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Fifteen thousand tickets. That’s the number being thrown around in connection with the cancelled Candace Owens tour, and I’ll be honest, it took me a moment to process that. I don’t know if it’s accurate. The figure apparently comes from a Turning Point Australia spokesperson who has every incentive to inflate it, and the Guardian doesn’t seem to have verified it independently. Could be …

Someone posted online recently asking where people do their grocery shopping. Simple enough question. The thread ran long and the range of answers was genuinely interesting, not because anyone said anything revolutionary, but because it illustrated just how much cognitive load the average household is quietly carrying around something as mundane as buying butter beans. The short answer from most people: Aldi for the …

There’s a particular kind of Reddit thread that I find oddly comforting. Not the big political ones, not the outrage loops. The ones where someone posts a photo of their grotty shower and forty strangers immediately mobilise to help. No agenda. Just people who have, at some point, also stared at a discoloured shower floor and felt personally defeated by it. This week I fell into exactly one of those threads.

Fifteen dollars. For a can. At Rod Laver Arena. The person who posted about it bought it anyway, which is the correct and honest thing to admit. We all do it. You’re already there, you’re thirsty, the thing is in front of you, and the social friction of saying no feels worse in the moment than the financial sting. Venues know this. It is, in fact, the entire business model.

There’s a piece going around arguing that governments are breaking the internet in the name of child safety, and that forcing ISPs to ship routers with default family DNS filters would be a far cleaner solution. It’s a reasonable technical argument. The problem is it’s solving for the stated goal, and a lot of people are skeptical that the stated goal is the actual goal. That scepticism is fair. …

There’s a headline that crossed my feed last week that I’ve been sitting with. The FBI Director, Kash Patel, runs a merchandise site called BasedApparel.com. The site was caught serving a ClickFix malware attack to visitors, the kind where a fake Cloudflare prompt tricks you into running a malicious command in Terminal. Someone compromised a legitimate but poorly secured site and turned it into a …

So Plex has basically killed the Lifetime Pass. The price jumped to $250 USD before they stopped selling it altogether, and the online discourse has predictably split into two camps: people saying “just switch to Jellyfin, it’s easy,” and people who’ve actually tried to switch everyone in their family to Jellyfin. Those are very different groups. I’ve been following this closely because …

There’s a particular kind of excitement that lives in corners of the internet where people argue about quantisation formats and token generation speeds. It is extremely nerdy. It is also, if you care about who gets to use powerful AI tools, genuinely important. Qwen 3.7 dropped recently, and the announcement sent certain communities into a state that I can only describe as “physiologically …

There’s a line doing the rounds this week from an investment commentary piece that’s worth sitting with for a moment: “They’re not sophisticated investors. They’re policy dependents.” It’s a clean hit. The kind of sentence that gets screenshot and shared before people have properly thought about whether they agree with it. And I’ve been turning it over for a couple of …

Google’s Antigravity 2.0 apparently used 96 agents running in parallel to write an operating system from scratch in 12 hours for under a thousand US dollars in token costs. And it runs Doom. That’s the claim, anyway. The Doom thing has become a genuine benchmark meme at this point. Someone ran Doom on a pregnancy test display a few years back. Doom runs on ESP32 microcontrollers. Doom runs on graphing …