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The Butlerian Jihad Has BegunShould we wage 'Holy War' against the Thinking Machines? 2026-5-28 2:55pm Syndekit Charles McBryde, Syndekit 3,000 words Rated 2026-6-8 3:50pm - sethherr |
CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOsIn the last three months I've had people forward me four separate examples of a CEO losing his or her mind over AI. What's been striking to me is the similarity in each case: It would be an "all hands" email in which the CEO talks up how amazing LLM tools are and saying that… 2026-6-9 11:11am Techdirt 5,000 words Rated 2026-6-9 9:22pm - sethherr |
Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for data center development — $10 gift became $10M for city government, with $30M tax expected over next decadeA solemn Texas deed ignored for profit. 2026-6-8 9:24am Tom's Hardware Mark Tyson 1,000 words Rated 2026-6-10 4:07pm - sethherr |
Incorruptible & SpotifyAs the story goes, at 23 years old, Daniel Ek had the fancy sports car, loads of money and was partying at the high end clubs in Stockholm. He was also completely miserable. 2026-6-4 4:15pm linkedin.com Brendan Marsh 3,000 words Rated 2026-6-10 7:09pm - sethherr |
What it feels like to work with MythosClaude Fable represents another big jump in AI 2026-6-9 10:11am One Useful Thing Ethan Mollick 2,000 words Rated 2026-6-10 7:44pm - sethherr |
Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponentialdarioamodei.com 6,000 words Rated 2026-6-12 10:05am - sethherr |
These Young Politicians Want to Fix America’s Housing ProblemsA cohort of young Millennial and Gen Z politicians have centered their campaigns this year on housing costs, and the divide is more generational than partisan. #Housing #Real Estate #US Politics 2026-6-11 2:00am The New York Times Kate Zernike ($) 2,000 words Rated 2026-6-12 10:33am - sethherr |
Congress Just Rushed Through a Disastrous Copyright Office OverhaulIn a voice vote earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6028, the “Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act.” The legislation is presented as a technical reorganization of some government agencies, but it’s much more than that. H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S.... 2026-6-10 3:54pm Electronic Frontier Foundation Joe Mullin 1,000 words Rated 2026-6-12 3:35pm - sethherr |
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcherAccording to the one person who actually read the research paper 2026-6-15 2:07pm The Register Jessica Lyons 2,000 words Rated 2026-6-16 5:56am - sethherr |
Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sicknessApple’s Vehicle Motion Cues promise tap into your device’s accelerometer and gyroscope to reduce or, in my case, even eliminate motion sickness. #Apple 2026-6-16 4:30am The Verge Thomas Ricker 500 words Rated 2026-6-16 10:56am - sethherr |
Calvin and Hobbes and the Price of IntegrityHow Bill Watterson Stuck to His Guns — and Vanished 2026-6-11 11:38am The Republic of Letters The Republic of Letters, Matthew Morgan 6,000 words Rated 2026-6-16 3:48pm - sethherr |
The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law CenterBob Moser writes on the Southern Poverty Law Center firing its co-founder and longtime mastermind Morris Dees, after years of allegations of sexual harassment and racial discrimination against him. #Marketing #Sexual Harassment 2019-3-21 8:05am The New Yorker Bob Moser 2,000 words Rated 2026-6-18 5:02pm - sethherr |
The AirPods Effect - The Escape with Markham HeidRated 2026-6-18 5:06pm - sethherr |
How Alberta eradicated ratsRats have conquered nearly every place on earth where humans live. Only Alberta soldiers on. #History 2026-6-15 5:19am Works in Progress wip-admin 3,000 words Rated 2026-6-18 5:07pm - sethherr |
Scaling Rails at Aura Frames: Splitting to 8 Primary DBs and Reaching #1 in the App Store📌 Overview Ruby on Rails has helped make it possible to scale out the database layer, meeting the demands of millions of Aura Frames customers enjoying their digital photo frames. In late 2025, the team added additional primary databases to expand capacity for peak write and read load ahead of Christmas Day, the busiest day of the year for the company. Rails manages queries and schema changes for each primary database within the same codebase, and now with the additional capacity of many... 2026-6-16 6:15am Software Engineer, Author, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails Andrew Atkinson 4,000 words Rated 2026-6-19 10:50pm - sethherr |
Hey, N00b, We Didn't Hire You to Complete TasksWelcome! 2026-5-15 6:35am Software Design: Tidy First? Kent Beck 1,000 words Rated 2026-6-19 10:55pm - sethherr |