14 Jan 2026
how to bounce postal mail
If you get mail to someone who doesn’t live with you (such as a previous tenant) the right thing to do is to bounce it.
In the USA, all you have to do is
Write NOT AT THIS ADDRESS on the front.
Scribble out the bar code. You don’t have to get the whole thing, but make sure that there aren’t enough white spaces left to get a good read. That way it will get manual attention and you won’t get it back.
Drop it in any mailbox. The First Class postage always covers the cost of returning undeliverable mail to the sender. Some bulk mail gets returned, too.
Bonus links
Why Every Country Should Set 16 (or Higher) as the Minimum Age for Social Media Accounts by Jon Haidt and Ravi Iyer. (In Australia, they have somehow managed to block teens from making accounts on TikTok and Instagram, but not GitHub or Wikipedia—which have just as much drama, but are optimized for something other than fraudulent surveillance ads, so looks like a win)
The Megawatt Mirage: NVIDIA’s $4.5 Trillion Valuation Depends on a Grid That Cannot Deliver by Shanaka Anslem Perera. (So, because of trade wars, the PRC has a utility-scale solar export business that can’t sell everywhere, and the USA has an “AI” business that can’t sell everywhere. Seems like the winner is whatever country is allowed to import from both sides. Saudi Arabia? The big question, though, is what do you win? Maybe small-time AI will do better than big-ass data centers in the long run.)
Personal
Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in
Huge Data Breach by Tom Latchem. Skinner said that, since June,
two federal immigration staff members identified by ICE List had reached
out to say they had left their posts and had been removed from the site.
We would do the same for any who has quit and has not been identified
at a raid,
he added.
‘More focused on advertising than ever before’: Nearly all of X’s top 100 advertisers returned, ads boss claims by Krystal Scanlon. (I knew “brand safety” was dead, but this?)