CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Paul Ford on AI and the Infinite Software Era. “All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/opinion/ai-software.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NFA.Q5V5.RFhmZVUFQ04Z

Current is an interesting new RSS reader that doesn’t function like an email inbox. “There is no count because counting was the problem.” https://www.terrygodier.com/current

What movies can you brag about seeing during their original run in the theater? Not big movies, more culty ones. I’ve got Iron Giant, American Movie, Run Lola Run, Hands on a Hardbody, and Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. https://bsky.app/profile/kottke.org/post/3mepsrcgow22j

A molly guard is a safety cover that you need to move out of the way before pressing an important button. “Anecdotally, this is named after Molly, an engineer’s daughter who was invited to a datacenter and promptly pressed a big red button…” https://unsung.aresluna.org/molly-guard-in-reverse/

“‘CEO said a thing!’ journalism generally involves a press outlet parroting the claims of a CEO or billionaire utterly mindlessly without any sort of useful historical context as to whether anything being said is factually correct.” https://karlbode.com/the-press-is-still-propping-up-elon-musks-supergenius-engineer-mythology/