Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
"They're not like us" indeed. The secret info as currency when you have all the money is interesting.
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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 - Infrequently Noted
I didn't realize how massive the performance gap is.
MythBusters, computer science edition
Heard about this article via Seattle Now podcast. Aligns with my experience so far, but also emphasizes the need for the fundamental creative and critical thinking skills that come out of a program like UW's
Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video
Good policy
The Slop Tax, a Brief Introduction
An interesting UBI variant that I don't think will work... but it's absolutely the case that we need to invest in cultural generation.
The slop layer
How AI has encrusted our culture and social sphere in a sedimentary layer of slop.
Seattle Public Schools floats new districtwide cellphone policy
Don't think I agree with this but
Pluralistic: Boss preppers (22 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
They think they'll be in charge when the system falls??
The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
Sure sounds like a bubble.
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
Some good bits in this. Some a bit dated now.
NTSB Preliminary Report
Engine just sheared right off.
Summers Visited Epstein’s Island During 2005 Honeymoon | News | The Harvard Crimson
Surprised this didn't come out before.
In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon
Funny that in the year I was born the nerds were also posting about how bad the state of the world was
Piketty: Capital
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication
Cool! And funny timing, I was just answering this question about dogs for child.
My next chapter with Mastodon
Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.
The Decline of Deviance
I think I'm weird, but still bounded weird. I suspect it's more that weird is at the edges, in marginalized communities that this writer isn't a part of?
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Of course Newsom and Emanuel are all over this. The problem is capitalism leaving no hope for young anyone and women are left to pick up the pieces because culturally men were supposed to be in charge. Article does just kinda end abruptly.
What a socialist from Seattle’s past says about the city’s future
Don't always like Westneat but I like the parallels.
Opinion | Democrats Sure Taught Trump a Lesson
It’s one he is unlikely to forget.
A ‘mind-blowing’ trip from Seattle to Portland: 12 hours on buses and trains
Silly but nest journey.
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign \ Anthropic
Couple or 🤔 brags in here that ignore the fact that their agent was at fault here.
They did so by jailbreaking it, effectively tricking it to bypass its guardrails. They broke down their attacks into small, seemingly innocent tasks that Claude would execute without being provided the full context of their malicious purpose.
This raises an important question: if AI models can be misused for cyberattacks at this scale, why continue to develop and release them? The answer is that the very abilities that allow Claude to be used in these attacks also make it crucial for cyber defense.
The Edmund Fitzgerald Teaches Men How to Feel
One of the few things dudes are allowed to be sad about?
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
A business model of acquisitions that shouldn't exist.
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
They're so good at this genre
Beyond all reason
I've let masking slip because of the social pressure but still do it often (and stay home!) whenever, well, reasonable
Katie Wilson likely to be Seattle’s next mayor
Here's hoping she can deliver!
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
Nice quotes from Iyengar too.
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
Wow he was a piece of work.