fun / Useful Links Feb 2026

[charlesnaismith]

 An actually useful website for researching and comparing E-Ink tablets - https://ewritable.net

write better lesson plans - https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-need-ai-to-write-better-lesson-plans-so-my-students-stop-using-ai-to-write-their-papers

About the solar revolution covering africa - https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening

AI isn't improving the speed of programming - https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding 


Interesting links
A call for left wing writing and history of writing in the US 100 years ago - https://jacobin.com/2026/02/new-masses-proletarian-literature-wright-gold/

An example of an environmental trading scheme that wasn't really necessary - https://undark.org/2026/02/06/oysters-water-pollution-program/
I think this shows how much better a simple and direct solution like a flat cap or a straight tax is. Regulation should be about creating the constraints for the market not trying to make a whole new market to solve a problem like pollution.

yep, it feels like looking in my bathroom mirror - https://youtu.be/bZXISebJje0