Interesting Things on the Internet: March 23rd 2026 Edition

• I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over.. All this biometrics in place of passwords and the like is a terrible idea. And this is why we need the private options to be just as convenient to use as the ones harvesting our data.
• The unlikely story of an e-mail time machine. Turns out people, not corporations or capitalism, are our bests bet for the long-term. Who knew?
• Who Will Remember Us When The Servers Go Dark? A long, but interesting, essay on the cloud and how its physicality is what actually gives it real ephemerality.
• I work, I think? “what I think we’re struggling to hold onto right now is that the question was never really about the technology. It was about power. Who controls the conditions of work. Who benefits from changes to those conditions. Who bears the cost.”
• Reformed “a reform maintains the old world, often under cover. While a non-reformist reform demands that we build a new world, one in which all humans and the more-than-human world can thrive.”
• Life Inside a Singular Artists’ Enclave in Brooklyn | “The Candy Factory” | The New Yorker. We need more spaces like this. And less reliance on generous benefactors to get them.
• vibe coding is like quick-set cement with superglue, you can only pour and set once”. If and when you need to make any changes, it’s a complete redo, including removing what is already there. This was an interesting way to think about AI.
• March, 19-21: God is a comedian. There are too many bits of this to pick a quote in this farcical-but-just-stating-the-truth account of the US/Israeli war in Iran. I’d say that we live in the dumbest timeline but I don’t want to encourage them to see if they can go further.