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My 8-year-old has just got into Lego and I’m left wondering if Lego bricks are smaller than they used to be, or if I’m just bigger.

Exactly what I've been asking: why would anyone want a humanoid robot? I'm sure there are some niche use cases, but there are better form factors for most tasks, and does anyone really want robots walking around their home or workplace?

👀 Zelenskyy offers to step down in exchange for peace and Ukraine’s Nato membership

Wow. The Bessent FT op-ed on the US economic development plan for Ukraine is quite something. This is a nineteenth century great power behaviour. www.ft.com/content/91a7...

just one of the many wild, insane, illegal elements of this is that many (most?) federal workers don't have a way to login to their email from home (bc of security reasons) unless they happened to take their secure work laptop home for the weekend - which, ofc, very few people do

This is the America I like…

love to read user reviews

I wish I, as a Brit living in the UK, didn’t have to care about the German elections, but this is a big test for the future of Europe.

Again: tech journalism is meeting this moment in a way the mainstream establishment newspapers and cable channels just aren’t. I can’t emphasize enough what a big deal this is.

DOGE’s accounting of its “savings” is riddled with sloppy mistakes. The five largest cuts that it listed on its website earlier this week were all incorrect — making the savings look far larger than they were in reality.

Thanks to the UK government for leading us to a point where iCloud is less secure for your citizens. Madness. No backdoors! Encryption for all! Let the intelligence community do some work to get the specific data they need!

Surely there’s room for a ‘James Bond retires to Ramsay Street’ spin-off.

Decided that 'Boar on the Floor' and 'Defiant Jazz' are the two best scenes in modern televison.

This is the only actually funny Amazon/Bond post I've seen so far

X’s “turnaround” just as it’s reportedly raising a funding round at a glue-sniffingly high $44bn valuation is…. interesting.

Protection racket vibes: "The message was clear, according to several people with knowledge of the conversation: Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else."

This is one of those 'I bet this would have been dealt with years ago if it was a problem most men could relate to' things' PeriPear is tackling a serious, and expensive, risk in childbirth: perineal tears

"When reporters called this out, the DOGE team made a fascinating choice. Instead of fixing their error, they actually removed the correct document from their website and replaced it with the old, incorrect one. They are now deliberately posting false information to support the narrative." No words.

*extremely ‘I write editorial comment for the FT’ voice*. Completely agree with this and also feel like it’s in part a manifestation of how UK has turned inwards. Even much of the political class seems unaware of how important and significant all this is for UK prosperity and security.

man this is legit no different than a 4chan /pol/ post. like truly no difference, down to the ASMR gag. from the white house account.

This is absolutely the Twitter Files for the government. Elon wanted to humiliate his enemies. But what Twitter Files showed was generally careful governance, some bad calls, & stuff taken out of context by “journalists” who didn’t understand the basics. Same here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

Seeing @manchestermill.bsky.social uncover stories like this makes me wonder how many scandals go completely unreported around the country due to poor funding of local news media.

Quite literally testing the waters: “The Australian navy is shadowing Chinese warships 150 nautical miles east of Sydney, the furthest China’s navy has sailed down the eastern Australian coast.”

Seems fair. Now let me take a big sip of coffee and find out what's happening with that asteroid

New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

96.9% chance it won’t… right? Right?!