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If you've ever tried to write a computer program, you'll know the dread of a syntax error. An errant space and your code won't compile. Miss a semi-colon and the world collapses. Don't close your brackets and watch how the computer recoils in distress. The modern web isn't like that. You can make your HTML as…
It helps, of course, that I still consider many of the people I worked with friends, and I know some of them even still read this blog. (Hi!)
A post about everyone in Seattle hating AI.
Mapping Every Dollar of America's $5 Trillion Healthcare System
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.
Reader warning: there's gonna be a lot of pretend puke photos in this post. If you've fired up HBO Max recently, you've probably seen that o...
Opening the EU market to vehicles certified under US standards would weaken the protections that save lives in Europe, say more than 80 civil society organisations and the administrations of Amsterdam…
I’ve been thinking about why AI feels like such a destabilizing force for society, and it isn’t just the threat of even greater…
In many ways, America’s social safety net falls short of those of our liberal democratic peers, yet we have no shortage of policies intended to provide social protections. Why is that, and how can we fix it?
While the AI race is raging, we’ve been building an alternative. One that’s helpful, private, and optional — and designed for you, not for profit.
I followed my curiosity and ended up at the library reading hundreds of letters of runaway teenagers who came to hippie San Francisco
A friend recently asked how to get started watching Gundam, and as I tripped all over myself, equal parts excitement and not wanting to sound like a
The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence.
Defending Mozilla’s inclusion of AI features and tooling in Firefox misses the point, and only threatens to isolate them further.
People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even wrote a post advising users to pretend that their work was…
Which local economies sustain housing? We analyze Charlotte's job boom vs. Austin/Denver slowdowns. High-wage contractions impact for-sale demand.
WhatsApp users in Europe will soon have the possibility to message users of other services.
Unlike a lot of places in tech, my company, Set Studio/Piccalilli has no outside funding. Bootstrapped is what the LinkedIn people say, I think. It’s been a hard year this year. A very hard year. I think a naive person would blame it all on the seemingly industry-wide attitude of “AI can just do this […]
AI is being done wrong.
The Besenval Palace in Solothurn opened the museum « Der Kleine Prinz und seine Welt » dedicated to the Little Prince through the collection of Jean-Marc Probst.
EFF filed an amicus brief in Arizona federal court arguing that public school students need private digital spaces beyond their school’s reach to speak freely, without the specter of constant school surveillance and punishment.
We are losing something precious in the age of LLMs: our unique voices.
The Zig community is decentralized. Anyone is free to start and maintain their own community , which is not subject to these rules.
An open letter from current and former CISOs, security leaders, and practitioners asking the public, employers, journalists, and policymakers to retire outdated security advice.
The other day I was sitting on the doorstep of a hackerspace, eating a falafel sandwich while listening to the conversation inside. The topic shifted to the use of “AI” for everyday tasks, people casually started elaborating on how they use “chat assistants” to let them write pieces of code or annoying emails. The…
A critical benchmark for image generation models: A partially eaten burrito with cheese, sour cream, guacamole, lettuce, salsa, pinto beans, and chicken.
