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He appears to be making the podcast rounds promoting his new book. He also spoke to Nick Gillespie at Reason: https://reason.com/podcast/2026/10/28/the-untold-story-behin...

My son does not have a great opinion of any edtech -- AI or not. I would wager that if you asked any kid his age they'd rather have better air conditioning than another expensive bit of software they hate using.

Re-read this recently and wholeheartedly agree. It is an ur-text for the Fallout wasteland for sure.

I had this same question and am very curious about what triggers a certain cultural work's resurgence.

Only semi-related I forced my son to explain to me why so many young people knew the song "Big Iron" by Marty Robbins.

Narcissus and Goldmund has a similar shape to Siddhartha -- covering similar ground with two protagonists instead of one. Also great.

Just finished: The Castle by Jon Ronson, very funny and enlightening look at the unraveling of some men.

Just started : Catch the Devil by Pamela Colloff, true crime about a con artist in Florida who traded overheard (probably fabricated) jailhouse confessions for a seemingly endless chain of get out of jail free cards.

This feels like stolen Worth1000 content.

When that Dinosaur Jr. album cover showed up it made so much sense.

Show HN: I hated the really small font on this website so I coded a fix for it.

The hardness of guessing what headlines are about.

This group photo from the opening gala doesn't have all the stars that were present that night, but what a wild assortment of talent this is. https://deadline.com/2026/09/lucas-museum-opening-hollywood-...

File under: false metal

This tells me you should always pay cash if you are having a beer.

This is fairly timely since you'd probably be hard pressed to do the same thing with the new Spider-Man movie, which was apparently shot in Glasgow?

Interesting timing on this article considering The Big Walk comes out this week. Obviously the game is not as intricate as a Myst game, but it feels like the perfect mixture of a game where design really matters and reaction to what the market wants. People like playing together and collaborating to make their own fun. It is not hard to imagine a version of Myst like this -- the most fun I have had playing a PC game was sitting next to a friend as we played Riven beginning to end.

Sounds like a job for the U.S. Department of Shitposting

See also: Nate Harrison from 2004 https://youtu.be/XPoxZW8JzzM?si=ymsROOuIHx4qA9ES

If only there were some institution full of independently minded individuals who could tell us, plainly and evenhandedly, without undue influence, about products we might be interested in.

The whole paragraph that starts with, "Smartphones are anti-enchantment devices" is gold. Love where you are coming from with this.

I bought Ween's Brown Box collection in this period. A band's entire studio output on CD for $50 felt like a great value. When I see single CDs at Barnes and Noble with a MSRP of $18 and more I feel otherwise.

He has a Lightphone which he hates. That's how I know it is working. He built a gaming PC last year, so I am aware that Pandora's box is open there. But look, it has been thirteen years of playing whackamole with YouTube. I can't keep him off it. They watch it at school. They give him chromebooks that I have no control over. And the stuff I do have control over the control is tenuous. I have largely given up. He is pretty much grown now. But man, has it felt like gaslighting when people are like, "Do parenting. Use the settings. Get a dumb phone. Problem solved."

And have you ever tried to find or access parental settings on a school Chromebook?

And of course these settings do nothing if he just opens any browser and watches YouTube logged off.

It took some digging but I found that setting on browser. Thank you. I'd love a big toggle for "brain fucking" that you could just set to off.

Where's the setting to make YouTube not display shorts?

You're the pro. But as a casual observer, games tend to have menus with lots of settings options. Every other bit of software I use has next to none. Totally anecdotal, so I totally understand that my view is probably skewed. Keep up the good work?

I keep observing that accessibility features often contain the tools we need to make our devices and apps more humane. This is one area that video games have been way ahead on.

There are public domain movies in the collection, notably Night of the Living Dead and Carnival of Souls.

I did find the over-sized Godzilla Showa Era box on the shelf.

In another universe he called it "Whizzing on an electric fence."