Patrick Tanguay
Autodidact. Generalist. Synthesist. I write Sentiers, a carefully curated weekly newsletter on the futures of technology, society, and culture. @inevernu@social.coop
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- Tired: JFGI Wired: JFAAI
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- New word alert. Credit @solarshades.club www.solarshades.club/p/the-kids-a...
- With all this talk of Greenland, I recommend having a look at a map that doesn't make it look as big as North America. Personal favourite, Fuller's Dymaxion projection. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxio...
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- Loved Carney's speech in Davos (didn't have that on my bingo card) but I can't stop imagining people in small and/or poorer countries thinking "bro, unequal world order? D'uh! we could have told you this decades ago, nice of you to finally catch on."
- I'm assuming this has already been memefied?
- My iPad upgraded to iOS 26 a couple of hours ago, without asking. What the hell is this redesign? We're they trying to break everything on purpose?? (I know, it's been around, I've just been dodging news of this 💩. Microsoftian changes.)
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- He should have renamed the company to FacePalm instead of Meta. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ gizmodo.com/meta-reporte...
- Hard to disagree.
- Perfect title, no notes. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/c...
- In case you're like me and wonder, every few hours, what have they done now? I threw this together ... a year ago? whathavetheydone.now
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- Really looking forward to my shoelaces' look back on 2025, I think it'd the only review I haven't received yet.
- In my opinion, it's not at all impossible that Melon Husk's name ends up going down in history not as a real life Tony Stark, but as the guy who caused the Kessler effects that ruins space for everyone. techstartups.com/2025/12/18/s... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler...
- Plur1bus but not focused on uber-Karen. Who's with me?
- Reposted by Patrick TanguayThis news is all over my timeline, but it might not be making its way into yours, so I’m making sure it is. It is a very bad development for both science and maintaining a safe society.
- So if I understand correctly, every app icon "upgrade" for IOS now needs to look like 💩. Did I get this right?
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- "The US gov. gets a 25% cut." He's really running a racket/company and not a country, isn't he? www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/t...
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- SYTR Saved, Yet To Read. For users of read later apps who's pile of un-reads is ... healthy? Out of control? In need of a trim? cc @readwise.bsky.social
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- Nicely put.
- I wonder if he's going to change 30% of the new name too? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Lot's of people: I'm really worried about AI's environmental impact. Amazon: With Kiro, now you can ruin the planet while you sleep!!! www.techbuzz.ai/articles/ama...
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- Black Friday, when every tech publication looks like a pile of coupons.
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- I wonder how many of the thousands upon thousands of Youtube and Medium productivity and growth hackers and whatever who keep using "development goals" as examples and inject it into their prompts, vaults, courses, tricks, tips, etc. actually, you know, ... develop?
- New Blanc drops soon, rejoice! ⚪️ 🔍 🎉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hc8...
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- Also, I swear there's more golden 💩 everywhere each time I see a picture of the oval office.
- "It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official. How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar. www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
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- Favourite term of the week, “bragawatts”. (Speculative/announced multi-gigawatt data centers.)
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- Who could have possibly predicted this? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
- Who's surprised?
- Venture capitalists Andreessen and Horowitz invest in startup that sells thousands of AI bot influencers to manipulate social media as a service, clearly violating major platform policies www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
- Instead of their headline, I'm going to go with "People are having fewer kids. The world's economy is limiting their choices." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Watching S3 of the Diplomat, can't help but see Luigi Mangione every time I see Callum Ellis / Aidan Turner. www.imdb.com/name/nm26361...
- Sound Blaster from the past. www.theverge.com/news/811357/...
- Totally normal, I'm sure. Nothing to worry about here. 😬
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- Dunning-Kruger v imposter syndrome cage match.
