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As I’ve shared with family, friends and our team since late last year, I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research. The plan has been to wind up after we finished the pipeline of ideas we were working on. And as of the last Ponzi cases we just completed and are sharing with regulators, that day is today.
When people talk about the value of paying attention and slowing down, they often make it sound prudish and monk-like. But we shouldn’t forget how interesting and overpoweringly pleasurable sustained attention can be.
OR: why your brain needs a boxcutter
Claude Free, Pro, and Max users can now opt in to having conversations used to improve models, with a five-year retention period for participants.
Personal blog of Chris Given, government technologist. These words are always written by a human; I have no one to blame but myself.
Joey Einerhand's Portfolio and tech blog.
Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well
Inside a decade of struggle to bring a scandal to light
In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open Source Ecosystems program to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and PyPI. It was the PSF’s first time applying for government funding, and navigating the intensive…
Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his…
If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find out Elon Musk’s stance before providing you with an answer. …
Investigating the seahorse emoji doom loop using logitlens.
Three years ago, while searching for Vitsoe setups, I stumbled upon Barbican. I delved deeper and discovered a building complex that was beyond my imaginations. Young Fatih would definitely find it ugly; current me finds it beautiful. The estate was built between 1965 and 1976. And, since I first saw
How silicon valley is putting a price tag on your attention - and relationships
I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts.
I thought about this when reading a mastodon post which commented on a news where a project adopted a "use Generative AI but disclose it" policy, because it is "the future" and "people are going to use it anyway".
What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on?
What we lose when phones take away boredom and interstitial time
On October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive celebrated an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved and available for access via the Wayback Machine. Event Recaps & Recordings | Photos | Impact Stories | Support the Internet Archive | Press Kit Since 1996, the Internet Archive has worked with libraries and…
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
I stumbled across a Reddit bot posting emotional rants about how bots are ruining Reddit; just to sell AI-generated books through affiliate links. A perfectly dystopian grift for the dead internet.
Am I now committing civil disobedience... just by keeping my personal literary website up as is?
A public service announcement
I used Apple Configurator to turn my iPhone into a dumb phone. I can only access the apps and websites I want to use, and it’s feeling great!
Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of…
A vibe coding thought exercise on what it might look like for LLMs to scour human historical data at scale and in retrospect.
