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Fran Sans Essay — Emily Sneddon
[https://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essay]
[heavily illustrated with images][via:"San Francisco has a new font. It was inspired by an old Muni streetcar"https://www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/article/muni-train-san-francisco-21188933.phphttps://archive.ph/WhVT7 ]"Fran Sans is a display font in every sense of the term. It’s an interpretation of the destination displays found on some of the light rail vehicles that service the city of San Francisco.I say some because destination displays aren’t consistently used across the city’s transit system. In fact, SF has an unusually high number of independent public transit agencies. Unlike New York, Chicago or L.A., which each have one, maybe two, San Francisco and the greater Bay Area have over two dozen. Each agency, with its own models of buses and trains, use different destination displays, creating an eclectic patchwork of typography across the city.Among them, one display in particular has always stood out to me: the LCD panel displays inside Muni’s Breda Light Rail Vehicles. I remember first noticing them on a Saturday in October on the N-Judah, heading to the Outer Sunset for a shrimp hoagie. This context is important, as anyone who’s spent an October weekend in SF knows this is the optimal vibe to really take in the beauty of the city. What caught my eye was how the displays look mechanical and yet distinctly personal. Constructed on a 3×5 grid, the characters are made up of geometric modules: squares, quarter-circles, and angled forms. Combined, these modules create imperfect, almost primitive letterforms, revealing a utility and charm that feels distinctly like the San Francisco I’ve come to know.This balance of utility and charm seems to show up everywhere in San Francisco and its history. The Golden Gate’s “International Orange” started as nothing more than a rust-proof primer, yet is now the city’s defining colour. The Painted Ladies became multicoloured icons after the 1960s Colourist movement covered decades of grey paint. Even the steepness of the streets was once an oversight in city planning but has since been romanticised in films and on postcards. So perhaps it is unsurprising that I would find this same utility and charm in a place as small and functional as a train sign.To learn more about these displays, I visited the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s (SFMTA) Electronics Shop at Balboa Park. There, technician Armando Lumbad had set up one of the signs. They each feature one large LCD panel which displays the line name, and twenty-four smaller ones to display the destination. The loose spacing of the letters and fluorescent backlighting gives the sign a raw, analogue quality. Modern LED dot-matrix displays are far more efficient and flexible, but to me, they lack the awkwardness that makes these Breda signs so delightful.Armando showed me how the signs work. He handed me a printed matrix table listing every line and destination, each paired with a three-digit code. On route, train operators punch the code into a control panel at the back of the display, and the LCD blocks light on specific segments of the grid to build each letter. I picked code 119, and Armando entered it for me. A few seconds later the panels revealed my own stop: the N-Judah at Church & Duboce. There in the workshop, devoid of the context of the trains and the commute, the display looked almost monolithic, or sculptural, and I have since fantasised whether it would be possible to ship one of these home to Australia.Looking inside of the display, I found labels identifying the make and model. The signs were designed and manufactured by Trans-Lite, Inc., a company based in Milford, Connecticut that specialised in transport signage from 1959 until its acquisition by the Nordic firm Teknoware in 2012. After lots of amateur detective work, and with the help from an anonymous Reddit user in a Connecticut community group, I was connected with Gary Wallberg, Senior Engineer at Trans-Lite and the person responsible for the design of these very signs back in 1999.Learning that the alphabet came from an engineer really explains its temperament and why I was drawn to it in the first place. The signs were designed for sufficiency: fixed segments, fixed grid, and no extras. Characters were created only as destinations required them, while other characters, like the Q, X, and much of the punctuation, were never programmed into the signs. In reducing everything to its bare essentials, somehow character emerged, and it’s what inspired me to design Fran Sans.I shared some initial drawings with Dave Foster of Foster Type who encouraged me to get the font software Glyphs and turn it into my first working font. From there, I broke down the anatomy of the letters into modules, then used them like Lego to build out a full set: uppercase A–Z, numerals, core punctuation. Some glyphs remain unsolved in this first version, for example the standard @ symbol refuses to squeeze politely into the 3×5 logic. Lowercase remains a question for the future, and would likely mean reconsidering the grid. But, as with the displays themselves, I am judging Fran Sans as sufficient for now.Getting up close to these signs, you’ll notice Fran Sans’ gridlines are simplified even from its real‑life muse, but my hope is that its character remains. Specifically: the N and the zero, where the unusually thick diagonals close in on the counters; and the Z and 7, whose diagonals can feel uncomfortably thin. I’ve also noticed the centre of the M can scale strangely and read like an H at small sizes, but in fairness, this type was never designed for the kind of technical detail so many monospaced fonts aim for. Throughout the process I tried to protect these unorthodox moments, because to me, they determined the success of this interpretation.Fran Sans comes in three styles: Solid, Tile, and Panel, each building in visual complexity. The decision to include variations, particularly the Solid style, was inspired by my time working at Christopher Doyle & Co. There, we worked with Bell Shakespeare, Australia’s national theatre company dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare. The equity of the Bell Shakespeare brand lies in its typography, which is a beautiful custom typeface called Hotspur, designed and produced by none other than Dave Foster.Often, brand fonts are chosen or designed to convey a single feeling. Maybe it’s warmth and friendliness, or a sense of tech and innovation. But what I’ve always loved about the Bell typeface is how one weight could serve both Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies, simply by shifting scale, spacing, or alignment. Hotspur has the gravity to carry the darkness of Titus Andronicus and the roundness to convey the humour of Much Ado About Nothing. And while Fran Sans Solid is technically no Hotspur, I wanted it to share that same versatility.Further inspiration for Fran Sans came from the Letterform Archive, the world’s leading typography archive, based in San Francisco. Librarian and archivist Kate Long Stellar thoughtfully curated a research visit filled with modular typography spanning most of the past century. On the table were two pieces that had a significant impact on Fran Sans and are now personal must-sees at the archive. First, Joan Trochut’s Tipo Veloz “Fast Type” (1942) was created during the Second World War when resources were scarce. Tipo Veloz gave printers the ability to draw with type, rearranging modular pieces to form letters, ornaments and even illustrations.Second, Zuzana Licko’s process work for Lo-Res (1985), an Emigre typeface, opened new ways of thinking about how ideas move between the physical and the digital and then back again. Seeing how Lo-Res was documented through iterations and variations gave the typeface a depth and richness that changed my understanding of how fonts are built. At some point I want to explore physical applications for Fran Sans out of respect for its origins, since it is impossible to fully capture the display’s charm on screen.Back at the SFMTA, Armando told me the Breda vehicles are being replaced, and with them their destination displays will be swapped for newer LED dot-matrix units that are more efficient and easier to maintain. By the end of 2025 the signs that inspired Fran Sans will disappear from the city, taking with them a small but distinctive part of the city’s voice. That feels like a real loss. San Francisco is always reinventing itself, yet its charm lies in how much of its history still shows through. My hope is that Fran Sans can inspire a deeper appreciation for the imperfections that give our lives and our cities character. Life is so rich when ease and efficiency are not the measure.For commercial and non-commercial use of FRAN SANS, please get in touch: emily@emilysneddon.comWITH THANKSDave Foster, for being my go-to at every stage of this project.Maria Doreuli, for thoughtfully reviewing Fran Sans.Maddy Carrucan, for the words that always keep me dreamy.Jeremy Menzies, for the photography of the Breda vehicles.Kate Long Stellar, for curating a research visit on modular typography.Angie Wang, for suggesting it and helping to make it happen.Vasiliy Tsurkan, for inviting me into to the SFMTA workshop.Armando Lumbad, for maintaining the signs that I love so much.Rick Laubscher, for putting me in touch with the SFMTA.William Maley Jr, for opening up the TRANS-LITE, INC. archives.Gary Wallberg, for designing and engineering the original signs.Gregory Wallberg, for responding to a very suspicious facebook post.Reddit u/steve31086, for sleuthing the details of William Maley Jr."..."OUTSIDE MY LIFE,INSIDE THE DREAM.FALLING UP THE STAIRS,INTO THE STREET.LET THE CABLE CARCARRY ME.STRAIGHT OUT OF TOWN,INTO THE SEA.PAST THE DAHLIAS ANDTHE SELF-DRIVING CARS.THE CHURCH OF 8 WHEELS.THE LOWER HAIGHT BARS.THE PEAK HOUR SPRAWL.THE KIDS IN THE PARK.THE SLANTING HOUSES.THE BAY AFTER DARK.MY WINDOW, MY OWNSILVER SCREEN.I FOLLOW WHERE THEFOG TAKES ME.By MADDY CARRUCAN"
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{sanfrancisco emilysneddon muni breda sfmta typography fonts trains segmenteddisplays segmentdisplays 2025 graphicdesign design maddycarrucan}
Native Secure Enclaved backed ssh keys on MacOS
[https://gist.github.com/arianvp/5f59f1783e3eaf1a2d4cd8e952bb4acf]
Native Secure Enclaved backed ssh keys on MacOS . GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
"Good engineering management" is a fad
[https://lethain.com/good-eng-mgmt-is-a-fad/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
[https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie]
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
some market doom then cost of living doom
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{economy cost_of_living}
Kevin Boone: The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
[https://kevinboone.me/fingerprinting.html]
GDPR
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com
[https://jmail.world/]
You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{#mailbox}
Issue 45 - Markdown is Holding You Back • Buttondown
[https://newsletter.bphogan.com/archive/issue-45-markdown-is-holding-you-back/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{markdown}
Making Software: Shaders.
[https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/shaders]
graphics
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{gpu shader cpu}
“An Ivanka Trump fan account, IvankaNews, has 1 million followers and frequently posts about the dangers of Islam, the threat of illegal immigration and support for Trump. That account is based in Nigeria.”
[https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidentally-unmasked-as-foreign-actors/]
Nice to see.
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{s}
microcad.xyz
[https://microcad.xyz/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{cad shrdlu}
Grid Paper
[https://grid-paper.daverupert.com/]
grid papaer pattern generator
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{grid tools}
Forty News
[https://forty.news/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{education ai culture}
xkcd: Fifteen Years
[https://xkcd.com/3172/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{xkcd}
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/22/ai-workers-tell-family-stay-away]
Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI models including ChatGPT, Gemini and Meta’s AI by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%, NewsGuard found. None of the companies responded to NewsGuard’s request for a comment at the time.
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{AI chatgpt fraud}
Introducing advanced tool use on the Claude Developer Platform
[https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use]
Claude can now discover, learn, and execute tools dynamically to enable agents that take action in the real world. Here’s how.We’ve added three new beta features that let Claude discover, learn, and execute tools dynamically. Here’s how they work.The future of AI agents is one where models work seamlessly across hundreds or thousands of tools. An IDE assistant that integrates git operations, file manipulation, package managers, testing frameworks, and deployment pipelines. An operations coordinator that connects Slack, GitHub, Google Drive, Jira, company databases, and dozens of MCP servers simultaneously.To build effective agents, they need to work with unlimited tool libraries without stuffing every definition into context upfront. Our blog article on using code execution with MCP discussed how tool results and definitions can sometimes consume 50,000+ tokens before an agent reads a request. Agents should discover and load tools on-demand, keeping only what's relevant for the current task.Agents also need the ability to call tools from code. When using natural language tool calling, each invocation requires a full inference pass, and intermediate results pile up in context whether they're useful or not. Code is a natural fit for orchestration logic, such as loops, conditionals, and data transformations. Agents need the flexibility to choose between code execution and inference based on the task at hand.
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{XDN Tech}
We should all be using dependency cooldowns
[https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns]
via @nedbat@hachyderm.io boost of https://infosec.exchange/@yossarian/115588225552391270but see https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/115594249569373842
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{security}
Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]
[https://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/print/calc.pdf]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024773
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{books calculus mathematics}
Fifty Shades of OOP | Lesley Lai
[https://lesleylai.info/en/fifty_shades_of_oop/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{oop programming}
after my dad died, we found the love letters | Jenneral HQ
[https://www.jenn.site/after-my-dad-died-we-found-the-love-letters/]
The (true) story of a closeted gay man.
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{via:HackerNews story}
We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs - Lalit Maganti
[https://lalitm.com/fixits-are-good-for-the-soul/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{programming article}
MAKING SOFTWARE
[https://www.makingsoftware.com/]
A reference manual for people who design and build software.
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege | Reuters
[https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-buried-causal-evidence-social-media-harm-us-court-filings-allege-2025-11-23/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{social-media}
Build a Compiler in Five Projects
[https://kmicinski.com/functional-programming/2025/11/23/build-a-language/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
SVG.js v3.2 | Home
[https://svgjs.dev/docs/3.2/]
The lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG.
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{svg design}
Over at the Erdos problem website, AI assistance is now becoming routine. Here is what happened recently regarding Erdos problem #367
[https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115591487350860999]
1. On Nov 20, Wouter van Doorn produced a (human-generated) disproof of the second part of this problem, contingent on a congruence identity that he thought was true, and was "sure someoneone here is able to verify... does indeed hold".
2. A few hours later, I posed this problem to Gemini Deepthink, which (after about ten minutes) produced a complete proof of the identity (and confirmed the entire argument): https://gemini.google.com/share/81a65aecfd70 . The argument used some p-adic algebraic number theory which was overkill for this problem. I then spent about half an hour converting the proof by hand into a more elementary proof, which I presented on the site. I then remarked that the resulting proof should be within range of "vibe formalizing" in Lean.
3. Two days later, Boris Alexeev used the Aristotle tool from Harmonic to complete the Lean formalization, making sure to formalize the final statement by hand to guard against AI exploits. This process took two to three hours, and the output can be found at https://borisalexeev.com/t/Erdos367.lean
EDIT: after making this post, I decided to round things out by making AI literature searches on this problem, which (after about fifteen minutes) turned up some related literature on consecutive powerful numbers, but nothing directly relating to #367. https://chatgpt.com/share/6921427d-9dc0-800e-b798-be8fc94a9240 https://gemini.google.com/share/0d2964
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{terence-tao math ai llm}
Best Free Fonts
[https://bestfreefonts.com/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{fonts free resources Typography}
Agent Design Is Still Hard | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
[https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/21/agents-are-hard/]
via Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings https://bit.ly/3GmjP2U
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{.commentsenseTwitter}
Designing For Stress And Emergency — Smashing Magazine
[https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/11/designing-for-stress-emergency/]
via Smashing Magazine https://bit.ly/3gZh8S2
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{.commentsenseTwitter}
Shirt Pocket Watch - SuperDuper Security Update v3.11
[https://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/index.php/shadedgrey/comments/superduper_security_update_v311/]
via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/hRo8uqd
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting | Hacker News
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016249]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{privacy chrome firefox}
Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? – disassociated.com
[https://disassociated.com/personal-blogs-back-niche-blogs-next/]
Explore the resurgence of personal blogs and the potential for niche-focused content. Gain insights on audience engagement and monetization strategies for specialized online writing.
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{blogging niche personal content-strategy return-of-blogs web-publishing}
The Technium: Essentials for Independent Travel in China
[https://kk.org/thetechnium/essentials-for-independent-travel-in-china/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{Travel}
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
[https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{computer-history retrocomputing games}
Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? | Hacker News
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46009894]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{blogs writing}
A Battle with My Blood | The New Yorker
[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-battle-with-my-blood]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{Temporary}
RuBee
[https://computer.rip/2025-11-22-RuBee.html]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{input_bwia}
5 Pixel Art Tips for Programmers
[https://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/5-pixel-art-tips-for-programmers-3d6]
Programmers are known to not have a strong suit for art related disciplines, pixel art is no exception.
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
Writing good CL descriptions | eng-practices
[https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/developer/cl-descriptions.html]
Google’s Engineering Practices documentation
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{readlater}
How device hoarding by Americans is costing economy
[https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{right.to.repair lowtech}
Rete Pravda: centinaia di siti inglesi rilanciano propaganda filo‑Cremlino e 'grooming' degli LLM
[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/21/english-language-websites-link-pro-kremlin-russian-propaganda-pravda-network]
Uno studio dell'ISD mostra che centinaia di siti in inglese linkano la rete pro‑Kremlin Pravda — spesso considerandola credibile — aumentando visibilità e indicizzazione. La produzione è esplosa (fino a 23.000 articoli/giorno) e si estende a livello globale; esperti avvertono il rischio di 'grooming' degli LLM, cioè l'iniezione di narrazioni filorusse nei dati che addestrano chatbot e motori di ricerca.
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{N8N #AI AI TW2025-47}
How to write a great agents.md: Lessons from over 2,500 repositories - The GitHub Blog
[https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/how-to-write-a-great-agents-md-lessons-from-over-2500-repositories/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out | Malwarebytes
[https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{privacy machine-learning google-problems}
Event Sourcing in Go: From Zero to Production | Serge Skoredin
[https://skoredin.pro/blog/golang/event-sourcing-go]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45962656
Good comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46014546
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{golang eventSourcing}
Recommend | book.sv
[https://book.sv/?ref=DenseDiscovery-366]
Great book recommendations.
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{books recommendation}
How to use the internet, 1995 - YouTube
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0EXga2hEIs]
Doctorow
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{history internet}
Opinion | Listening to a Book Counts as Reading
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/opinion/audiobooks-books-print-reading.html]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
The Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Court Filings | TIME
[https://time.com/7336204/meta-lawsuit-files-child-safety/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{business human_rights}
Gibberifier
[https://gibberifier.com/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{ml-bots tryme}
‘I knew I was doing something I shouldn’t’: Karl Ove Knausgård on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition | Karl Ove Knausgård | The Guardian
[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/22/i-knew-i-was-doing-something-i-shouldnt-karl-ove-knausgard-on-the-fallout-from-my-struggle-and-the-dark-side-of-ambition]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{knausgaard}
I put a real search engine into a Lambda, so you only pay when you search
[https://nixiesearch.substack.com/p/i-put-a-real-search-engine-into-a]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{#hacking java lambda serverless}
How a monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure – The Sacramento Bear
[https://sacbear.com/xfinity-wont-fix-internet/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
Helios Voting
[https://vote.heliosvoting.org/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{Bookmarks_bar dev edu data_structures_and_algorithms crypto}
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors - The Atlantic
[https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/x-about-this-account/685042/?gift=aQyUJR7AIw1mJWdQ6Ed6yNCQTQ5Vv7a5JJp811uMNXE]
via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/hRo8uqd
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
Making a Small RPG - JSLegendDev’s Substack
[https://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/making-a-small-rpg]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{GameDesign}
Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
[https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/beyond-the-machine/]
Creative agency in the AI landscapeThe believers demand devotion, the critics demand abstinence, and to see AI as just another technology is to be a heretic twice over.I want to frame the technology more like an instrument, and get away from GenAI as an intelligence, an ideology, a tool, a crutch, or a weapon.There is no purpose to better machines if they do not also produce better humans.The history of tech has calcified into stories of dramatic wins and unforeseen downfalls, and what results is a tech culture of near compulsory participation in prediction rather than creating value or serving needs.The fractures fell neatly along disciplines: engineers using AI to wish away designers, designers wishing away engineers, product managers wishing away both. In this climate, AI becomes frenemy identification technology, another way to avoid working together. Art is interesting partly because someone put effort into making this thing, not all the others they could have made. But artists also know that the best ideas can appear whole, as if they made themselves. Effort isn’t what makes the work meaningful, yet it still feels like a small violation to release an AI’s output untouched.Like a lot of things with AI, it feels completely out of proportion.Take what the AI gives without question and you’re not producing, you’re consuming. Eventually, that passivity gets used against you. every new technology promises better clarity, yet its essence is determined by the noise it producesWhen the system is designed to respect artists, scale becomes a tool rather than a threat. It opens up new questions. What new forms appear at that scale? The story can be rethought; instead of fewer people making the same amount, what about the same number of people making stranger, more abundant, more connected work? Clear lineage, but fuzzy origins. Sampling dealt in citation. Spawning touches the DNA. This distinction matters because spawning raises the stakes in ways that sampling never did. When your work trains a model, what’s taken isn’t a note or a beat, but the sensibility and perspective of your practice.Spirited Away, a film that wrestles with identity and imitation, appetite and satisfaction. While there’s always a risk in reading too much allegory into art, it seems fair to seek wisdom in what moves us.The lesson for AI might be similar. Its comes because it operates inside systems with no sense of “enough.” AI needs boundaries, and so do we. The question isn’t just “what can this machine do?” but “what should it serve?” and, most importantly, “when should we stop?”
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{ai art}
Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind - POLITICO
[https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/21/doge-elon-musk-succession-00641110]
n a Thursday afternoon in early June, 12 staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency packed up their clothes and bedding from the sixth-floor of the General Services Administration headquarters where they had been sleeping since February, and looked for new homes.
For months, the young engineers who had descended on the capital to shrink the federal bureaucracy had lived with the ever-present threat of backlash — public scrutiny, upset Cabinet officials, even the prospect that someone might assert criminal charges against them. But on the morning of June 5 something changed: Their figurehead, Elon Musk, had a falling-out with his patron, Donald Trump, that played out very publicly across the two men’s social media platforms.
The fate of their shared endeavor was now in deep jeopardy, and for the youngest members of the DOGE operation the risk seemed personal. Musk had not been just their visionary leader. For them, he was their protector: the man who had a direct line to Trump, who they believed could pick up the phone and secure a presidential pardon if the worst came. Without his presence in Washington, they were suddenly exposed.
As the sun fell on downtown Washington, the displaced dozen joined up with fellow DOGE staffers atop the nine-story GSA building, armed with beer, pretzels and La Croix, and prepared for something akin to a wake. Word spread in group chats on Signal, and by 9 p.m. the rooftop area was full of dozens of staffers, some of whom had already left DOGE.
The headquarters of the General Services Administration is seen.
Staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency slept on the sixth floor of the Government Services Administration headquarters, shown above, for several months. | Mark Schiefelbein/AP
Amid the group photos and toasts, a senior DOGE figure named Donald Park tried to reassure his colleagues that they were still “brothers in arms” and that Musk would continue to protect them, according to three people who attended the gathering. Other DOGE leaders were less sanguine. “Guys, seriously,” one warned, “get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.”
White House officials were hoping for a clean break with the unwelcome headlines that had dogged Musk’s cost-slashing rampage. But those most committed to DOGE’s mission were not ready to yield to Trump’s political considerations.
Over the subsequent days and weeks, rival factions would compete for control of what Musk had built. Some sought to burrow deep inside the federal government and continue business as usual; others wanted to collaborate openly with the parts of government they previously eschewed. One of Musk’s chief lieutenants would openly defy White House orders to step down. At the same time, Musk was angling to lure remaining staffers to jobs at one of his private companies.
Donald Park smiles for a photo.
At a gathering in June, Donald Park, a senior DOGE figure, tried to reassure his colleagues that they were still “brothers in arms” and that Musk would continue to protect them. | Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for An American Fantasy
This account of the DOGE supernova, which left behind nebulous remnants throughout the government, is based on contemporaneous notes, photographs, correspondence and screenshots of Signal chats provided by participants in them. We interviewed nine former and current DOGE employees, along with four other administration and White House officials, many of whom were granted anonymity to candidly discuss internal deliberations without fear of retribution.
“President Trump pledged to cut the waste, fraud, and abuse in our bloated government, and the Administration is committed to delivering on this pledge for the American people,” spokesperson Davis Ingle said in the White House’s only response to questions about the episode and DOGE’s legacy. (Musk and Park did not respond to requests to comment.)
What’s left of the Department of Government Efficiency looks nothing like what Musk envisioned, but he may have cleared the way for a more successful assault on the federal bureaucracy still underway.
The night after Musk’s farewell, senior DOGE figures who knew they wanted to stick around convened on a Signal call to discuss the future of their government modernization project. They grappled with what it would take for DOGE to survive. Could it be rebuilt into something new? And if so, under whose authority? How would it engage with other parts of government?
The Department of Governmental Efficiency had always been a moving target: an ambition to systematically remake the federal bureaucracy wrapped in a name that — in typical Musk fashion — mixed historic grandiosity with a juvenile refusal to take itself too seriously. Musk first pitched the idea to Trump in August 2024 when he interviewed Trump on a public X spaces call during his presidential campaign. It was a concept that Musk had to repeat multiple times during that session to get Trump’s attention.
Musk and Trump’s former campaign rival Vivek Ramaswamy arrived in December with a mandate to use technology to rein in government. They quickly assembled a group of 50 staffers, many of whom would work from the 6th floor of the General Services Administration. But no one could agree where they actually fit in the constitutional structure of American government.
Ramaswamy envisioned operating as an advisory body that could arm like-minded lawmakers to propose cuts through the budget process, and advise the executive branch on novel legal theories to push the bounds of its constitutional authority, according to a friend. Ramaswamy told associates that while regulatory reform could be achieved through executive action there was no way to meaningfully address the budget through the executive branch alone, and that cuts were best delivered by lawmakers.
Elon Musk, carrying his son X Æ A-12, and Vivek Ramaswamy arrive for a congressional meeting.
Elon Musk, right, and Donald Trump’s former campaign rival Vivek Ramaswamy arrived in December with a mandate to use technology to rein in government. | Angelina Katsanis/POLITICO
But Musk had his own ideas, and they didn’t leave much room for Congress. He imagined DOGE as a strike force empowered to systematically dismantle lists of federal departments and agencies it considered redundant or unnecessary.
While Ramaswamy was enlisting members of Congress to join a DOGE caucus, Musk was bringing in employees by the dozen — software engineers and legal teams, many from his companies, and an HR department staffed entirely by SpaceX employees — working out of SpaceX’s own offices in Washington.
Perhaps the most important of the new DOGE employees was Steve Davis, an engineer in his mid-40s who had spent more than 20 years helping Musk cut costs at his companies. (Davis did not respond to requests for comment.)
For years, Davis had been Musk’s right-hand man. After Musk bought Twitter, Davis and his wife, Nicole Hollander, slept in the San Francisco headquarters of the Twitter office with their one-month-old child while they helped Musk cut the social media company to the bone. Once, according to a Musk biographer, they spent a Christmas Eve helping Musk move data servers.
Once Trump was sworn in, DOGE was ascendant. Musk’s team tore through dozens of agencies big and small, in search of line savings, personnel cuts and language referencing diversity, equity and inclusion programs that were identified through so-called “Command F” searches in contracts. All the cut contracts and purported savings were triumphantly (if at times misleadingly and inaccurately) itemized on a new DOGE.gov website.
In one fell swoop, Musk and a couple of DOGE staffers cut the country’s entire foreign-aid infrastructure by hollowing out the U.S. Agency for International Development. Other potentially transformative projects stayed out of the headlines, like an effort to install powerful federal chief information officers in federal agencies and an initiative to digitize the federal retirement process.
At the center of it all was Davis, who, as DOGE’s operational lead, acted as connective tissue for staffers embedded across agencies and their backchannel to the White House. Davis served as a special government employee, a status that enables individuals to cycle through federal posts for a 130-day period without fully abandoning their private-sector careers. (Hollander, who did not respond to a request for comment, joined DOGE to shrink the government’s real estate footprint.) Davis called up agencies, demanding they grant engineers unfettered access to their data and systems. Once engineers were embedded in those agencies, often their only point of contact to DOGE was instructions or meeting invitations from Davis delivered through Signal, the team’s primary method of communication.
Musk, too, was a special government employee but had the trappings of a Cabinet official, claiming a 10-room suite in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building as his own, along with a fleet of black SUVs to ferry him and top lieutenant Antonio Gracias around the capital. (Gracias did not respond to a request for comment.) Musk became a fixture at the White House, meeting weekly with chief of staff Susie Wiles and growing seemingly inseparable from Trump.
Davis was never far away and invariably at Musk’s side during Fox News interviews that were the only official media appearances for DOGE’s leaders. He was also part of a small group that briefed Vice President JD Vance in early February on DOGE’s progress, according to internal records shared with POLITICO. (Vance’s office did not respond to a request for comment on the meeting.)
DOGE’s rise and fall can be best measured through the impact of two blast emails to the federal workforce. The first, on Jan. 28 with the subject line “Fork in the Road,” prompted more than 77,000 to accept deferred resignation offers, with a total of 154,000 workers taking that and subsequent offers this year. (The deferred resignation arrangement took effect in September.) Then, nearly a month later, Musk sent out emails to every federal worker asking them to respond with a bullet-pointed list of five things that he or she did that week.
Cabinet officials, caught off guard by the mandate and implicit threat, scrambled to provide guidance to their staff. A number of national security agencies issued orders to ignore the request, out of concern employees would have to divulge confidential information by participating. Other agencies said they would respond on workers’ behalf.
“The height of our power was the five-bullets email,” said a DOGE official, calling it a “mistake” that pitted DOGE against departments and agencies who were increasingly frustrated by Musk’s lack of communication and heavyhandedness. “Then it turned into fear and revulsion and hatred.”
People protest against the shutting down of the United States Agency for International Development outside the U.S. Capitol.
In one fell swoop, Musk and a couple of DOGE staffers cut the country’s entire foreign-aid infrastructure by hollowing out the U.S. Agency for International Development. | Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images
Americans took out their anger at Tesla dealerships, and complaints about DOGE cuts derailed GOP town halls so badly that the chair of House Republicans’ campaign arm warned his members to stop having in-person town halls with their constituents.
From that moment, DOGE lost more and more political power in an ongoing tug-of-war with administration officials. In a March Cabinet meeting, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy both confronted Musk over his chainsaw approach to cutting parts of their departments. He had a physical altercation outside the Oval Office the following month with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, after Bessent called Musk a fraud and Musk responded with a bodycheck, according to an account that former Trump strategist Steve Bannon provided to the Washington Post.
White House staffers broke up the physical scuffle, which began with a dispute over leadership of the Internal Revenue Service, and Musk lost the political conflict when Trump sided with Bessent. Two Musk hands, including his pick for IRS commissioner, were ejected from the Treasury Department.
Sean Duffy speaks during a cabinet meeting, as Brooke Rollins, Marco Rubio and Pam Bondi sit in the background.
In a March Cabinet meeting, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, left, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio both confronted Musk over his chainsaw approach to cutting parts of their departments. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Musk grew weary of Washington after failing to get his way. In April, he told Tesla shareholders that he was scaling back his around-the-clock involvement in DOGE to just one or two days per week. Davis and Gracias assumed Musk’s role of interacting with the White House. But they did not bring the same clout, and Trump aides quickly recognized that they could say no to Musk’s aides in a way they could not to Musk himself — a power only Trump had possessed.
Those within the White House also knew that turning their back on the DOGE brand did not have to mean abandoning their desire to wage war on the federal bureaucracy with whatever means possible. All along, at the Office of Management and Budget, director Russell Vought was more quietly plotting his own methodical culling of the federal workforce.
On May 22, Musk joined a late-night meeting with senior members of the core DOGE team. Katie Miller, a key conduit with the White House, where her husband Stephen served as deputy chief of staff, delivered a blunt message: DOGE was on thin ice, according to two people with knowledge of the meeting.
The best way to keep the peace with the White House, Katie Miller advised DOGE leaders, was to collaborate with Cabinet secretaries and stop presenting them with cuts or efficiency projects they didn’t want to do. (She declined to comment on the call.)
One week later, White House officials prepared a respectful farewell for Musk, putting a bow on what they generally saw as a mutually beneficial 10-month relationship. They extended no such courtesy to Davis, and unceremoniously informed reporters that he was out.
On May 31, after smiling with Trump for the cameras at an Oval Office farewell, Musk hosted his own private goodbye for DOGE team members in the august office suite he was about to vacate.
Elon Musk receives a key to the White House from President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Musk receives a key to the White House from Trump during a farewell press conference in the Oval Office on May 30. | Francis Chung/POLITICO
Musk instructed them to rethink how they went about their work, urging the next iteration of DOGE to be decentralized and to work with Cabinet secretaries to cut regulations and improve how the government functioned.
Davis was not present at the meeting but joined via telephone. He, too, offered reassurances and then said he did not intend to go anywhere, a remark interpreted by the group to mean he would rejoin the federal government perhaps in a different capacity. Attendees clapped in response.
But within days, they realized that was not what Davis meant at all. Despite being let go by the White House, he intended to stay on as the de facto head of DOGE. It would be “business as usual,” Davis took to telling people.
On June 3, Davis strode into DOGE’s weekly Thursday evening meeting at GSA, assigning tasks as though he held the reins of the leaderless organization, according to photos and accounts of the meetings.
Even as the White House had announced his departure the previous week, Davis had steadfastly refused to acknowledge anything had changed, unwilling to give up any of the far-reaching authority he had amassed over the past six months — backed by well-placed allies.
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“Steve Davis remains in charge until he says he’s not,” acting GSA administrator Stephen Ehikian insisted to DOGE employees that week, according to notes taken by someone who heard the comment.
That did not sit well with another group of DOGE staffers with senior roles in the agencies who thought it was inappropriate for someone no longer working for the government to direct federal work.
“It wasn’t just a couple, it was like a lot of people asking what do we do about this?” a second administration official explained.
In the fraught days that followed, DOGE fractured. Senior figures embedded in the agencies convened a series of ad hoc meetings without Davis. They gamed out legislative proposals, speculated on how to engage with the White House and OMB, and quietly sought advice from DOGE general counsel Austin Raynor, who had moved to the White House Counsel’s Office, on whether they should engage with Davis. (Raynor didn’t respond to a request for comment.)
One core group of DOGE members was skeptical of Davis’ authority and eager to use the post-Musk transition to tie their work more closely to the White House. Others saw in the disarray a chance to push their own priorities. Joe Gebbia, an Airbnb founder who had been working on a program to digitize federal retirement records, pitched an “America by Design” initiative that would focus on creating signage as iconic as the NASA logo, government services as intuitive as the interstate system.
“There’s a faction of DOGE that wants to hide from PPO, delete the DOGE brand, and burrow in the government to protect themselves,” Pentagon DOGE staffer Yinon Weiss wrote in a group chat that included colleagues based at CIA and in the Treasury, HHS, and Energy departments. All were uncomfortable with Davis running DOGE as a nongovernmental employee. “I think we should be doing all of the opposite things,” Weiss wrote, like working with the Presidential Personnel Office to expand DOGE’s reach. (Weiss declined to comment on the exchange.)
The loyalty that Davis inspired in some DOGE employees combined with deep skepticism from others to make that kind of clean transition impossible. And it complicated an already uncertain transition from a tight-knit club of non-government types recruited through Musk’s network into a decentralized organization that would be accepted by the rest of the federal government.
When Davis learned that a breakaway faction was gathering on a Saturday afternoon at the offices of venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz to plot a strategy for DOGE’s future, he began calling likely attendees and told them not to attend what he called the “coup” meeting. (The firm did not respond to a request for comment on its role in DOGE’s work.) Those at the meeting who looked at their phones would have seen their fortunes change in real time, as they were removed from Signal group chats — DOGE’s primary status marker of who belonged.
“Steve Davis conducted an internal purge against anyone not completely loyal directly to him,” said a former DOGE official with direct knowledge of the events.
Steve Davis speaks during a press conference.
Steve Davis, as DOGE’s operational lead, acted as connective tissue for staffers embedded across agencies and their backchannel to the White House. | George Walker IV/AP
Between May and June, dozens of DOGE employees left their posts. Some were pushed out by Davis’ allies after expressing concern about his authority. Some left because they had come to Washington only for Musk, and saw no point in staying once he was gone. Others told colleagues they were quitting out of exhaustion, drained by the drama at the top and disillusioned by the collapse of the political cover that once made their work possible.
And the trappings of DOGE’s once-privileged place in the federal government — the black SUVs, the dedicated parking spaces at GSA, the armed guard checking off names of those allowed entry to the 6th floor — vanished along with them.
As the White House became aware of Davis’ attempts to continue wielding power, the Presidential Personnel Office set to work rooting out Davis’ influence throughout the government. Trump’s appointees, under the direction of then-personnel chief Sergio Gor, quietly contacted DOGE staffers, sometimes through the White House liaisons in the agencies, with instructions to cease all communication with Davis. (Gor didn’t respond to a request for comment on his role.) Personnel office staffers also began to conduct 15-minute interviews with DOGE staffers to determine what exactly each did. At least one Cabinet member was informed that he was free to fire any name he found from lists of DOGE employees.
Under continued pressure from the White House, Davis concluded by June 10 that he had no choice but to relinquish some control. He identified a quartet of Musk followers within DOGE, including Musk’s personal banker Anthony Armstrong and former private-equity executive Josh Gruenbaum, to take over. That four-headed group, Davis believed, could keep DOGE’s original mission intact even without its original figureheads. (A request for comment for Armstrong from his current employer xAI was met with the automated response “Legacy Media Lies.”)
But that leadership structure did not last long. On July 21, the White House attempted to blunt the influence of DOGE staff over the General Services Administration by installing Mike Rigas, a former OMB and GSA official with ties to Trump and Vought, as acting administrator. Rigas brought with him a group of institutionalists who served during Trump’s first term, adding a new layer of management atop the two prominent DOGE officials who had been effectively leading GSA at the time. (GSA and Rigas did not respond to requests for comment.)
“Controlling the GSA was the DOGE nexus of power,” said a DOGE official familiar with the White House’s thinking. “This neuters it.”
The General Services Administration building is seen.
On July 21, the White House neutered the influence of the DOGE staff who were leading GSA by installing Mike Rigas as acting administrator. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP
A quieter, more dispersed version of DOGE began to emerge, its members plugging away at fairly specific policy areas with whatever authority and resources they had left. Forty-five DOGE employees remain as of October, a White House shutdown plan revealed, plus dozens more who have transitioned to working for an agency full-time.
Atop the GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, Gruenbaum is striking deals with tech companies for the widespread implementation of AI throughout the federal government. Gruenbaum, who declined to comment on his role, also contributed to the so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Education” that most universities have resisted signing and is now in Israel implementing the administration’s Gaza peace plan.
Adam Blake is leading a team within the Department of Energy focused on the expansion of nuclear energy projects, and Jeremy Lewin — who was initially assigned to implement the restructuring of USAID — now oversees foreign assistance, humanitarian affairs and religious-freedom issues at the State Department. He is working with Rubio to turn the dependency-based foreign assistance into a bilateral model of economic development. (Both Blake and Lewin declined to comment on their work.)
Ehikian has left government to become CEO of C3 AI, and has pitched current government officials on its products, an administration official said. Armstrong now serves as chief financial officer of Musk’s xAI.
The most prominent governmental survivor of the Musk-era DOGE is Gebbia, the co-founder of Airbnb and former self-identified Democrat who says he voted for Trump in the 2024 election, describing himself as swayed by concerns about border security.
Gebbia remained popular both within DOGE and at the White House by staying focused on the popular effort to digitize the federal retirement system, and avoiding the factional conflicts that helped to split DOGE. In August, Trump elevated Gebbia to be U.S. chief design officer, sitting atop a newly created entity called the National Design Studio that advises agencies on websites on “usability and aesthetics.” (Gebbia did not respond to a request for comment.)
Joe Gebbia poses for photos.
The most prominent governmental survivor of the Musk-era DOGE is Joe Gebbia, the co-founder of Airbnb and former self-identified Democrat who says he voted for Trump in the 2024 election. | Scott Garfitt/Invision via AP
Gebbia is pursuing that vision with the full blessing of a White House that views the narrower mandate as more politically palatable than Musk’s wanton cutting. When Trump signed an executive order announcing Gold Cards, a chance to receive U.S. citizenship at the price of $1 million, it was the National Design Studio that designed the sleek website — more evocative of a credit-card issuer’s than the immigration bureaucracy — that foreigners could use to apply.
Some federal workers still fearful for their jobs look beyond the executive order creating the National Design Studio as a new entity and see it as little more than a corporate-style rebrand of the tarnished DOGE — much as Blackwater became Xe and Philip Morris became Altria. If so, it is a meager substitute for the Musk-era colossus, bereft of the wide-ranging and unfettered access to multiple agencies that DOGE staffers enjoyed early on in the administration.
“Now, if somebody from DOGE, or representing themselves from DOGE, asked me to do something, I wouldn’t just blindly do it,” said a former DOGE official who now reports to a federal agency.
The animating impulse behind DOGE — to shrink government without regard for Congress’s spending decisions — may in fact be stronger than ever. Now that project is in the hands of Vought, who was plotting how to reduce the federal workforce back when Musk still described himself as “involved in politics as little as possible.”
While DOGE was drawing ire for its haphazard, wanton cuts with volatile personalities, Vought was stocking the Office of Management and Budget with dozens of policy experts, largely old Washington hands more likely to spend their nights reading white papers and budget tables than being chronically online. (Vought declined to comment.)
Over the course of the year, Vought’s staff put together the president’s proposal for the federal budget, used executive authority to control agency spending, and sent so-called “pocket recissions” — a legally questionable maneuver to cancel appropriated funds near the fiscal year’s end, without sufficient time for Congress to reject it — to Capitol Hill.
The politics of making such cuts, ironically, have grown easier due to the fury that DOGE incited. Vought’s methodical and relatively low-key approach — despite provoking legal challenges — has yet to inspire the type of media attention, or sustained public outrage, that DOGE did.
A protester holds a Death by Doge sign.
Protesters during a “March to Stop the Cuts” demonstration in New York on March 15. | Yuki Iwamura/AP
The government shutdown that ended last week became an opportunity for Vought to do more. His first move was to yank funding for a set of congressionally approved programs primarily in Democratic-leaning states, from a project to restore aquatic habitat for salmon and steelhead trout in California to an interstate tunnel linking New York and New Jersey. In the shutdown’s second week, Vought ordered that more than 4,000 federal workers receive layoff notices from the agencies that employed them.
Though the firings and the cuts were reversed as a part of the deal that Republicans struck with Democrats to re-open the government, Oct. 10 marked the largest single day of cuts to federal personnel since Musk was at the peak of his powers in March. And helping to assemble the detailed “reduction in force” plans were some of the DOGE employees still working for the administration.
This weekend, many current and former DOGE members have descended on Austin for a DOGE reunion. It comes just days after Musk returned to Washington for his first public appearance in the nation’s capital since Trump’s farewell in May. At a White House dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Trump greeted Musk warmly with a little pat on the stomach.
Both Musk and Davis are both expected to be at the reunion event in Texas, and some attendees believe it is inevitable that discussion will turn to what DOGE becomes next.
But those who maneuvered against Davis this summer? They were not invited to participate.
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[https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/how-llm-inference-works]
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[https://itscharlibb.substack.com/p/the-realities-of-being-a-pop-star]
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[https://redpenguin101.github.io/html/posts/2025_11_23_emacs_for_code_editing.html]
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[https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-its-charter-2025-11-23/]
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[https://substack.com/inbox/post/179453867]
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[https://theconversation.com/the-world-lost-the-climate-gamble-now-it-faces-a-dangerous-new-reality-270392]
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Nonpareil: High-Fidelity Calculator Simulator
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[https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/20/university-of-staffordshire-course-taught-in-large-part-by-ai-artificial-intelligence]
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[https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in-llm-inference/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 435, With Stephen Robles
[https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2025/11/21/ep-435]
via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/u1osbKD
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
It's your fault my laptop knows where I am
[https://www.amoses.dev/blog/wifi-location/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{security robotics wifi}
We remember the internet bubble. This mania looks and feels the same.
[https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/11/21/boom-bubble-bust-boom-why-should-ai-be-different/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
[ untitled ]
[http://]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
The Uncertain Origins of Aspirin (a fascinating piece of history, neatly dividing myths from evidence)
[https://press.asimov.com/articles/aspirin]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{drugs history myths}
Google AI Studio on X: "Complete Developer Tutorial for Nano Banana Pro" / X
[https://x.com/GoogleAIStudio/status/1992267030050083091]
Complete Developer Tutorial for Nano Banana Pro
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{ai llm google nanobanana}
How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life
[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/20/us/typewriter-repair-seattle-bremerton.html?rsrc=flt&unlocked_article_code=1.208.dNOm.2D3afHcNPh8R&smid=url-share]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{miniflux}
How Slide Rules Work · Amen Zwa, Esq.
[https://amenzwa.github.io/stem/ComputingHistory/HowSlideRulesWork/]
via @Dianora@ottawa.place boost of https://mathstodon.xyz/@AmenZwa/109309143345481028
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{sliderule math history}
Pornhub sollecita i colossi tech a introdurre la verifica dell’età sul dispositivo
[https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/pornhub-is-urging-tech-giants-to-enact-device-based-age-verification/]
Il proprietario di Pornhub, Aylo, ha chiesto ad Apple, Google e Microsoft di adottare la verifica dell’età a livello di dispositivo, sostenendo che i controlli sito‑per‑sito e i servizi terzi sono inefficienti e facilmente aggirabili. Aylo afferma che l’autenticazione sul device migliorerebbe privacy ed efficacia delle norme (es. AB 1043), ridurrebbe il dirottamento degli utenti verso siti non regolamentati e contrasterebbe il calo di traffico subito dalle piattaforme.
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{N8N #TechPolicy POLICY TW2025-47}
wails: Framework to create desktop apps using Go and Web Technologies (HTML/CSS/JS)
[https://github.com/wailsapp/wails]
https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/bj9i5c/wails_beta_create_desktop_apps_using_go_and/
https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/cdv2ri/wailsappwails_create_desktop_apps_using_go_and/
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{framework golang vuejs javascript html css opensource programming toolkit}
French winemakers ‘battle for survival’ as minister prepares for crisis talks | France | The Guardian
[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/23/french-winemakers-sales-slump-crisis-talks]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{places wine}
pumpkin basque cheesecake
[https://smittenkitchen.com/2025/11/pumpkin-basque-cheesecake/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France amid police intimidation claims
[https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2025/11/22/grapheneos-migrates-server-infrastructure-from-france-amid-police-intimidation-claims/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{android privacy security graphene-os}
Is there an AI bubble? These charts show the evidence for and against. - The Washington Post
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/22/ai-bubble-economy-evidence/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
How bad will flu season be this year? | Scientific American (Helen Chu, Infectious Diseases)
[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-bad-will-flu-season-be-this-year/]
Some U.S. regions, including Puerto Rico and Louisiana, are seeing slightly higher rates of flu compared with other parts of the country, though this generally follows past fall patterns, says Helen Chu, a University of Washington physician and co-lead of the Seattle Flu Study. “In some years, we see earlier activity in the southeast and then it increases from there.”
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{Area:InfectiousDiseases Chu.Helen flu}
Premium: The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
[https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-guide-to-nvidia/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{AI economics investing}
The enterprise LLM questions you should be asking | Constellation Research Inc.
[https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/insights/enterprise-llm-questions-you-should-be-asking]
Large language models are at an interesting juncture. LLM breakthroughs have slowed and there are questions about whether they will lead to artificial general intelligence. Coupled with concerns about an AI infrastructure bubble LLMs are going to be closely watched--especially since they're the key ingredient of agentic AI. In the end, LLMs don't have to necessarily lead to
Large language models are at an interesting juncture. LLM breakthroughs have slowed and there are questions about whether they will lead to artificial general intelligence. Coupled with concerns about an AI infrastructure bubble LLMs are going to be closely watched--especially since they're the key ingredient of agentic AI.
In the end, LLMs don't have to necessarily lead to some superintelligence to have a big impact on enterprises. Enterprise AI and the AI market that fascinates venture capitalists and Wall Street investors are two different markets. There are enough AI returns for enterprises even if LLMs stagnate for the next year.
With that backdrop and this week’s headlines, it's worth pondering the key LLM questions.
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{enterprise llm ai software saas}
KAPLAY, The JavaScript easy game library
[https://kaplayjs.com/]
2025-11-25T05:47:01Z
{javascript games}