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A 2026 checklist

werd.io · Dec 31

A way to build a habit out of what's important.

Shared by @tchambers and 10 others.
Shannon Prickett (@Binder) · Dec 31
🔁 @ben:

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

Tim Chambers (@timothyjchambers) · Dec 31
🔁 @ben.werdmuller:

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. https://werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

Dr.Implausible (@drimplausible) · Dec 31
🔁 @ben:

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

Coach Pāṇini ® (@paninid) · Dec 31
🔁 @ben:

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

May Likes Toronto (@mayintoronto) · Dec 31
🔁 @ben:

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

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Windows 11’s 2025 meltdown: bugs, bad updates, and fed‑up users

windowscentral.com · Dec 30

Windows 11 is having its worst year yet, with nonstop bugs, broken updates, and unwanted features pushing users to the breaking point.

Shared by @jalefkowit and 16 others.
netop://ウィビ (@netopwibby) · Dec 31
🔁 @mhoye:

I had no idea that Windows was doing fractal incremental feature rollouts now and it sounds like an absolute goddamn disaster for anyone who needs to support a senior with a computer.

I did not expect the year of linux on the desktop to happen because everyone else in the world started fucking up their own shit in catastrophic, undiagnosable, incomprehensible ways.

windowscentral.com/microsoft/w

sebsauvage (@sebsauvage) · Dec 31
🔁 @mhoye:

I had no idea that Windows was doing fractal incremental feature rollouts now and it sounds like an absolute goddamn disaster for anyone who needs to support a senior with a computer.

I did not expect the year of linux on the desktop to happen because everyone else in the world started fucking up their own shit in catastrophic, undiagnosable, incomprehensible ways.

windowscentral.com/microsoft/w

Jason Lefkowitz is exhausted (@jalefkowit) · Jan 01
🔁 @jalefkowit:

"The new Windows 11 Start menu is a perfect example. Thanks to Controlled Feature Rollout, many users didn't get it right away after installing the October update. For those people, it randomly appeared a few days or weeks later, without any warning or prompt, letting the user know what happened and why.

In this scenario, going into your update history to see what changed is going to confuse you, because the update that includes the new Start menu was installed weeks ago. You're only seeing the new features now because Microsoft allowed you to see it, which is insane and frustrating beyond belief."

windowscentral.com/microsoft/w

Baldur Bjarnason (@baldur) · Dec 31
🔁 @mhoye:

I had no idea that Windows was doing fractal incremental feature rollouts now and it sounds like an absolute goddamn disaster for anyone who needs to support a senior with a computer.

I did not expect the year of linux on the desktop to happen because everyone else in the world started fucking up their own shit in catastrophic, undiagnosable, incomprehensible ways.

windowscentral.com/microsoft/w

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Shared by @mcfly and 19 others.
ICYMI (Law) (@icymi_law) · Jan 01
🔁 @SuffolkLITLab:

TL;DR: Cory Doctorow argues for building a 'Post-American Internet' as a response to the failures of US tech monopolies and global anticircumvention laws. He highlights emerging coalitions that include activists and national security hawks, pushing for digital sovereignty and technological self-determination. pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

Bit_Rot_Bob (@Prometheus) · Jan 01
🔁 @knapjack:
Not optimistic. Fuck optimism! Optimism is the idea that things will get better no matter what we do. I know that what we do matters. Hope is the belief that if we can improve things, even in small ways, we can ascend the gradient toward the world we want, and attain higher vantage points from which new courses of action, invisible to us here at our lower elevation, will be revealed.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/ @pluralistic@mamot.fr
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) · Jan 01
🔁 @knapjack:
Not optimistic. Fuck optimism! Optimism is the idea that things will get better no matter what we do. I know that what we do matters. Hope is the belief that if we can improve things, even in small ways, we can ascend the gradient toward the world we want, and attain higher vantage points from which new courses of action, invisible to us here at our lower elevation, will be revealed.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/ @pluralistic@mamot.fr
Andrew Henry (@AndrewHenry) · Jan 01
🔁 @somedude:

Great quote from @pluralistic:

"The fact that you have to figure out whether the discussion you're trying to join is on Twitter or Bluesky, Mastodon or Instagram – that is just the most Prodigy/AOL/Compuserve-ass way of running a digital world. I mean, 1990 called and they want their walled gardens back[.]"

pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

Misha (@MishaVelthuis) · Jan 01

Reading the speech @pluralistic held at #39c3 is an amazing way to start the the new year.

A great way to calibrate your political compass.

"Let's call time on enshittification. Let's seize the means of computation. Let's build the drop-in, free, open, auditable alternatives to the services and firmware we rely on."

Let's fucking go.

pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

LJ (@LJ) · Jan 01
🔁 @wendynather:

“Move fast and break kings.” I love @pluralistic and his rallying cry: pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

We need to reassess our relationship to digital tech

disconnect.blog · Dec 31

Getting off US tech led me to a wider questioning of digital convenience

Shared by @hankg and 15 others.
Ben Overmyer (@skysong) · Jan 01
🔁 @parismarx:

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

Dan Ballard (@dan_ballard) · Dec 31
🔁 @parismarx:

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

Hank G ☑️ (@hankg) · Jan 01
🔁 @feed:

We need to reassess our relationship to digital tech

Getting off US tech led me to a wider questioning of digital convenience

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

Mat (@okwithmydecay) · Jan 01
🔁 @parismarx:

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

alcinnz (@alcinnz) · Jan 01
🔁 @DavidBHimself:

If you need help with finding interesting New Year's resolutions, I got you covered. Well, @parismarx 's got you covered:

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

#tech #internet #UnitedStates

TheGentYYC (@TheGentYYC) · Jan 01
🔁 @parismarx:

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

Wayne Werner (@ketmorco) · Jan 01
🔁 @parismarx:

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

Paris Marx (@parismarx) · Jan 01
🔁 @parismarx:

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

Anti. 🐘 (@antiaall3s) · Jan 01
🔁 @parismarx:

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

Worth reading

2025: The year in LLMs

simonwillison.net · Jan 01

This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …

Shared by @jockr and 18 others.

A Website To End All Websites

henry.codes · Jan 01

How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

Shared by @CuratedHackerNews and 13 others.
deer witch (@moss) · Jan 01
🔁 @henry:

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

henry.codes/writing/a-website-

Fynn Ellie Be (@mvsde) · Jan 01
🔁 @henry:

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

henry.codes/writing/a-website-

Scott Kellum (@scott) · Jan 01
🔁 @henry:

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

henry.codes/writing/a-website-

alcinnz (@alcinnz) · Jan 01
🔁 @henry:

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

henry.codes/writing/a-website-

Ana Rodrigues (@anarodrigues) · Jan 01
🔁 @henry:

a few months ago i had the immense privilege to speak about Websites at @webdevconf in Bristol — i've taken some time to improve on these ideas and build a permanent online home for the essay, which i intend to grow and improve over time 🤍

henry.codes/writing/a-website-

Ethan Marcotte (@beep) · Jan 01
🔁 @henry:

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

henry.codes/writing/a-website-

Thomas Michael Semmler (@nachtfunke) · Jan 01
🔁 @henry:

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

henry.codes/writing/a-website-

Devine Lu Linvega (@neauoire) · Jan 01
🔁 @henry:

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

henry.codes/writing/a-website-

katherine (@kayserifserif) · Jan 01
🔁 @henry:

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

henry.codes/writing/a-website-

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We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack

thebaffler.com · Jan 01

Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.

Shared by @courtney and 12 others.
G. Gibson (@mistergibson) · Jan 01
🔁 @AkaSci:

Noah McCormack on China -

"China believes in education and literacy more than we do.

While Chinese schools are teaching students about AI’s impact on society—risks and biases in addition to basic learning—American schools are rushing headlong into serving AI slop ...

China is not a utopia, but its citizens have a brighter future than ours, and they will be able to read about it, thanks to a sociopolitical system that still sees literacy as necessary ..."

thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-
2/n

anilmc (@anilmc) · Jan 01
🔁 @AkaSci:

Noah McCormack:

"The history of literacy is the history of class.

AI has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education.

The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought; with the unemployed illiterate and addicted to screens, they are unlikely to be politicized and join a socialist campaign."

thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-
1/n

Fabian Laasch ⚡️🔋 (@FabianLaasch) · Jan 01
🔁 @AkaSci:

Noah McCormack on China -

"China believes in education and literacy more than we do.

While Chinese schools are teaching students about AI’s impact on society—risks and biases in addition to basic learning—American schools are rushing headlong into serving AI slop ...

China is not a utopia, but its citizens have a brighter future than ours, and they will be able to read about it, thanks to a sociopolitical system that still sees literacy as necessary ..."

thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-
2/n

Ron Dyck (@dyckron) · Jan 01
🔁 @AkaSci:

Noah McCormack:

"The history of literacy is the history of class.

AI has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education.

The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought; with the unemployed illiterate and addicted to screens, they are unlikely to be politicized and join a socialist campaign."

thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-
1/n

Baldur Bjarnason (@baldur) · Jan 01
🔁 @vaurora:

I ironically stopped reading halfway through this article and then noticed the open tab and finished it. It's worth reading the whole thing.

"We used to read things in this country"

thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-

Nicole Parsons (@Npars01) · Jan 01
🔁 @vaurora:

I ironically stopped reading halfway through this article and then noticed the open tab and finished it. It's worth reading the whole thing.

"We used to read things in this country"

thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-

Courtney (@courtney) · Jan 01
🔁 @vaurora:

I ironically stopped reading halfway through this article and then noticed the open tab and finished it. It's worth reading the whole thing.

"We used to read things in this country"

thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-

Roknrol (@roknrol) · Jan 01
🔁 @AkaSci:

Noah McCormack:

"The history of literacy is the history of class.

AI has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education.

The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought; with the unemployed illiterate and addicted to screens, they are unlikely to be politicized and join a socialist campaign."

thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-
1/n

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005

theguardian.com · Dec 31

Officials warned of major economic, environmental and social disruption to Australia due to its dependence on coal

Shared by @RealJournalism and 11 others.
Cruiser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 (@cruiser) · Jan 01
🔁 @Gunnric:

They knew. Australia's politicians absolutely knew back in 2005 how damaging #coal use was — and they didn’t tell us.
Even today, while some politicians still deny or downplay climate change and attack renewable energy, newly released documents show they were warned about the risks twenty years ago.

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005
theguardian.com/australia-news
1/3 #ClimateChange

hypebot (@hypebot) · Jan 01
🔁 @Gunnric:

They knew. Australia's politicians absolutely knew back in 2005 how damaging #coal use was — and they didn’t tell us.
Even today, while some politicians still deny or downplay climate change and attack renewable energy, newly released documents show they were warned about the risks twenty years ago.

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005
theguardian.com/australia-news
1/3 #ClimateChange

Jon Sullivan (@joncounts) · Jan 01
🔁 @Gunnric:

They knew. Australia's politicians absolutely knew back in 2005 how damaging #coal use was — and they didn’t tell us.
Even today, while some politicians still deny or downplay climate change and attack renewable energy, newly released documents show they were warned about the risks twenty years ago.

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005
theguardian.com/australia-news
1/3 #ClimateChange

Alec Roberts (@Gunnric) · Jan 01

They knew. Australia's politicians absolutely knew back in 2005 how damaging #coal use was — and they didn’t tell us.
Even today, while some politicians still deny or downplay climate change and attack renewable energy, newly released documents show they were warned about the risks twenty years ago.

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005
theguardian.com/australia-news
1/3 #ClimateChange

G. Gibson (@mistergibson) · Dec 31
🔁 @Snoro:

#Australia

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005

Officials warned of major economic, environmental and social disruption to Australia due to its dependence on coal

theguardian.com/australia-news

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Robert Sanscartier (@Snoro) · Dec 31

#Australia

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005

Officials warned of major economic, environmental and social disruption to Australia due to its dependence on coal

theguardian.com/australia-news

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Lenz Grimmer (@lenzgr) · Jan 01
🔁 @Gunnric:

They knew. Australia's politicians absolutely knew back in 2005 how damaging #coal use was — and they didn’t tell us.
Even today, while some politicians still deny or downplay climate change and attack renewable energy, newly released documents show they were warned about the risks twenty years ago.

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005
theguardian.com/australia-news
1/3 #ClimateChange

Worth reading

Shipping at Inference-Speed | Peter Steinberger

steipete.me · Dec 29

Why I stopped reading code and started watching it stream by.

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