The idea that Donald Trump was a temporary anomaly in American politics that will go back to normal when he’s gone is sadly mistaken. He is a symptom, not the cause.

He recognized that 40% of the electorate loves white supremacy and if you throw in homophobia/transphobia and low taxes, you could get up to 50%.

Now the masks are off and they aren’t going back on.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists

Writers: Generative AI models were built on our stolen works, are deeply unethical, and risk devaluing our entire profession.

Artists: Generative AI models were built on our stolen works, are deeply unethical, and risk devaluing our entire profession.

Developers: Wheeeeeeeeee!

Seems like a dam is (finally) breaking; here's just a small set of the "wow, Apple...really?" posts from the past week:

https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2026/tim-cook-sold-apples-soul/
https://om.co/2026/01/27/a-ceo-captured/
https://spyglass.org/tim-cook-captured/
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis-no-5

Liz Lopatto, Anil Dash, and Charlie Warzel were far ahead on all of this.

Australia is BURNING

Tuesday’s temperatures reached record-breaking levels in Victoria—49°C—forcing more than 1,000 people to evacuate due to extreme fire danger and leaving thousands of animals without food, water, shelter, or safety. The situation is also dire in New South Wales, with catastrophic temperatures forecast to hit wildlife hard, especially flying foxes whose population is decimated.

You will probably hear nothing about this on the news, but it's happening

#ClimateChange

CSS module scripts landed in Firefox 147, so you can import CSS directly into JavaScript.

Docs:

Import attributes https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/import/with
CSSStyleSheet https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSSStyleSheet

30yrs ago, I started using the internet as an escape from reality.

These last few years, I've started using reality as an escape from the internet.

The 50-year quest to replace developers

❌ 1970: COBOL
❌ 1980: CASE tools
❌ 1990: Visual Basic
❌ 2000: Low/No-Code
❓ 2020: #AI

Result? We need more skilled developers than ever.
Blocker isn't the code; it's the complexity. 🧑‍💻💡

By Stephan Schwab
https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html

The ethical case against using LLMs for work is straightforward and unambiguous

The productivity case against using LLMs for work is complex and requires an understanding of volatility, variability, biases, security issues, lock-in, and more

But it turns out that if you don’t have any time for ethics, you also don’t have any time for understanding complex systems, so neither case matters to them