Open Tab Bankruptcy, Q1 2025, Part I
Free to a good home: My Open Tabs!
It’s that time again, where I perform an Open Tab Balance Transfer from my Browser to Yours! Wednesdays in January, we work our way through all the tabs I wanted to do something with this year, but never quite figured out what. In roughly reverse-chronological order, as I work my way from right to left in Safari:
New Year, New You, New Tabs: Oh hell yes Today in Tabs is back, ish? Like Rusty says, New Year, New Tabs. If you didn’t already have these open, they’re New to You.
Never Forgive Them: Ed Zitron sums up his central thesis of the Rot Economy, and how it intersects with Doctorow’s “Enshittification Theory”, as well as explaining both “where AI came from” and “why are there so many updates.” Just phenomenal work, if you only click one link here, make it this one,
Casual Viewing | Issue 49 | n+1 | Will Tavlin: Will Tavlin answers the question “why does Netflix look like that?”
'A Complete Unknown': The Ballad of TOSHI: Merrill Markoe, who is the source of everything anyone liked about David Letterman’s show, asks the question “why is there this lady hanging around A Complete Unknown but never saying anything?” The answer will made you so mad!!
Cats can get bird flu from raw food. Here's how to protect them | AP News
The sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet' revealed by AI: The “AI” part is a little facetious, but maybe we’re gonna have Cetacean Ops after all. Seems like every 9–18 months we get another “we can almost talk to whales!” piece. I assume they know exactly what they’re doing and have been messing with us the whole time.
Porphyrios (whale) - Wikipedia: Speaking of whales, there was a whale that terrorized shipping outside of Byzantium for sixty years?! Excellent.
Every Game Has The Community It Deserves: how video game design shapes the community that builds up around it.
https://www.codingfont.com: yeah, here we go, it’s a bracket to determine your favorite monospaced font, basically my catnip.
Next Wednesday: more tabs!