it’s got “best” in the name, so how bad could it really be?
E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos
The Trump administration’s move sets back a decades-long effort to end the use of the material, which is widely banned in other countries.
🗣️ LA BARBECUE IS COMING TO PORTLAND, THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Portland, Get Ready for Stellar Michelin-Starred Texas Barbecue Royalty
Austin’s legendary La Barbecue is putting down roots in Rose City this year
GitHub had its one billionth repository created today! This is the lucky repo that got ID 1000000000 🎉
Contribute to AasishPokhrel/shit development by creating an account on GitHub.
this is gonna make me crash out
WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History - 512 Pixels
Something jumped out at me in the macOS Tahoe segment of the WWDC keynote today: the Finder icon is reversed. You can see that in the image below. On the left is macOS Sequoia, and on the right is macOS Tahoe: I know I am going to sound old and fussy, but Apple needs to […]
🗣️ The layoffs will continue until morale improves
Microsoft (MSFT) Layoffs Continue With Hundreds More Jobs Cut
Microsoft Corp. cut hundreds more jobs just weeks after its largest layoff in years, underscoring the tech industry’s efforts to trim costs even as it plows billions of dollars into artificial intelligence.
I think the most striking thing about this database is the “Monetary Penalty” column. These fines need to be much higher and much, MUCH more frequent
AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin
Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.
this feels like a thing that’s WAY too late lol
Instagram Expected to Release iPad App Later This Year
The Information's Kaya Yurieff and Kalley Huang in April reported that Meta was working on a long-awaited Instagram app for iPads. ...
babe wake up, a new kind of goose just dropped
An unusual pairing of geese draws a gaggle of Portland-area birders
An unusual couple of nesters has attracted the attention of Portland-area birders drawn to a story about the peculiarities of nature.
POV: ur senator decides to try out philosophy
Ernst responds to jeers on Medicaid cuts: ‘Well, we’re all going to die’
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst (R) pushed back against constituents who shouted out at her recent town hall meeting that cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) would cause …
This is an extremely fucking disappointing about-face from Ruby Central. Not sure how I’m supposed to take them seriously ever again at this point.
Ruby Central (RailsConf: July 8-10) (@rubycentral.org)
For the final #RailsConf, it’s all coming full circle... DHH, the creator of Rails, will be joining us for a special fireside chat moderated by Elise Shaffer of Shopify. 🔥 July 8–10 in Philadelphia, PA – we can’t wait to see you there: ti.to/railsconf/2025
Apple continues to focus on what’s truly important, I see
Mark Gurman (@markgurman.bsky.social)
NEW: Apple will announce its biggest ever software rebrand at WWDC, tied to operating system redesigns. Apple is moving from version numbers to years (like Windows in the 90s). The new OSs: iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, visionOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-28/apple-to-rebrand-device-operating-systems-ios-26-macos-26-watchos-26?srnd=undefined
as if we needed any more reasons to use Signal over Telegram lol. lmao
xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on Wednesday said Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is investing $300 million worth of cash and equity in the chat app.
what does this even mean? what is Glitch aside from user profiles and app hosting? “Important changes are coming to Glitch” makes it sound as if it’ll continue on in some way, but the actual announcement reads like “we’re shutting down”.
Important changes are coming to Glitch
We’ve got an important update for the Glitch community today: We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch.
this announcement looks and reads so much like a cringey wedding invitation that i just immediately assumed it was. even the pull quotes feel like vows. exquisite
🗣️ The layoffs will continue until morale improves
Microsoft is cutting 3% of its workforce
It's likely Microsoft's largest job purge since it said goodbye to 10,000 employees in 2023.
we went from a month of Earth Day conservation content to “let’s mine the fucking seabed” in three days
These minerals are currently sitting atop the sea floor, waiting to be scooped up and processed. Through #NOAA’s mapping tech and licensing abilities, we are helping industry leaders find, collect and bring back these minerals to benefit the #USA & domestic manufacturing.
Just finished building my first open-source library in ages! This one is a Ruby gem for Slack’s Block Kit framework, something we use heavily at FireHydrant. I built it using ActiveModel validations for all of their schema limits, many of which the gem can fix automatically!
GitHub - davidcelis/block-kit: 💬 A Ruby gem to build UI with Slack's BlockKit framework
💬 A Ruby gem to build UI with Slack's BlockKit framework - davidcelis/block-kit
the fact that ActiveModel type casts attributes on read instead of write is sending me into a hate spiral
this was a really fun and interesting read about a little Postgres mystery! i laughed out loud exactly twice.
did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote?
Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I am wont to do), and I notice this weird curve in the production database metrics: So weR…
