Jason Streich

No rise in productivity due to AI, according to that great Luddite institute, Apollo Global Management. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

Interested in setting aside the magical prompter and learning some web standards skills the old fashioned way? You can sign up for my online Web Components course for free until Oct 31 with the code markitzero. If you find it useful, please consider letting folks know! 🎃

ZEEE-RO. ZED. NIL. NADA.

I built a fun little Chrome extension that lets plants invade your abandoned tabs the longer you leave them unread. To access them again, you have to slash through the vines 🪚🌿

NEW: Yeah, not good

In the same day Epic announced a complete overhaul of anticheat on Linux and a buggy launcher that they claim is vibe coded. aftermath.site/epic-anticheat...

Reelizer is a collection of movie art: prints, posters, illustrations, albums, books, covers, etc. Careful, you can lose hours here…the curator has a great eye. Lots of stuff I’ve never seen before. [kottke.org]

Is America's first car-free city a walkable utopia or a government-controlled prison? Grace visits Culdesac, AZ, to find out

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout. Native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use. getartcraft.com/apps

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

Want money to make your dream game? AT Jam Dole is funding two-week prototypes for unemployed game devs experimenting with #atproto on new titles! 👩‍💻 Selected games will receive cash, review from freelives.net and a festival showcase at playtopia.co.za Apply by Oct 25th: atmosphere.games/jamdole 👈

IT'S HERE: The 2026 Carolina Forward Voter Guide launches today. The Carolina Forward Voter Guide is here to help you navigate your ballot in any of North Carolina's 100 counties. Find out who's running in your community: carolinaforward.org/news/the-202...

“A new tool is allowing Mac users the ability again to easily turn off Apple Intelligence with one click…” #Ai #AppleIntelligence #macOS #GoldenGate arstechnica.com/apple/2026/1...

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

The latest round of cash-flow loans for Hurricane Helene relief has begun distribution in western North Carolina. nsjonline.com/article/2026...

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

Did you know that Prince (you know, the genius musical artist) was one of the first people in the world to play an early version of the classic Gen X video game The Oregon Trail? True story! [kottke.org]

Two years after Helene, we are still two cities The second anniversary of the storm sees a deeply divided city, between struggling communities still surviving the crises and an elite that's made the aftermath far, far worse. @davidforbes.bsky.social, with our latest: ashevilleblade.com?p=5399

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...

“We have written you, we have asked for help, we have been rebuffed at every turn…” ashevilleblade.com?p=5399

this story is nuts — UNC Health briefly adopted BidShift, a platform that has nurses bid against eachother for hard-to-fill shifts, so that the hourly premium rate (already substantially lower than it was pre-pandemic) keeps dropping. It pivoted after backlash.

New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...

once again, Highway 12 on Pea Island in the Outer Banks is basically sitting in the ocean because of a nor'easter

I am grateful to the NCDOT teams working hard to assess the damage and keep folks safe.    If you must be on the roads, please visit drivenc.gov for current travel conditions.

Ron Cobb’s original signage designs for Alien, made with felt tip pen and graph paper. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8286472...

“Malls, movie theaters, roller-skating rinks, parks all have an important role to play in allowing teens to gather amongst themselves so that they can build those [social] skills…” indyweek.com/news/communi... #Raleigh

Ocean overwash could reach vulnerable sections of N.C. 12 on Hatteras Island as early as Wednesday’s high tide around 6 p.m., Dare County Emergency Management Director Drew Pearson warned. www.patreon.com/SamWalkerOBX...

Super nerdy achievement for today. I built a #Steam PC for little man using Linux and older hardware. Runs well and plays #NoMansSky on High graphics settings. He should be happy.

In 2001, we really thought this was what the future of web design would look like.

Help me raise some money for my kids’ elementary school! Buy one of these large DRAW pins and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to their arts magnet school! Do it for the kids! www.harebraineddesign.com/collections/...

Just encouraging all Mac users to contact Apple and tell them it's BS that Siri and Apple intelligence can no longer be fully disabled in the latest update (OS27). Reports vary by device, but between 10G and 30G of AI garbage models downloading. I just wiped and will be staying with 26 for a while 😡

www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-now-...

Here's my post on why the ethics provisions alone on this bill were a non-starter. Some Democrats seemed willing to pass the deeply flawed and industry-written bill if the ethics provisions could limit Trump’s grift, but negotiators were unable to find a version that satisfied both Dems and Trump.

🙋‍♂️ ever wanted to build something without needing to configure a db, auth, file storage or a cms? it turns out you already have all four if you have a bluesky account 👉 airspace is a typed client for it

If you're moderately technical (aka if you have the inklings of understanding of a programming language and/or know of TCP/IP); this course from @blackskyweb.xyz might be for you if you want to understand how this stuff works (like how does Blacksky/Bluesky work) learn.blacksky.community

Hey kids, you like gaming? You like supporting game developers who don’t suck? Here’s your opportunity:

Native HTML and CSS Features That Replaced JavaScript ronaldsvilcins.com/2026/08/30/n... #css #html #programming #webdev #javascript #code #blog #article

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

A little over two years ago we found this dapper gent as a kitten, trapped, screaming in the garage. He is the laziest housemate I have ever had. Wouldn’t change a thing.