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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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Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights
The Matrix Conference 2025 was a huge success, and the energy and enthusiasm was just incredible!
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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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Quad9’s Opinion of the Recent Court Ruling in Leipzig
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
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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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Lawsuit challenges Virginia City's use of cameras for warrantless surveillance
NORFOLK, Va.—Today, two Norfolk-area residents teamed up with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to file a federal lawsuit against the city, challenging the constitutionality of […]
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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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First Sale Under Siege: If You Bought It, You Should Own It
As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2012 and discussing where we are in the fight for free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. Click here to read other blog posts in this series. The "first sale" doctrine expresses one of...
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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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The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty (2017)
There are two conflicting perspectives regarding the relationship between profanity and dishonesty. These two forms of norm-violating behavior share common causes, and are often considered to be positively related. On the other hand, however, profanity is often used to express one’s genuine feelings, and could…