Monthly Roundup #46: September 2026

AI has taken over this blog. I have moved to a schedule of seven posts per week, and I still cannot keep up. We still refuse to abandon the rest of the world. Who knows when I will get to post some of my huge backlog on education or dating or other such topics. But the monthly is a sacred tradition. We continue. Bad News A good reminder that most news is bad news, and chosen because the bad news in question is rare, which is good news, but the pattern overall of choosing this to be news is bad news, and often the bad news is that the bad news was chosen as news and now people are talking badly about it. Alibaba uses your computer’s audio system, and other tricks, to at least try and assign you a device fingerprint. Things you cannot buy in America at any reasonable price. Mostly it is impressive how little makes the list, how it feels like corner cases. The one thing I am envious of is the exterior roller shutters, and the ability to be in actual pure darkness on demand. I would pay…