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Tired: Gain-of-Function Lab Leaks. Wired: AI Lab Leaks. To test dangerous systems, you risk creating the very danger you're trying to prevent.

52+ years of progress... :-) July, 2026: Google copybara allows one to move code between two prod repositories March, 1974: IBM COPY allows one to move code between two prod partit…

Tech documentation has been kind of a three-decade race to the bottom, with some ups and downs along the way. From vendor documentation in the 70's to Windows Help in the 90s to th…

“The Work Is Mysterious And Important.” - Mark S. To Helly (Severance, AppleTV) https://www.thegamer.com/severance-most-memorable-quotes/

List history (listory?) lesson, kids: As the link below to a 1985 IBM mainframe DCF/GML manual shows, DL-DT-DD have been a thing since before the web. In addition to Definition lis…

And even if the house represents negative wealth - same property taxes apply to a house regardless of whether the owner owns it outright with no mortgage (wealthy) or if they're pa…

Self-driving divining rods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing