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I Am Not a Reverse Centaur
About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me, even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me to use them. I'm not going to repeat the…
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A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
The FCC is proposing to require KYC for anyone who uses a phone. We can act now to stop further erosion of our privacy.
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What the fuck happened to nerds
I've befriended some of the most thoughtful, brilliant, curious, eccentric, and sincere people I've ever met in the tech industry. Many of my dearest friends...
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Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails
The US House reading Dutch emails shows digital sovereignty is about who can access data, not just where it is stored.
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Travel locally, where you are
Many people dream of traveling to faraway places to experience new cultures and sightseeing.
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War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now
We Will Rue The Day
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H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office
In a voice vote earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6028, the “Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act.” The legislation is presented as a technical reorganization of some government agencies, but it’s much more than that. H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S....
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Policy on the AI Exponential
In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings , two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree—to defend his forest from an army that is cutting it down. The problem is that Treebeard operates at a very different speed than the Hobbits. It takes him a full day simply to say hello…
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European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low
A major ECFR poll finds the European public, in a time of rupture, thinking differently and questioning old assumptions. It reveals new political space availabl
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GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)
GPT-2 is a direct scale-up of GPT-1 , with more parameters and trained on more data. However, it was deemed too dangerous to release by OpenAI:
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WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding
What WWDC 2026 actually revealed about a foldable iPhone, which clues are confirmed or reported, and why Apple’s adaptable software matters to developers.
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I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet
Since 2020, I've taken on a Steve Jobs alter-ego (on a very, very part time basis, and often for humor purposes ). The firs...
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EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
foodwatch laboratory tests reveal the presence of pesticide residues in everyday foods — including substances not approved in the EU.
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The iPhone explains 33–52% of fertility decline among women aged 15–44
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Dopamine Fracking
The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources into a previously casual or complex and layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze out the purest, most concentrated dopamine hit
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The OnlyFans Economy of American AI
“The dreamers look skyward with longing. The Internet hums with its usual promise — you will find your people, your myth, your wonder, and maybe your transformation.”
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The circus freaks of open source
The masterwork of Terry A. Davis is his eclectic operating system, TempleOS, which he worked on until his tragic death in 2018. In terms of technical excellence, TempleOS rates well in some respects and poorly in others. For example, it earns the achievement, coveted in OS dev circles, of being self-hosted. 1 TempleOS…
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New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker
A recent U.S. college degree long meant lower unemployment than the average worker. That edge flipped in 2019, and the gap is now the widest on record.
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Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)
The vinyl record is an analog medium. How can it be affected by the loudness war? So what’s the impact?
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Hacker News, Sans AI
I like HackerNews, but I don't love that so much of it has turned into discussion of a single topic: AI. This is a version of HackerNews, filtered to remove any article focusing on __AI__. Refreshes about every ten minutes.
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Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump
A magic trick is a trick. It misrepresents reality. What the Cloudflare CEO published as bot traffic increasing, is a trick. He misrepresents reality.
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New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste
The energy-efficient desalination system produces fresh water without chemical additives and transforms leftover salts into useful materials.
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Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses
Stella is the companion app for Meta's smart glasses. Inspecting version 273.0.0.21 of the Android build (com.facebook.stella), I found the entire computational and storage stack for on-device facial recognition: three face models, a local database schema, a cosine-similarity vector index dimensioned to
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UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
Here AOAV finds that UK media outlets frequently present retired senior military figures as independent defence experts without disclosing their commercial ties to defence, security, intelligence, and technology industries, potentially obscuring conflicts of interest in public debates over war and military spending.
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The SpaceX IPO will be the theft of the century
An S-1 full of fantasies, insiders who will pocket millions, index companies that have changed the rules: it's all a recipe for regular people to have their pockets picked.
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Rsync and outrage
I gave up blogging a long time ago (apart from an occasional thing about ArduPilot), I tend to just write code and hope people find it…
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AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study
A groundbreaking study led by Stanford Law School Professor Julian Nyarko reveals that law professors overwhelmingly prefer AI-generated answers to st
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I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling
A brief explanation of my pessimism about efforts to radically improve education.