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On Being Blacklisted
I understand why writers exhibit cowardice, but I don’t have much sympathy for them.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 8,149 posts.
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My Free Speech Means You Have to Shut Up
Elon Musk and The Enduring Appeal of “Criticism is Censorship”
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Minnesota Wants to Ban Under-18s from User-Generated Content Services
As part of an omnibus bill, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed a troubling bill restricting how under-18 users engage with user-generated content (UGC) services. [At the bottom of this post, I’ve included the text as passed by the Minnesota...
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Claude is a Contrarian
Of all the LLMs I’ve used and driven daily, Claude is the one that absolutely contradicts my instructions.
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It's companies' fault we don't want to return to the office
It wasn't appealing to begin with
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ActivityPub Could Be the Future
You’ve heard of stuff like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Make an account on one, and it only works there. You can’t send a DM to your friend on Twitter from Facebook Messenger. You can’t browse your friend’s Instagram feed from Twitter. Each one is closed off
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What does “excess liquidity sloshing around the financial system” mean?
In the recent Odd Lots AMA episode, financial journalist Tracy Alloway said …I coined the term ‘ China’s Great Ball of Money.’ This idea that you just have a bunch of extra money …
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Ship of Fools
I recently had a 3 week holiday in Florida with my family. My 17 year old son is interested in rocketry and my wife is interested in wildlife. We got to see plenty of both and had a great time. The…
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AI optimism is a class privilege
I think I have an idea why we're so extremely divided on AI: it's because we have an intuitive sense of who it stands to benefit, and who stands to pay the costs. I think whether you see reason for optimism has a lot to do with which group you see yourself in.
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XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging
Posts about SmolWeb, Gemini protocol and LowTech
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Excess Automobile Deaths as a Result of 9/11
People commented about a point I made in a recent essay: In the months after 9/11, so many people chose to drive instead of fly that the resulting deaths dwarfed the deaths from the terrorist attack itself, because cars are much more dangerous than airplanes. Yes, that’s wrong. Where I said “months,” I should have…
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US Export Restrictions, Intel Layoffs, Applied Materials, and TSMC
Headline Blitz: Semiconductor Edition
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How BART on the Golden Gate Bridge died: A new history
"A Machiavellian plot" to kill a Bay Area dream
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How Badly Is Google Books Search Broken, and Why?
I periodically write about Google Books here, so I thought I'd point out something that I've noticed recently that should be concerning to a...
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My WordPress Slack Ban
A couple of days ago, I got banned from the WordPress community Slack. As this is about WordPress, I figure I should use my WordPress blog to talk about it. Everything that day revolved around a small…
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Where my mouth is
For many years, i've been convinced that programming needs to move forward and abandon the Algol family of languages that, still today, dampens the field. And that that forward direction has been signalled for decades by (mostly) functional, possibly dyna...
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Ad-tech is fascist tech
A core tenet of the enshittification hypothesis is that all the terrible stuff we're subjected to in our digital lives today is the result of foreseeable (and foreseen) policy choices, which created the enshittogenic policy environment in which the worst people's worst ideas make the most money:
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Miles Davis: A candid conversation (1962)
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Making the Internet Boring
I once overrode my own website blocker for 444 minutes. After that I stopped relying on willpower and started making the internet boring: app deletions, LeechBlock, grayscale mode, and a custom userscript.
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The Internet of Things Will Be the World's Biggest Robot
The Internet of Things is the name given to the computerization of everything in our lives. Already you can buy Internet-enabled thermostats, light bulbs, refrigerators, and cars. Soon everything will be on the Internet: the things we own, the things we interact with in public, autonomous things that interact with…
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How to Find Facebook Users on Match.com by Using Face Recognition Tools
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Eight years of organizing tech meetups (2023)
Eight years of organizing tech meetups
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Seeing like a spreadsheet
How the commercial spreadsheet reshaped America
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Against Automaticity
An explanation of why tricks like priming, nudge, the placebo effect, social contagion, the “emotional inception” model of advertising, most “cognitive biases,” and any fiel…