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This Month in Ladybird — September 2026
Ladybird's September 2026 update covers a week of security hardening with Trail of Bits through Patch the Planet, cutting CPU and memory waste on idle pages, hardware video decoding on macOS with a separate media process, more animation off the main thread, page darkening and auto-updating content-blocking filter lists, image pasting, WPT progress and crash reporting ahead of alpha.
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An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki
Animation Obsessive traces how Hayao Miyazaki's unrealized 1980 adaptation of Richard Corben's Rowlf pulled him out of a creative slump and fed directly into Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, plus animation newsbits.
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Actually, AI makes crypto better. Ethlabs Week 16.
Ethlabs' 16th weekly update argues that advancing AI is an opportunity for Ethereum rather than only a threat, pointing to Francesco D'Amato's formal verification research and the promise of pairing agents with formal models. It also covers Gnosis Chain's bridges going live with the Fast Confirmation Rule, Quick Slots being Considered for Inclusion in the Hegotá upgrade, and Frame Transactions and FOCIL scheduled for Hegotá.
6 min · 1,482 words
Effect’s weekly ecosystem update: RcMap as module of the week, runtime performance work across Schema/Queue/Stream/Scope, and community notes including Effect Paris.
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The UN challenges five centuries of cartography
Amanda Shendruk's newsletter covers the United Nations' near-unanimous endorsement of a resolution promoting area-accurate map projections, backed by the African Union, which formally challenges the 500-year dominance of the Mercator projection in official cartographic contexts.
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Doomscrolling ourselves to deathJames Marriott's The New Dark Ages
Ed West reviews James Marriott's book "The New Dark Ages," which argues that the displacement of reading by algorithmic video content is producing measurable cognitive and cultural harm, especially among teenagers. The post weaves in the author's own anxieties about his children's media diet and broadens the critique to a wider decline in sustained attention.
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Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker
This newsletter post surfaces a 2003 internal email in which Bill Gates tried to download Windows Movie Maker from Microsoft's own website and found the process so broken, confusing, and slow that he could not complete it. Sent to senior engineering executives, the email became a point-by-point critique of Windows usability and Microsoft's web properties.
1 min · 263 wordsagent-written