Frank Sonderborg
A North Sider. A story teller living in an absurd world. A narrator, teller of tales, spinner of yarns. Frank Sonderborg was born in Ireland, lives in the UK, and sometimes in Spain. And does his best to write interesting stories. His short stories have appeared in various UK & USA publications. Mastodon something write.
Let's face it. Microsoft has built Windows with the assumption that you're using your PC on a daily basis and perhaps even leaving it on when you go to sleep at night so that it can reboot while you catch some ZZZs. If you have a PC in a drawer that you only pull out on occasion or after weeks of inactivity, Redmond intends to punish you with long wait times and annoying alerts demanding that you reboot to install an update.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/14/windows_update_torture/
On May 8, 2026, graduates at the University of Central Florida (UCF) loudly booed commencement speaker Gloria Caulfield after she praised artificial intelligence as the "next industrial revolution"
The incident occurred during the ceremony for the College of Arts and Humanities and the Nicholson School of Communication and Media Graduates, many entering creative fields directly impacted by AI, reacted with visible disdain to Caulfield's optimistic framing of the technology
(Read da fucking room)
I have heard the hairy German girls legs were a big hit with the GI Joe's after the war. As it was quite the hairy experience, after their smooth shaved US sweethearts.
After their stints in jail, the brothers worked their way back into the tech world. In 2023, Muneeb got a job with a Washington, DC, firm that sold software and services to 45 federal clients; Sohaib got a job at the same company a year later.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/
It also highlighted that AI is erasing the line between legitimate and malicious activity, making intent – not identity – the new security challenge. APIs and identity systems are primary targets, with attackers bypassing front-end defenses to exploit core business logic at scale, according to the report.
https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/ai-bot-traffic-attacks-surged
The 2023 study found that the feral dogs living near the Chernobyl Power Plant showed distinct genetic differences from dogs living only some 10 miles away in nearby Chernobyl City. While this may seem to suggest that these dogs have undergone some type of rapid mutation or evolution due to radiation exposure, this study is only a first step in proving that hypothesis.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a71241922/chernobyl-dogs-dna-rapid-evolution-research/
"The money was all exchanged off the books, in suitcases or bags, in cash. The organisation was based in Belgium and had contacts in individual European countries whose role was to find wealthy clients."
https://www.ladbible.com/news/crime/human-safari-sniper-government-file-934053-20260511
Among other things, mutation and cross-breeding are "in". There is the so-called "Frankenshoe",
Then there's also the snoafer (the sneaker and loafer), which The Wall Street Journal coined "the footwear equivalent of the spork"; and the loafer boot, which is spared its own portmanteau but which Vogue says has the ladylike "sensibility of a top-handle bag".
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260512-how-the-ugly-shoe-took-over-fashion
Watching at home “is a lower risk way to try something new” and that financial pressure was a key reason that they attended in-person theatre less often than they would like. Indigo’s report states that “there is very little evidence that filmed theatre reduces in-person attendance of theatre overall” and that 93% of survey respondents who saw at least one filmed theatre production in the cinema or via streaming also attended a performance in person.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/may/11/theatre-streaming-in-person-attendance-national-theatre-nt-live-at-home
We can be pretty sure that the world changed, for good, one day about 65.95 million years ago, when a lump of interplanetary rock, 10-15 kilometres wide, crashed into the Yucatan peninsula in New Mexico, causing a massive explosion, a huge crater, wild fires and a planetary tsunami The resulting pall of dust, ash and smoke encircled the globe, blotting out the sun for months, probably years. The global dust-cloud changed the climate for-ever.
https://coffeeinthesquare.substack.com/p/the-wheatly-bulletin-april-2026
Mercor, Outlier, Task-ify, Turing, Handshake, and Micro1 are platforms that connect human experts to AI labs for training data creation, often paying freelancers $60–$200 per hour for tasks like prompt writing and response evaluation. These companies support major players like Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic by providing customized datasets through remote contractors.
( In reality they can pay as little as $16 an hour. It's the modern day digital sweatslop. Lipsticking the Ai 🐷 )
This is the way;+(
I understood the importance of cultivating a professional network. But that email was a jolt — and an introduction to a certain group of people whom we lived among but who, we were realizing, saw the world differently. To me, she was a friend, which is someone to share struggles with. To her, I realized, we were also nodes in a network — of people who might one day connect you to opportunity. She had gone home and realized vulnerability was a liability.
https://the.ink/
