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Never gonna miss a good chance to recommend Adam Curtis. Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone has an incredible collection of all sorts of historic video, everyday life intermixed with inc…

Please, a reminder that OPM shredded/chainsawed longstanding Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, which monitors federal workers satisfaction & requires public reporting. https://our…

All the Chromebooks falling out of support are going to look really really really bad during this ram crisis. It feels kind of intolerable to imagine. It feels like support should …

Some people are calling it the administration with the biggest thumb-sucking babies of all time. Terrified little cowards, everywhere. Things they have said are a threat to nationa…

Allen Institute for AI has quite a range of very interesting very competent more specialized models, for earth sensing, embedded robots, for others. Their SERA model shows a remark…

Leader in phone: intensifies. Intensely intensely intensifies. Gigawatts of intensifies. The irony is, I think there are few spiritual offenses against mankind vastly higher than a…

Like glm-5.x I think it has enormous self introspection that it often trips up on, but that this self reflection is actually a superpower, that enables incredibly good output. And …

Except usb-c will have a baseline level if working even with your very lightweight cheap flexible usb2 60w cable. Adding connectors to obstruct functionality, to make each specific…

A reminder that OPM shredded/chainsawed longstanding Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, which monitors federal workers satisfaction & requires public reporting. https://ourpublicse…

Related, Colombia's new president Abelardo d' Espriella is getting sworn in in a couple hours. He won a somewhat close election against a more peace process party, on a platform of…

Core rope memory is back baby! Enjoying the Ian Cutress / TechTechPotato video on Taalas. Some ok good technical details on the tech, and some good insider baseball, whose who stuf…

> So let me be plain about it: Claude was not here. No LLM wrote this—not a sentence of it, nor was it outlined, drafted, reviewed, checked, etc. by one, and there is no prompt beh…

"Nuance" is perhaps soft-balling it a bit, ha. Yes, MAE-EAST formerly MAE, the home of the internet, is indeed a bit of a data-center hotbed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-East…

There's a lot here that I enjoy muddling on. And I think taste is very vital. Taste, ambition, seeing possibility: these resonate to me, long resonate, as what I've wanted to see. …

their blogging is incredible. i'd hop on any submission. https://blog.exe.dev/inventory for what tools they have. https://blog.exe.dev/botiquette for rules-of-the-road for LLM expe…

At first I thought the Sol updates was perhaps trying to help with some complaints of Sol burning through tokens, complaints that have prompted some new data points on https://code…

Virginia also has a tax on electricity, targetting data centers. https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertszczerba/2026/07/13/power... I'm not sure what the status is, getting hard to fi…

Noose keeps tightening, the war on General Purpose Computing, the war against users owning devices intensifies. How utterly fallen. We'll see what happens with the proposed ADB cha…

I wish we'd see some progress on this from the phone makers. It's so disappointing what a stranglehold Android somehow has. Nokia was so on the eve of greatness before they threw i…

on the one hand, hosting is hard, you should pay people to host, especially distributed systems. on the other hand, deno land folks stole from (used open source from) the best. the…

Incredible! This is amazing ! README says it downloads onto a host the dataset, (builds if needed then) runs a snapshotted firecracker microvms that exposes a small /query endpoint…

Well that couldn't have been any more timely. Did they know? Were they keeping this in a back pocket for the time? CloudFlare OS: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/ https:/…

it'd be fun to have a version where a ToF sensor or some distance measure can help make sure you are holding it the right distance away. i also think people are really going a bit …

i really hope OpenCode v2 with the Effect internals can ascertain and realize and lock on to being the best extensibility platform, on to having a core that serves not just itself,…

A lot of graphs where OpenThread & zigbee dance around each other, are within 2x of each other. Two huge notables to me: message throughput for openthreads scales up, zigbee seems …