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This is hands down the most wholesome "Stranger Things" fact ever https://piefed.social/c/television/p/1661852/this-is-hands-down-the-most-wholesome-stranger-things-fact-ever

This is hands down the most wholesome "Stranger Things" fact ever
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Dan Bongino, who stepped down as the deputy director of the FBI this month, says he will restart his podcast on February 2, streaming daily on Rumble (Reggie Ugwu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/arts/dan-bongino-fbi-podcast.html

Dan Bongino, No Longer at the F.B.I., Will Return to Podcasting
The former F.B.I. deputy director, who had hosted a right-wing, pro-Trump podcast, will restart the show after a rocky tenure at the law-enforcement agency.

One amazing thing about 2025 is that, if you start up an Apple product, it forces you to choose between _three different_ window mangers, but if you start up a clean install of a current version of Linux, it just chooses good defaults for you.

Spagnola: Don’t think George curious anymore https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-don-t-think-george-curious-anymore

With all these UX disasters from Windows 11 to Liquid Glass, it's interesting how UIs from the 90s mostly feel just right to me—and I don't think that's just purely nostalgia or growing up with it.
Things like window borders that are visible so you know where to resize things and scrollbars that indicate the current viewport.

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.
So far it’s been working!
Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.
Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.
And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.
They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

Does anyone know what happened to the BBC Things linked-data service? It looks like it's been down since at least February 2025?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/things/

Things
BBC Things provides a single reference for the growing collection of entities that matter to the BBC and our audiences.

FAFO: the same internal mechanisms used to deny minorities also work equally well at crushing dissent, from wherever it stems. https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116060293291811840

Beautiful summary
https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/

Why We Don't Use AI | Yarn Spinner
We get asked about AI a lot. Whether we’re going to add it to Yarn Spinner, whether we use it ourselves, what we think about it. Fair questions. Time to write it all down. Yarn Spinner doesn’t use the technology that’s currently being called AI. We don’t have generative AI features in the product, and we don’t use code generation tools to build it, and we don’t accept contributions we know contain generated material. Let’s talk about why.

Spagnola: Don’t think George curious anymore https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-don-t-think-george-curious-anymore