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Inverted Passion

Why frontier labs are scaling-pilled Investors underwrite scaling laws because the alternative (having an Einstein discover better...

5 hours ago

Investors underwrite scaling laws because the alternative (having an Einstein discover better algorithms) is high variance What would it take to make progress towards general intelligence, where general stands for any problem that might arise in our world? Since our world is big...

Andrew Fraknoi –...

“I Swallowed a Martian” and Water on Mars The history of water on Mars allows us to wonder if the planet ever had life. The post “I Swallowed...

8 hours ago

The history of water on Mars allows us to wonder if the planet ever had life. The post “I Swallowed a Martian” and Water on Mars appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.

Jordan Eldredge's...

Talk: React Server Components Vs. GraphQL Sharing the video of the talk I gave at GraphQL Conf. 2026 about the fundamentals underlying GraphQL...

10 hours ago

Sharing the video of the talk I gave at GraphQL Conf. 2026 about the fundamentals underlying GraphQL and React Server Components and they ways in which they compete and compose

Naz Hamid • Journal

Write Like a Human Collaborative writing is rewarding. In the past few months, I’ve been writing a lot. Not as much...

14 hours ago

Collaborative writing is rewarding. In the past few months, I’ve been writing a lot. Not as much here, but for Aphera. Between our newsletter, blog, direct email feedback, and social media networks, I might spin up a draft and then bounce it off Ryan and Juan, or we volley it...

Transit Maps

New Official Map: İzmir Metro, Türkiye by Evgeny Katyshev Submitted by Evgeny, who simply says: The new map of Izmir rapid transit I designed has been adopted...

20 hours ago

Submitted by Evgeny, who simply says: The new map of Izmir rapid transit I designed has been adopted as official one. Transit Maps says: Congratulations on this lovely little diagram becoming “official,” Evgeny! There’s a lot to like about it, especially the intelligent use of a...

Jamesin’s Substack

Some areas we've been investing in - I get asked all the time what we’ve been investing in and areas we’re excited about - so I thought...

22 hours ago

I get asked all the time what we’ve been investing in and areas we’re excited about - so I thought I’d write down some thoughts -

Paolo Amoroso's...

Early simulations with GravityLoops <![CDATA[GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS, can finally show something on...

yesterday

<![CDATA[GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS, can finally show something on the screen. The program now animates a body of mass like the Moon interacting under gravity with a body of mass like the Earth. The dots in the simulation window here are the bodies...

anderegg.ca

An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I...

2 days ago

I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded to CS5 in 2010. I subscribed to Photoshop Creative Cloud on day one. Today, I uninstalled it. I hope I never have to use...

Global Inequality...

A self-absorbed giant Dearth of Chinese lessons for the rest of the world

2 days ago

Dearth of Chinese lessons for the rest of the world

A Beautiful Site

Software Has Changed A tweet from Jamon Holmgren inspired some thoughts about how software has changed, from a...

2 days ago

A tweet from Jamon Holmgren inspired some thoughts about how software has changed, from a developer's perspective. He says: I've been spending a lot of time talking to experienced software engineers lately and when you get in a 1:1 candid conversation, everyone is rather...

seated.ro

You fail to learn if you don't learn to fail If all your time is spent watching output tokens, where do your input tokens come from? Letting an...

2 days ago

If all your time is spent watching output tokens, where do your input tokens come from? Letting an agent rip on full auto is basically doom scrolling. Even worse if you're doom scrolling while the agent runs. We humans love frying our dopamine receptors. This feels great until...

Craig Mod — Writer +...

[RIDGELINE] Kazunori Hamana in Apartamento Ridgeline subscribers — Man, it was fun talking with Kazunori Hamana back in January. He’s lived a...

2 days ago

Ridgeline subscribers — Man, it was fun talking with Kazunori Hamana back in January. He’s lived a bizarre life, seemingly one without a roadmap, though I suspect his laid-back, subtly-goatee’d vibes belie a cunning streak. He was welcoming and rough-edged in a disarming way. He...

Spoon & Tamago

FamilyMart’s New Hipster ‘FAMIMA’ Reimagines What a Conbini Can Be For decades, Japan’s convenience stores have been admired for, well, their convenience. By being...

3 days ago

For decades, Japan’s convenience stores have been admired for, well, their convenience. By being sweetly attuned to utilitarian consumer needs, the ubiquitous 24/7 conbini has spread across Japan, achieving an unparalleled density that is perhaps second only to vending machines....

Ian Betteridge

Ten Blue Links, “this one’s for you, Ian” edition One of my favourite people on social media is Darth. Darth takes an annual hibernation, in which...

3 days ago

One of my favourite people on social media is Darth. Darth takes an annual hibernation, in which time they do not post or, presumably, read. I’d love to say that I have not posted anything for months with the same level of intention, but alas not. It just&

Irrational...

Make no assumptions. I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the concept of “soil horizons”, which is the idea that there...

3 days ago

I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the concept of “soil horizons”, which is the idea that there are many distinct layers of soil, from topsoil all the way down to bedrock, which all combine into a soil horizon. Translating this idea into software, the ideal codebase would...

Justin Jackson

The value of software in a Fable world What happens to the price of software when everyone's building software?

3 days ago

What happens to the price of software when everyone's building software?

the singularity is...

AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard...

3 days ago

I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard takeoff AI is coming. Then I joined the real world and actually tried to do things. At comma, we ship a hardware product of similar complexity to a cell phone, and it’s really...

Bryan Braun - Blog

You are not your grand plans “You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.” I love this quote from James Clear...

3 days ago

“You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.” I love this quote from James Clear because it hurts me in all the right ways. At my worst, I feel like my daily patterns are at war with my grand plans. When I’m fighting a daily battle and willpower is slipping, I need...

Evan Hahn (dot com)

Prefer STRICT tables in SQLite In short: I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as...

3 days ago

In short: I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as putting text in number columns. SQLite has a feature that I think is underrated: strict tables. Strict tables help enforce rigid typing, preventing mistakes like putting text into...

The Universe of...

Starting to understand epsilon-zero This post is going to be about what infinite ordinal numbers are, and about is in particular. I...

4 days ago

This post is going to be about what infinite ordinal numbers are, and about is in particular. I had a brainwave a while back (18 months now, wow, I have definitely not been blogging enough) and suddenly understood much better than I did before. I have several related ideas...

Allen Pike

The Persistent Gravity of Cross Platform This week’s discussion of the ChatGPT app and its move to Electron merits a link to my evergreen...

4 days ago

This week’s discussion of the ChatGPT app and its move to Electron merits a link to my evergreen article The Persistent Gravity of Cross Platform: At the highest level, cross-platform UI technologies prioritize coordinated featurefulness over polished simplicity. I’ve added a...

Jorge Arango

After Forty Years, Still No Silver Bullet Forty years ago, computer scientist Fred Brooks published a paper called No Silver Bullet: Essence...

4 days ago

Forty years ago, computer scientist Fred Brooks published a paper called No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accident in Software Engineering. As its title implies, the paper argues there are no technological shortcuts to making software radically easier, simpler, or more reliable. You...

Miguel Carranza

The Dopamine Problem Every New Manager Face I recently wrote an internal Management 101 guide for new RevenueCat managers. It is not meant to be...

4 days ago

I recently wrote an internal Management 101 guide for new RevenueCat managers. It is not meant to be a universal management guide. Most universal management advice is either too vague to be useful or too generic to survive contact with a real company. My goal was simpler: explain...

TokyoDev

Dealing with Pathological Anxiety in Japan My honest opinion is that very few things in one’s life can be as fulfilling as living abroad. The...

4 days ago

My honest opinion is that very few things in one’s life can be as fulfilling as living abroad. The opportunity to break away from my comfort zone, brave new horizons, and immerse myself in new cultures has probably been the greatest joy I’ve found during my time on this Earth....

AI as Normal...

Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place

5 days ago

Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place

Essays - Benedict...

Ways to think about token pricing AI is in a supply crunch today, but what happens when we come out of it? How and where will...

5 days ago

AI is in a supply crunch today, but what happens when we come out of it? How and where will supply, demand, price, capacity and capex get back into equilibrium? Today, model labs can name their price, but why won’t they end up as low-margin commodity infrastructure?

Isabel Unraveled

The life-changing magic of asking for help Strangely feel like I’m just learning this one!

5 days ago

Strangely feel like I’m just learning this one!

Farnam Street

The Best Summary of Atlas Shrugged A brief, no-fluff, summary of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. If you want to learn how capitalist...

5 days ago

A brief, no-fluff, summary of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. If you want to learn how capitalist countries become socialist, this book will help you. Let’s dive in. Atlas Shrugged: The Simple Version The world depends on a relatively small number of people who build, invent, and...

Handprinted - Blog

Meet the Maker: Sam Marshall I'm Sam Marshall, an artist, printmaker, author and creative coach based in rural Northamptonshire....

5 days ago

I'm Sam Marshall, an artist, printmaker, author and creative coach based in rural Northamptonshire. My work centres around drawing and printmaking, particularly linocut and etching, and alongside my own practice I teach workshops both from my studio and online to students around...

./techtipsy

The 'free' server build Man takes old computer, turns it into a home server again. Man happy.

5 days ago

Man takes old computer, turns it into a home server again. Man happy.

bookbear express

easy Hilma af Klint, Eros, Group II, No.

5 days ago

Hilma af Klint, Eros, Group II, No.

Ollama

Ollama: all aboard open models Serving 8.9 million developers, Ollama has raised $88M from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, and...

5 days ago

Serving 8.9 million developers, Ollama has raised $88M from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, and many incredible angel investors.

Balancing Act

Sanitized Slop Startup launch videos have become sanitized slop. A VC on why polish stopped working, what the box...

6 days ago

Startup launch videos have become sanitized slop. A VC on why polish stopped working, what the box office proves, and what actually earns attention.

Basta’s Notes

AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.

6 days ago

When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.

Build In Public...

AI Is Single-Player. Your Work Isn't. Meet Ogment: the AI coworker your whole team shares. Lives in Slack. Compounds daily.

6 days ago

Meet Ogment: the AI coworker your whole team shares. Lives in Slack. Compounds daily.

Giles' blog

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 34b -- from bigrams to GPT-2, one component at a time (in JAX) This post is the capstone of the most long-running series on my blog. In December 2024 (!), I...

6 days ago

This post is the capstone of the most long-running series on my blog. In December 2024 (!), I started reading Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)", and worked through it carefully. Being who I am, despite trying to apply a strict "no side...

Damn Interesting

A Possible Future A Possible Future: Alan Bellows here, founder of Damn Interesting. For the better part of twenty...

6 days ago

A Possible Future: Alan Bellows here, founder of Damn Interesting. For the better part of twenty years, I kept this project afloat by working part-time engineering jobs to pay the bills, and spending the other halves of my work days researching, writing, editing, and podcasting....

AI for Software...

Striving for Greatness in All You Do Why Dr. Richard W. Hamming's short essay applies to engineering just as much as it does to research

6 days ago

Why Dr. Richard W. Hamming's short essay applies to engineering just as much as it does to research

MIT News - Civil and...

MIT engineers whip up a more breathable hydrogel The new aerated material could enable longer-lasting bandages, implants, and wearable sensors.

6 days ago

The new aerated material could enable longer-lasting bandages, implants, and wearable sensors.

WHAT'S ANU

🟢 TREND RADAR #19 :: NATURE DRIVERS Adaptation under pressure

6 days ago

Adaptation under pressure

Blog System/5

Autoconf’s revenge: ad-hoc shell templates How to leverage an old dirty trick in your Bazel wrapper for great effect

6 days ago

How to leverage an old dirty trick in your Bazel wrapper for great effect

Jeff Geerling

The Special Value Pi 4 was extremely short-lived The 'Special Value' Pi 4 pictured above is probably the rarest Raspberry Pi I own—even rarer than my...

6 days ago

The 'Special Value' Pi 4 pictured above is probably the rarest Raspberry Pi I own—even rarer than my blue special edition Pi. A Raspberry Pi reseller briefly listed a special 'value edition' Pi 4. But the product page 404's now. While it was up, my curiosity got the better of me,...

The Convivial...

Feeding on Illusions The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 7

6 days ago

The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 7

CrimethInc.

Manufactured Betrayal : A Statement from Fire Ant Movement Defense on Solidarity and Betrayal in the... On July 4, 2025, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention...

a week ago

On July 4, 2025, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention Center, a facility serving Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At the conclusion of the demonstration, a participant named Benjamin Song saw a police officer aim a gun at a...

Hyphen Nation

Neela Montgomery Former CEO of Crate and Barrel and President of CVS Pharmacy

a week ago

Former CEO of Crate and Barrel and President of CVS Pharmacy

Blog - Practical...

The Bizarre Flaw in the New Orleans Levees [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] What happened in New Orleans...

a week ago

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] What happened in New Orleans in August 2005 wasn’t a natural disaster. Don’t get me wrong; Hurricane Katrina was a big storm. By many measures it was one of the strongest hurricanes to ever crash into a United...

Christian Selig

I have thoughts on the iPhone Air Hard to believe, but it’s been over 9 months since the current crop of iPhones came out, and I...

a week ago

Hard to believe, but it’s been over 9 months since the current crop of iPhones came out, and I elected to grab the (apparently not super popular) iPhone Air, a new model of iPhone introduced for the first time. Rumor season for the new iPhones is in full swing, so it seemed like...

Passing Time

Alaska Range 2026 Running the three-man in the Land of the Midnight Sun

a week ago

Running the three-man in the Land of the Midnight Sun

Hidden History

The First Trip Around the World Ferdinand Magellan is usually given credit for making the first circumnavigation of the globe, but...

a week ago

Ferdinand Magellan is usually given credit for making the first circumnavigation of the globe, but in fact he was killed halfway through the trip and never made it. . Juan Sebastian Elcano, photo from Wiki Commons When the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set sail for the...

The Elysian

Another step toward becoming reader-owned media A bunch of business updates and a request for your feedback.

a week ago

A bunch of business updates and a request for your feedback.

Stratechery by Ben...

A Script for Mark Zuckerberg A script for what Mark Zuckerberg should say on Meta's next earnings call.

a week ago

A script for what Mark Zuckerberg should say on Meta's next earnings call.

The Quanta Podcast

Will We Ever Be Able To Forecast Volcanic Eruptions Like Weather? Volcano forecasting can save countless lives. But most of the time warnings are more like educated...

a week ago

Volcano forecasting can save countless lives. But most of the time warnings are more like educated guesses. How close are we to forecasting volcano behavior the way we forecast the weather? On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, host Hannah Waters speaks with writer and volcano...

Butler's Log

Agentic Version Control Benchmarks Which version-control tool should you give your coding agent? We pit Git, Jujutsu and GitButler...

a week ago

Which version-control tool should you give your coding agent? We pit Git, Jujutsu and GitButler against each other in a fight to the death

The AI Underwriter

Cleaned out my phone browser tabs, July 6 edition ...so I can add more browser tabs to read later...so I can work longer...so I can make more...

a week ago

...so I can add more browser tabs to read later...so I can work longer...so I can make more...

Scarlet Ink

If You Can't Be Replaced You Can't Be Promoted. Career Growth Through Succession Planning. Career growth, delegation, and succession planning are all siblings.

a week ago

Career growth, delegation, and succession planning are all siblings.

Ed Zitron's Where's...

Premium: The Hater's Guide To SoftBank Soundtrack: Ozzy Osbourne — Mr. Crowley A lot of people have been making a lot of fun of the...

a week ago

Soundtrack: Ozzy Osbourne — Mr. Crowley A lot of people have been making a lot of fun of the SoftBank 46th annual shareholder meeting and Masayoshi Son’s (to quote Bryce Elder of the Financial Times) Untethered Goose Game, specifically referring to slides that, well, looked like...

General Robots

Vibe-Cadding It turns out that current models are pretty good at writing code to generate cad (3D objects).

a week ago

It turns out that current models are pretty good at writing code to generate cad (3D objects).

Josh Comeau's blog

Getting Started with Anchor Positioning For decades, one of the most notoriously-challenging problems on the web has been sticking one...

a week ago

For decades, one of the most notoriously-challenging problems on the web has been sticking one element to another element, for things like tooltips and nested menus. The CSSWG has decided to provide a first-class solution to this problem, and it’s pretty friggin’ cool! In this...

nanoscale views

OMB proposed rule changes - act now For non-US folks, feel free to skip.  For US folks:  The Office of Management and Budget, which for...

a week ago

For non-US folks, feel free to skip.  For US folks:  The Office of Management and Budget, which for much of its history has been a comparatively uncontroversial element of the executive branch, has set rules and guidelines for how many executive-branch agencies conduct business...

Sean Carroll

360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass Modern life has, in many ways, removed us from the environments in which our ancestors lived and...

a week ago

Modern life has, in many ways, removed us from the environments in which our ancestors lived and adapted. Not only […]

Sean Carroll

360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass Modern life has, in many ways, removed us from the environments in which our ancestors lived and...

a week ago

Modern life has, in many ways, removed us from the environments in which our ancestors lived and adapted. Not only […]

UX Collective

Figma just made your design system debt everyone’s problem Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

a week ago

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

Software and Tech...

Amazon Basics, but for intellectual property. Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single...

a week ago

Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single time they denied any wrongdoing. A merchant, or anyone really, can create a product (or source it from China), then resell it on amazon. Amazon is the service provider, and hosts...

Better than Random

An empty dance floor Awkwardness kills data-driven decision making

a week ago

Awkwardness kills data-driven decision making

Awkward Zombie

Awkward Zombie - Pour Over New comic! Today's News: I do love an investigation-type game where secrets are revealed by...

a week ago

New comic! Today's News: I do love an investigation-type game where secrets are revealed by rotating a 3D model of a clue, but there are some objects that I should not be permitted to rotate.

DYNOMIGHT

Life with hazard ratios If you read anything about health or longevity, you’ll soon find yourself in a world of hazard...

a week ago

If you read anything about health or longevity, you’ll soon find yourself in a world of hazard ratios. Some study might say that eating more fiber might change your risk of dying by a factor of HR = 0.90. Another might say that occasional smoking might change it by HR = 1.30. But...

Eric Migicovsky's...

How to build a PostHog integration with the provisioning API I live on a little farm and recently built a website to sell shares of hogs. My fellow farmers are...

a week ago

I live on a little farm and recently built a website to sell shares of hogs. My fellow farmers are better versed in the subtle arts of soil, plants…

lcamtuf’s thing

Cursed circuits: capacitance multiplier Capacitor vendors don't want you to know this! Save money on capacitors by spending more on other...

a week ago

Capacitor vendors don't want you to know this! Save money on capacitors by spending more on other components

Obsolete Sony’s...

The End of PlayStation Discs Why physical media is ending on PlayStation, and why the answer is more complicated than the...

a week ago

Why physical media is ending on PlayStation, and why the answer is more complicated than the backlash suggests.

Liz Denys

Lilypad mini quilt While on a short road trip and then recovering from surgery, I hand quilted and hand embroidered a...

a week ago

While on a short road trip and then recovering from surgery, I hand quilted and hand embroidered a linen lilypad quilt. And yes, I did make this little quilt for my Frinos plush from Hades II to have a nice place to rest.

African History...

A History of Agadez: The Desert city of Aïr (1400-1900) Journal of African Cities: chapter 21

a week ago

Journal of African Cities: chapter 21

Benny Kuriakose

Job Opportunities at Benny Kuriakose and Associates in 2026 Every month, we receive a large number of applications for job positions and internships. Most of...

a week ago

Every month, we receive a large number of applications for job positions and internships. Most of them sent the application three or more times, sometimes even more. With so many colleges, this will be the case with most of the firms. Many aspirants are keen on joining the...

Anarchy Unfolds

Poetry in Pieces Hi readers, this post is something a bit different.

a week ago

Hi readers, this post is something a bit different.

Matt Mullenweg

USA 250 This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he...

a week ago

This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he became a US citizen in 2013. On a globe, America is a landmass, a country. In an immigrant’s heart it is a belief that future is almost always better. It may not be perfect and it...

swyx's site RSS Feed

What America has meant to me Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given...

a week ago

Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given up on me.

GeoCurrents

The Misleading Concept of the “Global South” Dividing the terrestrial world into the “Global North” and the “Global South” is becoming...

a week ago

Dividing the terrestrial world into the “Global North” and the “Global South” is becoming increasingly common. Simple versions of this “two worlds” model have a relatively clean north/south division, with only Australia and New Zealand falling out of place as southern outliers of...

CHM

Protected: A Giant Leap – How AI Is Transforming Healthcare There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: A Giant Leap – How AI Is...

a week ago

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: A Giant Leap – How AI Is Transforming Healthcare appeared first on CHM.

weird medieval guys

Ranking medieval plague cures Number 4 may surprise you!

a week ago

Number 4 may surprise you!

Both Are True

The worst country in the world Besides all the other ones

a week ago

Besides all the other ones

Salish Wolf

#88 Martin Birk on Project Quiver Martin Birk is a bowyer based in Bornholm, Denmark, an island in the Baltic Sea, where he also...

a week ago

Martin Birk is a bowyer based in Bornholm, Denmark, an island in the Baltic Sea, where he also teaches archery. He carves bows under the brand of Birk Bows and is known on social media as the Scandinavian Archer.

Johnathan Bi:...

Transcript for Lecture on Tocqueville's Industrial Aristocracy My lecture celebrating America's 250th anniversary

a week ago

My lecture celebrating America's 250th anniversary

The Ruffian

Notes on Acquired Taste Why Do We Make an Effort To Like Things?

a week ago

Why Do We Make an Effort To Like Things?

A Collection of...

Collections: On the Declaration of Independence Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to...

a week ago

Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States. This is going to be a bit more of an open musing than an argument as compared to previous years (2021, 2022, 2023, … Continue...

Armin Ronacher's...

Better Models: Worse Tools A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is...

a week ago

A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in the nested edits[] array. And not Haiku or some small model: Opus 4.8. The edit itself is...

computers are bad

megawatts by microwave In 1914 the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, investigated the...

a week ago

In 1914 the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, investigated the possibilities of developing the Columbia River. Thousands of arid but potentially fertile acres needed only water to become the Imperial Valley of the Northwest. Locked in the mountain...

Dreams of Space -...

Buster Brown Goes to Mars (1958) This comic is a promotional comic from Buster Brown shoes. If you went into a shoe store and tried...

a week ago

This comic is a promotional comic from Buster Brown shoes. If you went into a shoe store and tried on Buster Brown shoes you would get a comic book with the name of the store stamped/printed on it. Buster Brown  (and his dog Tag) were a feature of 1950s and 1960s shoe store. In...

benn.substack

To weigh a watermelon There are many frontiers.

a week ago

There are many frontiers.

The Perry Bible...

Big Fish The post Big Fish appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.

a week ago

The post Big Fish appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.

High Signal

Postiz startup tips💰 Some cool build in public thoughts from the founder of Postiz here who is doing $145k MRR right now.

a week ago

Some cool build in public thoughts from the founder of Postiz here who is doing $145k MRR right now.

I am BARRY HESS

We have collectively been recovering from a physically... We have collectively been recovering from a physically and emotionally draining two weeks of...

a week ago

We have collectively been recovering from a physically and emotionally draining two weeks of marching band. We all were caught napping at some point throughout the early days of this week! It’s been nice to have activities wind down this week, and we’ll have a bit of relaxation...

alexwlchan

I don’t want to repeat repeat myself Yesterday at work, a customer spotted a typo in our UI: “you can use the use the Tailscale...

a week ago

Yesterday at work, a customer spotted a typo in our UI: “you can use the use the Tailscale CLI”. After the typo was fixed, I wanted to find other cases of accidentally repeated words or phrases. I used two regular expressions to search every codebase for unnecessary...

NeuroLogica Blog

Hydrogen Tech I often get questions like the one below: “I live part time in Japan. Everyone sees hydrogen powered...

a week ago

I often get questions like the one below: “I live part time in Japan. Everyone sees hydrogen powered generators, trains, trucks, etc regularly. High density population means it’s easy to get enough synergy to justify the infrastructure. So sad we aren’t doing more to utilize this...

Weighty Thoughts

America Turns 250. Its Biggest Companies Never Do—And That's Great! AI is speeding up business turnover, which is exactly what the US is optimized for

a week ago

AI is speeding up business turnover, which is exactly what the US is optimized for

TASTE

This Is TASTE 801: We Went to the Summer Fancy Food Show. We Have Notes. The Specialty Food Association's Summer Fancy Food Show is where the next year of grocery shelves...

a week ago

The Specialty Food Association's Summer Fancy Food Show is where the next year of grocery shelves gets decided The post This Is TASTE 801: We Went to the Summer Fancy Food Show. We Have Notes. appeared first on TASTE.

Construction Physics

The Fall and Rise of Screwworm Every spring, as sure as the seasons, and for generations unknown, screwworms began their annual...

a week ago

Every spring, as sure as the seasons, and for generations unknown, screwworms began their annual march northward from their overwintering sanctuaries in Mexico and South Texas.

Can We Still Govern?

One Year On from the One Big Beautiful Bill: Separating Fact from Trump’s Medicaid Fictions

a week ago

Separating Fact from Trump’s Medicaid Fictions

Building Optimism

Finding The Best Place To Build in America Surprisingly few places are suited to this task, and why "Number Three Will Shock You!!"

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes...

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For those of us concerned with the Crescent City’s survival, we must finally acknowledge a startling reality: New Orleans can be saved only if it first accepts that it might not be.

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Another day, another urgent pronouncement on the need to transition to post-quantum cryptography ASAP: this one from the White House, in the form of an Executive Order requiring certain “high value” systems to transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) by the end of 2030 (for...

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Summary: Halfway through 2026, AI is evolving faster than expected, but usability is struggling to keep pace.

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One of the absolutely coolest features of Kidz Fun Art is the ability to create Animations. This was initially inspired by watching my nieces creating an animation on another Android app, so I focused purely on the creation case. This worked well, where most animations were...

Map of the Week

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Semiquincentennial is a mouthful. So much that my spell check doesn’t believe it’s a word. The Bicentennial, which I’m old enough to remember well was easier to pronounce, and celebrate. I won’t make any grand statements, instead here are some fun, interesting or alternative maps...

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In April, the Godot foundation organized a conference close to their home base: GodotCon Amsterdam. It was a good occasion for us to showcase Paradox Tower and get some beta feedback from other developers. Most importantly it was two entire days of talks about game development in...

Flashbak

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‘First thing that happened at the airport was this group of Rastas saw us and they were, like ’hey Johnny Rotten mon! God save the Queen!’. And we looked at each other and smiled and were like, “we gonna be cool here”‘. —Dennis Morris   John Lydon still knows how to piss people...

Caroline Crampton

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The most popular link last time was this (now paywalled) Ask Molly column, with the Guardian review of my husband's new book, Lady C, second. As a barbecue hater, I enjoyed this. A Q&A with an interesting writer, who gives the only truly universal writing advice:

Rare Historical...

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In the early 1970s, the Ohio River was both a vital economic artery and a stark reminder of the environmental costs of industrial growth. Barges carried coal, steel, chemicals, and other goods through the heart of the Midwest, while millions of people depended on the river for...

Platformer

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Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions. First hit’s free. Then you pay by the token.

Open for Business

Caitlin Clark Is Back In A Big Way The basketball megastar has now played 70 games. She now holds the record—all-time—for 20+ point, 10...

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The basketball megastar has now played 70 games. She now holds the record—all-time—for 20+ point, 10 assist games with 14, over all-time WNBA assist leader Courtney Vandersloot.

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New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

Overcoming Bias

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Not sure why I didn’t notice before, but I’ve just realized that my key ask re cultural drift, namely let’s try to save cherished parts of our culture from being discarded by successor civs, violates key modern taboos!

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The possibility that AI will end up unleashing waves of 'Anti-Progress'--malicious uses, untrustworthy output and uncontrollable floods of slop--also doesn't occur to those confined in the current belief construct. A funny thing happens on the way to understanding risk: we...

Infinite Scroll

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An overstuffed, mega-sized Weekly Scroll returns to action

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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If a company would just once say 'make sure not to use the app' they would have my loyalty forever. Today's News:

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Today's links Technocarcinization: Enshittification is the great leveler. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Grampa's backyard Disneyland; Elizabeth Warren on monopolies; Spotify v Apple (antitrust edn); Exxon lobbyist confesses; "When the Sparrow Falls."...

Herbert Lui

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If you’re publishing content, one useful way to measure success is to read what people are writing about it online. Margarita Noriega, who’s the current managing editor of Morning Brew, calls this the Love Metric. When she sees someone saying something nice about her work online,...

The Works in...

Issue 24: How smashing the NIMBYs created modern capitalism Works in Progress Issue 24 is out today.

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Works in Progress Issue 24 is out today.

Out-of-Pocket Blog

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Stat Significant

What Makes a Song Catchy? A Statistical Analysis Is there a scientific formula for catchy songs?

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Is there a scientific formula for catchy songs?

matduggan.com

Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking...

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For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking about observability. If you're not familiar with the term, "observability" is what we call it now that "monitoring" doesn't sound expensive enough. The actual work

Archinect

MAD completes 'cloud-like' Tencent headquarters in Shenzhen MAD has completed Tengyun Center, a new headquarters complex for Tencent in Shenzhen, China. As we...

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MAD has completed Tengyun Center, a new headquarters complex for Tencent in Shenzhen, China. As we previously reported, the 775,000-square-foot "cloud" building comprises five blocks, seeking to rethink the conventional corporate campus with more public offerings. Image credit:...

Works in Progress...

How Amsterdam invented the fire department In the seventeenth century, Amsterdam was likely the wealthiest city in the world. Global trade and...

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In the seventeenth century, Amsterdam was likely the wealthiest city in the world. Global trade and local industry financed its artistic masterpieces and furnished the abundant foods and household goods that Dutch painters immortalized in still lifes and domestic scenes. But...

Marco Bambini

Rethinking Databases for Humans and AI Agents Databases Were Built for Engines. It’s Time to Build Them for Humans.

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What Do You Think You're Looking At? #271

IEEE Spectrum

The Orbital Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit “The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe...

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“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, as his company was preparing to go public. Later that month, SpaceX filed an...

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Victorians once tried to make it happen

TASTE

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Jason Stewart, cohost of ⁠How Long Gone⁠ and one of food media’s sharpest outside voices, returns to the studio. The post This Is TASTE 800: How Long Gone’s Jason Stewart on Erewhon Losing the Pizza Plot, Noma’s LA Adventure, and a Visit to Ballerina Farm appeared first on TASTE.

Old Structures...

Proto-Modernist, Two Ways I doubt I’ll ever run out of blog fodder because of what happened with this photo: I’ve walked by...

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I doubt I’ll ever run out of blog fodder because of what happened with this photo: I’ve walked by 135 Hudson Street many times, but I finally remembered to take a picture. You don’t see something like this every day. The simple facts: it’s a warehouse completed in 1886, facing...

Rubenerd

Uniform boolean definitions in DB schemas are good! I worked briefly in process control when I was younger, and saw Things.™ One of those Things™ was a...

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I worked briefly in process control when I was younger, and saw Things.™ One of those Things™ was a wall of LEDs to indicate statuses of various valves and sensors across the entire plant. It was old school, but it worked. It also made you feel like you were on a 1960s-era sci-fi...

Slow Boring

Nobody likes a party crasher Trump has ruined America’s 250th anniversary. I’m still celebrating.

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Multiple $20 AI Plans Are Better Than a Single $100 AI Plan After using the $200 and $100 Anthropic monthly plans for Claude, I have now settled on $20...

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After using the $200 and $100 Anthropic monthly plans for Claude, I have now settled on $20 Anthropic + $20 OpenAI + $10 OpenCode Go monthly plans for coding and design work. I also use local AI occasionally for non-coding-related tasks. By using multiple entry-level AI plans...

Seth's Blog

Can you believe it? The standards have changed a lot in the last few millennia: The big man said it. The book said it....

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The standards have changed a lot in the last few millennia: The big man said it. The book said it. The newspaper said it. I saw a photo. I saw it on TV. I read it on the internet. That’s what the AI said. There has always been room for doubt. But the last century […]

Yale E360

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As residential batteries have become more energy dense, cheaper, and smaller, more households are storing their excess solar power. Now, utilities and energy companies in dozens of countries are buying up those electrons, bundling them together, and using them to balance the...

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2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This...

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Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence and machine...

Vittles

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Six writers on untranslatable food-related words and idioms from their primary languages. Illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath.

Wrong Side of...

The triumph of Brand Scotland Good luck booking a holiday in the Highlands next summer

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Good luck booking a holiday in the Highlands next summer

Permanent Style

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By Reginald Jerome de Mans* I wore a pair of Gurkha trousers the other day. Those wide-waistbanded eccentricities that looked so dashing on friends’ fit posts, their criss-crossing straps so gloriously inconvenient, they put me in mind of th... > Read more

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It's been almost 9 whole years I've been trying to dine at Orto.  Even since they opened in 2017, I've received recommendations from friends about the place.  From its beautiful garden to their handmade pastas, this was apparently the new hot place to go in North Van.  Well, it...

Hundred Rabbits

Summary of changes for June 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June. Wiki, we had a few things fail this month, see: solar cooking experiment, and ipad media station. Also, the pressure sprayer that we use as an outdoor shower and to rinse dishes...

Noahpinion

Roundup #84: Bears on bikes Vibecession (or not); AI depolarization; Existential AI risk; Millennials vs. Boomers;...

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Vibecession (or not); AI depolarization; Existential AI risk; Millennials vs. Boomers; Deindustrialization; Russian oil revenue; GLP-1s; AI and jobs

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I went on an Amazon propaganda tour In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values

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In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values

diamond geezer

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30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in June 2026 1) In the last 5 years no accidents have been recorded at Liverpool Street Station involving pushchairs being taken through ticket barriers. 2) During 2025 defibrillators were used on 50 occasions across the London...

TheCollector

15 Great History Museums Every History Lover Must Visit at Least Once Walking into a great history museum is the closest we can get to true time travel. From London and...

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Walking into a great history museum is the closest we can get to true time travel. From London and Berlin to Cairo and Mexico City, these 15 institutions rank among the best history museums in the world. Each museum holds culture-defining artifacts including the Rosetta Stone,...

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Will Making Your Kids Tall Shorten Their Lives? Bonus: How to get human growth hormone (HGH) for cheap

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Bonus: How to get human growth hormone (HGH) for cheap

Anecdotal Evidence

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The Battle of Malvern Hill was fought near Richmond, Va., the capital of the Confederacy, on July 1, 1862. Not as well remembered as Antietam or Gettysburg, it was the last of the Seven Days Battles in the Peninsula Campaign, and prompted Confederate General Daniel H. Hill to...

Winnie Lim

[links] KEK society I was browsing jazz music on bandcamp and discovered Storyville records. I thought they had an...

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I was browsing jazz music on bandcamp and discovered Storyville records. I thought they had an interesting catalogue so I became curious about their origin story. One thing led to another and...

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Don't Expect Respect. All we have left now is money.

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All we have left now is money.

The American Scholar

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Least I Could Do

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Yes, it's here! LPA 386-PROLOG is now available in a version for Windows!

Hustle Originals

Meet the guys you call when AI breaks your brain For the thousands of people experiencing AI psychosis, there is help

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For the thousands of people experiencing AI psychosis, there is help

Buttondown's blog

Google Reader was building the wrong future The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.

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Strong Towns

The Reflector That Started a Conversation A small safety tool helped shine a light on a much bigger challenge.

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Tom MacWright

Recently June was a big month: I went to Porto & Lisbon, and had a lot of life stuff happen. I'll get into...

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June was a big month: I went to Porto & Lisbon, and had a lot of life stuff happen. I'll get into the trip once I get my rolls of film developed. Three rolls at a new photo developing place: fingers crossed! Reading I finished reading Intermezzo (of the bag) and it was fantastic....

Philip Ilic Thomas

What I'm up to - July 2026 My monthly newsletter about what I am up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in...

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My monthly newsletter about what I am up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in June I left Chroma, and I start a new role in August. In this liminal time, I am spending a couple of weeks in Japan and practicing photography.

Applied Cartography

June, 2026 June, like any month in which I neither write very much nor read very much, feels already...

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June, like any month in which I neither write very much nor read very much, feels already cryptographic in retrospect.

bunnie's blog

Solution, Name that Ware May 2026 The Ware for May 2026 is, in FETguy’s words: “one of many large pc boards of a Rodgers Instrument Co...

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The Ware for May 2026 is, in FETguy’s words: “one of many large pc boards of a Rodgers Instrument Co church organ. The core memory was used to store and recall settings of the organ’s “stops”. There were 5 core memory boards in this instrument which differ in how many words were...

Jamesin’s Substack

Hiring With AI We’re in the process of hiring an investment associate (or two!).

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We’re in the process of hiring an investment associate (or two!).

Quantum Frontiers

The physicists of Florence A scientist in Florence can’t avoid bumping into colleagues.  When visiting the Renaissance’s...

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A scientist in Florence can’t avoid bumping into colleagues.  When visiting the Renaissance’s birthplace last summer, I ran into a fellow physicist even on a Saturday morning. I was wandering around the Uffizi Gallery, a museum blessed with some of … Continue reading →

somenice

5 Frames of Kodacolor 100 with the Nikon FM Many years have past since I last shot colour film. Maybe 20 years ago I was using the Lomo Smena 8m...

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Many years have past since I last shot colour film. Maybe 20 years ago I was using the Lomo Smena 8m camping. Mostly FujiFilm because I liked the greens. Once I started shooting Black & White and developing the film myself, I really didn’t see the need to have someone else...