> a hot mic caught Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping gabbing — through a translator — about how organ replacement may soon allow people to live to 150 or older
”In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die! Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!” (The Office, season 6)
It is not uncommon in Europe, I believe. Swedish government had put a lot of effort into making Sweden a cashless country: it’s rare to see businesses accepting cash aside from grocery stores. But even here occasionally you get a yellow pamphlet called ”If crisis or war comes” that advises you to have a small surplus of cash in case <put enemy country name here> hackers manage to take down banking infrastructure.
Why having an easy way to organise a data feed that will work even on cheapest clients and servers, when you can simply boil a tank of water to get a half-assed hallucination loosely based on the source, right?
I have seen people trying to bury RSS for the past 15 years — didn’t happen yet. It is still widely used by blog enthusiasts — that’s basically how I get information about new posts from my favourite old-tech authors.
I didn’t update to iOS 26 yet specifically because of the horrendous glass UI with its zero contrast everywhere. Just wondering if enabling high contrast and disabling gradients in the accessibility settings help.