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September 9, 2026

A shocking 92 percent of US adults are not going to the doctor because it’s too expensive (opens in a new tab)

Those aged 18 to 28 are the most likely to delay or avoid care because of cost (94.2 percent), followed by those aged 29 to 44.

I mean, yeah. Health insurance where I work would cost almost as much as my rent every month and there’s a huge deductible. I can’t even imagine the luxury of actually going to the doctor for something 🤷

via independent.co.uk (opens in a new tab)

September 8, 2026

John Gruber on the iPhone Air (opens in a new tab)

The iPhone Air is the nicest phone Apple has ever made, and probably the nicest device Apple has ever made, period. It’s just so goddamn nice.

I’ve had mine for almost exactly a year now, and I agree. It’s the nicest goddamn phone I’ve ever owned, and I still feel that way every day that I wake up and commence the doomscrolling. And yes; I bought the dumb Apple-branded battery pack and I love it, even though it turns the thinnest iPhone ever into the thickest iPhone ever.

via daringfireball.net (opens in a new tab)

Cities Are Slowing Down Speeding Drivers With More Green Lights—and It's Working (opens in a new tab)

It’s called “rest in red,” and in cities where the approach has been pioneered, it’s both promoting better flow and moderating driver speeds, resulting in fewer accidents.

I could get behind this. The light to turn onto my street stays green long enough to let EXACTLY three cars through, if the first in line punches the gas the second it turns green. I’m definitely speeding if it looks like I can make it. Otherwise I’m sitting there for five minutes waiting to turn left, whether there’s traffic or not.

via thedrive.com (opens in a new tab)

Scientists Say LLMs Appear to Be Acting as a Cognitive Virus Among Humans (opens in a new tab)

AI’s wide proliferation shares some striking similarities with the ways viruses spread, as an international team of researchers argue in a new paper that has yet to be peer reviewed. They set out to lay out a new theoretical framework about how we’re increasingly becoming hooked on tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude, and how it’s changing our collective ways of understanding the world around us.

Thought this was interesting. You either love it or hate it; either way it’s spreading like a virus.

via futurism.com (opens in a new tab)

Parents are taking their children to see R-rated horror film Buddy thinking it’s a kids movie (opens in a new tab)

Somewhere inside that success, theater workers and moviegoers started reporting kids as young as eight in the audience for a giant orange mascot’s murder spree. According to TheMirror, some parents blamed the cinema once they realized what they had walked into.

I remember watching Jack Frost when I was about that age. I’m still a little creeped out by snowmen.

via dexerto.com (opens in a new tab)

Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Launches On Switch 2 On 5th November 2026 (opens in a new tab)

Essentially, it seems to mostly be a 1:1 remake, but exceptionally modernised with revamped environments and additional quality-of-life improvements.

My favorite Zelda games are the old top down ones, like A Link to the Past, Link’s Awakening, the Oracle of Seasons/Ages, and Minish Cap. OoT still hits for me because it was the first one I ever played. Walking out of the Temple of Time as adult Link was the most epic thing I ever experienced in a game as a kid. Gonna be hard not to buy a Switch 2 right away.

via nintendolife.com (opens in a new tab)

How many LGBTQ+ adults are in Ohio? (opens in a new tab)

In Ohio, the new analysis determined that 11.29% of state residents are LGBTQ+ adults, roughly 883,000 people…“We’re not a niche constituency, and no campaign, brand or employer can afford to treat us like one,” HRC President Kelley Robinson said in a statement.

We’re here and we’re queer ✊

via thebuckeyeflame.com (opens in a new tab)

SuperAstra Can Change Games In Real Time, But Does It Erase Their Spirit & Threaten Traditional Development? (opens in a new tab)

If you can create something yourself, you should do it, but in my opinion, having a programme that can change levels of existing games without any knowledge is a no go. You wouldn’t change a book halfway through; you wouldn’t change the outcome of a film halfway through; and you shouldn’t be changing assets of a game on the fly either, because what is the point of the original developer putting all of that hard work into something?

via retrododo.com (opens in a new tab)