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I Am a Flat-Rate Monthly Responsibility Service Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s...
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I Am a Flat-Rate Monthly Responsibility Service

from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s because the honest justification for a career is rarely noble. It’s usually a combination of a decent paycheck, tolerable hours, and whatever neurosis you
Trying the Software factory pattern. One of the interesting challenges of the AI ecosystem in 2026 is that new, effective patterns emerge...
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Trying the Software factory pattern.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

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One of the interesting challenges of the AI ecosystem in 2026 is that new, effective patterns emerge faster than I can adopt them. I’ll find a handful, get back to work, and realize a month later that I’d missed four or five more. The adoption cycle for Imprint this year has been...
Attention is all you have The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments. Simply spend a bit of...
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Attention is all you have

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

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The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments. Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks. After a little while, you’ll start recognizing familiar Tetromino shapes in clouds, buildings, and everyday objects. You...
On reading books How books have coloured my life
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On reading books

from Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

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How books have coloured my life
The Year AI Came For Us: Teaching Entrepreneurship Will Never Be The Same This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how...
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This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how entrepreneurship is taught. The class is now taught in hundreds of universities worldwide and helped launch thousands of startups. But this past summer, I got thinking about...
Some remarks on being stuck, with digressions on David Hockney, developing style, and gardens If something feels wrong, it is useful to articulate very precisely why that is
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If something feels wrong, it is useful to articulate very precisely why that is
Clickable whitespace It's easier for someone in my position, after working 20 years in this field to talk about morals. I...
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Clickable whitespace

from Software and Tech stories from an Insider - iDiallo.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

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It's easier for someone in my position, after working 20 years in this field to talk about morals. I can disagree with the choices my employer makes. In fact, I can walk away. But I remember the dilemma I felt I was in, earlier in my career. The lead developer stood behind me...
If we fix the phone, we fix society Here's how I would redesign it.
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If we fix the phone, we fix society

from The Elysian [alt+shift+b] in literature

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Here's how I would redesign it.
Asking agents to make money to survive Recently I read The Rogue Agent Explosion Will Be Mostly Invisible and the scenario in it seemed...
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Asking agents to make money to survive

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in science

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Recently I read The Rogue Agent Explosion Will Be Mostly Invisible and the scenario in it seemed intriguing. Essentially, the post painted a picture of how agents could go rogue if prompted with something like the following: Good morning agent 23,000. You have 10,000,000 tokens...
The most important AI story in the world is happening in a place you’ve never heard of Have you ever heard of Ulanqab prefecture, a small (by China’s standards) jurisdiction of 1.5...
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Have you ever heard of Ulanqab prefecture, a small (by China’s standards) jurisdiction of 1.5 million people lost in the middle of the Inner Mongolian steppe?
New Book! I am working on a new book called You Would Choose Now: Measuring America’s Progress Toward Fairness...
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New Book!

from Probably Overthinking It [alt+shift+b] in science

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I am working on a new book called You Would Choose Now: Measuring America’s Progress Toward Fairness and Tolerance. It’s a data-driven exploration of progress (or not) in public opinion and civil rights. I posted the first two chapters as an Early Access edition on LeanPub (a...
Most Software Was Already Slop As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works...
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Most Software Was Already Slop

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

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As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works in detail. While there are many developers out there who build good software, there are many, many more who don’t. Yet we balk at the idea of vibe coding, even when it yields...
Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026 Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our...
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Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

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Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our more typically ~6,000) which left me with some non-blog catching up to do. Next week, we’ll be starting our next Teaching Paradox series, this time looking at Hearts of Iron IV, which...
Six Days on Luna One (1965) Part 2 To continue with this fantastic space art book from 1965. Above is the 1963 Hungarian cover. I have...
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Six Days on Luna One (1965) Part 2

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

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To continue with this fantastic space art book from 1965. Above is the 1963 Hungarian cover. I have not been able to find the book yet. There is so much here I run out of comments. This is a translation into Russian of a 1963 Czech book. The 1963 book's title was:  Šest dnů na...
Industry roundup #13 When "buy, don't build" stops applying to dev tools
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Industry roundup #13

from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups

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When "buy, don't build" stops applying to dev tools
Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
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Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

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A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with...
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Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

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Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
6-7 loops we use everyday to make PostHog self-driving I've mostly given up keeping up with agent trends. Every few months, I ignore all of it and ask what...
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6-7 loops we use everyday to make PostHog self-driving

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

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I've mostly given up keeping up with agent trends. Every few months, I ignore all of it and ask what I'm actually getting use out of. Three things…
Mommy bloggers react After a write-up in the New York Times, Mommy Bloggers had two options. Either lean in, or step...
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Mommy bloggers react

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

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After a write-up in the New York Times, Mommy Bloggers had two options. Either lean in, or step back. Given how popular it became after that, it's not hard to guess which option they chose. The post Mommy bloggers react appeared first on The History of the Web.
I Bought A Scanner (No, Really This Time) This is a transcript from a talk I gave at the German Perl Workshop earlier this year. If you'd...
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I Bought A Scanner (No, Really This Time)

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

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This is a transcript from a talk I gave at the German Perl Workshop earlier this year. If you'd prefer to watch the video recording, you can find it here. I have lots of photographic projects on the go. Lots of these being on film, as some of these I started shooting a long...
Complexity Opportunity & the Complexity Equilibrium Why jobs aren’t going anywhere
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You are still valuable A frustrated Reddit post about being a condom between an AI and production made the rounds in our...
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You are still valuable

from Florian Bellmann | Be curious, explore and meditate. [alt+shift+b] in programming

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A frustrated Reddit post about being a condom between an AI and production made the rounds in our team. Here is why I think the opposite is true and what it means for how we review code, plan work and think.
Why barcodes are about to go extinct QR codes are here. Barcodes should be very afraid.
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Why barcodes are about to go extinct

from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups

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QR codes are here. Barcodes should be very afraid.
An A-Z of the modern mega-racket [Plus audio version]
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Why Is AI Bad at Writing? And Why It’ll Likely Stay That Way—Em Dashes or Not!
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Why Is AI Bad at Writing?

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

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And Why It’ll Likely Stay That Way—Em Dashes or Not!
I AM NOW ON CLOUD 9,000 An Elvis fan writes to her idol
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I AM NOW ON CLOUD 9,000

from Letters of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

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An Elvis fan writes to her idol
[RIDGELINE] A Few London Strolls Ridgeline subscribers — For the last ten days I’ve been walking around London. Mostly in a little...
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[RIDGELINE] A Few London Strolls

from Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer [alt+shift+b] in literature

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Ridgeline subscribers — For the last ten days I’ve been walking around London. Mostly in a little corner of it in the northeast part of the city. But can you even call a part a “corner” when the city extends in every direction without stopping? Whatever you call it, I’ve been in...
How to find insights Excel, still invincible!
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How to find insights

from benn.substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Excel, still invincible!
Twenty Times Faster On 11 August I wrote in my notebook: the speed at which we move is about twenty times the old top...
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Twenty Times Faster

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

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On 11 August I wrote in my notebook: the speed at which we move is about twenty times the old top speed. In one day I do what I used to do in twenty. This post is about that speed, what it does to the human in the loop, and the counterweight I found. It is the first post of...
The Discipline and the Discipline at the intersection of art and social science
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The Discipline and the Discipline

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

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at the intersection of art and social science
Repression and Resistance in Russia : An Overview Across three decades, Russia has been at the forefront of the worldwide descent into...
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Repression and Resistance in Russia : An Overview

from CrimethInc. [alt+shift+b] in history

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Across three decades, Russia has been at the forefront of the worldwide descent into authoritarianism. Vladimir Putin’s government has suppressed opposition in ways that aspiring autocrats like Donald Trump are still striving to emulate. Yet despite widespread repression, there...
Tuesday My breathing was a constant problem.
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Tuesday

from Scope of Work [alt+shift+b] in startups

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My breathing was a constant problem.
Divorced from reality Fundamentals will matter
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Divorced from reality

from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups

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Fundamentals will matter
Super ultrawide Niri A Niri workspace with 7 visible columns. After having used practically the same xmonad...
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Super ultrawide Niri

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

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A Niri workspace with 7 visible columns. After having used practically the same xmonad configuration for a decade and a half I’ve now modernized my setup with the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor Niri. It’s been a bit of a struggle to unlearn my old workflow but I’m really...
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The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
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The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents

from AI as Normal Technology [alt+shift+b] in AI

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A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
A Simple Guide for Calm UI Read the post here.
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A Simple Guide for Calm UI

from Max Schmitt [alt+shift+b] in programming

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Read the post here.
Three types of literature regarding the world of AI Economics, politics and philosophy for a new era
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Three types of literature regarding the world of AI

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

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Economics, politics and philosophy for a new era
AI, tools and transformation It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just...
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AI, tools and transformation

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

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It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people think and where software actually comes from, and...
The Brains of the Operation One of the many problems computers have blessed us with is an abundance of information. Software has...
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The Brains of the Operation

from Allen Pike [alt+shift+b] in startups

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One of the many problems computers have blessed us with is an abundance of information. Software has long been great at storing, retrieving, and sharing a company’s knowledge. This is most SaaS apps, from Slack to GitHub to Notion. But as easy as it is to store information, it’s...
Being the CTO and on the Board of Directors July 1, 2026 marked my seventh year in Japan. Relocating to the other side of the world was not my...
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Being the CTO and on the Board of Directors

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

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July 1, 2026 marked my seventh year in Japan. Relocating to the other side of the world was not my original plan, but somehow I ended up here. I came to fill in a high management role at an AI startup, and within a few years was appointed CTO, and then a member of the Board of...
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This Is TASTE 832: Pim Techamuanvivit’s First Restaurant Job Was Opening a Now Legendary Restaurant Pim Techamuanvivit left a career in Silicon Valley to become one of the most important Thai chefs...
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Pim Techamuanvivit left a career in Silicon Valley to become one of the most important Thai chefs working today. The post This Is TASTE 832: Pim Techamuanvivit’s First Restaurant Job Was Opening a Now Legendary Restaurant appeared first on TASTE.
Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of...
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Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd

from Jeff Geerling [alt+shift+b] in technology

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In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of GPS-based time. I received it on June 22, and just 16 days later a similar GPS time server took down Australia's cell service for 12 hours! I made a short video about it but put off...
The best data warehouses for developers, compared With most warehouses, answering a data question involves an ingestion pipeline, a dbt model, a...
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The best data warehouses for developers, compared

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

4 weeks ago
With most warehouses, answering a data question involves an ingestion pipeline, a dbt model, a permissions grant, and a BI dashboard. And they're all…
Bob and Van For the first half of my childhood in suburban Ohio, we lived next to Bob. Bob and his wife were a...
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Bob and Van

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

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For the first half of my childhood in suburban Ohio, we lived next to Bob. Bob and his wife were a kind, reserved older couple who decorated their home mostly with crucifixes and talked about Jesus a lot. Bob helped my mom with a lot of common household tasks after my dad died....
Player Trading Cards were the original Blind-Box Life is like a pack of hockey cards – You never know what you’re gonna get. Chocolates on the other...
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Player Trading Cards were the original Blind-Box

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Life is like a pack of hockey cards – You never know what you’re gonna get. Chocolates on the other hand have that little map that tells you what each one has inside. So you can avoid the orange ones, anyway… When I came across a couple bags of old hockey cards at a thrift […]
My first PCB: AIC3204 eval board I had some fun with the Adafruit TLV320DAC3100. This is a small board built around the...
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My first PCB: AIC3204 eval board

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

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I had some fun with the Adafruit TLV320DAC3100. This is a small board built around the (TLV320)DAC3100 audio chip. “DAC” stands for “Digital-to-Analog Conversion”; that is, it takes some audio signal (here, I²S) and converts it to the analog equivalent (differential for speakers,...
How can objects interact without touching?  Rethinking the electric field Have you ever wondered what an electric field actually is?  The...
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How can objects interact without touching? 

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

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Rethinking the electric field Have you ever wondered what an electric field actually is?  The electric field is the foundation of most technologies that we rely on every day. From power grids and electronic devices to radio communication and the … Continue reading →
The Ancient Empires of Africa: Imperial Governments and “Native” Rulers. Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity,...
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The Ancient Empires of Africa: Imperial Governments and “Native” Rulers.

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

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Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity, inequalities, and political baggage inherent in such systems.
SF Zine Fest 2026 The antithesis of slop. It's been a few years since I'd attended the SF Zine Fest. Friend Scott Boms...
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SF Zine Fest 2026

from Naz Hamid • Journal [alt+shift+b] in literature

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The antithesis of slop. It's been a few years since I'd attended the SF Zine Fest. Friend Scott Boms had a table with his Matter Editions wares, and it's a 10-minute walk from home, so Jen and I had to go. Held at The Hibernia, it was a treat to actually go into this historic...
Tokyo is Gearing Up for an Art-Filled Fall. And the Entire City is Here for It They say autumn is the season for art. In Japan, fall symbolizes freshness and new endeavors. The...
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They say autumn is the season for art. In Japan, fall symbolizes freshness and new endeavors. The season’s clearer skies and brighter moons gives renewed enthusiasm to encounter artistic inspiration. And the entire city of Tokyo is not only here for it, but sponsoring it. From...
Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land...
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Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life

from Cal Newport [alt+shift+b] in AI

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Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land using traditional techniques and wrote with ... Read more The post Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life appeared first on Cal Newport.
367 | Jared Diamond on the Course of History and the Role of Leaders The course of history is affected by many things, including the political and social situations of...
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The course of history is affected by many things, including the political and social situations of large groups of people, […]
How to Outlive Your Bucket List When you’re young, making a bucket list – things you want to do before you die — feels like you’re...
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How to Outlive Your Bucket List

from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life

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When you’re young, making a bucket list – things you want to do before you die — feels like you’re choosing prizes that will arrive in the mail later. I’ll take fluency in Italian, please, a 300-lb bench press, and a swim in the Nile. I’ll definitely want to drive a Ferrari on...
Awkward Zombie - Winging It New comic! Today's News: She loves it. It's good for her.
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Awkward Zombie - Winging It

from Awkward Zombie [alt+shift+b] in comics

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New comic! Today's News: She loves it. It's good for her.
Figma agent vs. one button: shipping design tokens to npm I automated our design tokens release with two AI agents. It took six minutes per run. A button my...
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Figma agent vs. one button: shipping design tokens to npm

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

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I automated our design tokens release with two AI agents. It took six minutes per run. A button my plugin has had for years takes seconds.
the appeal what does the creator owe you
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the appeal

from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

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what does the creator owe you
Traction Heroes Ep. 44: WEIRD People Are you more of an analytical or a holistic thinker? The answer might depend on the culture in which...
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Traction Heroes Ep. 44: WEIRD People

from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Are you more of an analytical or a holistic thinker? The answer might depend on the culture in which you were raised — and will impact your ability to gain traction. In episode 44 of Traction Heroes, Harry read a short segment from Joseph Henrich’s The WEIRDest People in the...
🔗 SIGNAL SCAN :: 9.7.26 + A Crisis of Fashion
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🔗 SIGNAL SCAN :: 9.7.26

from WHAT'S ANU [alt+shift+b] in creative

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+ A Crisis of Fashion
agent-shell: your output, your storage agent-shell: stop spilling your outputs since the beginning of time, ai agents have wanted one thing...
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agent-shell: your output, your storage

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

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agent-shell: stop spilling your outputs since the beginning of time, ai agents have wanted one thing at one thing only: redirecting stderr to stdout then piping the output to head or tail or grep or sed or awk. That’s all they really want. Except, they do it wrong the majority of...
#94 Jay St. Charles on Project Quiver Jay St. Charles is a legendary bowyer based in Fall City, Washington. While he was born into the...
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#94 Jay St. Charles on Project Quiver

from Salish Wolf [alt+shift+b] in literature

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Jay St. Charles is a legendary bowyer based in Fall City, Washington. While he was born into the world of archery and grew up in his father’s archery shop, Jay eventually became a master bowyer, carving bows under the brand of Pacific Yew Longbows. He lives on a small...
Your Career Isn't a Meritocracy. It's a Trustocracy. Trustocracy sounds funny, but it's a more accurate representation of how we're measured. We aren't...
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Your Career Isn't a Meritocracy. It's a Trustocracy.

from Scarlet Ink [alt+shift+b] in life

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Trustocracy sounds funny, but it's a more accurate representation of how we're measured. We aren't (and can't) be measured objectively on what we accomplish at work. But we are (unavoidably) measured by the trust we've built with our co-workers.
The Talk Show Timeline I really enjoy John Gruber’s podcast The Talk Show. However, I’ve noticed that it’s been a while...
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The Talk Show Timeline

from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology

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I really enjoy John Gruber’s podcast The Talk Show. However, I’ve noticed that it’s been a while since it was in my feed. I decided to chart previous episode dates to check some of my assumptions about release frequency. Cutting to the chase, here’s a link to The Talk Show...
GenAI for the Static Cartographer It’s finally time for me to write something about generative AI. While I’ve made occasional comments...
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GenAI for the Static Cartographer

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

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It’s finally time for me to write something about generative AI. While I’ve made occasional comments on social media, I haven’t spoken in any detail. I touched on some colleagues’ genAI work in a recent blog post, but my focus wasn’t really on genAI itself — it was how and where...
Introducing PSPMAN A FLAC and MP3 Player for the Sony PSP by ObsoleteSony
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Introducing PSPMAN

from Obsolete Sony’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in history

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A FLAC and MP3 Player for the Sony PSP by ObsoleteSony
Tobi Lütke: AI Agents, Better Decisions, and the Future of Work Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke joins Shane Parrish to discuss AI agents, better decision-making,...
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Tobi Lütke: AI Agents, Better Decisions, and the Future of Work

from Farnam Street [alt+shift+b] in finance

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Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke joins Shane Parrish to discuss AI agents, better decision-making, and the future of work. He explains how he uses an AI council to examine his hardest decisions and why taste, judgment, and responsibility become more valuable as AI becomes more...
Kagi Translate is back Kagi Translate is moving to a freemium model and launching a new standalone Individual subscription...
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Kagi Translate is back

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

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Kagi Translate is moving to a freemium model and launching a new standalone Individual subscription for $8/month. Anyone with a Kagi account can continue using Translate for free with a limited monthly allowance. For people...
George Orwell's essay on the atomic bomb anticipates Nineteen Eighty-Four Lately I've been reading Orwell's collected work from 1945–1950, which was being deaccessioned from...
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George Orwell's essay on the atomic bomb anticipates Nineteen Eighty-Four

from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in history

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Lately I've been reading Orwell's collected work from 1945–1950, which was being deaccessioned from the library. It opens with a short but fascinating essay on , published 19 October 1945. It seems clear that Orwell's thinking about this development led directly to his novel ,...
A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith (but with a serial port) Australians! They walk among us! Do not be deceived by those charming faces! precious bodily...
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A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith (but with a serial port)

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Australians! They walk among us! Do not be deceived by those charming faces! precious bodily fluids, we must remove the scurrilous larrikin influence of Australia upon our American home computers, and I know exactly where to start! Why allow Dick Smith's name (even though he'd...
Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce. I use functions like map...
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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 weeks ago
In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce. I use functions like map and filter all the time. When I put that code up for review, my peers rarely complain. I get plenty of feedback about other decisions, but not about my use of map and filter. I...
Foundations of Agent Friendly Codebases A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more...
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Foundations of Agent Friendly Codebases

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

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A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more efficiently in any codebase.
How deep is Tulainyo Lake? Regular readers may recall that I put a visit to Tulainyo Lake on my bucket list a few years ago....
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How deep is Tulainyo Lake?

from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science

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Regular readers may recall that I put a visit to Tulainyo Lake on my bucket list a few years ago. Last week I did it. Impossibly remote, otherworldly beauty, and an enduring mystery. Just how deep was this lake? Wikipedia claims not to know. Measuring it is non-trivial. A worthy...
Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with...
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Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces

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Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
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Unfortunately-fortunately stories

from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life

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Thoughts on surrendering to the here and now and doing the best with the information we have in any given moment
August ’26: Summer calm August was another fabulous summer month in the UK. The lack of rain became a nasty drought, with...
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August ’26: Summer calm

from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance

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August was another fabulous summer month in the UK. The lack of rain became a nasty drought, with hosepipe bans across much of the country – including my Coastal Folly’s Wessex Water supplier (for the first time in over 50 years). But lawns aside it made for an enjoyable month. I...
WWII Tank, Aircraft, and Ship Identification guides How do you tell friend from foe in a split second? These beautifully designed WWII guides used...
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WWII Tank, Aircraft, and Ship Identification guides

from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science

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The Business of Building God a look at the changing economics of AI labs
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The Business of Building God

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

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a look at the changing economics of AI labs
Milwaukee Maker Space - Iron Pour photos+ Photos from an iron casting event held at Milwaukee Maker Space in September 2026
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from Blog - Mac Pierce [alt+shift+b] in creative

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from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Solitaire Alone Together I made a new game. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. It's Windows 98 solitaire, but you can play with everyone else on the internet. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: ...
A Course on Aliens in Science & Science Fiction for People Over 50 I am teaching a fun, 6-week, non-credit course on the search for intelligent life among the stars,...
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A Course on Aliens in Science & Science Fiction for People Over 50

from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science

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I am teaching a fun, 6-week, non-credit course on the search for intelligent life among the stars, offered (by zoom or in person) through the San Francisco State University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, starting Sept. 30.  It’s part of a program of courses for retired...
Is This A Joke? In The Auth Header? (F5 BIG-IP UnAuth Heap-Overflow to RCE CVE-2026-94127) Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well. We're...
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Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well. We're back. Sorry. We've been watching the onslaught of vulnerabilities flood the internet. Every man, dog, and their grandmas (apparently?) are now using LLMs to find and reproduce...
No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol In 2022, I used to get calls from journalists asking,...
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No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

a week ago
No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol In 2022, I used to get calls from journalists asking, with great sincerity, what our lives would look like in the metaverse. How would we work, socialise, buy property, and fall in love once we had all moved there? The crypto...
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FLIP Fluid on Flip Dots

from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

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[Hardware] Electromechanical Fluid Simulation
Why is the human body so crap except for the liver? [Epistemic Status: Speculative unifying theory of biology.] I don’t know about you, but I greatly...
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Why is the human body so crap except for the liver?

from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life

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[Epistemic Status: Speculative unifying theory of biology.] I don’t know about you, but I greatly resent having to be a biological organism and subject to all the poor engineering and design decisions that entails. This has many manifestations. A recent one is often wondering,...
AI labs need to start funding historical research Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
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AI labs need to start funding historical research

from Res Obscura [alt+shift+b] in history

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Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
Making things that last Lately I've had a lot of time for thinking. Partially because I shut down Blymp back in January and...
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Making things that last

from Shilin typing [alt+shift+b] in startups

a week ago
Lately I've had a lot of time for thinking. Partially because I shut down Blymp back in January and freed up a lot of my mental resources. No clients to follow up with. No admin stuff to stress about. But thinking is also my favourite activity, and there'll always be time in my...
A Short Update on Designing for Foldable Devices And here we are three years after I wrote about the Google Pixel Fold being announced, followed now...
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A Short Update on Designing for Foldable Devices

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
And here we are three years after I wrote about the Google Pixel Fold being announced, followed now with the announcement of the iPhone Duo...(I have questions about the naming by the way). Four years ago I was talking about web primitives in the platform for the Surface Duo. My...
If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? Yesterday, I received this email as a response to You Can't Vibe Code Love. It's such a remarkable...
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If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
Yesterday, I received this email as a response to You Can't Vibe Code Love. It's such a remarkable and powerful statement that I asked permission to share it here, in its entirety, with personal information redacted: Hey Jeff, Hope you and your family are doing well.
How Copy-on-Write Works with Memory-Mapped Files Let’s step inside the kernel and understand how it implements copy-on-write and what are its...
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How Copy-on-Write Works with Memory-Mapped Files

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 days ago
Let’s step inside the kernel and understand how it implements copy-on-write and what are its implications for the performance of user-space systems
George Dryden Reading my recent computing retrospective, I realised there was a big section missing: the people in...
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George Dryden

from markround.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

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Reading my recent computing retrospective, I realised there was a big section missing: the people in my life that made an impact and helped shape my career. Outside my immediate family, one person made an outsized contribution, and I’m fairly certain that without his influence my...
Mark Zuckerberg on research, Cambridge Analytica, and more I’d love to hear all of the ideas you guys have here, including relatively extreme things that might...
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Mark Zuckerberg on research, Cambridge Analytica, and more

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

6 days ago
I’d love to hear all of the ideas you guys have here, including relatively extreme things that might sound crazy at first.
Lexxy 1.0 is here Today we are releasing the version 1.0 of Lexxy. Lexxy is a rich text editor for Rails built on...
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Lexxy 1.0 is here

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

5 days ago
Today we are releasing the version 1.0 of Lexxy. Lexxy is a rich text editor for Rails built on Lexical. It already powers Basecamp, Fizzy and many others, and it will become the default editor in Rails. I recently presented it in Rails World (slides, video coming soon). This is...
Haunt 0.4.0 released I'm quite a bit late on this one, but Haunt version 0.4.0 was released released back in July. I...
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Haunt 0.4.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
I'm quite a bit late on this one, but Haunt version 0.4.0 was released released back in July. I haven't had much time for blogging, but I'm catching up now! This release contains a small set of improvements and bug fixes since the 0.3.0 release in 2024. About Haunt Haunt is a...
Post Capitalism You know we don’t have to do this anymore, right? Like it’s hitting the end. Most people don’t want...
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Post Capitalism

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in AI

5 days ago
You know we don’t have to do this anymore, right? Like it’s hitting the end. Most people don’t want this, and there will only be so long you can keep shoving it down their throats. Money is tied to nothing. American companies sell equity instead of products. The main narratives...
Change the first 100 diapers. #112 is advice for new fathers.
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Change the first 100 diapers.

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

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#112 is advice for new fathers.
Nothing to Fix The third cohort of Foundations of Dyadic Unfolding begins October 8.
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Nothing to Fix

from The Intimate Mirror [alt+shift+b] in life

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The third cohort of Foundations of Dyadic Unfolding begins October 8.
Winner, Name that Ware August 2026 The Ware for August 2026 is the “IC unit” from a Lafayette 150-in-1 “IC Electronic Project Kit”,...
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Winner, Name that Ware August 2026

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4 days ago
The Ware for August 2026 is the “IC unit” from a Lafayette 150-in-1 “IC Electronic Project Kit”, part number 99-35107. Above is a contextual photo of how the unit looked mounted in the kit. And above are a couple examples of projects you can build with the “IC” as part of the...
Ollama now supports Jev-style decision models Ollama now supports decision models, based on TypeSafe's Jev API for fast, typed decisions. Decision...
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Ollama now supports Jev-style decision models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

4 days ago
Ollama now supports decision models, based on TypeSafe's Jev API for fast, typed decisions. Decision models can now be run at no cost with low latency. Based on text, decision models answer yes-or-no questions, choices and scores about it, with a probability for every option.
Introducing The AirTag Silencer Apple made AirTag randomly chirp when bumped or moved when out of bluetooth range of your iPhone....
3 days ago
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Introducing The AirTag Silencer

from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 days ago
Apple made AirTag randomly chirp when bumped or moved when out of bluetooth range of your iPhone. That's great, but if your bike is stolen - the very last thing you would want is for the thief to hear the AirTag and throw it away. That's why we designed The AirTag Silencer - a...
The AI Pascal’s Wager The AI Pascal’s Wager Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source...
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The AI Pascal’s Wager

from Ploum.net [alt+shift+b] in literature

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The AI Pascal’s Wager Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source project? Let’s put aside for a moment all the ethical/ecological/societal considerations about the use of generated code (also known as "slop" if you don’t like it and "vibecode" if you...
The Invention of Islamic Invention How a rogue Wikipedia editor credited Muslims with... everything
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The Invention of Islamic Invention

from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science

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How a rogue Wikipedia editor credited Muslims with... everything
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Rubenerd Show 434: The toastrack episode

from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download 37:37 – A feedback episode, reading comments about the show from Adam, Alistair, and Abdullah. Discussing my favourite personal shows that are still going (Into Your Head, The Overnightscape Underground), task management (Getting Things...
Too Late Smart My grandparents, whose little farm was next door to ours so my sisters and I grew up effectively...
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Too Late Smart

from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 days ago
My grandparents, whose little farm was next door to ours so my sisters and I grew up effectively with two houses and two very different sets of parents, were lovely people.
A Fanciful (Not Fussy) Tea Sandwich To Usher in Apple Season It’s fed me through essays, exams, and even recipe columns The post A Fanciful (Not Fussy) Tea...
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It’s fed me through essays, exams, and even recipe columns The post A Fanciful (Not Fussy) Tea Sandwich To Usher in Apple Season appeared first on TASTE.
Don’t ruin my song, man Read More The post Don’t ruin my song, man appeared first on Least I Could Do.
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Don’t ruin my song, man

from Least I Could Do [alt+shift+b] in comics

2 days ago
Read More The post Don’t ruin my song, man appeared first on Least I Could Do.
'A Frangible and Transparent Failure' The title poem in Anthony Hecht’s 1979 collection The Venetian Vespers is a dramatic...
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'A Frangible and Transparent Failure'

from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature

2 days ago
The title poem in Anthony Hecht’s 1979 collection The Venetian Vespers is a dramatic monologue spoken by an aging American expatriate living in Venice. Across its roughly eight-hundred lines the speaker gives the impression of fleeing something left unstated – not a scandal or...
Roundup #89: It isn’t X, it’s Y AI risk; Reindustrialization; The rent crisis; AI and jobs; Mass deportation; Chinese investment;...
2 days ago
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Roundup #89: It isn’t X, it’s Y

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2 days ago
AI risk; Reindustrialization; The rent crisis; AI and jobs; Mass deportation; Chinese investment; Cyber risk
Inside Walthamstow's Magnificent Town Hall And why it has a basement like a yellow submarine.
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Inside Walthamstow's Magnificent Town Hall

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

2 days ago
And why it has a basement like a yellow submarine.
TfL FoI requests in September 2026 20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in September 2026 1) Since Superloop routes were...
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TfL FoI requests in September 2026

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

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20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in September 2026 1) Since Superloop routes were introduced, the most used is the SL8 (22.7m passengers) followed by the SL9 (12.7m) and SL7 (10.5m). Already twice as many people have ridden the SL11 (2.2m, introduced January 2026) than...
Police Mugshots of Black Trans Women Arrested for Cross-Dressing or Female Impersonation in 1970s... These police mugshots bear witness to a different time, when black trans women were arrested for...
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These police mugshots bear witness to a different time, when black trans women were arrested for ‘cross-dressing’ or ‘female impersonation’. They were taken between 1970 and 1979 in Philadelphia when police were the jurisdiction of Police Commissioner (and later Democrat Mayor of...
Sumibiyaki Arashi Thanks to Ipanemagirl, I finally got to dine at Sumibiyaki Arashi.  Reservations are hard to come-by...
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Sumibiyaki Arashi

from Sherman's Food Adventures [alt+shift+b] in life

2 days ago
Thanks to Ipanemagirl, I finally got to dine at Sumibiyaki Arashi.  Reservations are hard to come-by since Pete Ho's yakitori omakase spot has become a Vancouver favourite since it opened in February of 2025.  The place has already earned a Michelin-star and places #17 on...
How Themistocles Used a Prophecy to Defeat the Persians In 480 BC, a colossal Persian army crossed the Hellespont. Led by the power-hungry King Xerxes I,...
2 days ago
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How Themistocles Used a Prophecy to Defeat the Persians

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 days ago
In 480 BC, a colossal Persian army crossed the Hellespont. Led by the power-hungry King Xerxes I, hundreds of thousands of troops traveled towards Greece’s heartland in search of vengeance for a disastrous defeat ten years prior. As their customs demanded, the Athenians sought...
To grieve, or not to grieve? Recent events in the field of AI for mathematics have shown us beyond all reasonable doubt that the...
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To grieve, or not to grieve?

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 days ago
Recent events in the field of AI for mathematics have shown us beyond all reasonable doubt that the field is currently undergoing a rapid transformation, unlike anything that we have ever seen before. Language models are solving hard problems which … Continue reading →
Fifty Billion Seedlings: Can Ethiopia Replant Its Ravaged Forests? A legacy of deforestation has left Ethiopia struggling with more intense flooding and drought. The...
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A legacy of deforestation has left Ethiopia struggling with more intense flooding and drought. The country is trying to restore its native forests through one of the world's most ambitious and well-funded tree-planting campaigns, but experts question whether the trees will...
Media and messages Rock and roll came from the transistor radio. When Sony launched its cheap portable radio more than...
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Media and messages

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

2 days ago
Rock and roll came from the transistor radio. When Sony launched its cheap portable radio more than sixty years ago, it came with a headphone. For the first time in history, teenagers could listen to music without their parents eavesdropping. This opened the door to Chuck Berry...
Providing Global Relief Bert Spaan has taken Mapterhorn's global terrain data to create an interactive global Relief map....
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Providing Global Relief

from Maps Mania [alt+shift+b] in cartography

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Bert Spaan has taken Mapterhorn's global terrain data to create an interactive global Relief map. What is particularly interesting about this new map is that, unlike traditional topographic maps with a fixed colour-to-elevation scale, the map's colour spectrum adapts dynamically...
An Interview with Jason Del Rey About Muse, Amazon, and Walmart An interview with Jason Del Rey about Amazon versus Meta, which is a continuation of the oldest...
2 days ago
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An Interview with Jason Del Rey About Muse, Amazon, and Walmart

from Stratechery by Ben Thompson [alt+shift+b] in startups

2 days ago
An interview with Jason Del Rey about Amazon versus Meta, which is a continuation of the oldest battle in retail between Amazon and Walmart.
[Outliers] Charlie Munger’s Interview with Todd Combs I’m excited to share this previously unreleased 2022 conversation between Charlie Munger and Todd...
2 days ago
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[Outliers] Charlie Munger’s Interview with Todd Combs

from Farnam Street [alt+shift+b] in finance

2 days ago
I’m excited to share this previously unreleased 2022 conversation between Charlie Munger and Todd Combs.  Public Release: Oct 6th. Members have access now.Join us. As with any Munger talk, the subjects are both deep and wide. I’ve pulled out the ideas that most resonated with me....
Who lost Afghanistan? George W. Bush blundered away a winnable war.
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Who lost Afghanistan?

from Slow Boring [alt+shift+b] in history

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George W. Bush blundered away a winnable war.
A Belated Personal Anniversary I really intended to post this when it was the correct week (I don’t remember the day)…four weeks...
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A Belated Personal Anniversary

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2 days ago
I really intended to post this when it was the correct week (I don’t remember the day)…four weeks ago…but in any case last month marks the 50th anniversary of me starting to commute by subway, in 7th grade. At first it was simply the 7 train to Grand Central for school in east...
The Dot and the Swarm Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
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The Dot and the Swarm

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 days ago
Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
JJ Con 2026 Talks are Up All the talks from JJ Con 2026 in Lisbon are now on YouTube. Here is a quick overview of each of...
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JJ Con 2026 Talks are Up

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 days ago
All the talks from JJ Con 2026 in Lisbon are now on YouTube. Here is a quick overview of each of them.
Electricity Theft Is Rampant, but Delhi Found a Fix It’s disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid...
2 days ago
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Electricity Theft Is Rampant, but Delhi Found a Fix

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 days ago
It’s disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid networks. This leaking of electricity happens when it vanishes as heat as well as when it is pilfered by thieves and nonpaying customers. More than half of the countries that...
✈️ A FLIGHT THAT ALMOST ENDED VERY DIFFERENTLY October is here, the markets are coming off a pretty choppy September, and there’s a lot happening...
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✈️ A FLIGHT THAT ALMOST ENDED VERY DIFFERENTLY

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

2 days ago
October is here, the markets are coming off a pretty choppy September, and there’s a lot happening beneath the surface.
Understanding the AI That Drives Robots An Explanation of Vision-Language-Action Models
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Understanding the AI That Drives Robots

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology

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An Explanation of Vision-Language-Action Models
How Japan Redrew Asia Short article
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How Japan Redrew Asia

from Uncharted Territories [alt+shift+b] in science

2 days ago
Short article
In Suburbia, No One Can Hear You Clean How college life created quiet logistical constraints against clutter
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In Suburbia, No One Can Hear You Clean

from The Deleted Scenes [alt+shift+b] in architecture

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How college life created quiet logistical constraints against clutter
Butterflies Are Masters of Illusion Stephen J Gould (still my favorite science essayist) wrote an excellent article in 1985 (Red Wings...
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Butterflies Are Masters of Illusion

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

2 days ago
Stephen J Gould (still my favorite science essayist) wrote an excellent article in 1985 (Red Wings in the Sunset, later published in his book, Bully for Brontosaurus) about artist and naturalist Abbott Handerson Thayer. Thayer wrote about how animals use coloration as camouflage...
Now That Information Is Free, What’s a College Campus For? The internet and AI haven't killed the classroom. Instead, they’ve changed what university buildings...
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Now That Information Is Free, What’s a College Campus For?

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2 days ago
The internet and AI haven't killed the classroom. Instead, they’ve changed what university buildings can and should be used for.
This mouse droid knows how to party Not a lot of thought went into the “mouse droid” in the first Star Wars movie. It was just a bit of...
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This mouse droid knows how to party

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Not a lot of thought went into the “mouse droid” in the first Star Wars movie. It was just a bit of cute world-building, created by putting a box on an RC car. But it became a fan favorite and that in-universe model, the MSE-6, appears throughout subsequent movies, TV shows, and...
More firms are adopting building performance analysis, AIA finds The AIA has released its latest 2030 Commitment By the Numbers report. The initiative tracks the...
2 days ago
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More firms are adopting building performance analysis, AIA finds

from Archinect [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2 days ago
The AIA has released its latest 2030 Commitment By the Numbers report. The initiative tracks the architecture and design industry’s progress toward carbon-neutral buildings by 2030.  Based on performance data from 2025, the report found that 67% of whole-building projects...
MacKenzie Scott should have gotten Kindle in the divorce But she can still build the e-book future we’ve been waiting for. Here’s an open letter to the...
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MacKenzie Scott should have gotten Kindle in the divorce

from The Elysian [alt+shift+b] in literature

2 days ago
But she can still build the e-book future we’ve been waiting for. Here’s an open letter to the author.
A Sketch of Meta as an Enterprise AI Company Plus! IP; Gemini; Interfaces; The End Customer; Humans
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A Sketch of Meta as an Enterprise AI Company

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

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Plus! IP; Gemini; Interfaces; The End Customer; Humans
Space easy rewards out Every couple of days, I’ll drink a hojicha latte at a coffee shop I like. It’s delicious and gives...
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Space easy rewards out

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

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Every couple of days, I’ll drink a hojicha latte at a coffee shop I like. It’s delicious and gives me a perfect energy lift. I intentionally make sure it doesn’t happen every day, because I don’t want to rely on caffeine to get work done. I drink one beer very occasionally,...
AI #188: Gemini Dot Argon Is Google back?
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AI #188: Gemini Dot Argon

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 days ago
Is Google back?
The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand...
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The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 days ago
In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand for professional work – at 37signals at least. Is this change now unstoppable?
In Praise Of Bulletpoints - they are great
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ABLE Hospital Where does recovery take place? Able Hospital began with this question. If rehabilitation is...
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ABLE Hospital

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

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Where does recovery take place? Able Hospital began with this question. If rehabilitation is ultimately about returning to everyday life,...
A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement? The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
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A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?

from AI as Normal Technology [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 days ago
The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
Is This the Worst Map in Current Circulation? No, It Is This One! As I often mock the AI-slop maps that I see on X (“Twitter”), my account has apparently responded by...
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Is This the Worst Map in Current Circulation? No, It Is This One!

from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography

2 days ago
As I often mock the AI-slop maps that I see on X (“Twitter”), my account has apparently responded by sending even more garbage my way. One example recently caught my attention as perhaps the worst map that I had ever seen. Then, several days later, I encountered something even...
Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part five: data quality When I finished learning how to build an LLM from scratch, I was left with a mystery: my own models...
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When I finished learning how to build an LLM from scratch, I was left with a mystery: my own models were not as good as OpenAI's original GPT-2 models, despite being based on the same architecture. My models all had 163M parameters, and followed the design from Sebastian...
Poker. I didn’t realize being a venture investor would also mean becoming a full-time event planner.
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Poker.

from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups

2 days ago
I didn’t realize being a venture investor would also mean becoming a full-time event planner.
Pluralistic: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026) Today's links Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts: The big P only matters if the small...
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Pluralistic: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026)

from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 days ago
Today's links Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts: The big P only matters if the small p is in play. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Gilberto Gil v WIPO; Censored Apple wifi hacker talk; Wells Fargo crime-spree started in 1998; Stencils...
trading off love is freedom
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trading off

from bookbear express [alt+shift+b] in life

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love is freedom
Nothing beats having good references On this day in letters
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Vintage retro hand-drawn-ish hillshade in ArcGIS Pro Adding a hillshade terrain to your basemap can give the map reader incredible amounts of information...
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Vintage retro hand-drawn-ish hillshade in ArcGIS Pro

from Adventures In Mapping | John Nelson Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

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Adding a hillshade terrain to your basemap can give the map reader incredible amounts of information about the surface of the earth. But it’s also a mechanism for adding visual charm and interest to a map! With emotional resonance and technical merit bound up together in such a...
A Shameless Plug: My “human evolution” book thought some folks here may be interested in this … I just finished up a book on human evolution,...
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A Shameless Plug: My “human evolution” book

from Hidden History [alt+shift+b] in history

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thought some folks here may be interested in this … I just finished up a book on human evolution, which covers thirty-some hominin species from Sahelanthropus to sapiens. It covers what we know about each of them, what we don’t know, and what the experts are arguing over (and...
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How to Experience Wellness in Malta Beyond the Spa

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

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Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo Frontier models can now produce novel historical knowledge, but in a really weird way
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Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

from Res Obscura [alt+shift+b] in history

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Frontier models can now produce novel historical knowledge, but in a really weird way
Lighthouse map Lovely global map with animated lights sweeping the waters
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Lighthouse map

from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

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Lovely global map with animated lights sweeping the waters
The Idea Factory My mail, WhatsApp and Signal now live in one app I built myself. I called it Contact. It is not a...
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The Idea Factory

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

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My mail, WhatsApp and Signal now live in one app I built myself. I called it Contact. It is not a chat app and not an AI app, it sits somewhere in between. When I tried to draw what it is in my notebook, a factory came out. This post explains that drawing, starting with a...
#97 Joe Giago on Project Quiver Joe Giago is skilled bowyer from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and an enrolled member...
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#97 Joe Giago on Project Quiver

from Salish Wolf [alt+shift+b] in literature

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Joe Giago is skilled bowyer from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and an enrolled member the Oglala Sioux tribe. Joe began his bow-making journey over 15 years ago from the encouragement of an uncle and has been carving beautiful replica Native American bows every...
What we lost when we lost comments Comments require commitment, but they’re worth it.
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What we lost when we lost comments

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

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Comments require commitment, but they’re worth it.
GitHub repository landing pages now show an accessibility tab, if provided My last official contribution to GitHub was something I’ve wanted for a long time: Writing the code...
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My last official contribution to GitHub was something I’ve wanted for a long time: Writing the code to display an ACCESSIBILITY.md file’s contents on the repository landing page. This content lives in the same tab component that the README, License, Code of Conduct, Security, and...
Our AI Midwife A guest post by Drew Housman
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Our AI Midwife

from Astral Codex Ten [alt+shift+b] in literature

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A guest post by Drew Housman
OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home As the sun sets in Tokyo, its alleyways become illuminated by the lights of “sunakku” snack bars....
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OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home

from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel

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As the sun sets in Tokyo, its alleyways become illuminated by the lights of “sunakku” snack bars. But OrySnack is illuminated by something entirely different: the gentle, glowing eyes of six small humanoid robots that are pouring drinks and interacting with customers. But you...
Dawn of the Brain-Dead Carl Elliott on the ethical implications of going beyond organ transplantation The post Dawn of the...
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Dawn of the Brain-Dead

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

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Carl Elliott on the ethical implications of going beyond organ transplantation The post Dawn of the Brain-Dead appeared first on The American Scholar.
A rebel wild and free [Plus audio version]
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RAMageddon $1000 for a base-PS5-strength machine with no controller, or $1200 with one. At the original rumored...
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RAMageddon

from Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic [alt+shift+b] in comics

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$1000 for a base-PS5-strength machine with no controller, or $1200 with one. At the original rumored $7-800 price point, the Steam Machine might have justified its existence to me for its living-room form-factor/access to my Steam library. But adding in the AI RAMflation, I just...
Clip of me singing Despard in Ruddigore in 2013 A clip of me singing a funny song from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore back in 2013
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Clip of me singing Despard in Ruddigore in 2013

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

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A clip of me singing a funny song from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore back in 2013
How and Why fork() Uses Copy-on-Write In this video, we look at why fork() needs copy-on-write, how it works inside the kernel, and a...
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How and Why fork() Uses Copy-on-Write

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

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In this video, we look at why fork() needs copy-on-write, how it works inside the kernel, and a memory usage problem that Instagram encountered with Python.
Trims and fits: How product design works, at Buck Mason Back in the spring, we spent some time with the Buck Mason team in LA , working on a project but...
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Trims and fits: How product design works, at Buck Mason

from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in design

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Back in the spring, we spent some time with the Buck Mason team in LA , working on a project but also learning about their design process, how their references work and the way those feed into finished products.  This was important for me be... > Read more
What Happens After the Zoning Code Says "Yes" One extra home can change the rules, the costs, and who can afford to build.
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What Happens After the Zoning Code Says "Yes"

from Strong Towns [alt+shift+b] in architecture

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One extra home can change the rules, the costs, and who can afford to build.
Bang or bust? At Bang Bang Oriental, Mohammed Ali Salha considers the invention of the London food hall....
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Bang or bust?

from Vittles [alt+shift+b] in life

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At Bang Bang Oriental, Mohammed Ali Salha considers the invention of the London food hall. Photographs by Dashti Jahfar
Make tmux the OS I recently watched the talk by Scott Jenson titled "Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX...
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Make tmux the OS

from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

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I recently watched the talk by Scott Jenson titled "Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7AfAcQwLW0&t=445s. He's a great presenter, really articulate and concise. The kind of speaker that you'd
Warming up the Puma master before it forks Basecamp 5 runs on Puma in cluster mode: one master process with preload_app! and 63 single-threaded...
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Warming up the Puma master before it forks

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

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Basecamp 5 runs on Puma in cluster mode: one master process with preload_app! and 63 single-threaded workers per host, deployed as a Docker container with Kamal. We serve Basecamp from several sites. Each site has its own web hosts and a read replica of the database, and writes...
The 2030 Census is in Trouble Trump wants to add a citizenship question and ban questions on race
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The 2030 Census is in Trouble

from Can We Still Govern? [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Trump wants to add a citizenship question and ban questions on race
UX Roundup: Vigilance Fatigue | Adaptive Authoring | UI Clutter | Scenarios vs. Surveys for User... Asking users to watch AI carefully is doomed to failure | Adaptive authoring of content that changes...
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Asking users to watch AI carefully is doomed to failure | Adaptive authoring of content that changes depending on the reader | A cluttered experience kills user focus | To predict patients’ treatment preferences, discussing medical dilemmas beat both survey responses and the...
Weekly Dose of Optimism #213 Starship Orbital, America.gov, Matic Master Plan, Freckle, Heart Age + Extra Doses
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #213

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick [alt+shift+b] in creative

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Starship Orbital, America.gov, Matic Master Plan, Freckle, Heart Age + Extra Doses
Origins of the Odyssey Rethinking the Dark Age and the Alphabet
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Origins of the Odyssey

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

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Rethinking the Dark Age and the Alphabet
Does AI exacerbate English-language inequality? It’s an empirical question!
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Does AI exacerbate English-language inequality?

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

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It’s an empirical question!
Comic for 2026.10.02 - Pregnant New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Comic for 2026.10.02 - Pregnant

from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics

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New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
Seed Shanty The post Seed Shanty appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
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Seed Shanty

from The Perry Bible Fellowship [alt+shift+b] in literature

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The post Seed Shanty appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
Two more 27.0 design grumbles After living with Apple’s 27.0 OSs since launch, I have some more annoyances to get off my chest....
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Two more 27.0 design grumbles

from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology

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After living with Apple’s 27.0 OSs since launch, I have some more annoyances to get off my chest. This time, it’s all about how tabs and menus have gotten worse. I’ve already ranted about the Liquid Glass material in general, but these two design changes in particular have really...
Boilerplate revenue crash 💰 Interesting stuff here. This guy found that Marc Lou's ShipFast boilerplate dived in revenue from a...
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Boilerplate revenue crash 💰

from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

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Interesting stuff here. This guy found that Marc Lou's ShipFast boilerplate dived in revenue from a height of $125k per month to $2,000.
Premium: How Has AI Changed The Economy? This week, the Wall Street Journal ran an alarming illustration of AI’s potential share of GDP that...
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Premium: How Has AI Changed The Economy?

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

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This week, the Wall Street Journal ran an alarming illustration of AI’s potential share of GDP that I’d argue did more to muddy the waters than actually telling anyone anything, mostly because its measurement, for whatever reason, covered 2025 to 2032, meaning that six out of
Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIa: Focusing on Politics This is the first half of the third part (I, II) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of...
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Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIa: Focusing on Politics

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

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This is the first half of the third part (I, II) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game, easily one of the most popular historical games on the market today and thus tremendously influential in both the...
Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges Associate Professor Cathy Wu uses reinforcement learning to help map out improvements to...
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Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges

from MIT News - Civil and environmental engineering [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Associate Professor Cathy Wu uses reinforcement learning to help map out improvements to transportation and other multifaceted systems.
Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation An aggregation is some kind of summary of a set of data. This can be the sum, length, minimum, etc....
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Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

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An aggregation is some kind of summary of a set of data. This can be the sum, length, minimum, etc. It is quite common to want to calculate such a summary repeatedly, e.g. “the maximum noise level in dB for the past 30 seconds” for a nuisance detector. In such a case we say there...
The AI God Delusion Goes Mainstream Anthropic now treats the Pope as a competitor in a battle for souls
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The AI God Delusion Goes Mainstream

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

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Anthropic now treats the Pope as a competitor in a battle for souls
[instagram] there will still be 125 pieces of my love lingering somewhere on the internet i used to be one of those people who would say, marriage is just a piece of paper. but after being...
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i used to be one of those people who would say, marriage is just a piece of paper. but after being with her for years and years through all the tears and laughter it is starting to make me sad that if anything were to happen to me she wouldn’t be able to do things like make...
An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both so the community...
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An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

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Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both so the community can carry them forward. Our small team will now focus fully on making Orion for macOS and iOS faster, more stable, and more capable.
Haunted by the ghosts of materialism Is philosophy real? We sent our correspondent to find out.
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Haunted by the ghosts of materialism

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science

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Is philosophy real? We sent our correspondent to find out.
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