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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
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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
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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
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The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan WattsChina is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock 2026-5-17 6:00am The Guardian Jonathan Watts 5,000 words Rated 2026-5-18 1:23pm - sethherr
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Adopting Herb at GitHub - Joel HawksleyWe've spent the past few months integrating Herb into the GitHub.com monolith. It caught numerous bugs missed by our existing tooling and allowed us to migrate off the effectively-archived erb_lint, but a key performance blocker remains. In this talk, I'll share how you can see similar benefits in your codebase today and help improve the project ahead of its 1.0 release. hawksley.org Joel Hawksley 2,000 words Rated 2026-5-14 8:59pm - sethherr
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The Missing Bundler FeaturesOver the last few months, there has been a lot of talk about making Bundler faster, both by improving it directly, or by reimplementing it in another language, and while it may surprise some, that didn’t excite me much. 2026-4-19 5:03pm byroot’s blog 2,000 words Rated 2026-5-13 5:21pm - sethherr
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Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d likeI recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit’s High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my … Simon Willison’s Weblog Simon Willison 2,000 words Rated 2026-5-7 7:34am - sethherr
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Appearing Productive in The WorkplaceAI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace. 2026-5-6 11:00am No One's Happy 2,000 words Rated 2026-5-6 4:21pm - sethherr
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The Story of Art + WaterFor fifteen years or so, I’d been kicking around the idea of resurrecting the artist-apprentice model that reigned in the art world for hundreds of years. Ag... 2026-4-11 4:16am McSweeney's Internet Tendency Dave Eggers 4,000 words Rated 2026-4-21 4:18pm - sethherr
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The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go From Here?Rated 2026-4-16 7:13pm - sethherr
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Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.In 2025, Google gave Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement. 2026-4-14 9:01am Electronic Frontier Foundation Guest Author 1,000 words Rated 2026-4-16 6:16am - sethherr
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The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable. ergosphere.blog 4,000 words Rated 2026-4-5 6:14am - sethherr
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Fake Fansinto the digital marketing agency that creates your music taste 2026-3-31 7:01pm words from eliza eliza mclamb 3,000 words Rated 2026-4-3 8:21pm - sethherr
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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 - sethherr
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Thoughts on slowing the fuck downThoughts on slowing the fuck down mariozechner.at 2,000 words Rated 2026-3-25 6:44pm - sethherr
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“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri GoldSam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software at Tavus. Previously at Patina Systems and Lickability. samhenri.gold 1,000 words Rated 2026-3-13 9:59am - sethherr
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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 - sethherr
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ClawedOn Anthropic and the Department of War 2026-3-2 4:21am Hyperdimensional Dean W. Ball 4,000 words Rated 2026-3-5 6:09pm - sethherr
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Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the EconomyCalifornia Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged Amazon led a price-fixing conspiracy of online retailers to inflate prices across the entire economy. And he's demanding an immediate halt. 2026-2-24 3:55pm BIG by Matt Stoller Matt Stoller 2,000 words Rated 2026-2-24 9:42pm - sethherr
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Israeli Soldiers Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 Massacre: ReportA minute-by-minute reconstruction of the massacre by Earshot and Forensic Architecture found Israeli soldiers fired over 900 bullets at the aid workers, killing 15. 2026-2-23 4:02am Drop Site News Sharif Abdel Kouddous 4,000 words Rated 2026-2-24 8:02pm - sethherr
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Higher-crime areas are safer - by Aaron ZingerRated 2026-2-24 5:02pm - sethherr
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We installed a single turnstile to feel secureAfter the acquisition by a much larger company, security became a top priority. Our company occupied three tall buildings, each at least 13 stories high. Key card readers were installed next to every Ibrahim Diallo Blog 1,000 words Rated 2026-2-24 10:12am - sethherr
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Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's WeblogSimon Willison’s Weblog Simon Willison 1,000 words Rated 2026-2-23 8:41pm - sethherr
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TOP REPORT: Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony.WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following report on the eve of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in the social media addiction trials. The report analyzes Zuckerberg’s testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2024 against newly unsealed documents that show Zuckerberg lied and deceived the Committee. The Tech Oversight Project has compiled some of the most damning evidence against Meta on our Big Tech on Trial microsite, which will be updated throug 2026-2-17 8:44pm The Dispatch The Tech Oversight Project 2,000 words Rated 2026-2-18 7:25am - sethherr
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I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has ChangedI still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things 2026-2-9 11:30pm James Randall 2,000 words Rated 2026-2-10 4:13pm - sethherr
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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 - sethherr
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Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair - @theUResearchers analyzed samples of Utahns' hair going back a century to document a 100-fold decrease in lead concentrations. attheu.utah.edu 1,000 words Rated 2026-2-2 7:34pm - sethherr
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Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at ScaleOn agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code maggieappleton.com 5,000 words Rated 2026-1-23 9:02pm - sethherr
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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 - sethherr
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I'm addicted to being usefulseangoedecke.com 1,000 words Rated 2026-1-20 7:18pm - sethherr
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Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS NewsA Profile of the new editor-in-chief, covering her previous work at the Times and The Free Press and her work and relationships with Larry and David Ellison, Donald Trump, Sharyn Alfonsi, and Tony Dokoupil. #Profile 2026-1-19 3:00am The New Yorker Clare Malone 8,000 words Rated 2026-1-19 11:12pm - sethherr
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Don't fall into the anti-AI hype - <antirez>Rated 2026-1-16 7:24am - sethherr
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21 Lessons From 14 Years at GoogleLessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code. addyosmani.com Addy Osmani 2,000 words Rated 2026-1-4 7:57pm - sethherr
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How We Lost Communication to EntertainmentHow We Lost Communication to Entertainment par Ploum - Lionel Dricot. ploum.net 2,000 words Rated 2025-12-28 9:15am - sethherr
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Moving from an orchestration-heavy to leadership-heavy management role.For managers who have spent a long time reporting to a specific leader or working in an organization with well‑understood goals, it’s easy to develop skill gaps without realizing it. Usually this happens because those skills were not particularly important in the environment you grew up in. You may become extremely confident in your existing skills, enter a new organization that requires a different mix of competencies, and promptly fall on your face. 2025-7-19 4:00am Irrational Exuberance 1,000 words Rated 2025-12-26 9:17am - sethherr
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The Struggle to Crack Down on a Cottage Industry Sabotaging Vehicle Pollution Controls - FairWarningRated 2025-12-25 6:18am - sethherr
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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 - sethherr
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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. 2025-11-17 3:00am The New Yorker Rivka Galchen 4,000 words Rated 2025-12-13 5:00pm - sethherr
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Part 2: The Door Has OpenedA discussion on the real word has begun. It's about time 2025-11-30 10:13am Yes, I give a fig... thoughts on markets from Michael Green Michael W. Green ($) 6,000 words Rated 2025-12-13 5:00pm - sethherr
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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 - sethherr
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Pluralistic: Disney lost Roger Rabbit (18 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net 3,000 words Rated 2025-12-13 4:58pm - sethherr
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Where Do the Children Play?On the need for a world without us 2025-11-6 2:46pm Unpublishable Papers Eli Stark-Elster 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-17 2:21pm - sethherr
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The Trump Halo Memes Aren't Supposed To Make SenseThere’s a theory that started on Bluesky a month ago from composer Patrick Cosmos that everyone in the US government is 12 now. Cosmos goes on to show how all the dumb shit we’re currently living through, and which boggles the minds of regular people, makes total sense if you imagine it was conjured up by the brain of a pre-teen. I had a little laugh at this theory but didn’t think about it too seriously until this weekend, when several government social media accounts got really into Halo. How #Donald Trump #Politics #Twitter 2025-10-27 12:44pm Aftermath Riley MacLeod 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-15 9:15am - sethherr
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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 - sethherr
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I Want You to Understand ChicagoRated 2025-11-10 7:51pm - sethherr
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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… 2025-11-6 4:20pm Preston Byrne 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-8 4:38pm - sethherr
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What Hallucinogens Will Make You See8 ways psychedelics distort our vision. 2023-6-1 5:56pm Nautilus Kristen French 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-8 4:21pm - sethherr
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The right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings. But they don’t understand it.The bizarre conservative misunderstanding of The Lord of the Rings, explained. #Elon Musk #Peter Thiel 2025-10-31 8:20am Yahoo News Constance Grady 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-6 8:11pm - sethherr
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Why Solarpunk is already happening in AfricaOr: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past 2025-11-4 8:06am Climate Drift Skander Garroum 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-5 1:42pm - sethherr
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Ruby And Its Neighbors: Smalltalk – Noel Rappin Writes HereI just write here noelrappin.com Noel Rappin 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-5 12:18pm - sethherr
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