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🌐 I loved Arc. Is Dia my next browser? /// A Better Computer

2025-06-03 03:35:00

Man, what a shit show over at The Browser Company. Based on Matt’s experiences, even as an alpha, this is uninspiring. This is going to end up being exhibit A for what happens when VC and buzzwords get take over a product and and send everyone far up their own asses.

🌿 The Garden /// Despatches from The Satyrs’ Forest

2025-06-02 22:55:00

A killer little personal indie site discovery I made recently via the newly created and awesome feed aggregator of indie sites powRSS from Pablo Enoc.

🏛️ Illinois Lawmakers Ban Police From Ticketing and Fining Students for Minor Infractions in School /// Propublica

2025-06-02 07:44:00

The Price Kids Pay” found that thousands of Illinois students had been ticketed in recent years for adolescent behavior once handled by the principal’s office — things like littering, making loud noises, swearing, fighting or vaping in the bathroom. It also found that Black students were twice as likely to be ticketed at school than their white peers.

Illinois continues to lead the way under Pritzker—you love to see it. Police just shouldn’t be hassling people—their job is to serve and protect, not harass and bully.

2025-05-30 00:37:00

People often conflate business,” finance,” and economy.” While they are related and intertwined, they are not the same thing and implications from one can have a completely different effect on the other. (Yes, this is also about AI.)

🔧 Hex raises a $70 million Series C to double down on data in the AI era /// Fortune

2025-05-30 00:33:00

🔧 Hex raises a $70 million Series C to double down on data in the AI era /// Fortune

80% to 90% of the attention and focus for data teams goes to cranking out dashboards, but 80% to 90% of the useful questions actually driving decisions aren’t answerable by a dashboard.”

Okay, how about some positivity on the topic for once…

I can’t speak to the veracity of those numbers, but it rings true to my experience. You spend all this time building self-serve dashboards, but every opportunity is unique and the people trying to get to the data aren’t necessarily the best person to be able to make the data actionable.

So if Hex is able to not piggyback off of OpenAI and source data ethically, whether they provide it or they analyze a companies existing dataset, I can actually see a future for Hex.

🍪 NVIDIA’s growth is insane (duh, but still) /// Birchtree

2025-05-30 00:22:00

🍪 NVIDIAs growth is insane (duh, but still) /// Birchtree

The reported a record $3.8 billion in gaming revenue, but that is dwarfed by the $39 billion they made from data center” revenue. All things said, they brought in $44 billion in the quarter.

20x increase in revenue from data centers, but obviously1 there’s still no environmental impact2.


  1. the sass is here to stay↩︎

  2. which is only one of five real concerns to begin with…↩︎