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Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleftLast week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new… Hong Minhee on Things 2,000 words Rated 2026-4-8 5:11pm
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The AI water issue is fakeOn the national, local, and personal level 2025-10-11 12:29pm Andy Masley 15,000 words Rated 2026-4-1 7:38pm
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Vulnerability Research Is Cooked — Quarrelsomesockpuppet.org Quarrelsome 2,000 words Rated 2026-3-31 6:01pm
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The Cognitive Dark ForestThe open web with AIs is turning into a dark forest. #programming 2026-3-26 5:00pm ryelang.org Janko 1,000 words Rated 2026-3-29 7:30pm
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Opinion | I Saw Something New in San FranciscoRated 2026-3-29 5:23pm
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What It’s Like to Hike Thousands of Miles with ChildrenFamilies share the challenges and rewards of thru-hiking America's long trails with toddlers and young children. 2026-3-23 8:49pm Outside Online David Gleisner 3,000 words Rated 2026-3-29 9:06am
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How the Turner Twins Are Mythbusting Modern GearModern adventure apparel should outperform heritage gear, right? Well, the genetically identical Turner twins put this theory to the test... 2026-3-16 8:01pm Carryology Mike Knispel | Carryology Editor-in-Chief 2,000 words Rated 2026-3-23 10:04am
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The Los Angeles Aqueduct is Wild[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On the northern edge of Los Angeles, fresh water spills down two stark concrete chutes perched on the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, a place simply called The Cascades. It’s a deceptively simple-looking finish line: the Practical Engineering 3,000 words Rated 2026-3-23 10:03am
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Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone didThere's a lot more to replacing labor than just automating tasks 2026-3-10 3:29pm David Oks 5,000 words Rated 2026-3-12 5:01pm
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What Is a City When Its Wealthiest Leave? - WSJRated 2026-3-1 7:25pm
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How Hipsters Gave Us TrumpDonald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was powered by its embrace of the white working class. It also drew energy from its rejection of feminist conceits. While critics charged Trump... 2026-2-15 10:00pm First Things Matthew Schmitz 2,000 words Rated 2026-2-18 7:38pm
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Privilege is bad grammarWhen I got my first real job, I used to get so nervous about writing emails to my boss. I would run spellcheck, triple-check the grammar, read over it again ... Tadaima. 500 words Rated 2026-2-16 8:09pm
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Fraud Investigation is Believing Your Lying EyesThe financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are some observations for investigators with badges, press cards, or GoPros. 2026-2-6 9:13am Bits about Money Patrick McKenzie (patio11) 7,000 words Rated 2026-2-7 2:05pm
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Q&A: Cannabis usage in middle-aged, older adults linked to larger brain volume, better cognitive functionResearch studying the effects of cannabis on the brain has often focused on adolescents, but a new study from CU Anschutz researchers looks at population-level impacts of cannabis usage on the brain in older adults. The work is published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 2026-2-3 1:38pm Medical Xpress Matthew Hastings 2,000 words Rated 2026-2-4 6:42am
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Opinion | A Plan to Restore Trust in Science From a ‘Fringe Epidemiologist’Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public’s trust in the Covid era. Now it’s up to outsiders to restore it. #Donald Trump #US Politics 2026-1-29 2:05am The New York Times Ross Douthat, Sophia Alvarez Boyd ($) 10,000 words Rated 2026-1-29 8:31am
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Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, PM of CanadaCanadian PM Mark Carney stressed the end of the rules-based international order and urged middle powers to act together to counter the great power rivalry. 2026-1-20 11:17am World Economic Forum 3,000 words Rated 2026-1-21 8:33pm
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Don't fall into the anti-AI hype - <antirez>Rated 2026-1-16 7:24am
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The group chats that changed AmericaA loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right. 2025-4-27 3:23pm semafor.com Ben Smith 8,000 words Rated 2026-1-5 2:47pm
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Web browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups – Smoking on a Bikesmokingonabike.com 1,000 words Rated 2026-1-1 7:42am
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Why Everyone Loves JapanPart III of my book on the Japanese economy. 2025-12-26 1:09am Noahpinion Noah Smith 5,000 words Rated 2025-12-31 1:03pm
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Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like HallucinationsBetween traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom. Natural History Museum of Utah 2,000 words Rated 2025-12-27 4:04pm
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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. 2025-10-8 10:03pm byroot’s blog 4,000 words Rated 2025-12-25 6:15am
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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 2025-12-22 6:28pm
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RuBeeComputers Are Bad 4,000 words Rated 2025-12-13 5:02pm
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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 2025-11-18 5:57pm The New York Times Cara Buckley, Annick Sjobakken ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-12-13 5:01pm
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The national masculinity conversation continues to devolveRead to the end for a very annoying way to play "Dark Souls" #Politics #Technology 2025-10-24 11:10am Garbage Day Ryan Broderick ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-12-13 4:59pm
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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 2025-12-13 4:58pm
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The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organizationThe people who create software generally refer to themselves as software engineers, and yet if they graduate from university, it is typically with a degree in computer science. That has always felt a little strange to me, because science and engineering are two pretty different disciplines – yet ... Moxie Marlinspike 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-10 8:29pm
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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. 2025-11-3 4:00am Ars Technica Ashley Belanger 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-5 1:54pm
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Why I'm not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiascoWe are in the midst of a Ruby drama for the ages. I'm sure a bunch of people figured we were all too old for this shit, but apparently we are not. This debate… justin․searls․co https://justin.searls.co/about 3,000 words Rated 2025-10-9 10:03pm
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A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any sizeAnthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models anthropic.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-9 9:39pm
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How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer-- seangoedecke.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-4 2:08pm
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matduggan.comIt's JSON all the way down 2025-9-27 1:56am matduggan.com 3,000 words Rated 2025-9-28 8:42am
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Together: The Merb StoryI'll never forget the day that I became a member of the Rails core team. For all of 2008 (and the better part of 2007), I was working on a competitor to Ruby on Rails called Merb. I loved Merb, and was excited to share it with anyone who'd listen, so when I attended RailsConf in 2008, I signed up to give a nighttime Birds of a Feather session about Merb. To be honest, I expected only a handful of people to show up, but I was too excited to let that stop me. When the time for the... 2020-2-19 11:29am Katz Got Your Tongue Yehuda Katz 2,000 words Rated 2025-9-23 8:15pm
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In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs and other states are taking noticeForty-five Maine prisoners are currently working remote jobs for outside companies. A few are working full-time, earning more than corrections officers. One is making well into the six figures. Here's why Maine's approach to education and work in prison is making waves in the world of corrections. 2025-8-29 10:12am WMEH Susan Sharon 1,000 words Rated 2025-9-22 6:02pm
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Giving people money helped less than I thought it wouldEnding the war on poverty will take more than cash transfers 2025-8-19 3:00am The Argument Kelsey Piper 3,000 words Rated 2025-9-5 2:32pm
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Opinion | Why I Am Not a LiberalI don’t think the left grasps reality in all its fullness. #Poverty 2025-9-4 10:00pm The New York Times David Brooks ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-9-5 2:17pm
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A ton of AI images I've made that I've likedI think people with my aesthetic taste have been underrepresented in presentations of AI art. Here I try to change that. 2025-8-13 6:59pm The Weird Turn Pro Andy Masley 1,000 words Rated 2025-9-4 4:07pm
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Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit. 2025-9-3 8:01am Mike Judge 2,000 words Rated 2025-9-3 4:28pm
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Chicago’s lead pipe crisis, mappedChicago has the nation's highest concentration of lead pipes. We mapped them all. 2025-8-28 3:30am Grist Keerti Gopal, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Peter Aldhous, Clayton Aldern, ... 3,000 words Rated 2025-9-2 8:47pm
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Are OpenAI and Anthropic Really Losing Money on Inference?2025-8-26 5:00pm Martin Alderson 1,000 words Rated 2025-8-28 10:16am
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In Search Of AI PsychosisFolie a deux ex machina 2025-8-26 4:37am astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 25,000 words Rated 2025-8-26 4:53pm
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U.S. IntelThe U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable. 2025-8-26 3:00am Stratechery by Ben Thompson 3,000 words Rated 2025-8-26 8:00am
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The MVP is dead. Long live the RAT. | HackerNoonThere is a flaw at the heart of the term Minimum Viable Product: it’s not a product. It’s a way of testing whether you’ve found a problem worth solving. A way to reduce risk and quickly test your biggest assumption. Instead of building an MVP identify your Riskiest Assumption and Test it. Replacing your MVP with a RAT will save you a lot of pain. 2016-9-27 12:00am hackernoon.com Rik Higham 1,000 words Rated 2025-8-24 7:30pm
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Anubis.lock.cmpxchg8b.com Tavis Ormandy 2,000 words Rated 2025-8-20 8:18pm
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The Otherworldly Ambitions of R. F. KuangThe author of “Babel” and “Yellowface” is drawn to stories of striving. Her new fantasy novel, “Katabasis,” asks if graduate school is a kind of hell. 2025-8-18 3:00am The New Yorker Hua Hsu 5,000 words Rated 2025-8-20 10:36am
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Opinion | Abolish the Senate. End the Electoral College. Pack the Court.Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution. #Congress #Donald Trump #Elections 2025-8-14 2:02am The New York Times Ross Douthat, Sophia Alvarez Boyd, Raina Raskin ($) 20,000 words Rated 2025-8-14 7:51pm
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Is everyone ok at the gembaisland94.org 2,000 words Rated 2025-8-10 10:56am
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Substack promotes a Nazinewsletters.feedbinusercontent.com 500 words Rated 2025-8-8 9:09pm
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What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English ClassroomMy students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on t… 2025-7-28 4:59am Literary Hub 6,000 words Rated 2025-8-7 9:49pm
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