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The Web Is More Than Enough
Web browsers enable incredibly rich app development—and that’s radically easier than it used to be.
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Petered
We’re looking in the wrong place for the imposters among us.
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How Long Can Life Wait?
Just because you haven’t moved from the sofa doesn’t mean you’re dead.
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Notes on San Marino
I spent three days in San Marino, a landlocked microstate completely surrounded by Italy. The people of San Marino are called the “Sammarinese.”
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Ozempic-style drugs now in trials for heart failure, addiction and even aging
Ozempic-style drugs are being tested far beyond diabetes, for heart failure, addiction, Alzheimer's and aging. The share of such trials has roughly tripled in fifteen years.
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$2.5T has been wiped from US stocks
The Nasdaq wiped out roughly $2.5 trillion in market cap on Thursday, officially pushing the index into correction territory.
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Image of our satellite-choked night skies
To create this composite image, photographer Brendan Larsen captured almost 600 photographs over a two-hour period and then manually stitched them together. Thi
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I wish tech companies knew more about me
I wish tech companies knew more about me | exotext
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Education shouldn't be held for ransom
Google told K-12 schools they could turn off AI, but only if they gave up search too. That isn’t integration. It’s holding education for ransom.
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Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers
Science needs more than answers
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Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers, along with Mass General Brigham researchers from the Gene Lay Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, and the Broad Institute, have uncovered biological clues to why colorectal cancer can behave more aggressively in younger people. Published today in Nature Medicine, the…
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Just a little AI resistance, as a treat
At the recent EMFCamp, I bumped in to Professor Kate Devlin who was talking a little about the AI Resist List. I think one of the useful things we can do is loudly complain about shitty uses of AI. Here's an example. As mentioned in a previous post, I'm contacting companies which send malformed calendar invites. One…
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US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
Explore 125 baby names that shifted between boys and girls, from Leslie to Ashley. See how each one’s split between boys and girls changed from 1936 to 2025.
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The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence"
I was reminded today of AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies, a chart produced by Apollo Global Management in September 2025, which appeared to show a slowdown in …
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If you love a website, back it up
This story starts with a little tragedy. See, I’ve got these old webpages I love to go back and look on every now and then. There’s websites that h...
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It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge
Proton's CEO called a request for security testing "loser thinking". Using AI to write code is fine, but for a privacy company, the guardrails around that code are the product.
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Resisting Cognitive Surrender
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Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
Two lawyers hid a white-on-white instruction inside a court filing telling the AI to go easy on their case. The court's AI caught it. The fine was $16,000.
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The Duty of a Scholar
There was a joke at the time that although the National Security Agency had opened up in recent years and started taking their defensive role more seriously, the one aspect of cryptography which they would never discuss publicly was side channel attacks — and this itself constituted a side channel, revealing the…
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The importance of communities around software
I've done a lot of activism for software freedom, over the years. At first it was purely for software freedom and related topics, (such as security, autonomy and privacy) but eventually this has evolved into something more holistic. I believe that the software I use should be held to higher ethical standards than only…
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Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
Search was 49.7% of Alphabet's revenue in Q3 2026, down from 62% in early 2019, as Google Cloud grew much faster. Every quarter since 2018, from Alphabet's earnings releases.
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LLM Voice
The uncanny valley of LLMs' prose
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How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)
Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Global Public Policy Hundreds of millions of users around the world use Google Earth . Many of the...
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We won't "just hang out"
On human connection after the Singularity.
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Richest 0.1% (8M) produce more carbon pollution than 3.5B
The world’s richest 0.1 percent (8 million people) produces more carbon pollution than the world’s poorest 3.5 billion people combined, reveals new Oxfam analysis. Published ahead of the UN climate summit (COP31) in Türkiye, the report exposes how the world's super-rich are driving climate breakdown through their…
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Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign
Meta censored a political organisation during a national voting campaign, blamed its own automation, then claimed its automated systems had detected another automated tool.
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Git for the US Code
Lawyers should be able to read a statute as it stood on any date and see which law wrote each phrase. A history of nine titles of the US Code, built by replaying every amendment, as the example.
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Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible
Software is degrading all around us, for obvious reasons. I've written about this before. All else equal, if you increase your code production by 10x but you don't reduce your error rate by a factor of 10, then your production app is buggier than it used to be. I've seen threads where people also have...