I moved my blog from Leaflet back to Micro.blog, but I already paid for a yearly subscription to Leaflet, so I'm going to see how it goes using it for my weeknotes. You can sign up by email or on the Atmosphere and get a weekly update on my favorite links and blog posts for the previous week, delivered every Friday. Except for today. I realized it's only Thursday after I posted this, but it's ok because now my very first post here won't have been made on 9/11. Anyway, here's some links.


RSS is still my prefered feed format
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RSS is still my prefered feed format

But atproto might take that place soon

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But what if we didn’t have to build on top of RSS? What if… and hear me out, what if we used atproto for this!

I do like how standard.site is becoming its own RSS-adjacent thing. Standard Reader is really nice. A lot of stuff on ATProto is but I’m always afraid I’m putting all my eggs into one basket with something so new. I’m on Bluesky, and at one point I was using Leaflet for my blog, Standard Reader, and Skyfeed for RSS. The fact that RSS has been around nearly 30 years is a selling point for me even if it isn’t as feature-rich as what’s on ATProto.


Shadow AI is already inside your company. Here's how to get control of it
Four in five AI tools observed by Reco operated without IT oversight, with small companies averaging 414 unsanctioned AI tools per 1,000 employees. IBM found shadow AI added $670,000 to breach costs. Discovery is only the beginning.
https://thenextweb.com/news/shadow-ai-enterprise-security-reco-control
“A tool that looks like a harmless assistant may have permission to read email, summarize files, access customer records, connect to ticketing systems or interact with source-code repositories,”

Reminds me of how everyone had a dozen of those sketchy spyware browser toolbars like BonziBuddy in the 90s and early 2000s but worse.


Meet the Guy Who Just Trademarked 'The S Thing'
I asked Mark May if he'll use his trademark to sue kids.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-guy-who-just-trademarked-the-s-thing-cool-s-pointy-s-stussy-s/
“But drawing the S thing was addictive, and in the same way I found myself completely addicted to the history, mystery and magic of the symbol. I just wanted to invest and continue.”

Son of a bitch. Someone registered a trademark for that cool millennial “S”. And this article is six years old even


SuperAstra Can Change Games In Real Time, But Does It Erase Their Spirit & Threaten Traditional Development?
My usual routine when starting a day here at Retro Dodo is getting up and looking through news posts with a cup of tea, before writing articles on exciting achievements and new releases in the Retro Gaming world. But I've seen something this morning that I'm not sure
https://retrododo.com/superastra-can-change-games-in-real-time-but-does-it-erase-their-spirit-threaten-traditional-development/
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?

How many LGBTQ+ adults are in Ohio? New research says it’s astronomically higher than we thought.
Ohio joins the 40 states with an LGBTQ+ population greater than 10%.
https://thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/09/08/how-many-lgbtq-adults-are-in-ohio/
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 ✊


Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Launches On Switch 2 On 5th November 2026
The GOAT, modernised
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/09/zelda-ocarina-of-time-launches-on-switch-2-on-5th-november-2026
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.


Parents are taking their children to see R-rated horror film Buddy thinking it’s a kids movie - Dexerto
Buddy, the horror movie about a homicidal cartoon unicorn, just tricked a wave of parents into theater seats next to their toddlers.
https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/parents-are-taking-their-children-to-see-r-rated-horror-film-buddy-thinking-its-a-kids-movie-3406819/
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.


Scientists Say LLMs Appear to Be Acting as a Cognitive Virus Among Humans
AI's wide proliferation shares some striking similarities with the ways viruses spread, as an international team of researchers argue.
https://futurism.com/future-society/llms-acting-as-cognitive-virus-among-humans
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.


The Trick To Stop Speeding Drivers Is Actually More Green Lights
To cut down on speeding, some cities are experimenting with timing traffic lights so drivers who do the speed limit can ride an endless wave of green.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/traffic-experts-are-tricking-drivers-into-slowing-down-with-more-green-lights
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.


The iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro
One year later and it feels like both the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air could be announced tomorrow, not a year ago, and would seem fresh and exciting.
https://daringfireball.net/2026/09/the_iphone_air_and_iphone_17_pro
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.


A shocking 92 percent of US adults not going to the doctor because it’s too expensive
The decision to delay medical care involves multiple factors, including gender - women are more likely to put off care than men
https://www.independent.co.uk/us/money/us-medical-costs-doctors-health-insurance-b3026479.html
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 🤷


Grand Theft Automated License Plate Reader - Waxy.org
https://waxy.org/2026/09/grand-theft-automated-license-plate-reader/
Morry Kolman made a GTA V mod that adds 235 Flock cameras around Los Santos, earn cash by destroying them

This is ridiculous lol