popular bookmarks generated Fri Jan  2 15:38:35 2026 UTC
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Unicode Symbols - Copy & Paste Symbols by Category
[https://fontgenerator.design/symbols]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{unicoode fonts search development programming}


2025: The year in LLMs
[https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{llm}


Jason Pargin on the Just Coffee, Black meme | Just Coffee, Black | Know Your Meme
[https://knowyourmeme.com/videos/433740-just-coffee-black]
via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/IsFRAU8
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


The Future of Software Development is Software Developers – Codemanship's Blog
[https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/the-future-of-software-development-is-software-developers/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


AI Is Forcing Us To Write Good Code - by Steve Krenzel
[https://bits.logic.inc/p/ai-is-forcing-us-to-write-good-code]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{ai llm agentic_ai}


73 Programming Project Ideas to Inspire and Challenge You
[https://codecrafters.io/blog/programming-project-ideas]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{programming}


What an unprocessed photo looks like: (Maurycy's blog)
[https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{photography}


GitHub - tw93/Mole: 🦡 Dig deep like a mole to clean your Mac. 🦡 像鼹鼠一样深入挖掘来清理您的 Mac
[https://github.com/tw93/Mole]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{programming productivity}


A SOLID Load of Bull
[https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/solid-bull]
Liskov substitution principle: Good. Follow unquestionably.
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{engineering opinion}


Welcome to NON-ZERO-SUM GAMES
[https://nonzerosum.games/]
Hi, I'm Non-Zero-Sum James, your companion on this exploration of win-win games and how they are essential for a better future. Each week we'll explore a new aspect of game theory, moral philosophy, ethical economics and artificial intelligence—looking to solve the complex problems we face in our world together.
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{gaming philosophy theory economics}


lorentz app
[https://lorentz.app/blog-item.html?id=go-shebang]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{go shebang script compile posix}


Cameras and Lenses – Bartosz Ciechanowski
[https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/]
Cameras and Lenses –
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


Python Numbers Every Programmer Should Know • Michael Kennedy's Thoughts on Technology
[https://mkennedy.codes/posts/python-numbers-every-programmer-should-know/]
<blockquote>Articles about technology and software development by Michael Kennedy</blockquote>
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{python performance}


FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands - IT Notes
[https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/]
via https://lobste.rs/s/4uhvgb/fedimeteo_how_tiny_4_freebsd_vps_became
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{weather fediverse}


Fucking Approachable Swift Concurrency
[https://fuckingapproachableswiftconcurrency.com/en/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{swift swiftUI}


The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World's Most Important Machine - YouTube
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUHjLxm3V0]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{Feinwerktechnik investing ASML Fotolithographie Röntgenlithografie Synchrotron Bell-Labs EUV Philips Zeiss TOP Inspiration Durchhaltevermögen Stamina Erfolgsgeschichte Karriere Beruf}


Public Sans
[https://public-sans.digital.gov/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{fonts typography}


Lulzx/zpdf: Zero-copy PDF text extraction library written in Zig. High-performance, memory-mapped parsing with SIMD acceleration.
[https://github.com/Lulzx/zpdf]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{pdf}


Charm Ruby - Glamorous Terminal Libraries for Ruby
[https://charm-ruby.dev/]
<blockquote>Ruby ports of the beloved Charm terminal libraries. Build glamorous TUIs, style terminal output, create beautiful forms, and make your Ruby CLIs sparkle.</blockquote>
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{ruby library beautiful CLI}


Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa - NYTimes
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/climate/solar-south-africa-china.html]
This has happened at startling speed. Solar has risen from almost nothing in 2019 to roughly 10 percent of South Africa’s electricity-generating capacity.

Sierra Leone imported the equivalent of more than half its total current electricity-generating capacity, and Chad, nearly half.
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{solar africa}


52 Things I Learned in 2025 - Kent Hendricks
[https://probablyinteresting.substack.com/p/52-things-i-learned-in-2025]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


A Guide to Claude Code 2.0 and getting better at using coding agents | sankalp's blog
[https://sankalp.bearblog.dev/my-experience-with-claude-code-20-and-how-to-get-better-at-using-coding-agents/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{claude ai code}


Keep Pace - toomuchplor - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/76700746]
What happened when Yuna and Shane were talking.

--lovely
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{author:toomuchplor fandom:heatedrivalry}


max-sixty/worktrunk: Worktrunk is a CLI for Git worktree management, designed for parallel AI agent workflows
[https://github.com/max-sixty/worktrunk]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{ai-git}


GitHub - HarryR/z80ai: Z80-μLM is a 2-bit quantized language model small enough to run on an 8-bit Z80 processor. Train conversational models in Python, export them as CP/M .COM binaries, and chat with your vintage computer.
[https://github.com/HarryR/z80ai]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{llm toy}


NETFLIX OPEN CONTENT
[https://opencontent.netflix.com/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{open rights content source video streaming copyright free}


Ravenesta: please leave a message
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/76008221]
Sarah:    Does anyone have the number for Shane's girl from Boston? I feel bad that they've been seeing each other for this long and we've never added her here.Jackie:    Oh good point! Let me ask Hayden.    Jackie has added Lily to the conversationLily:    what    what is this
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{gamechangers gen pg-13 humor chatfic wc:2000-5000 p:ilya/shane}


Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts - neverland
[https://hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{typography}


Readings in Database Systems
[http://www.redbook.io/]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23514686 ;;;https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/01/03/database-techiques-everyone-should-know ;;;http://redbook.cs.berkeley.edu/ ;;;https://github.com/rxin/db-readings Readings in Databases by Reynold Xin ;;;http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~nil/764/ ;;;http://www.cs286.net/home/reading-list ;;;http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs347/readings.html CS145->CS245->CS246->CS346->CS347 ;;;http://www.bitstech.net/2013/12/27/distributed-storage-papers/ ;;;https://www.douban.com/doulist/1822588/ ;;;https://www.douban.com/note/643034325/ ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/topic/19558640/hot ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/question/62464757 DB research ;;;http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/distributed-systems-theory-for-the-distributed-systems-eng…http://liancheng.info/bib/ ;;;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41889076 ; https://dancres.github.io/Pages ;http://www.zhihu.com/question/19868791 ;;;https://github.com/mmcgrana/services-engineering ;;; http://study.163.com/plan/planIntroduction/272067.htm ;;;http://duanple.com/ ;;;http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/ds-red/publications.aspx ;;;http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/12/paper-readings-2012.html ;;;http://scalingsystems.com/2011/09/07/reading-list-for-distributed-systems/ ;;; https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-seminal-papers-in-distributed-systems-Why ;;;http://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/ ;;;http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-749/ reading ;;;https://github.com/benjamintanweihao/distributed-systems-references ;;;https://www.infoq.com/presentations/papers-large-distributed-systems ;;;http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2016/11/my-distributed-systems-seminars-reading.html ;;;https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/01/08/a-distributed-systems-seminar-reading-list-spring-2017-edition/ ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/question/43687427/answer/96306564 ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/question/43687427/answer/123682560 ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/question/43687427/answer/96677826 ;;;http://dsrg.pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/ ;;;http://www.infoq.com/cn/news/2018/01/distributed-system-architecture ;;;https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/little-ds 分布式系统思考和相关论文 ;;;https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/one-paper-a-week ;;;https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/distributed-storage 分布式和存储的那些事 ;;;https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/zuoqin 分布式存储系统和性能优化 ;;;https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/c_181108752 分布式，存储笔记 ;;;https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/c_158208519 用谁都能看懂的方法解释分布式系统 ;;;https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/gushitong ;;;https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/io-meter ;;;https://github.com/yingjunwu/DBMS-Indexology ;;;https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-749/READINGS Engineering Distributed Systems ;;;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20249946 Learning to Build Distributed Systems  ;;;http://duanple.com/?p=1106 深度探索分布式理论经典论文 ;;;https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/c_1083667247565705216 尬聊数据库 ;;;https://github.com/pingcap/awesome-database-learning Awesome Database Learning ;;;https://pingcap.com/meetup PingCAP Infra Meetup ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/question/30026369 分布式系统领域有哪些经典论文 ;;;https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/c_158208519 用谁都能看懂的方法解释分布式系统 ;;;https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/c_131009364 Distributed Things ;;;https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/GTDistributed 分布式驿站 ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/column/c_1068210975941074944 分布式与存储 ;;;https://catkang.github.io/2020/12/01/newsql.html NewSQL 概述 ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/column/c_1320453916748550144 GFS ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/people/drdr-xp ; https://www.zhihu.com/people/wo-he-suan-nai-bu-tian-gai-85 ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/question/23645117/answer/124708083 学习分布式系统需要怎样的知识 ;;;https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/csjgwang/cloudb/ Purdue CS590: Cloud-Native Database Systems ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/people/guanghui-yu earayu ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/people/maplewish ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/question/451898647/answer/1813178673 ;;;https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4678787298758400 ->https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/01/03/database-techiques-everyone-should-know ;;;https://www.youtube.com/c/CMUDatabaseGroup CMU Database Group ;;;https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/476659624 database paper reading list 2022 ;;;https://www.reddit.com/domain/brooker.co.za/ ; https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=brooker.co.za Marc Brooker ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/people/tan-xin-yu-22/posts ;;;https://yingjunwu.github.io/ ; https://www.zhihu.com/people/yingjunwu Singularity Data, Rising Wave ;;;https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/553503630 数据库学习经验杂谈 ;;;http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2020/06/learning-about-distributed-systems.html Learning about distributed systems: where to start? ;https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2021/02/foundational-distributed-systems-papers.html Foundational distributed systems papers ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/column/learn-distributed-system ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/question/37647788/answer/2466804512 ; https://github.com/Sunt-ing/database-system-readings ;;;https://www.zhihu.com/people/73-49-26-23/posts ;;;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XX5ksgLVnkPE-dfeVDZPlv5NMbgxJqWmi13YEQt1t1o/view CS525 UIUC SP24: Reading List ;;;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39303160 ; https://ferd.ca/a-distributed-systems-reading-list.html A Distributed Systems Reading List ;;;https://karanchawla.io/2024/06/24/distributed_systems_reading ;;;
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{database webArch course storage KV}


I canceled my book deal - Austin Z. Henley
[https://austinhenley.com/blog/canceledbookdeal.html]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


John Gruber: "If you’re annoyed by something that is obviously …" - Mastodon
[https://mastodon.social/@gruber/115770281204538177]
via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/xlkVtTh
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


[ untitled ]
[https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~elec399/201409/Akin%27s%20Laws%20of%20Spacecraft%20Design.pdf]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


CUII Liste - Gesperrte Domains
[https://cuiiliste.de/domains]
<blockquote>Die CUII Liste zeigt dir, welche Domains von der CUII gesperrt sind und wie du die Zensur umgehen kannst.</blockquote>
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{freedom censorship}


Everything as Code: How We Manage Our Company In One Monorepo | Kasava
[https://www.kasava.dev/blog/everything-as-code-monorepo]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{monorepo docs-as-code ai claude}


How do you secure access to your self-hosted/homelab services? | Lobsters
[https://lobste.rs/s/rmenr4/how_do_you_secure_access_your_self_hosted]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


HOME | Trump Kennedy Center
[https://www.trumpkennedycenter.org/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{donald_trump usa politics humor}


The Compiler Is Your Best Friend, Stop Lying to It - Daniel Beskin's Blog
[https://blog.daniel-beskin.com/2025-12-22-the-compiler-is-your-best-friend-stop-lying-to-it]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{typescript}


Enroll - Reverse-engineering servers into Ansible
[https://enroll.sh/]
Enroll inspects Debian-like and RedHat-like Linux hosts and generates Ansible roles/playbooks from what it finds. Harvest → Manifest → Manage.
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


Local LLMs are useful now, and they aren't just toys
[https://www.xda-developers.com/local-llms-useful-not-just-toys/]
A local LLM can be a powerful tool in your arsenal, even if it's a small model.
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


2025 letter | Dan Wang
[https://danwang.co/2025-letter/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{technology china}


⭐ 📆 #Calendar | @neatnik@social.lol
[https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=2026]
A simple printable calendar with the full year on a single page

Thanks https://social.lol/@neatnik/115653027798464443¹ https://mro.name/b7h4af5
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{Calendar ⭐ 📆}


I’ve Read 3,000 Studies About COVID: Here’s What You’re Ignoring That Could (Still) Harm You or a Loved One | by Augie Ray | Dec, 2025 | Medium
[https://medium.com/@augieray_66704/ive-read-3-000-studies-about-covid-here-s-what-you-re-ignoring-that-could-still-harm-you-or-a-accafe0f7c66]
via @unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz boost of https://mastodon.social/@augieray/115817320511330836
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{covid}


Reflections on 2025 - Samuel Albanie
[https://samuelalbanie.substack.com/p/reflections-on-2025]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


GitHub - harvard-edge/cs249r_book: Collaborative book Machine Learning Systems
[https://github.com/harvard-edge/cs249r_book]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{quarto AI}


Screen Sizes
[https://screensizes.app/]
All new iPhone screen sizes
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


I’m in Charge at This Hertz Location, and Buddy, You’re Not Getting a Car Today - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
[https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-in-charge-at-this-hertz-location-and-buddy-youre-not-getting-a-car-today]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{servicedesign hertz car driving}


loss32: let's build a Win32/Linux
[https://loss32.org/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{linux win32}


Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life
[https://www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires-are-eating-your-life/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


kurtstiel - so come over now (and talk me down)
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/75759461]
<blockquote>Ilya’s hand wraps around his bare wrist and squeezes. Shane barely stops himself from collapsing to his knees.

The pressure lights up every receptor of his touch-starved nervous system, wrenching a small, pained noise from the back of his throat. Every muted sensation comes flooding back so intensely that it almost hurts. He needs Ilya to hold him down until there’s nothing inside him but quiet. He wants to sink into him and disappear.

It takes Shane an entire beat to remember where they are. Fighting against the fog in his mind, he manages to drag his gaze up to meet Ilya’s.

There’s a slow-dawning horror and understanding on Ilya’s face.</blockquote>

Or: Shane is in subdrop after their encounter in Vegas. Ilya fixes it. (Words: 8,770)
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{!!!fandom !!fic |site:ao3 +fandom:heated.rivalry.(tv) ::rating:explicit ~author:kurtstiel character:shane.hollander character:ilya.rozanov relationship:shane.hollander/ilya.rozanov ::category:m/m \no.archive.warnings.apply ~ao3:dom/sub ~ao3:subdrop ~ao3:hurt/comfort ~ao3:subspace ~ao3:deepthroating ~ao3:coming.untouched ~ao3:anal.sex ~ao3:aftercare ~ao3:dom.ilya.rozanov ~ao3:sub.shane.hollander ~ao3:praise.kink ~ao3:kneeling}


The simplest way to create forms
[https://tally.so/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{forms form free service tool polls poll study studies}


Origin of the Terms Big-Endian and Little-Endian
[https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Spring_2003/ling538/Lecnotes/ADfn1.htm]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{computing_history}


love takes miles - corsi - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own]
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/76368791]
incredibly impressive in-universe fandom fic with the best use of ao3 site skins I've ever seen (the tumblr ui updating as the years went by, wow)
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{fanfiction heatedrivalry length:5k-10k}


nytimes.com
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/travel/airpods-live-translation-japan.html]
via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/IsFRAU8
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


Linux DAW
[https://linuxdaw.org/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{linux audio daw}


News/One Bad Ass Hedgehog - Shadow the Hedgehog
[https://hiddenpalace.org/News/One_Bad_Ass_Hedgehog_-_Shadow_the_Hedgehog#Demystifying_DVDs]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{dvd}


Meta created ‘playbook’ to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, documents show | Reuters
[https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pressure-crack-down-scammers-documents-show-2025-12-31/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{facebook crime}


WikiFlix
[https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/#/]
Wikidata has over 33 thousand items for movies that have fallen into the public domain. A fraction of these items (~1300 at the time of writing) have a video file, either at Wikimedia Commons, the Internet Archive, or YouTube.

WikiFlix is a bespoke interface to browse, search, and view these movies, and information about them, including cast members etc. It is modeled in the general theme of popular video streaming services, without trying to copy any specific one.
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{videos wiki public_domain}


Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code
[https://balajmarius.com/writings/vibe-coding-a-bookshelf-with-claude-code/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{teaching ai}


UNIX Fourth Edition
[http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4/README]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{unix}


nytimes.com
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/opinion/turning-points-americafest-maga.html?unlocked_article_code=1.A1A.viCa.z9zxp3AvMBxV]
via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/xlkVtTh
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


Open-Meteo.com - free weather forecast APIs for open-source developers and non-commercial use
[https://open-meteo.com/]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28499910
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{weather onlinetools free webservices rest json simplicity minimalism programming}


Balance of power
[https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/30/balance_of_power.html]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
[https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


Animated AI
[https://animatedai.github.io/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


Google is dead. Where do we go now? - Circus Scientist
[https://www.circusscientist.com/2025/12/29/google-is-dead-where-do-we-go-now/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{google adwords marketing}


The Best Things and Stuff of 2025
[https://blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2025.html]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{2025}


Hacker Book — 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite
[https://hackerbook.dosaygo.com/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{hackernews history dataset news sql backup}


scaffolding to superhuman: how curriculum learning solved 2048 and tetris | kyoung whan choe
[https://kywch.github.io/blog/2025/12/curriculum-learning-2048-tetris/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{pufferlib rl}


I saw 290 movies in theaters in 2025. Here is my full ranking. : r/movies
[https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1pwx3x6/i_saw_290_movies_in_theaters_in_2025_here_is_my/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 438, With Rene Ritchie
[https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2025/12/31/ep-438]
via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/xlkVtTh
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 


Videx — Turn YouTube Videos into Structured Notes
[https://videxs.com/]
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{youtube summarize convert data}


Who Is Mubi For?
[https://www.vulture.com/article/mubi-art-house-movies-streamer-distributor.html]
<blockquote>Who is Mubi for? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following, writes Will Tavlin. Then it started to expand.</blockquote>
2026-01-02T05:47:02Z 
{mubi letterboxd film-distribution}


Still Asking Berry’s Question - Front Porch Republic
[https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/12/still-asking-berrys-question/]
"The promise of liberation from drudgery quickly becomes liberation from purpose."

...

"Wendell Berry asked a question that modernity hates because it cannot be monetized: What are people for? The industrial age answered without blushing: people are for the economy. They are for the factory, for the spreadsheet, for the gross domestic product, for the “growth curve.” And because modernity is very sure of itself, it named this clear and quantifiable purpose “progress.” Berry, being a sane man, said no. People are not raw material. The farm is not a mine. The town is not a labor pool. The land is not “natural resources.” The creature is not a “human resource.” People are for love, for neighborliness, for covenant, for the stewardship of place, for the worship of God. The economy is for people, not the other way around.

Now we have entered a new chapter in the same old story. The factory was thick steel and soot; the algorithm is clean glass and the promise of frictionless living. But the question has not changed. What are people for? If you listen to the evangelists of ubiquitous AI, you can hear the old answer updated for a sleeker age: people are for optimizing the system. People are for feeding the model. People are for “upskilling” to stay relevant. People are for consumption while machines produce. We are for being managed, curated, nudged, entertained, medicated, subsidized, and finally rendered unnecessary…except perhaps as data points.

We should not pretend this is a neutral development. A tool is never just a tool. Every tool is a moral proposal. The plow proposes a certain kind of farming. The automobile proposes a certain kind of city. The smartphone proposes a certain kind of attention span. And AI proposes a certain kind of humanity. Powerful tools do not merely serve us; they slowly train us to serve them. And if the only virtues we value are efficiency and expediency, we will bow to any machine that offers more of both.

The ideologues of automation speak with a kind of missionary zeal. AI will free us from drudgery. AI will remove human error. AI will multiply economic output. AI will personalize education, healthcare, entertainment, companionship. AI will be the “next electricity,” they say, and so it must be everywhere, in everything, all at once. And then the pious conclusion: anyone raising a hand in caution is anti-progress, anti-science, afraid of the future.

But there is another word for the future they are selling: displacement. The question is not whether AI can do certain tasks as well as humans. Of course it can, and increasingly it will. The question is whether a society that systematically replaces human labor with machine labor is still a society ordered to human good. The promise of liberation from drudgery quickly becomes liberation from purpose. And purpose is not an optional accessory. It is a necessity of being human. A man without meaningful work is not a man who has been freed; he is a man who has been cut loose.

“Work” here does not mean mere wage-earning. It means the human vocation to make and keep, to cultivate and guard, to build what is worth inheriting. Work is the way love takes shape in the world. A father works to provide. A mother works to nurture. A neighbor works to repair what is broken. A farmer works to husband the soil. A teacher works to pass on wisdom. A carpenter works to make shelter. A church member works to bear burdens. These are not interchangeable economic units. They are acts of embodied responsibility. Berry’s complaint against abstraction is precisely this: once people become “labor” in the system, their particular loves and particular places no longer matter.

Ubiquitous AI accelerates abstraction like gasoline on a brushfire. The more that work is done by disembodied systems, the less work is tied to place. And the less work is tied to place, the weaker the ties of membership become. The logic is brutal and simple: if a machine can do it cheaper, humans shouldn’t. If a town is inefficient, the market will bypass it. If a craft is slow, an algorithm will swallow it. If a family is fragile, a platform will replace it with services. We are invited to live in a world of permanent outsourcing, where the friction of being human is treated as a bug to be fixed.

And the social consequences are not hard to predict because many of them are already here. First comes automation. Then comes permanent unemployability for a wide class of people; not because they’re lazy, but because the ladder has been kicked away. “Learn to code” was the pep talk of the last decade; now AI codes. “Go into design” was the assurance of the creative economy; now AI designs. “Do knowledge work” was the shelter from industrial replacement; now AI writes, summarizes, drafts, advises. The goalposts will keep moving because the goal is not human flourishing. The goal is maximal efficiency.

What happens to a people whose sense of worth is tethered to usefulness, when usefulness is mechanized away? We should be honest enough to answer: despair. Aimlessness. Addiction. Political hysteria. A general lowering of the national mood. In some cases, yes, rebellion. In other cases, a dull flotation in entertainment and substances. You cannot turn the human being into a dependent and expect him to remain a citizen. You cannot treat him as superfluous and expect him to remain sane.

“Universal basic income will solve that,” we are told. Money for nothing; a subsidy to float those who have been made redundant. But here again is Berry’s question in another costume. What are people for? If the answer is “for consuming products and staying quiet while machines do the meaningful stuff,” then yes, UBI is a tidy solution. It is also a polite form of social euthanasia. Bread without work is not dignity; it is sedation. The Christian tradition does not say, “If a man does not work, let him receive a check so he can endlessly scroll.” It says, “If a man does not work, neither shall he eat”—not to be cruel, but because work is woven into the fabric of a meaningful life. We were made to bear responsibility. We were made to put our love to work in the service of God and neighbor. A society that tries to offload that need is not merciful; it is vandalizing the soul.

The defenders of ubiquitous AI assume that meaning is something you can invent once the machines handle the necessities. “People will be free to pursue art, leisure, relationships, play.” But leisure is only leisure after labor. Play only means something because there is something serious to play from. Art is not a default state produced by free time; it is the fruit of disciplined attention, usually learned under the patient hand of a community. Relationships fray when no one is needed. If we take away the ordinary callings that knit people to one another, we don’t create a paradise of creativity. We create a petri dish for narcissism.

The deeper issue is theological before it is economic. God made man in His image. That image includes the charge to rule, name, cultivate, and create. We are not gods, but we are makers under God. We were not fashioned to be ornamental. When the machine becomes the primary actor in the world and the human becomes a passive recipient, the image is insulted. The cult of AI is not just a business strategy. It is an anthropology: a doctrine about what humans are. And its doctrine is that humans are error-prone meat devices. The system is wise. Trust the system. Give over agency. Let the optimization proceed.

Berry’s resistance to industrialism was never about nostalgia for hard labor. It was about fidelity to creaturely limits and local loves. The point is not that we should forbid every use of machine intelligence. The point is that we must never enthrone it. Tools are gifts when they remain tools. They are curses when they become masters.

So what does it mean to refuse subservience to the tool?

It means we stop speaking as though inevitability were the same as righteousness. “AI is coming, so we must adapt,” is not an argument. Plagues come too. Pornography comes too. Tyrants come too. The question is not what is coming, but what is good. And goodness is measured by whether human beings become more fully human in their homes, churches, and towns.

It means we choose…deliberately, even stubbornly…to preserve human-centered work where it matters. A community that keeps teachers teaching, craftsmen crafting, nurses nursing, pastors pastoring, and parents parenting is not inefficient; it is sane. It is recognizing that the speed of a machine is not the same thing as the health of a people.

It means we re-localize what AI tries to de-localize. The more our economy is mediated by distant, opaque systems, the less accountable it becomes. AI concentrates power because it concentrates knowledge and production into the hands of those who own the models and compute. If Berry taught us anything, it is that concentrated power is always a threat to the land and the people. The antidote is smallness, transparency, and face-to-face responsibility.

It means we insist that education is for forming persons not “training users.” If AI shortcuts every hard mental hill, it does not make students free; it makes them dependent. Wisdom grows through struggle, through memory, through attention, through the risk of being wrong. A classroom ruled by AI tutoring as the default is a classroom that has quietly replaced the teacher’s moral authority with the machine’s efficiency. That is a bad bargain.

It means we regard the family and church as the primary economies of meaning. A man who is needed at home and in his congregation is not easily replaced by an algorithm. A village that sees its young people as future members rather than future data labor is harder to colonize by tech inevitability. You can’t build that kind of belonging with a push notification.

Some will call this reactionary. Fine. The Hebrews have been “reactionary” against idolatry since Pharaoh, and the Christians followed their example in Rome. We are not against tools. We are against false gods. We give thanks for whatever genuinely helps a mother care for her kids, a doctor diagnose disease, a farmer steward soil, a teacher teach clearly. But we refuse to live in a world where the human is downstream from the machine. We refuse to trade our birthright for convenience.

Berry’s question presses us toward a final clarity. People are not for AI. People are not for the market. People are not for the state. People are not for the machine. People are for God, and therefore for one another, and for the care of the earth that God has placed beneath our feet. Everything else is a tool. And if the tool demands that we become smaller, thinner, more passive, less responsible, and less bound to place and neighbor, then the tool is not helping. It is devouring.

So in this new industrial moment, the old counsel holds: put the living at the center. Keep the machines in the shed. Let them serve actual communities, actual households, actual farms, actual schools, actual churches. And when efficiency asks to be worshiped, laugh at it like Elijah laughed at the prophets of Baal. We were not made to be optimized. We were made to be faithful."
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