a warrant is a mockery of the Fourth Amendment. 🔗 arstechnica.com

This ruling seems to be shocking parts of the tech web, but all the court did was apply the plain language of Apple’s developer agreement.

🔗Jay Willis in his Balls & Strikes newsletter: Although the force of the Republican Party’s response to Scalia’s death felt like a “shocker” to some, the reality is that the right had been quietly putting in the work–of building a judicial pipeline, of ch…

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At $150 per ticket, a family of four will pay $600 for the 80-minute tour of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.

Watched on Sunday January 18, 2026.

Watched on Saturday January 17, 2026.

Watched on Friday January 16, 2026.

You probably won’t believe this until you finish the movie, and maybe not even then, but it’s a romance…

Watched on Sunday January 11, 2026.

Watched on Sunday January 11, 2026.

🔗 Jan. 6, 2021: NPR’s visual archive of the Capitol attack ➚

Watched on Saturday January 3, 2026.

I will always link to something Bari Weiss doesn’t want people to read or watch or know.

Watched on Thursday January 1, 2026.