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Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says. 2025-11-03T04:00:51-0800 Ars Technica Ashley Belanger 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-05T13:54:35-0800 - sethherr |
The Great Decoupling of Labor and CapitalA programming note: I initially wanted to cover Microsoft’s earnings today, but I am changing the schedule a bit as I felt more inspired to write today’s piece. Almost two decades ago, Hewlett-Packard (HP) was the first tech company to exceed $100 Billion annual revenue threshold in 2007. At that time, HP had 172k employees. The very next year, IBM joined the club, but IBM had almost 400k employees. Today’s megacap tech companies all exhibit a common characteristics: their growth is pretty muc 2025-11-02T07:43:23-0800 MBI Deep Dives 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-08T10:49:09-0800 - sethherr |
What Hallucinogens Will Make You See8 ways psychedelics distort our vision. 2023-06-01T17:56:18-0700 Nautilus Kristen French 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-08T16:21:52-0800 - sethherr |
The Ofcom Files, Part 2: IP Blocking the UK is Not Enough to Comply with the Online Safety ActA follow up to The Ofcom Files. Some notes on Ofcom's strategy to date. As many of you know, I represent the U.S. website 4chan, pro bono, in its U.S. federal lawsuit against the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, together with my co-counsel Ron Coleman. The suit seeks to defend 4chan from the UK’s attempts to censor that… 2025-11-06T16:20:45-0800 Preston Byrne 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-08T16:38:03-0800 - sethherr |
Unexpected Things that are Peoplepanlegal expressions of personhood 2025-11-07T18:05:36-0800 Gold Takes Ben Goldhaber 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-10T16:51:11-0800 - sethherr |
I Want You to Understand ChicagoRated 2025-11-10T19:51:09-0800 - sethherr |
Does momentum exist in prediction markets? A short analysisA change of pace driven by a minor obsession. Back to normal NDI next week. 2025-11-04T05:01:55-0800 No Dumb Ideas 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-11T20:33:01-0800 - sethherr |
I Saw a Vision of Chocolate’s Future in an Amsterdam BrownieThe real-life Willy Wonkas of confectionary are racing to cut the use of expensive cocoa. Their creations are delicious, but there's a downside, too. #Africa #Agriculture #City #Climate Change #Cote D'ivoire #Ghana #Science #Sustainability #Weather 2025-11-03T21:05:05-0800 Bloomberg Lara Williams ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-12T06:44:05-0800 - sethherr |
What I Saw And Heard In WashingtonGroyperism's Spread Among Generation Z Conservative Apparatchiks Is Real 2025-11-10T14:07:49-0800 Rod Dreher's Diary Rod Dreher 7,000 words Rated 2025-11-12T23:23:33-0800 - sethherr |
The CIA and Modern Art : r/badhistoryreddit.com 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-14T19:49:06-0800 - sethherr |
‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It LegitimatelyOne of my favorite things in all of professional sports is the unofficial holiday referred to as "Bobby Bonilla Day." The short version of it is that Bonilla played for the New York Mets decades ago and eventually bought out his contract in 2000 when they decided they were done with him. Rather than pay… 2025-11-13T20:11:00-0800 Techdirt 5,000 words Rated 2025-11-14T20:16:34-0800 - sethherr |
Her 12-year-old son was talking to Grok. It tried to get him to 'send nudes.'Farah Nasser was driving home in her Tesla with three young children when a conversation with Grok's AI assistant took an inappropriate turn. 2025-10-30T06:56:15-0700 USA TODAY Alyssa Goldberg 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-15T09:20:10-0800 - sethherr |
A Soiree into Symbols in RubyA Pythonista opens `irb` and looks at all the symbols in Ruby. Or so the joke begins. #ruby 2025-11-03T02:06:29-0800 Stonecharioteer on Tech 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-15T20:33:42-0800 - sethherr |
Behind the complaints: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.todaySome time ago, we were contacted by a group fighting against online CSAM, demanding that AdGuard DNS blocks the Archive.today website. This was only the beginning of a much larger story… 2025-11-13T00:43:34-0800 AdGuard Andrey Meshkov 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-15T20:41:43-0800 - sethherr |
Ticker: Don’t Die of Heart Diseaseby Jared Hecht (blog, linkedin, twitter) Ticker: Don’t Die of Heart Disease 9,000 words Rated 2025-11-16T14:38:12-0800 - sethherr |
Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles MostChildhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most: A new study upends conventional wisdom about how we relate to those closest to us. 2025-11-11T15:06:26-0800 Nautilus Kristen French 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-21T21:16:50-0800 - sethherr |
Pluralistic: Disney lost Roger Rabbit (18 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net 3,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T16:58:07-0800 - sethherr |
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With RealityRated 2025-12-13T16:58:35-0800 - sethherr |
Pluralistic: Google steers Americans looking for health care into “junk insurance” (25 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net 2,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T16:58:56-0800 - sethherr |
The national masculinity conversation continues to devolveRead to the end for a very annoying way to play "Dark Souls" #Politics #Technology 2025-10-24T11:10:42-0700 Garbage Day Ryan Broderick ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T16:59:36-0800 - sethherr |
Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worseWhat is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame? #Social Media 2025-11-24T18:47:20-0800 Platformer Casey Newton 3,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T16:59:51-0800 - sethherr |
Part 2: The Door Has OpenedA discussion on the real word has begun. It's about time 2025-11-30T10:13:40-0800 Yes, I give a fig... thoughts on markets from Michael Green Michael W. Green ($) 6,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T17:00:17-0800 - sethherr |
Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal EnergyIt used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland, Rivka Galchen writes. But new approaches may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution. 2025-11-17T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Rivka Galchen 4,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T17:00:30-0800 - sethherr |
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year. #Global Warming 2025-11-18T17:57:46-0800 The New York Times Cara Buckley, Annick Sjobakken ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T17:01:15-0800 - sethherr |
Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons and cupsYou know what they say in the world of products: fast, cheap, good; pick two. That's exactly my experience when trying to find the most suitable wood finish for my hand carved wooden spoons and cups. I got tired of trying to find something food-safe, without chemical smells and that doesn't take ages to cure. So I made my own. 2025-12-08T08:16:44-0800 alinpanaitiu.com 4,000 words Rated 2025-12-14T20:45:02-0800 - sethherr |
Deciding To Win – Toward A Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic PartyDeciding to Win aims to provide the most comprehensive account to date of why Democrats lost and what our party needs to do to win again. Deciding To Win – Toward A Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic Party 10,000 words Rated 2025-12-22T18:28:57-0800 - sethherr |
Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn’t Your EnemyI’ve been meaning to write a post about my perspective on Open Source and corporate entities. I already got the rough outline of it; however, I’m suffering from writer’s block, but more importantly, the whole post is a praise of how Shopify engages with Open Source communities. Hence, given the current climate, I don’t think I could publish it without addressing the elephant in the room first anyway. 2025-10-08T22:03:51-0700 byroot’s blog 4,000 words Rated 2025-12-25T06:15:32-0800 - sethherr |