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Daring Fireball: The Names They Call Themselves
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The Names They Call Themselves
*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.

A look at AI-powered tools and apps like Aira Explorer that are helping blind people access visual feedback about their bodies, sometimes for the first time (Milagros Costabel/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260126-ai-mirrors-…

'AI mirrors' are changing the way blind people see themselves
Artificial intelligence is helping blind people access visual feedback about their bodies, sometimes for the first time. The impact on their mental health is only just emerging.

What happened at Block will likely happen everywhere else - companies now find themselves with an overstock of talent, and they are not structurally ready to absorb additional capacity.
People will achieve more with less - but this also opens the doors to building entire new businesses.

Had to block like 3 people today already for having this unhinged opinion.
Of course they convinced themselves they're very normal and very rational people.

Patriots' Robert Kraft: Bill Belichick's 'record and body of work speak for themselves' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7005003/2026/01/28/robert-kraft-bill-belichick-hall-of-fame-patriots/

Every few years, Democrats try to convince themselves they’ve found the one
– a candidate who can finally speak fluent rural, who looks and sounds like the voters they’ve lost.
In 2024, that hope was pinned on #Tim #Walz, the flannel-wearing, “Midwestern nice” governor whose small-town roots were supposed to unlock …

Why rural Maine may back Democrat Graham Platner’s populism in the Senate campaign − but not his party
Whether Maine’s Graham Platner wins or loses, his campaign to knock off longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins already points to a deeper question: Can Democrats do more than rent rural authenticity?

An iconic story and idea that sticks with me over the years is Isaac Asimov's classic tale that introduces the 3 Laws of Robotics, "Runaround"
I'm about to spoil the dilemma (not the solution), but it doesn't ruin the value of the story
Robots must obey orders, and secondary to that, robots must protect themselves. This particular robot is ordered to retrieve selenium to fix a human life support system for a facility on Mercury. Unknown to the humans, the s…

Iranian parents had just dropped their children off for class on Saturday morning when they found themselves racing back to school gates,
as bombs began to fall across the country in a joint US-Israel attack.
At one elementary school, according to Iran’s state-controlled media, they arrived to find devastation.
💥At least 80 children had been killed in the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, the IRNA news agency reported, with dozens more unacc…

How tech worker activism has grown more cautious as companies crack down and once-privileged workers realize they don't have much leverage (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/busines

Despite Crackdown on Activism, Tech Employees Are Still Picking Fights
They increasingly see themselves as rank-and-file workers who have traditional gripes with their companies.