Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow
Pretty interesting stuff, especially the funding angle. I wonder if Apple is just way off with Metal.
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The Hubris of Security Hub
I'm the poor soul.
This physics professor transformed his country to 98% renewable energy in five years
Wow. Feels like we're just staying behind on purpose.
Amazon takes on AI's biggest nightmare: Hallucinations - Fast Company
Seems promising.
Rare set of varied factors triggered Black Death
Huh!
The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Seven: Moana
I will begin this piece noting that I am not unbiased in my thoughts about Moana, as my friend, the Oscar-nominated writer Pamela Ribon, helped write a significant chunk of this film’s story.…
Large language mistake
They literally cannot think and anyone who says otherwise is selling something.
An artful answer to the AI crisis in education
Brief note from a kid about what makes learning worthwhile.
Fran Sans Essay — Emily Sneddon
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Train Station ADA Construction Reduces Accessibility - The Phoenix
Well that's kinda crappy of SEPTA
L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department
I think I missed this back in the day
The new conservatives - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Been saying this for years.
IDEA - nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions
Funny and accurate but I don't think these would make sense unless you already know them.
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.
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.