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GOP Begs Supreme Court To Let It Flood Airwaves With Cheap Midterm Propaganda
Back in June, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission that federal limits on coordinated expenditures by political parties violate the First Amendment, opening the floodgates to a much broader array of political ads funded via no limit of rich assholes and their preferred dark money groups. In preparation for […] -
We Spoke to an Amazon Worker Destroying Books for AI
Take control of your data footprint risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Go to https://incogni.com/404Mediaand use code 404MEDIA for 60% off an annual plan. That's code 404MEDIA at https://incogni.com/404Media We start this week with Emanuel’s follow-up to his Amazon book scanning story, in which he spoke to someone who worked in the Amazon warehouse which destroys books to train Amazon’s AI products. After the break, Emanuel and Sam tell us about the same few names appearing in LLM output over and over again. In the subscribers-only section, Joseph tells us why ICE is buying loads of data about ‘voter fraud’. You're Invited: 404 Media's Third Anniversary Live Podcast and Party! Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training The AI ‘Ghosts’ Contaminating Academic Publishing ICE Plans to Spend Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots ICE Wants the Country’s Voter Data Youtube Version: https://youtu.be/PcNdLnLF7mo Subscribe at 404media.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdst.fm -
I have been self-hosting RSS readers (tt-rss, freshrss, miniflux, etc) for over...
I have been self-hosting RSS readers (tt-rss, freshrss, miniflux, etc) for over a decade now, after having tried and used most of the cloud hosted RSS reader such as google reader, NetNewsWire, Inoreader, Feedme etc… but its only when I added a Microsub plugin to my indiekit server that things really got interesting, I can now consume my favorite RSS feeds directly from where I blog, this means, likes, repost, bookmarks or simply writing a note against an item I just read is one click away, from the same UI.
My microsub implementation use channels to segment different RSS feeds, I can import/export OPML, mark “read it later” if its something I want to return to later, the UI is a bit clunky but it works and its able to consume any type of feeds, RSS, Atom, JSONfeed or even pure indieweb h-feed, it has auto discovery built-in so adding a new source is really smooth.
This plugin is being ported to indiekit origin, we are at PR 1 over 7 to come !
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Reading : X Kills Nitter And Xcancel, The Last Ways To Read Tweets Without Elon...
Reading : X Kills Nitter And Xcancel, The Last Ways To Read Tweets Without Elon Watching
X’s transformation from a kind of open decentralized communications protocol to a closed bullshit delivery mechanism is symptomatic of many of the things going wrong in the world today, from the enshittification of all sorts of products and services, to the rise of authoritarianism around the globe.
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2026-09-02 09:16: I've recently switched to Gnome's default apps for email etc. So instead of #Thunderbird doing...
I've recently switched to Gnome's default apps for email etc. So instead of #Thunderbird doing all the things, I have Geary, Calendar, and Contacts. Most of the time I only need email, so it's nice having a much simplified UX.
I also like how integrated into Gnome they all are.
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
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John Hunter - Manufacturing Mania in Self-Help Seminars
This week’s guest is psychology researcher and lecturer Dr. John Hunter, joining the show to talk about intensive self-help seminars–known as “large group awareness trainings,” or LGATs–and the emotions they produce. He shares about his personal experience with bipolar disorder and hypomania, and how the LGAT his employer sent him to seemed to induce a state of hypomania in its attendees.
John explains his dopamine hypothesis, why these trainings feel so euphoric at the end (and how rarely people tend to genuinely transform in the long-term), and how some folks have even entered prolonged manic states after attending an LGAT. But also, as always: how it’s not completely black and white.
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The Fight for America’s Future Is Happening in the South
More To The Story: Tennessee Rep. Justin J. Pearson first caught national attention when he was expelled from the state’s House of Representatives after demonstrating in support of gun law reforms. Today, he’s the Democratic candidate for Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District. It’s an area newly transformed by redrawn voting maps and sprawling data centers, putting Pearson at the center of some of the country’s biggest national fights. On this week’s More To The Story, Pearson talks about how redistricting has upended Tennessee and the many ways gun violence has become a deeply personal issue for him. He also looks back at the opposition to his 2023 demonstration for gun law reform when he was dubbed part of “the Tennessee Three.”
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Listen: How Redistricting Is Upending America’s Midterms (More To The Story)
Read: Republicans Don’t Need to Win Elections Anymore. They Just Need Their Judges. (Mother Jones)
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Senators Call For RFK Jr.’s Resignation After More Emails Suggest He Lied In His Confirmation Hearings
There are plenty of reasons to call for RFK Jr. to resign or be fired. There are plenty of reasons to call for him to be investigated. There’s his complete dereliction of duty when it comes to the American measles outbreak. There’s his sneaky misrepresentations carried out as he moonlights on a government-funded cooking show […] -
Risky Business #851 -- Agents are just ones and zeros, and tigers are just atoms
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host The Grugq to talk through the week’s news, including:
- Two alleged TeamPCP hackers got arrested in Australia
- The White House has a plan to boost security for water facilities, but we can’t see it working
- OpenAI keeps the ol’ Hugging Face discourse going for another week with an incident debrief
- Tech companies write another open letter about AI… we’re getting CISA Shields Up flashbacks, but for robots
- Much, much more…
This week’s show is brought to you by Ent AI. Co-founder Brandon Dixon joins Pat to talk through some of the absolutely wild fraud and abuse the company’s endpoint security tool is finding when it’s deployed inside large organisations.
This episode is also available on YouTube
Show notes
- Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia | krebsonsecurity.com
- How Brian Krebs doxxed TeamPCP - Risky Business Media | Social Signals
- FIRST ON FOX: Texas becomes testing ground for new defense against attacks on America’s water systems | Social Signals
- OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Debrief Raises More Questions Than It Answers | wired.com
- The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations |
- clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
- Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
- 100-plus companies call for ‘global surge’ in AI-powered cyber defense | CyberScoop
- China's AI-Enabled APT Operations Are Getting Interesting - Risky Business Media |
- SilkParasite: Tracking a China-Nexus APT Across Central Asia |
- DoD confirms ‘refrigeration disruption’ at military commissaries | Military Times
- Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks | arstechnica.com
- Ukraine to give Britain access to battlefield data to train AI | therecord.media
- Anthropic warns infostealer malware is hijacking Claude sessions to drain usage | BleepingComputer
- White House bans foreign-made equipment for power generation over cyber backdoor concerns | therecord.media
- Large DDoS attack knocks Norwegian public services offline | The Record
- Researchers warn about chained SharePoint sequence | Cybersecurity Dive
- PaperCut warns of hackers using printer management software flaw in attacks | therecord.media
- AnonyMousKIT PhaaS uses voice AI agents to phish iPhone passcodes | BleepingComputer
- Slovenian casinos reopen after cyberattack knocked gaming systems offline | therecord.media
- DOJ firearms agency says hackers breached system containing investigation targets | therecord.media
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Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican
Today is Claude Fable (and Mythos) 5.1 day. Anthropic say that Fable 5.1 "sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks". Their announcement spends a notable amount of time on scientific research, boasting of a 52.6% score on the brand new Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 benchmark (first announced on August 27th), up from 24.7% for Fable 5, 29.0% for Opus 5 and 22.4% for GPT-5.6 Sol. Other benchmarks show slightly improved scores, but none as impressive as the Science one.
But how well can it pelican?
Back in July I wrote about how I was losing faith in the pelican benchmark - its connection to how good the models were at other tasks didn't seem to hold as strongly as it did back in 2025. The most interesting insights I get from it now are comparisons within model families, and particularly comparisons for the same prompt at different reasoning effort levels.
Fable 5.1 has five reasoning levels: low, medium, high, xhigh, max - and no option to turn off reasoning entirely.
I fixed an issue in llm-anthropic which caused reasoning traces not to be correctly recorded, then ran some prompts.
Here's the full set of pelicans for all of the reasoning levels, each with the full reasoning transcript. I'll replicate them here:
Low and medium, both without reasoning?
Next, a bit of a mystery. This is what I got for effort
low:
The transcript doesn't show any summarized reasoning tokens, and the output token count is 1,998. With Claude that output token count includes reasoning tokens. It took 23.8 seconds and cost 10.017 cents.
I bumped that up to
mediumand got this:
Weirdly, that one also shows no reasoning text and used 1,977 output tokens - 21 tokens less than
low. It took 23 seconds and cost 9.912 cents.So for this particular prompt ("Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle") Fable 5.1 appeared to skip reasoning entirely at both
lowandmediumsettings.High
Here's
high- 29.6 seconds, 2,612 output tokens, 13.087 cents:
This one did do a bit of reasoning, summary here:
I'm planning the SVG layout for a pelican riding a bicycle, with a sky and ground background, a bicycle with two spoked wheels, frame, seat and handlebars, and a white-bodied pelican with a long neck and orange beak positioned on top.
Really not much difference from
lowandmedium, though.Extra High
At
xhighthings got radically different. 36,767 output tokens, 7 minutes 51 seconds, $1.83!
The reasoning trace is pretty lengthy, and includes details like this:
Adding the eye, wings stretching down to the handlebar grip, orange legs reaching to the pedals, and a small tail feather, while keeping the pelican intentionally oversized compared to the bike for comic effect. [...]
I'll accept the slight thickness as charming rather than overengineering it.
Max
Setting effort to
maxgave me the best pelican I've seen from any of Anthropic's models. 65,927 output tokens, 13 minutes and 54 seconds, $3.30:
There's a lot to like about this. The background is tasteful, the legs are clearly on either side of the frame, the feet are on the pedals, the wing is on the handlebars, the pelican has a cute blue hat and there's a basket with a fish.
It's still not showing nearly the same level of flair as Gemini 3.7 Flash, but I didn't ask for flair - I asked for an SVG, and that's what I got.
Some highlights from that reasoning trace:
Adding pedal shapes near both feet, with the far foot on the second leg partially visible behind the frame. I'm considering whether to add a small scarf or cap for extra character, but leaning toward keeping it simple to avoid clutter.
Now I'm debating a bicycle helmet on the head versus the pelican's signature crest—the beak and pouch already read clearly as "pelican," so a helmet could reinforce the bicycle theme without losing identity, though it might compete with the crest for visual space.
I realize the beak at (484,84) would overlap with the dome helmet, so I need to shrink the helmet so it only covers the top of the head, adjusting its arc endpoints to sit higher and narrower so the beak can attach cleanly at the front without collision. [...]
I'm adding a darker tip region to represent the primary feathers, then reconsidering the trailing edge to include scalloped feather curves instead of one smooth line for a more natural look. [...]
Now I'm checking the vent line placements on the helmet, making sure they sit far enough inside the helmet's edge given the stroke width and rounded caps, and confirming each vent stays within the helmet's circular boundary. [...]
I decide skipping a handlebar bell and tire highlights since they're unnecessary additions. Now I'm reconsidering the front fork's curve — the current control point pulls the shape backward when it should bow forward for a proper rake, so I need to shift the control point rightward to fix the fork's lean.
OK, let's animate it
On Hacker News, swalsh commented on that Max pelican:
Now that it's a solved benchmark, can we get the animated version?
I didn't want to spend another $3 so I took the Max pelican and piped it into the default thinking level of High:
llm logs -cx | llm -m claude-fable-5.1 -s 'animate this'
6,121 input, 26,201 output = $1.37. The result looked like this, exported here as video since some people have trouble viewing animated SVGs:
Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
The wheels in the video are rotating in the wrong direction, but I think that's an artifact of the conversion to MP4 - they seem to be going in the correct direction in the original SVG.
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Monitor Makers Start Pummeling Owners With Annoying Ads, ‘Smart’ Spyware
Initially the idea of the “smart television” seemed like a good idea. That is until TV makers realized they could make significantly more money loading the television with spyware, tracking your every online choice, then selling all that data to a global assortment of unregulated data brokers. It didn’t take long for product quality to […] -
Trump Is in Open Revolt Against the Constitution
The details of what is happening here are important — that’s why I laid them out — but it’s also important to step back and make a more fundamental point: the president of the United States is engaged in a conspiracy against the voting rights of the American people, which is to say that the president is engaged in a conspiracy against the Constitution itself. And this is part of a larger effort, spearheaded by the most fanatical of his allies, like Stephen Miller, to end the American republic and supplant it with an authoritarian regime in which President Trump holds sovereign authority over the whole nation.
It is important to say, as well, that this is all out in the open, as plain as day.
*repeated hair tearing-out noise*
Tags: Donald Trump · Jamelle Bouie · politics · usa
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Dear Google
This is how it is done…
🔗 MapQuest Tops App Store Charts After Refusing 'Lake America' Change - MacRumors
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Gina Trapani: The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer...
Gina Trapani: The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer. I’ve always been a little 3D printer-curious and this looks like a good resource to start with.
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Blogging from RSS.chat?
Thinking out loud about blogging from this space.
It's pretty close to being able to do what I do in Electric Drummer in an outline, just need a few more options, they would fit in the context menu on each post as you edit. Lots of room there.
The blog rendering would run off the RSS feed. I probably would write something new and very simple, almost like an RSS feed browser.
The reason I would start with a pilot project here is because there are other people here, already. And if I said something provocative that you knew other people would see, would you be drawn to that? I trust the people I've invited here not to be spammers.
We might be ready for that. We put a lot of effort into the comment system here. We plan to use the new features to create a very new kind of web.
No one tries out new ideas in the blogging world. That could change.
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Every writer everywhere
Understands.
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ICE, CBP Officers Prefer To Sexually Assault Children When Committing Crimes
The “worst of the worst” are coming for the “worst of the worst.” Of course, this administration has completely given up on this pretense, despite sending out lots of noisy messaging otherwise every time an immigration officer murders a person. For the entirety of Trump’s anti-migration surge, it’s been obvious that it’s all about expelling […] -
2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely...
2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely retranslating The Odyssey. “It’s a complete retranslation. It’s not a revision of the old version.” This is the exact opposite of resting on one’s laurels.
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Starting to see the gold Tesla Cybercabs in Texas. I don’t plan to ride in one, but to their credit it sounds like the cameras might be better than the ones in a normal Tesla. I just don’t get stubbornly ignoring LiDAR when the technology is right there.
Of course Waymo agrees. From a Waymo blog post:
Cameras are incredible, but they aren't enough.
Cybercabs can probably drive a little better than the average human, but not much better.
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Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court...
Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail. “The Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans.”
- Back at the Wham Stadium, avoiding an awful transfer window close out…
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X Kills Nitter And Xcancel, The Last Ways To Read Tweets Without Elon Watching
When Twitter launched, it was originally designed to be just like an open protocol. In the early days, the company eagerly supported third party development, building on that protocol. But, because it was a new communications protocol totally controlled by a single company, eventually commercial pressure led the company to close off the openness. Jack […] -
Obama should have seated Garland if the Senate wouldn’t have a vote to advise and consent. assume they consent.
And the governor of Kentucky should appoint a successor to McConnell unless someone can prove he’s actually alive.
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Daily Deal: The All-in-One Super-Sized Ethical Hacking Bundle
To completely understand computer security, it’s vital to step outside the fence and to think outside the box. Computer security is not just about firewalls, Intrusion Prevention Systems, or anti-viruses. It’s also about tricking people into doing whatever a hacker wishes. A secure system, network, or infrastructure is also about informed people. The All-in-One Super-Sized […] -
How Blackwing Pencils Are Made
The thing about me is if I see a making-of video for pencils, I’m gonna stop and watch it and then post it to my website, especially if said pencils are Blackwings, made in Japan.
Take a first-ever, in-depth look at the Blackwing pencil manufacturing process. This short film gives a glimpse into its manufacturing facilities in Japan and California. Beginning in Kofu, Japan, the film details the intricate graphite formulation and cutting process, then transitions to the woodworking facility in Tokyo where the pencils are pressed and lacquered.
Finally, it ends in Stockton, California at Blackwing’s headquarters where the pencils are imprinted, assembled with its signature ferrule, quality-checked, and hand-packed. Each and every Blackwing pencil is thoughtfully made to help you slow down and have the best tools for your creative journey.
I’m always so curious about what’s being blurred out in making-of videos like this!
See also See How Pencils Are Made in a Japanese Factory, How Pencils Are Made, A Visit to an American Factory That’s Been Producing Pencils Since 1889, and A History of Pencil Lead and How Pencils Are Made. (via NaOH)
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Pro tip: use reading-mode on Firefox or Vivaldi and then use built-in translatio...
Pro tip: use reading-mode on Firefox or Vivaldi and then use built-in translation, resulting in full story, no ads.
TLDR;
One of Mullvad’s two founders/owners, Daniel Berntsson, has personally spent more than SEK 20 million acquiring property around a libertarian intentional community whose core network has significant documented overlap with Sweden’s far right, including Det Fria Sverige and former neo-Nazi activists.
He has longstanding personal ties to the people running it, is a shareholder in the company owning its communal building, and confirms that he deliberately finances libertarian community-building projects.
Separately, he gave SEK 5 million to a political party campaigning for large-scale remigration.
More here
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Creative computer people, consider consolidating all the different OSes and programming languages. Give humans a fair fight in competition with the AI's who have no trouble deeply understanding every syntax human designers have come up with, where it totally disadvantages us, who have much more limited memory.
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Show HN: Rust Glancer 0.2 – new Rust LSP server targeting <100mb idle RSS
This is a major update of functionality, mainly incorporating early feedback, including from HN. The LSP got Zed/nvim & Windows support, was optimized for Bevy, and got significant improvements of analysis quality, memory usage, and speed.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525257
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A small update about RSC (really simple syndication)
A small update about RSC (really simple syndication)
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I have been working on a #Eleventy 4 theme for #Indiekit and yes I was pleasingl...
I have been working on a #Eleventy 4 theme for #Indiekit and yes I was pleasingly surprised to see it work out of the box with the current “eleventy-preset” core indiekit package (its supposed to be Eleventy 3.x.x) My inspiration was onbviously Zach Leatherman own Eleventy 4 theme
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Industry Standard Tools . “Every trade has a small...
Industry Standard Tools. “Every trade has a small number of items so entrenched that they’ve become the de facto tool that nearly everyone in that trade uses.”
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Alternative for Feedly
After many years of using Feedly and being happy, they have now broke it. The articles show up on the side and are cut off. They have no way of giving them feedback on this issue.
What is the next best simple RSS reader?
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Been busy with other projects, among them #indiekit and also, well I'm back to work, holiday's are over !
- the ideas.md on the github project is still full of things to implement for RSC
- RSC is now able to asnwer to Deleted Items on a RSS feed, meaning, other instances are able to update an existing post ID, with a pre-defined post deleted thombstone, so this means If I federate a post created here on rsc.rmdes.be it will distribute to bob.rmdes.be and alice.rmdes.be - because there is a mutual subscribtion between approved federated instances - so concretely, deleted posts "travel" to other instance as if it was an edit to an existing post, but a delete will simply leave a trace the post was deleted, without history, this means, posts can be deleted and their status travel over the feed and update to subscribers using websub or rsscloud
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Not sure I can run this on a DGX Spark GB10 but 5.2 is already impressive
Not sure I can run this on a DGX Spark GB10 but 5.2 is already impressive
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FBI Lowers Hiring Standards To Approve Applicants Who Admit To Having Sex With Animals
As the Trump administration continues to chase away actual talent in order to staff federal agencies with loyalists and/or people who don’t know any better, it has had to lower hiring standards to keep the federal cupboards stocked. ICE went on a hiring surge following the imposition of impossible arrest quotas and a few billion […] -
Après l’été caniculaire : « c’est le moment d’arracher notre droit à vivre »
L’été 2026 est le plus chaud jamais enregistré en France. Trois vagues de chaleur se sont succédées, et une nouvelle s’annonce pour la fin de la semaine. Les incendies de l’été ont ravagé plus de 115 000 hectares de forêt. Le dérèglement climatique va accentuer la fréquence et la gravité de ces phénomènes.
Quelles leçons avons-nous tiré de cet été inédit sur le plan climatique ? A gauche, l’urgence de la transition climatique s’impose en ce début de campagne. Mais une crainte demeure : que cette page se referme trop vite, quand les températures vont redescendre.
Une émission présentée par Mathieu Magnaudeix et Samia Dechir, préparée avec Raphaël Gribe Marquis et Mathieu Mialaret.
Nos invité·es :
- Benoît Biteau, député écologiste de Charente-Maritime, paysan en bio, agronome ;
- Ludivine Daurignac, collectif des habitants sinistrés du Porge ;
- Soraya Fettih, coordinatrice de campagne globale pour l’ONG 350.org ;
- Jean Jouzel, paléoclimatologue, ancien vice-président du groupe scientifique du Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat (GIEC) ;
- Stéphane Lessire, pompier, porte-parole du syndicat Sud SDIS (et secrétaire général sud 89)
- Elise Naccarato, responsable campagnes et plaidoyer climat, Oxfam France ;
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Kind of love the all-lowercase "hello" as John Ternus's first X post. Maybe we're in for a new, more informal style. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it. Still holding out hope for a CEO personal blog one day, to offset all the opaque corporate-y communication.
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It would be wonderful is some future AI came up with a cure for cancer. Less so if the AI decides who gets the cure.
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This is a fun read: If You Build It, Will They Come? On...
This is a fun read: If You Build It, Will They Come? On the Sperm Racing World Cup. “The cells then race through courses less than a half-centimeter long that are etched into microfluidic silicon chips.”
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One way to read the OpenAI vs. Anthropic rivalry — and Claude Code's success — is that while OpenAI was off in the weeds playing with Sora, Anthropic was training Mythos. OpenAI spent 2026 catching up. Reading about Astra rumors, I expect OpenAI to have a significant advantage through the fall. 🤖
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I noticed when I quit Twitter in 2013 that my blog posts became more my own, less influenced by my old online community. I think it's a good idea every once in a while for us to poke our heads outside whatever the current filter bubble is. The web is a big place. That diversity is a strength.
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Nationally, unsubsidized ACA premiums to jump *another*...
Nationally, unsubsidized ACA premiums to jump *another* ~15% next year. We can’t continue like this (but I feel like this has been the case for the last ~10 years and will in fact likely continue…)
- Spotted some commentary on the https://slashfriends.org project in my…
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Here’s how noise-cancelling headphones work (and when...
Here’s how noise-cancelling headphones work (and when they don’t). “This is why ANC is better suited for reducing low, sustained sounds like those of motors and airplane engines, and it’s why such headphones can’t filter out screaming kids.”
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Oklahoma Tells City It Can't Charge $17,125.44 for a Records Request Related to Data Center Arrest
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This 'Digital Camouflage' Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras
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I begin the month of September for some reason, not feeling like working. And rather than succumb to the work ethos, I'm allowing myself to goof off with the same determination that I worked my ass of for so many years. I think the last time I felt like this was when I was a grad student in Madison. I had just fallen in love with a sweet, funny, cute and gorgeous undergrad. She was 19 and I was 22. We spent the last weeks of the fall semester goofing off, and as a result I had to stay in Madison over the holidays, to finish the work of the Compiler Design course, which was the gate for grad students, the hardest course. If you got through it with a decent grade, you got the degree. It was fun too -- except I missed my sweetheart. This time I don't know what the root is, but it's a good feeling. If I want to goof off, I can, no one will judge me, probably very few people even notice. I still expect to finish Frontier, and swing back around to FeedLand and RSS.chat, they have some important work to do, together. Maybe the reason is the thing I liked about making software is the actual making of it, which I delegate more and more to Claude Code. How would a great painter feel if they invented a computer that could write their "code" much more quickly, would Picasso have stopped painting just because Claude Code could do Picasso paintings faster? Today, Claude still will, if given a chance, throw out all of my orders and develop code in a non-Dave fashion. And it still acts as if between the two of us it's the only programmer, surprised when I want to actually write something myself. Maybe that's just my imagination? Or maybe that's the next project for me. A project where I write the code, and Claude helps out when I can't find a bug, or where I need to know something about a feature in a platform I've not worked on.