In-N-Out managers make $200,000/yr
In-N-Out recently revealed their store managers now make an average of $200,000/yr – up from $163,00/yr in just 2018.
So, maybe don’t make fun of fast food folks – they’re probably making more than you.
New AI terms for 2026
Meat Proxy: slang for a human who mindlessly copies/relays between a large language model (LLM) and another person. The phrase was coined by software engineer Niklas Gruhn in an August 2026 blog post titled “Don’t Be a Meat Proxy,” where he complained about coworkers dumping unreviewed AI slop into Slack channels and GitHub code repositories.
Clanker: Originally a sci-fi robot insult from Star Wars, now used online to mock AI, chatbots, customer service bots, or people acting like them.
Slopper: A person who uses generative AI to lazily churn out massive amounts of low-quality text or images (“slop”).
Pump action card gun
十束玩具 / Totsuka Toys has some pretty interesting/innovative toys. Here he demonstrates a pump-action card gun. There’s also blow-back style rubber band gun and a variety of other novel creations for those that want the realism of actual weapons with the non-lethal force of card throwing and rubber bands.
SpaceX Engineer talks control systems
Scott Morton is the founder and CEO of Revel, a software platform for testing and controlling complex hardware systems. Before founding the company in 2024, Scott spent nearly a decade at SpaceX building control software for Falcon 9 and Starship.
Real life paperboy
The arcade game Paperboy has nothing on this guy. Wonder if you could make a new version of paperboy in 3D that captures this kind of feel…
Self-discipline predicted final grades about twice as strongly as IQ did
Psychologists Angela Duckworth and Martin Seligman studied 140 eighth graders and published this study in Psychological Science.
Self-discipline, measured months before the school year ended through self-report, parent report, teacher report, and a task in which students chose between a smaller reward now or a larger one later, predicted final grades, school attendance, and selection into a competitive high school programme the following spring. A replication with 164 more students added a behavioural delay-of-gratification test and a group IQ test. Self-discipline accounted for more than twice the variance in final grades that IQ did, and the effect held even after controlling for the students’ grades from earlier in the year.
MakeMyMove finds places that pay
The website makemymove helps digital nomads find a spot to move – by listing locations that are offering incentives for people to move there. Some places offer free local club memberships, business assistance, housing incentives, and even cash. There’s a surprising number of them in Indiana.
AI Arnold
What if Arnold Schwarzenegger was in Napoleon Dynamite? Now you can know – and see how far AI replacement has gone.
And that’s how you get the terminator
CES Innovation awards
Every year CES issues a number of awards for new and innovative products. You can check out winners over the years at their page.