“Sometime in the last twenty years, our possessions came alive.

Not all at once. Not dramatically. One by one, the objects in our lives opened their eyes, found our faces, and began to need us.

Your thermostat has opinions now. Your television requires a login. Your car updates itself overnight, and sometimes when you start it in the morning, the interface has rearranged itself, as if someone broke in and reorganized your dashboard while you slept.

Your earbuds won't play music until they've updated their firmware. Your refrigerator wants to be on your Wi-Fi.

None of this is broken. This is the product functioning as designed.”

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

Pokémon Go players thought they were catching Pikachus.

They were actually building the nervous system for robot civilization.

500M humans. 30B images. Zero consent forms.

The game was the harvest.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1134099/how-pokemon-go-is-helping-robots-deliver-pizza-on-time/

Not to toot our own horns but I feel like we packed so much in this one hour panel with Karen Hao and John Palfrey.

You can find the recording at https://www.youtube.com/live/I1tJnM81NCM

RE: https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/116235195125815896

if you feel uncomfortable reading that your favourite code writing helper is delivered to you by a company that supports creation of the totalitarian state and works closely with concentration camp administrators, good.

it fucking should make you uncomfortable.

#picotron 0.2.2 is up on lexaloffle and humble: https://picotron.net

- Splore (ctrl-1 to toggle fullscreen!)
- Native Window Exports
- Search Across Files
- File chooser() / Generalised Drag & Drop
- Updated Manual with more sections & examples

Changelog: https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/picotron_changelog.txt