What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
Armin Ronacher, who even very recently has previously has been very pro ai agent vibecoding to the point of criticizing critics, seems to have stepped back and asked the question: are AI coding agent users all experiencing mass delusion... including himself? https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/
Conversation on lobste.rs is also interesting https://lobste.rs/s/0pxvyd/agent_psychosis_are_we_going_insane
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
The Handbasket: Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
"...It’s an image that will knock you sideways: As snow falls, an elderly man wearing nothing but blue boxers and white Crocs with his hands restrained behind his back is forced out of his home by ICE agents. .... ChongLy Scott Thao, also known as Saly, is a Hmong American born in Laos who has lived here most of his life. Born in a Laos refugee camp, he’s a US citizen, and St. Paul, Minnesota is his home. ...Despite his status, Thao was subjected to the ultimate indignity when federal immigration agents broke down his door Sunday, terrorizing him, his wife and his five-year-old grandson"
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-st-paul-chongly-scott-thao-saly-hmong-us-citizen-arrest
President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.
The trump administration’s National Security Strategy made it official:
The American-dominated liberal world order is over.
This is not because the United States proved materially incapable of sustaining it.
Rather, the American order is over because the United States has decided that it no longer wishes to play its historically unprecedented role of providing global security.
The American might that upheld the world order of the past 80 years will now be used instead to destroy it.
The other day I was browsing my one-and-only social network -- which is not a social network, but I'm tired of arguing with people online about it -- HackerNews...
Razer’s Min-Liang Tan on AI backlash, partnering with Grok, and the future of gaming.
Q&A with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan on the use of AI in game development, the gaming community's pushback against AI, partnering with Grok, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/863361/razer-ceo-min-liang-tan-ces-2026-ai-gaming-project-ava-interview
http://www.techmeme.com/260119/p23#a260119p23
This shocking moment is the outcome of a political, institutional and media environment that is not far off Britain’s, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
Nesrine Malik wonders whether what is happening in Minnesota with ICE agents & law enforcement could also happen in the UK?
As she argues, such developments do not come out of nowhere, but are the result of gradual shifts in plain sight that tip over into actual/practical authoritarianism without any great declaration.
While the UK may be different in many ways from Second Trump Term USA, it is *not* so far away that her concerns are misplaced!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/19/ice-crackdown-britain
The Xteink X4 fits on the back of an iPhone Pro Max, but that’s all. Late last year, a bunch of people, knowing that I love e-readers, asked me if I was going to try the Xteink X4, a $69 tiny…
Always-on music recognition for your Mac. Local first. Supports scrobbling to Last.fm and ListenBrainz, writing to local files, automation.
Here's my new #macOS app. I hope you guys like #music!
*Listening Post* brings always-on music recognition to your Mac. Supports scrobbling to Last.fm and ListenBrainz, Apple Music, writing to local files, and automation. With a bit of #LocalFirst and #DigitalSovereignty baked in. (Still uses big tech for some features, because I'm not a sorcerer.)
PUBLIC BETA! Help me test this thing, please 😅
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