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How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop
AI and Corporate Interests Gutted an Artist's Oasis
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 992 posts.
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Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore
If you are a current or former career Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employee, especially if you’re a legacy IT programmer with years of experience and especially if you are a COBOL programmer currently working on the PAM, SPS or any other adjacent team, contact me over email or
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"A computer can never be held accountable"
This legendary page from an internal IBM training in 1979 could not be more appropriate for our new age of AI. A computer can never be held accountable Therefore a …
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Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe
A series of foundation models for transparent AI in Europe
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What really happens inside a dating app
I have been working inside a dating app for a few months and there are a lot of interesting things. This article is going to be without any structure as there are many things to say. I will mostly ignore homosexual interactions. Not because they don't exist, just because it …
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Polish city is using mussels to monitor water quality (2020)
A city in Poland is relying on the mechanisms of mussels to safeguard its population from polluted drinking water.
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Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)
Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no…
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CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
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The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe"
What is the origin of the word "mainframe", referring to a large, complex computer? Most sources agree that the term is related to the frame...
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The Zizians and the rationalist death cult
What is the deal with Rationalism and cults?
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The government information crisis is bigger than you think it is
[This post is adapted from our forthcoming book, Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future.] Today we want to clarify something important about preserving government information. There is a difference between the government changing a policy and the government erasing information, but the line…
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Three AM 911 call, 9 AM salesman
A few days ago, the smoke alarms in my house went off at 3am, so we got up and took it seriously when we smelled smoke everywhere. But after 20 minutes of searching high and low, we couldn't find a source, so as a precaution, we called 911 to
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California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LACSD) committed wholesale abuse of sensitive criminal justice databases in 2023, violating a specific rule against searching the data to run background checks for concealed carry firearm permits.The sheriff’s department’s 6,789 abuses made up a majority...
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The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter
The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe. You are very much invited to follow us on…
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I do not want AI to "polish" me
I was sending an email when a little magic wand popped up that said “Polish” and I thought that was weird because why would I want to translate my email into Polish? I tried to click on…
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Our phones are killing our ability to feel sexy (2024)
Eros, desire, instinct, eternity
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We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Departing the New York Times
I left to stay true to my byline
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Questions censored by DeepSeek
Analysis of DeepSeek-R1 censorship using 1,156 political prompts exposing CCP content filtering and bias detection patterns
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The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray
A wolf paces in captivity, teaching us all the wrong lessons about power
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It's not a crime if we do it with an app
Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You have TWO DAYS LEFT to pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter , which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.
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AI slop, suspicion, and writing back
On developing an involuntary reflex for spotting AI slop
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Texas Is Enforcing Its State Data Privacy Law. So Should Other States
States need to have and use data privacy laws to bring privacy violations to light and hold companies accountable for them. So, we were glad to see that the Texas Attorney General’s Office has filed its first lawsuit under Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) to take the Allstate Corporation...
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Why Northern England is poor
And why Thatcher is partly to blame, but not in the way most people argue.
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Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected
Caltrain announced at its monthly Board of Directors meeting that regenerative braking on the new trains is generating and sending back to the electric grid approximately 23% of the energy consumed by the system.
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A very Chicago gamble
Chicago and Bally's have teamed up in an investment offering.
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PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory
An exposé no one will read, about the widespread falsification of user posts in PhysicsForums, a scientific community founded in 2001. This is a microcosm of the death of the human-written Internet.