popular bookmarks generated Fri Dec 12 09:39:30 2025 UTC ----------------------------------------- Size of Life [https://neal.fun/size-of-life/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {kalina} Patterns.dev - Modern Web App Design Patterns [https://www.patterns.dev/] Introducing "Learning Patterns": - a free 435+ page book on JavaScript + React design & performance patterns from @lydiahallie and I. On the web, ePub & PDF. 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington] To pop the bubble, we have to hammer on the forces that created the bubble: the myth that AI can do your job, especially if you get high wages that your boss can claw back; the understanding that growth companies need a succession of ever-more-outlandish bubbles to stay alive; the fact that workers and the public they serve are on one side of this fight, and bosses and their investors are on the other side 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {ArtificialIntelligence review critique author:CoryDoctorow Pluralistic 2025} How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it [https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates] I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power. 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Saloni's guide to data visualization [https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-guide-to-data-visualization] Why data visualization matters, and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {dataviz charts} Typography in ten minutes | Butterick’s Practical Typography [https://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.html] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Useful patterns for building HTML tools [https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {tools html} My favourite small hash table [https://www.corsix.org/content/my-favourite-small-hash-table] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {programming data_structures hash_tables} CSS Wrapped 2025 [https://chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2025/] Ready to see what we molded in 2025? The Chrome DevRel team will guide you through 17 CSS and UI features that landed on the Web Platform, fresh from the kiln 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {chrome web-platform 2025} How to put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle (and why you should) [https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindle] Jailbreaking a Kindle makes it able to do much more. Adding Tailscale takes the Kindle even further. 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {tailscale kindle jailbreak} How to quit Spotify - by Brian Merchant [https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete-guide-to-quitting-spotify] "This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative" 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {brianmerchant 2025 music streaming spotify applemusic youtubemusic amazonmusic tidal pandora deezer qobuz peloton} Devstral 2 and Mistral Vibe CLI [https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {mistral code cli} If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C? [https://stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-coding.html] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {genai} Font recommendations | Butterick’s Practical Typography [https://practicaltypography.com/font-recommendations.html] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {fonts} In 2025, I thought a lot about the things I want to say to my boss [https://www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2025/the-things-i-want-to-say-to-my-boss] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Why RSS matters [https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/] still continues to matter in 2025 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Litestream VFS · The Fly Blog [https://fly.io/blog/litestream-vfs/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore [https://www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-of-fucks-the-neuroscience] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Resonant Computing Manifesto [https://resonantcomputing.org/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Gemini 3 hallucinates the Hacker News front page in 2035 [https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {XDN Tech} I Reverse Engineered ChatGPT's Memory System, and Here's What I Found! - Manthan [https://manthanguptaa.in/posts/chatgpt_memory/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {llm memory} The 2025 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide [https://kottke.org/25/12/the-2025-kottke-holiday-gift-guide] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {gifts} The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking? [https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-mastermind-box-cover-what-the-hell-were-they-thinking] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {RobertRooney design review funny 2025 game art} Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Why AGI Will Not Happen [https://timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/why-agi-will-not-happen/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218537 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {ai llm technology economics interesting} Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight | karpathy [https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {HN LLM} Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained [https://cdegroot.com/programming/commonlisp/2025/11/26/cl-ql-asdf.html] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {lisp} AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/841156/ai-companies-aaif-anthropic-mcp-model-context-protocol] via The Verge https://ift.tt/6WER4Ug 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Netflix and the Hollywood End Game – Stratechery by Ben Thompson [https://stratechery.com/2025/netflix-and-the-hollywood-end-game/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {netflix Hollywood internet tech} Writing an LLM from scratch, part 28 -- training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090 :: Giles' blog [https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/12/llm-from-scratch-28-training-a-base-model-from-scratch] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {ai llm nvidia} Meet Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain | rePebble Blog [https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {phone watch ring thoughts note record hardware} LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090 | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124425] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {ai machinelearning} Neal.fun [https://neal.fun/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {websites} Two is already too many - Works in Progress Magazine [https://worksinprogress.co/issue/two-is-already-too-many/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z James Watson and Edward O. Wilson: An Intellectual Entente | Harvard Magazine [https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2009/09/james-watson-edward-o-wilson-intellectual-entente] The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall. 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {philosophy politics technology culture} Perl's decline was cultural [https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {unix-philosophy perl-culture perl-philosophy wall} butterick’s practical typography [https://practicaltypography.com/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18477231https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6094946 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {typography webdesign tutorial reference} After the Bubble [https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/07/Thin-Spots-In-the-AI-Bubble] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {ai-bubble ai-scepticism ai business} The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles [https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/] story 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {fiction llm writing} The Makers of Modern China • EQUATOR [https://www.equator.org/articles/the-makers-of-modern-china] "For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution"..."Introduction by Kaiser KuoI first encountered Zheng Xiaoqiong’s writing in Iron Moon, a collection of Chinese worker poetry skilfully translated by Eleanor Goodman (2016). What struck me then about her poetry, and what remains true in this prose selection, is Zheng’s attentiveness to the texture of migrant-worker life. She restores dignity not through political theatrics, but through rigorous sensory detail: the clang of metal, the sting of dust, the smell of dirty socks, the fluorescent fatigue of factory nights, and cramped dormitories where shirtless men play cards and chainsmoke. She records the world as it is felt by the people who move through it. In doing so, she opens a space in which they can be seen as individuals – complicated, vulnerable and never reduced to symbols.These subjects are caught in a trap that has structured millions of lives over the past four decades. On one side lies the village: impoverished, agrarian and socially stifling. On the other lies the city: dazzling and modern, but also cold, precarious and brutally indifferent. Zheng’s writing captures the psychic tension of that in-between space – the feeling of being suspended between two worlds, belonging fully to neither. She resists both the standard, agency-stripping sweatshop narrative and the counternarrative of migrant labour as liberation from rural drudgery.Patterns emerge across provinces and generations: young people whose schooling stopped because families could not afford the fees; ethnic minority children from remote mountainous communities labouring in the industrial south; women leaving home to escape constricting expectations, only to encounter new forms of gendered exploitation; men watching years slip by under the grind of overtime. But these patterns never feel generic. Zheng approaches each person individually, letting their memories and private cosmologies make themselves known.Zheng can do this because she has lived this life. For more than a decade, she was based in an “urban village” outside Guangzhou – one of many such dense enclaves where migrant workers negotiate despair. She worked factory jobs, sleeping in those same dormitories. Between 2006 and 2015, she interviewed people in alleyways, restaurants and rented rooms, assembling a kind of oral history of the great migration to Guangdong. The resulting manuscript, Woman Worker, edged close to citizen journalism – a perilous vocation in contemporary China. Much of the text was considered too sensitive domestically, and Zheng has refused to accept the extensive redactions that some would-be publishers have demanded. So the book has never been published.These narratives offer a window into Zheng’s life and work. The experiences they chronicle are often harsh – stories of exploitation and violence in the shadows of China’s industrial rise. But Zheng never frames her subjects solely through suffering. She captures flashes of solidarity, humour and stubbornness. Her sensitivity is humanising, holding both the structural and the intimate in view: the vast demographic movement of internal migration, and the individual lives that give it moral weight. She is a participant and an observer, a sympathetic advocate – but not an activist.Goodman has continued to translate her work for publication, including a collection of poems, In the Roar of the Machine, and the chapters of Woman Worker that appear here for the first time. Her translations preserve the steadiness of Zheng’s gaze. These are the stories of people who built modern China, but were rarely invited into its narrative. Zheng listens to them. And because she does, they enter the record not as anonymous labourers, but as full human beings." 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {zhengxiaoqiong china manufacturing 2025 labor work kaiserkuo eleanorgoodman} Introducing GPT-5.2 | OpenAI [https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {GenAI OpenAI} Brent’s Encapsulated C Programming Rules | Brent’s Website [https://retroscience.net/brents-c-programming-rules.html] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {C} Typographic Elements Whitespace [https://type.today/en/journal/spaces] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {typeface design-article howto tips} Bruno Simon - Creative Developer [https://bruno-simon.com/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {inspiration interactivefiction webgl video javascript design cni-research} Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden [https://andyljones.com/posts/horses.html] In 1920, there were 25 million horses in the United States, 25 million horses totally ambivalent to two hundred years of progress in mechanical engines.And not very long after, 93 per cent of those horses had disappeared.I very much hope we'll get the two decades that horses did.But looking at how fast Claude is automating my job, I think we're getting a lot less. 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {XDN Observations} Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal — ProPublica [https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {dt-investigating-opponents dt-hypocrisy} The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-b9da7a6d-165b-492a-8785-235cd10e2e8e] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {archaeology fire human culture humanOrigins behavior} How I block all online ads [https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {advertising} OpenAI Is in Trouble - The Atlantic [https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/openai-losing-ai-wars/685201/] The AI startup is in trouble. 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {ai openai ChatGPT sam altman .teaching Google gemini} blog.jim-nielsen.com [https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration — Ankur Sethi's Internet Website [https://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z The war on disinformation is a losing battle | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/features/839853/disinformation-wars-censorship-right-wing] via The Verge https://ift.tt/7iyF49c 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z The end of the kernel Rust experiment [LWN.net] [https://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/] The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay. So the "experimental" tag will be coming off. Congratulations are in order for all of the Rust-for-Linux team. 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {lup} At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html] In an “Action Request” memo obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Rubio said that switching back to the use of Times New Roman would “restore decorum and professionalism to the department’s written work.” Calibri is “informal” when compared to serif typefaces like Times New Roman, the order said, and “clashes” with the department’s official letterhead. 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic US [https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45796607 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {authoritarianism technology worldview economics politics reference visualization interesting} simticket [https://www.elpwc.com/simticket?com=1&ticket=1] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart’s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout [https://groundworkcollaborative.org/work/instacart/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires - Ars Technica [https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/this-is-the-oldest-evidence-of-people-starting-fires/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {history uk} Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow [https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-advancements/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {cloudflare python} Bag of words, have mercy on us - by Adam Mastroianni [https://www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-words-have-mercy-on-us] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {ai llm psychology} Fizzy [https://www.fizzy.do/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {project-management proprietary software} Will the 21st Century Nabobs Win Their War on Public Accountability? - TPM – Talking Points Memo [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-the-21st-century-nabobs-win-their-war-on-public-accountability]
The nabobs were not popular. And my friend compared the nabobs to today’s tech lords, that small crop of centibillionaires who now loom so large over American society and politics. They were viewed as crass arrivistes who had built their fortunes on pillage and murder, which in very basic ways they had. The brutality of the East India Company’s rule in India was actually quite unpopular in Britain, something that can seem kind of surprising in that period of history. Lurid descriptio... 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z OpenAI’s billion-dollar Disney deal puts Mickey Mouse and Marvel in Sora | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/news/842348/disney-openai-sora-chatgpt-images] via The Verge https://ift.tt/6xpLPe3 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos [https://blog.pkh.me/p/48-a-series-of-tricks-and-techniques-i-learned-doing-tiny-glsl-demos.html] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {programming graphics math visualization article} Trump’s immigration data dragnet [https://ig.ft.com/us-ice-surveillance/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {ft usa society} Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%? - Martin Alderson [https://martinalderson.com/posts/has-the-cost-of-software-just-dropped-90-percent/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {ai llm agentic_ai} Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler" | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46214693] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {compiler learning wasm} ltratt/pizauth: Command-line OAuth2 authentication daemon [https://github.com/ltratt/pizauth] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Test Desiderata 2.0 - Coding Is Like Cooking [https://coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/12/test-desiderata-2-0/] Kent Beck is one of the original authors of JUnit, an open source tool that kick-started a huge shift in programmer behaviour that I and others have found immensely valuable. In 2019 he published his “Test Desiderata” with advice about the properties he values in tests. I have found this list useful, but at the […] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {toread testing} Afghanische Ortskräfte: Dobrindts Versprechen - gebrochen | tagesschau.de [https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/afghanistan-ortskraefte-dobrindt-100.html] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Discover the most reviewed places in your city | Top-Rated.Online [https://www.top-rated.online/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {rating review google Yelp city town} Assorted tools [https://tools.simonwillison.net/] Simon Willison 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {miscellany} Colossal Shop – The Colossal Shop [https://colossal.shop/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {gifts} Rob Zolkos - Ruby on Rails Software Developer [https://www.zolkos.com/2025/12/03/vanilla-css-is-all-you-need] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {css webdesign} Meta’s New A.I. Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/technology/meta-ai-tbd-lab-friction.html] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z nytimes.com [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k8.NI-S.Il8KdkMKKnGV] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/cOE09Qd 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Daring Fireball: The Real Problem of Humanity [https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/09/the-real-problem-of-humanity] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {quotes computers psychology democracy government community history internet} Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206531] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Daring Fireball: iMessage’s Delivery Architecture Makes It Hard to Block Without Blocking All iOS Push Notifications [https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/imessage_push_notifications_hard_to_block] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/oSdtDR1 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z The highest quality codebase [https://gricha.dev/blog/the-highest-quality-codebase] Practical guide to improving code quality and maintainability. Learn actionable techniques and tools for building a robust, high-quality codebase. 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {quality codebase metrics software-engineering google-guide testing-practices} The White House Just Revealed Another "Update" To The White House, And Everyone’s Rolling Their Eyes [https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/white-house-just-revealed-another-210003798.html] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/cOE09Qd 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z Writing our own Cheat Engine: Introduction | Lonami's Blog [https://lonami.dev/blog/woce-1/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {lang:rust} 发生了什么 | 人工智能驱动黑客新闻摘要 --- WhatHappened | 发生了什么人工智能驱动的黑客新闻文摘 [https://www.whathappened.tech/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {hacknews} guhcostan/mac-cleaner-cli [https://github.com/guhcostan/mac-cleaner-cli] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {mac tools} Lauren Leek [https://laurenleek.eu/food-map] Lauren Leek Developed by Lauren Leek 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {map maps restaurant google} What Setting Should I Use? [https://www.massicotte.org/blog/what-settings/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {swift Xcode} Opinion | This Is the 21st-Century Arms Race. Can America Keep Up? - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/09/opinion/editorials/us-china-military-ai-tech.html] Something strange happened at the meeting between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping of China in a mansion south of San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2023. After a working lunch, as the two leaders rose to leave, an aide to Mr. Xi signaled to one of the Chinese president's bodyguards, who approached the table, took a small bottle out of his pocket and quickly sprayed down every surface that Mr. Xi had touched, including what remained of the almond meringue cake on his dessert plate. The purpose, the Americans concluded, was to remove any trace of Mr. Xi’s DNA that his hosts might collect and exploit. “This is the way they’re thinking,” said an official who attended the meeting, “that you could design a disease that would only affect one person.” To the handful of U.S. officials who were there, it was a sobering coda to an otherwise successful summit: Even as Beijing and Washington pursue diplomacy, the pace of technological change is deepening suspicion and fear between the two sides. Human history can be told as a series of advances in warfare, from chariots to crossbows to nuclear-tipped missiles, and we are living through what may be the fastest advancement in weaponry ever. Ask any five veteran national security experts and you will hear about five different emerging technologies with the potential to change the world of combat. Swarms of robotic aircraft that work in unison to find and kill targets without any human oversight. Advanced cyberweapons that can immobilize armed forces and shut down electrical grids across the country. A.I.-designed bioweapons engineered to kill only those with certain genetic characteristics. 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {XDN War} Why You’re Better Than Artificial Intelligence at Solving Connections - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/crosswords/why-youre-better-than-a-computer-at-solving-connections.html] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {AI} Land War or Self-Terrorism? [https://snyder.substack.com/p/self-terrorism] Trump's Likely Next Step 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z AI should only run as fast as we can catch up · Higashi.blog [https://higashi.blog/2025/12/07/ai-verification/] Argument: having AI's vibe-code stuff that you don't understand and can't review will not lead to production-ready systems. Having AI produce at a pace which we can review and approve will. It's ideal for cases where verification is easier than production (eg: creating images). 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {ai via:HackerNews vibecoding} Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to LLMs. [https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot-neuroscientist-resolving-how-the-brain-parses-language-20251205/] You can think of the language network as a set of pointers,” Fedorenko said. “It’s like a map, and it tells you where in the brain you can find different kinds of meaning. It’s basically a glorified parser that helps us put the pieces together — and then all the thinking and interesting stuff happens outside of [its] boundaries.” Fedorenko has been gathering biological evidence of this language network for the past 15 years in her lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unlike a large language model, the human language network doesn’t string words into plausible-sounding patterns with nobody home; instead, it acts as a translator between external perceptions (such as speech, writing and sign language) and representations of meaning encoded in other parts of the brain (including episodic memory and social cognition, which LLMs don’t possess). Nor is the human language network particularly large: If all of its tissue were clumped together, it would be about the size of a strawberry(opens a new tab). But when it is damaged, the effect is profound. An injured language network can result in forms of aphasia(opens a new tab) in which sophisticated cognition remains intact but trapped within a brain unable to express it or distinguish incoming words from others. 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {ai llm language thought brain} Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know - [http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2025/12/08/linux-cves-more-than-you-ever-wanted-to-know/] 2025-12-12T05:47:01Z {linux kernel cve cna vulnerability disclosure} The one thing necessary: Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e [https://eamonnsullivan.co.uk/posts-output/email-setup/2025-12-3-putting-email-in-its-place/]
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