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March 10th, 2026 @ 12:13 pm PDT

Daily David

The only sound that’s left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

  • Elephant - johansiggesson.comI love these Big Tuskers! – via johansiggesson.com
  • Why Apple's Move to Video Could Endanger Podcasting’s Greatest Power
  • I haven’t been able to play the best video game ever made — Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (1997) — in over a quarter of a century, though I still have my old Microsoft Sidewinder in storage somewhere for it. Could the DOS Retro-Emulation Arena for Maniac Mansion™ (DREAMM) allow me to play on a Mac? We shall learn soon!
  • Speaking of Mac software, I am not sure if I’ve ever mentioned how much I love Grand Perspective. If you are a Mac user, this is a must-have utility for analyzing where all your hard drive space is being used. I’ve had it for years and years and use it often.
  • Are prediction markets just sports betting by another name? is a good primer on all the hooplah around them if you’re interested in that sort of thing.
  • A new meta-analysis of nearly 100,000 people found that the more you watch short-form videos, the more likely you are to struggle with attention and cognitive control. The scientists found that watching short-form videos affects your ability to stop impulses and redirect focus. And it had a negative effect on mental health, specifically increasing stress and anxiety. – via Arnold’s Pump Club
  • Goonies Never Say Die is a lovely essay by Dan Sinker that hit this GenXer right in the feels.
  • A Rant about Daylight Saving Time: Chronobiologists and sleep researchers have reached a near-unanimous conclusion that making Daylight Saving Time permanent would subject the entire population to a kind of chronic, low-grade jet lag, one that never resolves because the clocks are perpetually misaligned with the sun.
  • Do you have any ancestors who were from Canada? Great news: You are eligible for Canadian citizenship. – via my dad
  • imagine writing not one but two massive epic poems so good they're studied and referenced 2700 years later and still only being the second-most culturally relevant HomerI don’t understand why the 1983 classic WarGames – one of my all-time favorite movies – isn’t required viewing for anyone and everyone who works in any way, shape, or form with the United States military, because AI really likes using nuclear weapons in simulated war scenarios.
  • Radiohead tells ICE to take down a video using their song, writing, “It ain’t funny, this song means a lot to us and other people, and you don’t get to appropriate it without a fight. Also, go fuck yourselves.”
  • The US struck an Iranian school where a blast killed at least 165.

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