popular bookmarks generated Thu Dec 11 12:47:55 2025 UTC ----------------------------------------- Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington] To pop the bubble, we have to hammer on the forces that created the bubble: the myth that AI can do your job, especially if you get high wages that your boss can claw back; the understanding that growth companies need a succession of ever-more-outlandish bubbles to stay alive; the fact that workers and the public they serve are on one side of this fight, and bosses and their investors are on the other side 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {ArtificialIntelligence review critique author:CoryDoctorow Pluralistic 2025} Size of Life [https://neal.fun/size-of-life/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {kalina} How to put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle (and why you should) [https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindle] Jailbreaking a Kindle makes it able to do much more. Adding Tailscale takes the Kindle even further. 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {tailscale kindle jailbreak} How I block all online ads [https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {advertising} How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it [https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates] I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power. 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z My favourite small hash table [https://www.corsix.org/content/my-favourite-small-hash-table] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {programming data_structures hash_tables} Saloni's guide to data visualization [https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-guide-to-data-visualization] Why data visualization matters, and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {dataviz charts} How to quit Spotify - by Brian Merchant [https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete-guide-to-quitting-spotify] "This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative" 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {brianmerchant 2025 music streaming spotify applemusic youtubemusic amazonmusic tidal pandora deezer qobuz peloton} Netflix and the Hollywood End Game – Stratechery by Ben Thompson [https://stratechery.com/2025/netflix-and-the-hollywood-end-game/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {netflix Hollywood internet tech} If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C? [https://stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-coding.html] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {genai} Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden [https://andyljones.com/posts/horses.html] In 1920, there were 25 million horses in the United States, 25 million horses totally ambivalent to two hundred years of progress in mechanical engines.And not very long after, 93 per cent of those horses had disappeared.I very much hope we'll get the two decades that horses did.But looking at how fast Claude is automating my job, I think we're getting a lot less. 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {XDN Observations} Turtletoy [https://turtletoy.net/] Create generative art using the javascript Turtle graphics API 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {JavaScript experimental inspiration} You are not immune to shopaganda | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/836456/influencers-tiktok-debt-shopaganda] via The Verge https://ift.tt/2lRcijh 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z Gemini 3 hallucinates the Hacker News front page in 2035 [https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {XDN Tech} The 2025 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide [https://kottke.org/25/12/the-2025-kottke-holiday-gift-guide] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {gifts} Perl's decline was cultural [https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {unix-philosophy perl-culture perl-philosophy wall} 576 - Using LLMs at Oxide / RFD / Oxide [https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z AI should only run as fast as we can catch up · Higashi.blog [https://higashi.blog/2025/12/07/ai-verification/] Argument: having AI's vibe-code stuff that you don't understand and can't review will not lead to production-ready systems. Having AI produce at a pace which we can review and approve will. It's ideal for cases where verification is easier than production (eg: creating images). 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {ai via:HackerNews vibecoding} Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal — ProPublica [https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {dt-investigating-opponents dt-hypocrisy} How the creator economy destroyed the internet | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/810002/influencers-creator-economy-special-series] via The Verge https://ift.tt/2lRcijh 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z Meet Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain | rePebble Blog [https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {phone watch ring thoughts note record hardware} LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090 | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124425] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {ai machinelearning} Resonant Computing Manifesto [https://resonantcomputing.org/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z State of AI | OpenRouter [https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {GenAI stats} blog.jim-nielsen.com [https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z Bag of words, have mercy on us - by Adam Mastroianni [https://www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-words-have-mercy-on-us] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {ai llm psychology} The f*** off contact page - Nic Chan [https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {design business ui webdev darkpatterns} James Watson and Edward O. Wilson: An Intellectual Entente | Harvard Magazine [https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2009/09/james-watson-edward-o-wilson-intellectual-entente] The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall. 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {philosophy politics technology culture} Typography in ten minutes | Butterick’s Practical Typography [https://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.html] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos [https://blog.pkh.me/p/48-a-series-of-tricks-and-techniques-i-learned-doing-tiny-glsl-demos.html] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {programming graphics math visualization article} Writing an LLM from scratch, part 28 -- training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090 :: Giles' blog [https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/12/llm-from-scratch-28-training-a-base-model-from-scratch] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {ai llm nvidia} Devstral 2 and Mistral Vibe CLI [https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {mistral code cli} Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%? - Martin Alderson [https://martinalderson.com/posts/has-the-cost-of-software-just-dropped-90-percent/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {ai llm agentic_ai} Estimates – a necessary evil? - Erik Thorsell [https://thorsell.io/2025/12/07/estimates.html] Product Owner: Hey, how long do you believe Feature F will take? Developer: Idk. We haven’t even started working on it and it’s bound to stir up some old issues. 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {programming softwareengineering maintenance estimates estimation agile scheduling} fanfa.dev - Animated, interactive And visuals Mermaid Diagrams [https://fanfa.dev/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {diagramming} Context Engineering in Manus [https://rlancemartin.github.io/2025/10/15/manus/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {llm-context} Bruno Simon - Creative Developer [https://bruno-simon.com/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {inspiration interactivefiction webgl video javascript design cni-research} An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform [https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4948082 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10635075 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27229836 https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/nhk9c3/an_interactive_guide_to_the_fourier_transform/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38652794 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46118358 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {math tutorial programming algorithms interactive visualization} Why AGI Will Not Happen [https://timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/why-agi-will-not-happen/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218537 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {ai llm technology economics interesting} | Nova | [https://nova-lang.net/]
| Nova | - Write rules for computers - Describe the real world - Made for the rest of us
2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {programming rules language} Brent’s Encapsulated C Programming Rules | Brent’s Website [https://retroscience.net/brents-c-programming-rules.html] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {C} Cancer surge in young or detection surge? [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/health/cancer-young-people-deaths.html] Sounds like colorectal is up and could be obesity. Rest is probably early detection and we might be better not to know. 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {s} CSS Wrapped 2025 [https://chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2025/] Ready to see what we molded in 2025? The Chrome DevRel team will guide you through 17 CSS and UI features that landed on the Web Platform, fresh from the kiln 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {chrome web-platform 2025} The war on disinformation is a losing battle | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/features/839853/disinformation-wars-censorship-right-wing] via The Verge https://ift.tt/7iyF49c 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z The Anatomy of a macOS App – The Eclectic Light Company [https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/04/the-anatomy-of-a-macos-app/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z I Reverse Engineered ChatGPT's Memory System, and Here's What I Found! - Manthan [https://manthanguptaa.in/posts/chatgpt_memory/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {llm memory} Why RSS matters [https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/] still continues to matter in 2025 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics | Gábor Nyéki [https://blog.gabornyeki.com/2025-12-usenet/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {unix att history computing} Typographic Elements Whitespace [https://type.today/en/journal/spaces] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {typeface design-article howto tips} Microsoft Download Center Archive - Legacy Update [https://legacyupdate.net/download-center/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {win32 utils retro} At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html] In an “Action Request” memo obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Rubio said that switching back to the use of Times New Roman would “restore decorum and professionalism to the department’s written work.” Calibri is “informal” when compared to serif typefaces like Times New Roman, the order said, and “clashes” with the department’s official letterhead. 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z History - 2100 [https://lucasvance.github.io/2100/history/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {socialism} The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic US [https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45796607 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {authoritarianism technology worldview economics politics reference visualization interesting} Social Security at 70? Why the Gold Standard Advice Works for Only a Few - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/business/social-security-70-retirement.html] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {social-security retirement} Colossal Shop – The Colossal Shop [https://colossal.shop/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {gifts} Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities [https://www.ft.com/content/b127ee7a-5ac4-4730-a395-c9f9619615c7] It is early October and Srinivasan is hosting what he’s called the Network State Conference, an event targeting “those interested in founding, funding and finding new communities”. For years, the entrepreneur has preached to clubby tech gatherings that they should gather their online comrades and set up a physical homeland — a network state, be that a city or a country — by joining together to buy land. He has hailed this as the “ultimate exit” by Silicon Valley from “failing” US institutions and democracy.... But what was a fringe concept a matter of years ago is now attracting more interest as scrappy start-up chief executives and aggrieved billionaires contemplate the allure of tech-friendly havens unbound by legacy rules and regulation. While some are aspirational, reliant on their founders securing hard-to-come-by special economic zone status, there are now about 120 “start-up societies” in the works, according to an open-source database shared by Srinivasan. A few have received hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital from funds backed by the likes of investors Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, OpenAI founder Sam Altman and Brian Armstrong, Coinbase chief executive. Srinivasan himself has started a “Network School” on an artificial island near Singapore, where techno-optimists can work their day jobs remotely while living in a hotel together and learning how to “bootstrap”, or build, a new society. Membership and accommodation, which he dubs “society-as-a-service”, starts at $1,500 a month... ...For proponents, the initiatives offer the opportunity to address all that they believe has caused a decline in American dynamism, from monetary policy to taxation. San Francisco, in particular, has for years been affected by high levels of homelessness and crime, prompting an exodus of tech workers during Covid. “It’s young people being dissatisfied with stagnation, corruption and isolation,” says Amjad Masad, chief executive of AI coding company Replit, who has observed the rise of the network state movement. Last year, he moved Replit to Foster City — a master-planned city built in the 1960s on marshlands near Silicon Valley... But the movement’s toughest critics — of whom there is no short supply — cast it as either a bid to play god or an attempt to avoid red tape, more opportunistic than idealistic. Others argue it is part of a broader rise in techno-fascism, or a form of authoritarian rule by technocrats. Either way, they assert, the movement is born from an elite victim complex... “This whole movement is about reinventing governance for the 21st century, inspired by start-ups and the internet,” says Friedman, grandson of free-market economist Milton Friedman and founder of Pronomos Capital, a venture firm that invests in experimental cities. Over Zoom, he explains that, as a committed libertarian, he came into the space in the hope of building a state that mirrored his politics. In a democracy, he says, “power is so diluted” that the people cannot stop laws being passed that “help special interests and harm the masses”. Now, he says, he wants “a home for my tribe”. To that end, he is attempting to create cities that are run like a for-profit company, rather than by democratically elected officials. “A private venture-backed company is the city operator and [its directors] design the laws and they earn revenue through some combination of rents, taxes, service fees,” he says of his proposed model.... For this to work, however, he needs targeted countries to pass legislation that will delegate to his projects the “right to write some subset of the regulations”... Friedman is confident that some legislation will be passed next year: “The product market fit today, for what I do, I strongly believe is helping the global south to become first-world.”... Friedman is cheerfully contrarian and wants to unlock what those in the space dub “radical governance optionality” so that even those who don’t share his politics can experiment. “... In Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, a libertarian bible, the author imagined a free-market enclave called Galt’s Gulch. During Barack Obama’s presidency, far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin called for the global order to be substituted with thousands of “sovereign and independent mini-countries, each governed by its own joint-stock corporation without regard to the residents’ opinions”. In a less consequential governance experiment, every summer hundreds of San Francisco software engineers make the pilgrimage to Nevada to set up Black Rock City — also known as Burning Man festival — for a fortnight of “radical self-expression”, per its principles, and debauchery, before dismantling their tents and returning to their computer monitors. Some of the earliest investment into tech-aligned nation-building came from Thiel, who in 2008 donated $500,000 to the Seasteading Institute... Emboldened, in 2022 Srinivasan published his book The Network State, laying out a bold vision, including that the states should be undergirded by a crypto economy. “You can found a tribe just like you can found a start-up. That’s what Joseph Smith of the Mormons did. That’s what Abraham did. That’s what Jesus did,” he said on a 2023 podcast. “What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism.”... Srinivasan’s bid to set up societies that are a law unto themselves has inspired a host of projects that are more modest in their ambition: experimental cities that achieve some — but not full — autonomy from the local government, particularly in the civil and commercial realm. Soon venture capital and crypto money started flowing into these city initiatives, despite being a high-risk investment with no expectation of quick — or perhaps any — returns. “They are ideological — if you’re in crypto, you’re libertarian'... Arguably the most evolved experiment in alternative governance is Próspera, a gated private community on a Honduran island run by a Delaware-based company, where close to 1,000 residents can enjoy co-working spaces, a beach resort and a golf course. As a for-profit semi-autonomous zone, Próspera has low taxes, its own labour rules and an arbitration system run by retired Arizona judges who hear its cases online. Bitcoin is one of the currencies of choice.... Próspera still “hasn’t attracted the best talent, founders, funders — you still need to be in the midst of San Francisco where all the deal flow is happening and all the labour you need.” But Próspera’s hands-off approach to medical regulation has made it a mecca for people seeking experimental treatments as the field of longevity — or trying to live forever — becomes more popular in Silicon Valley circles.... Cornell University historian Raymond Craib, author of Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age, says it offers a warning to elected politicians about the dangers of carving out semi-autonomous zones... One area gathering traction is extended “pop-up cities” — where tech workers and creatives descend on one location for what is essentially a weeks-long conference-meets-co-working session. “We want to create what [Ethereum founder] Vitalik Buterin called a ‘micro exit’ — a temporary exit to experiment, then go back and spread those learnings around the world,” says Timour Kosters, co-founder of Edge City, a non-profit that bills itself as a “society incubator”.... Others focus on improving governance in existing cities without pursuing exclusive sovereignty, inspired by regulation-lite so-called “charter cities” such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai, which have more legal autonomy. Donald Trump promised during his 2024 presidential campaign that he would develop 10 charter cities in the US, dubbed “freedom cities” in order to boost American innovation in light of the US-China tech race... Meanwhile, Silicon Valley billionaires including Andreessen, Reid Hoffman and Michael Moritz have put money into California Forever, a group that has quietly bought up $1bn worth of land in Solano county in its bid to build a walkable mega-development with affordable housing and a shipping complex — without extra autonomy. ...29-year-old Dryden Brown, a homeschooled professional surfer with a penchant for Austrian economics. Over the past few years, he has gathered libertarian friends, influencers and Silicon Valley edgelords — first over group chat then at opulent dinners in New York and elsewhere — to brainstorm what a techno-utopian city-state should look like, dubbing the movement Praxis.... Brown is also looking to establish a non-US city that can “accelerate western traditional progress” next year, citing the potential future need for a techie escape from America. “There has been deep integration with the tech elites in the Valley and DC in the White House in this Trump administration." 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {smart_cities network_state infrastructure governance urban_planning popups} Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know - [http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2025/12/08/linux-cves-more-than-you-ever-wanted-to-know/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {linux kernel cve cna vulnerability disclosure} Kedrosky: “we’re already seeing this sharply asymptotic decline in the rate of improvement of models outside of software” [https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-with-paul-kedrosky] Reassuring stability.“… I’m turning over a vast chunk of my chips just because they’re failing under thermal stress” 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {s} Top 5 Small AI Coding Models That You Can Run Locally - KDnuggets [https://www.kdnuggets.com/top-5-small-ai-coding-models-that-you-can-run-locally] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z ltratt/pizauth: Command-line OAuth2 authentication daemon [https://github.com/ltratt/pizauth] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z The state of enterprise AI | OpenAI [https://openai.com/index/the-state-of-enterprise-ai-2025-report/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {GenAI OpenAI stats} In The Middle by @cursedwerewolf.youtube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL87S1uYMuo] Super cute Jamie/Keeley/Roy vid. 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {vids tedlasso dec-25} Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight | karpathy [https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {HN LLM} Daring Fireball: The Real Problem of Humanity [https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/09/the-real-problem-of-humanity] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {quotes computers psychology democracy government community history internet} AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone | WIRED [https://www.wired.com/story/ai-slop-is-ruining-reddit-for-everyone/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {articles AI wired reddit} The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-b9da7a6d-165b-492a-8785-235cd10e2e8e] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {archaeology fire human culture humanOrigins behavior} Year in Review 2025: Hari Kunzru on AI slop and censorship [https://www.artforum.com/features/year-in-review-2025-hari-kunzru-ai-slop-1234738077/] Hari Kunzru nails it:
These days I have a sense of falling from a precipice toward a torrent of algorithmically driven slop. It’s coming, whether we want it or not, and the consequences for our communal life will be devastating. It’s now seven years since Steve Bannon outlined his infamous strategy to “flood the zone with shit.” This, he said, was a way to “deal with” the media, whom he saw as the real enemies of MAGA. In practice, it has been a very effective method of censorship. With every important issue of the day, the “zone” of public discourse is immediately filled with a volume of competing narratives, often mendacious or misleading. It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person, who can’t spend all day online weighing up competing claims about robots or pedophilia or Iran. Generative AI now allows the production of disinformation at scale. The kind of influence ops we associate with Cambridge Analytica or the Russian Internet Research Agency can be conducted with unprecedented scope and sophistication: Thousands of fake people — tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands — making videos, posting in forums, astroturfing entire contexts in which people will live out their political lives. Couple this with the collapse of trust in all kinds of authority, and there is no one even to say what might distinguish “disinformation” from any other kind of data. [...] The desire to return to consensus reality is hopelessly nostalgic. Yes, there are still hard limits: The “cloud” is a physical place, scooping out mountains for raw materials and venting heat and carbon dioxide out of gargantuan data centers; political power still grows out of the barrel of a gun. But the layer of the stack in which our subjectivities are formed, the place where our beliefs about the world are shaped, is also a battleground. We must teach ourselves to navigate the torrent that is replacing consensus reality, this turbulent, treacherous mediatized flow. There is no shore to swim back to, but in the new age of magic, when reality is labile and can be recoded by the power of signs, by narrative and memes and vibes and compelling images, art becomes a truly political technology. This is not art as critique. Critique is just sincere-posting, dutifully pointing out yet again that the Medbed isn’t “real.” Art can mess with our masters in ways we don’t yet fully understand. It makes culture. It is a transmitter of values. It is the lava out of which future realities will congeal.
2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {misinformation disinformation facts reality future ai slop hari-kunzru steve-bannon flooding-the-zone-with-shit art media propaganda} Scrollytelling on Steroids With Scroll-State Queries [https://css-tricks.com/scrollytelling-on-steroids-with-scroll-state-queries/] Unconvinced of the value of scrollytelling? Alright, skeptic, let’s first warm up with some common use cases for scroll-based styling. 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {css scrollytelling games tips} Writing our own Cheat Engine: Introduction | Lonami's Blog [https://lonami.dev/blog/woce-1/] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {lang:rust} The one thing necessary: Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e [https://eamonnsullivan.co.uk/posts-output/email-setup/2025-12-3-putting-email-in-its-place/]
I had a few free hours recently and decided to have a go at a long-simmering idea: To improve how I manage multiple email accounts. As someone who struggles mightily to cope with distractions (I have the attention span of a gnat), I was hoping to consolidate several separate interfaces into one, simpler, less distracting, more focused client.Sadly, I wasn't quite successful -- my work emails remain out of reach. But I learned a lot and ended up in at least a better place.In that same vein - your choices being what you really are - Bernard Williams wrote this essay in 1973 arguing that immortality would actually be bad for us. His argument is precise: the desires that give you reason to keep living (he calls them categorical desires) would either eventually exhaust themselves, leaving you in a state of "boredom, indifference and coldness", or they'd evolve so completely that you'd become a different person anyway. Either way, the You that wanted immor... 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants its poor AI products | Windows Central [https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-has-a-problem-nobody-wants-to-buy-or-use-its-shoddy-ai] "Microsoft has also worked incredibly hard to cram half-baked AI features into its products" "Microsoft is exploring its own Maia and Cobalt chips and even language models, in attempts to decouple itself from NVIDIA and OpenAI respectively." 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {ai} OpenAI Is in Trouble - The Atlantic [https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/openai-losing-ai-wars/685201/] The AI startup is in trouble. 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {ai openai ChatGPT sam altman .teaching Google gemini} Rob Zolkos - Ruby on Rails Software Developer [https://www.zolkos.com/2025/12/03/vanilla-css-is-all-you-need] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {css webdesign} Stacked Diffs with `git rebase --onto` [https://dineshpandiyan.com/blog/stacked-diffs-with-rebase-onto/] Using git `rebase --onto` workflow to work with stacked diffs 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z The end of the kernel Rust experiment [LWN.net] [https://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/] The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay. So the "experimental" tag will be coming off. Congratulations are in order for all of the Rust-for-Linux team. 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {lup} Opinion | This Is the 21st-Century Arms Race. Can America Keep Up? - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/09/opinion/editorials/us-china-military-ai-tech.html] Something strange happened at the meeting between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping of China in a mansion south of San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2023. After a working lunch, as the two leaders rose to leave, an aide to Mr. Xi signaled to one of the Chinese president's bodyguards, who approached the table, took a small bottle out of his pocket and quickly sprayed down every surface that Mr. Xi had touched, including what remained of the almond meringue cake on his dessert plate. The purpose, the Americans concluded, was to remove any trace of Mr. Xi’s DNA that his hosts might collect and exploit. “This is the way they’re thinking,” said an official who attended the meeting, “that you could design a disease that would only affect one person.” To the handful of U.S. officials who were there, it was a sobering coda to an otherwise successful summit: Even as Beijing and Washington pursue diplomacy, the pace of technological change is deepening suspicion and fear between the two sides. Human history can be told as a series of advances in warfare, from chariots to crossbows to nuclear-tipped missiles, and we are living through what may be the fastest advancement in weaponry ever. Ask any five veteran national security experts and you will hear about five different emerging technologies with the potential to change the world of combat. Swarms of robotic aircraft that work in unison to find and kill targets without any human oversight. Advanced cyberweapons that can immobilize armed forces and shut down electrical grids across the country. A.I.-designed bioweapons engineered to kill only those with certain genetic characteristics. 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {XDN War} AI: Work partnerships between people, agents, and robots | McKinsey [https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/agents-robots-and-us-skill-partnerships-in-the-age-of-ai] Work in the future will be a partnership between people, agents, and robots—all powered by AI. Today’s technologies could theoretically automate more than half of current US work hours. This reflects how profoundly work may change, but it is not a forecast of job losses. Adoption will take time. As it unfolds, some roles will shrink, others grow or shift, while new ones emerge—with work increasingly centered on collaboration between humans and intelligent machines. Most human skills will endure, though they will be applied differently. More than 70 percent of the skills sought by employers today are used in both automatable and non-automatable work. This overlap means most skills remain relevant, but how and where they are used will evolve. Our new Skill Change Index shows which skills will be most and least exposed to automation in the next five years. Digital and information-processing skills could be most affected; those related to assisting and caring are likely to change the least. Demand for AI fluency—the ability to use and manage AI tools—has grown sevenfold in two years, faster than for any other skill in US job postings. The surge is visible across industries and likely marks the beginning of much bigger changes ahead. By 2030, about $2.9 trillion of economic value could be unlocked in the United States—if organizations prepare their people and redesign workflows, rather than individual tasks, around people, agents, and robots working together. 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {XDN Governance} qmd [https://github.com/tobi/qmd] mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {github-starred} guhcostan/mac-cleaner-cli [https://github.com/guhcostan/mac-cleaner-cli] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {mac tools} Git Will Finally Make Sense After This - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ala6PHlYjmw] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {git tutorial Tipps_und_Tricks DAG reflog higher_quality} Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained [https://cdegroot.com/programming/commonlisp/2025/11/26/cl-ql-asdf.html] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z {lisp} Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206531] 2025-12-11T05:47:01Z