Security
This site lets you check if your license plate has been searched in the Flock database: HaveIBeenFlocked Flock's invasive surveillance cameras are frequently used for stalking, and are notoriously insecure. Use HaveIBeenFlocked to see if your license plate has been searched, with details about who is searching for it, and why. Information in HIBF is sourced from public FOIA requests.
Art
This vehicle is a piece of history and a work of art: Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car.
Another thoughtfully designed interactive article from pudding.cool. Love Story.
AI
The Atlantic with a report on how your search results are being "sloptimized"
According to Shopify, the best e-commerce platform is Shopify. On its blog, the company has published at least 60 different ranked listicles, including “10 Best Ecommerce Platforms for Small Business in 2026,” “11 Best Ecommerce Platforms for Your Business in 2026,” “The 11 Best Cheap Ecommerce Platforms for Small Business (2026),” and “Best Ecommerce Software 2026: Compare 11 Top Platforms.” The competitors that come in second and beyond vary, but the No. 1 pick is always Shopify.
PewDiePie surprising me yet again, with an open-source, local agentic AI platform: Odysseus
A thoughtful piece on the way AI is an enabler of casual, carefree malfeasance.
The easy, “you can have it a moment after you think it” power of generative AI removes the “hold on and think about this” part of the process. In effect, AI enables us to gulp down our ethical questions, instead of stopping and savoring them.
Just for Fun
Cosmodial gives an AR view of the night sky in your browser