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Linux Instal Fest Belgrade
Linux Install Fest will be held on December 9, 2025 in the JAG3 classroom of the Faculty of Mathematics, at Jagićeva 5, Belgrade . Entry to the classroom is possible from 6 pm to 9 pm.
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The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
Leaked documents reveal how a secretive alliance of eleven large multinational enterprises has worked to tear down the EU’s CSDDD.
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The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks
We cannot fix probability with more probability. We need to re-introduce assert.
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The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X
The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X. The platform never aligned with our values and no longer serves as a space for communication....
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The web runs on tolerance
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…
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Programming peaked
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!)
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Everyone in Seattle hates AI
A post about everyone in Seattle hating AI.
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Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows
Mapping Every Dollar of America's $5 Trillion Healthcare System
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“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill
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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The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle
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...
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Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
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…
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AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society
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…
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Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest (2022)
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?
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Ecosia: The greenest AI is here
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.
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Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco
I followed my curiosity and ended up at the library reading hundreds of letters of runaway teenagers who came to hippie San Francisco
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Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits
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
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The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence
The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence.
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Mozilla's latest quagmire
Defending Mozilla’s inclusion of AI features and tooling in Firefox misses the point, and only threatens to isolate them further.
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Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"
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…
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High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
Which local economies sustain housing? We analyze Charlotte's job boom vs. Austin/Denver slowdowns. High-wage contractions impact for-sale demand.
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WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps in Europe
WhatsApp users in Europe will soon have the possibility to message users of other services.
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It’s been a very hard year
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 […]
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Don't push AI down our throats
AI is being done wrong.
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A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland
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.
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Protect Public School Students from Surveillance of Off-Campus Speech
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.
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We're losing our voice to LLMs
We are losing something precious in the age of LLMs: our unique voices.
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Code of Conduct ⚡ Zig Programming Language
The Zig community is decentralized. Anyone is free to start and maintain their own community , which is not subject to these rules.