Matthew Hackling

A low price, high coolness factor, and a robust community intent on expanding the device's abilities all make this product a no-brainer for a specific type of synth hobbyist: arstechnica.visitlink.me/td5EvX

Why is he saying factually incorrect things?

75% of the worlds cigarette lighters are made in Shaodong. They have optimised costs to a fraction of a cent per lighter and captured global market share. What happens when 🇨🇳 does this with the car and the humanoid robot.

#BREAKING: Microsoft offers voluntary exit packages to 60,000 staff

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BREAKING: Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization, per Axios

family discussion is very much around the iphone duo fail. #apple could have done better by contracting the design out and so delayed with a feature that has been mass market for 7 years!

You asked AI for the cheapest flight. It dug through your emails, decided you could afford more, and suggested a ticket costing $100–$200 extra. Lindsay Owens explains ⬇️

BREAKING: The Pentagon has launched “FORTRESS America,” an initiative ordering major military bases in the continental US to be able to run on their own for at least 90 days. Bases will need to keep power, water, fuel and communications running independently, without relying on outside supply.

Midterm elections start in 8 days and midterm elected officials sworn in 69 days.

Semper Fi www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

That cheesecake factory joke was a zinger even I as an Australian laughed out loud!

Man all this talk about cheesecake is making me want one. Mmm a baked cheesecake.

Hatches are battened and air purifiers on full bore for thunderstorm asthma alert in #Canberra

Ordinary people aren’t just angry. They’re scared. thepoint.com.au/new/261021-c...

It’s ADORBS

Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/19/1...

🇺🇦 and 🇷🇺 are fighting in natural gas tunnels with electric buggies HMG and RPG oxygen bottles 🤯 www.instagram.com/p/Dez38BNlVz...

I just started on a massive cleaning chore that verges on renovation and my arms and shoulders are already sore. I think I am at like 6% completion.

This AI bulldust that blows up the economy should be shut down by the SEC. It’s a pass the parcel of bad debt like CDOs and the GFC.

*Even their financial infrastructure is a strange ouroboros, a self-inflating ring of I-loan-to-you and you-loan-to-me *It's like Enron with Nvidia chips instead of natural-gas

Partner saw an echidna a rare treat an egg laying milk nursing mammal monotreme hedgehog

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

>I wake up >international security infrastructure has further collapsed

Story that was recounted to me about Roebourne. Two men observed slugging it out outside the bunker like pub ankle deep in empty cans. One yells “I lost my watch!”. They all stop find the watch and then go back to spirited fist fighting.

Peace is good and datacenters and oil and gas production facilities are fragile and vulnerable

I am doing really annoying and frustrating work however the leadership is top tier so I come to work all keen and helpful

i am on a plane sitting next to a lady who looks 40ish and has informed me that this is her first time flying she is visibly excited. she asked the flight attendant how much a soda costs and was happy to learn that drinks are free on airplanes. she's taking lots of pictures. i love this for her

Can we please not elect senile boomer criminals 

Me for like a decade on PHP as a development choice even though FB Wikipedia, mailchimp, Slack, Wordpress and Magento use it

Let's briefly take a moment to observe what running a dataslopfactory biz does to a mofo (*before* shedding $3B value in 40 minutes)

BREAKING: Two critical security flaws in PHP, the programming language behind much of the internet, are forcing governments to take websites offline, per the BBC. The flaws were found by AI. Security firm Wiz called them the “most severe vulnerabilities ever discovered” by the technology.

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

LOOK AT THIS OOOOOWWWWL

74 days until the midterm elected representatives are sworn in the USA

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and post one you like. Bulk carriers at Gage Roads at sunset in Fremantle Western Australia

78 days until the new US congress is sworn in

There's new hope for reversing widespread coral decline go.nature.com/4zwy3nF

BREAKING: The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, per Reuters

This is so dystopian omg

Carl Quintanilla: Real average hourly earnings down 0.7% on the month, that's the sixth straight month... Jim Cramer: Look, rich people are making a lot of money. God, I sound like Marx. I really don't want to sound like Marx. It's just, look at the data.