Notes for July 28, 2026

Disney Has Met With Macaulay Culkin About New Home Alone Movie: Report

“I’m either a widower or a divorcee. I’m raising a kid and all that stuff. I’m working really hard and I’m not really paying enough attention, and the kid is kind of getting miffed at me, and then I get locked out,” Culkin explained. “My son won’t let me in,” he continued. “And he’s the one setting traps for me. The house is some sort of metaphor for our relationship.”

Killer whales sink another boat off the coast of Spain — why are they still doing this after 6 years?

The whales are alright 🤙

Stop Talking To Me, Google Search

One thing that bugs me about this is the assumptions these offers make about why I’m searching for something. This is by design–Google wrote in the blog post about its May update that the new search is “[d]esigned to anticipate your intent.”

They're giving computers anxiety as a feature. I don't want a search engine to try and anticipate what I might want to search. I'm not in that big of a hurry. Take your time and relax, little robot.

Jeffrey Inscho

I love the idea of smashing the machines that consolidate power and marginalize swaths of people, but the internet is not the enemy here. If anything, the (responsibly used) internet could be a key enabler and vehicle for growing the movement to smash the machines.

I like this take. There's a balance between high tech AI everything and living in the stone age, you know? I've always been a tech nerd, but I think at some point we need to forget about progress for the sake of progress and just slow down. My favorite video games were all made in the 90s. I like stuff recorded on analog equipment and listening to vinyl. I wear a wrist watch that does nothing but tell the time. I don't even hate AI entirely, I just think we need to slow the fuck down and live in the present sometimes.

Miyamoto was pleased the Switch lasted 8 or 9 years, believes customers ‘aren’t always looking for the best specs’

What draws people to Nintendo consoles, then? Obviously, the unique games it creates. “At Nintendo we always offer ‘styles of play that only we can create,’ and this includes the [hardware] interface,” Miyamoto states. Comparing the Switch to smartphones, he elaborates, “Our console has the benefit of being faster and more flexible [to develop for] compared to smartphones. When creating for general-use platforms, the workload is higher as you have to ensure it is compatible with all versions [of smart device].”

I can't even tell you how hard PlayStation and Xbox people try to convince me not to buy Nintendo products. Before I bought the OLED switch, all of my friends told me it's a waste of money because the specs are shit and none of the good games are available for it. Meanwhile I'm having a blast playing the retro console catalogues you get with Switch Online, all of the Mario games, Borderlands 1-3, and every metroidvania I can get my hands on.

I don't like realistic war simulators, or racing simulators... I don't like any super realistic games tbh. I want to get baked and jump inside of a cartoon. Nintendo has had that locked down since the 80s. I'm going to hang on to my OLED Switch until they launch a Switch 2 with the OLED screen; I literally couldn't care less about specs.

...although I am a little bummed out I haven't been able to play Borderlands 4 yet.