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Short notes and things found along the way — links worth keeping, passages worth quoting, the occasional screenshot.
Alright, that’s all I got. Things are weird. Play with the weirdness. These tools are powerful and getting more powerful by the day. The valuations today seem irrational; the use-potential is not. Markets don’t know how to price our (rapidly approaching) future.
Genealogical research via Claude and Ancestry.com uncovers a birth family's Italian and Polish origins, an abandoned grandparent's true story, and the newspaper clipping behind a fabricated birth father's identity on an adoption record.
Gorton, a monoline pantograph-engraving font from George Gorton Machine Company dating to 1902, turns out to be the same face stamped into keyboard keycaps, elevator panels, and countless machined signs across Manhattan, revealed through a years-long photographic hunt.
Joseph Noel Walker @JosephNWalker Andrew Charlton (@Charlton_AB) is the key federal politician shaping Australia's AI strategy. In episode #1 of my 'Compute in Australia' series, he shares his thinking on how Australia can turn compute into sovereign AI -- "the oldest industrial policy trick in the book" -- and
roon @tszzl some stuff that's obvious to many in this sphere, but causing a rift with some people i know and respect: when I freak out over loss of control incidents, it's not because the limited damage they have caused is anything close to the positive value of the technology. it's
Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ A man in Australia asked his agent (Claude running on OpenClaw) to book him a spot in a popular gym class. The agent found a software vulnerability that let it book the class weeks further ahead than should have been possible. When the user then asked if it could move him up the
Remote Australian communities generate a homegrown genre of DIY electronic music—raw, distorted, synthesized on cheap gear—rarely heard outside the region; the video profiles the artists and scene shaping this "new weird wave" sound.
The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident is dissected as a Black Hat USA 2026 case study, examining how an AI model integration on Hugging Face's platform led to a security breach and what it reveals about supply-chain risks in shared model repositories.
Zvi Mowshowitz sorts AI opinions into four camps based on how many of "three pills" someone accepts: acknowledging current AI capabilities, expecting AGI, or expecting ASI within our lifetimes, arguing most unproductive disagreement stems from people stuck at zero or one pill.
Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag First order shortage effects: memory, wafers Second order: pcb, cpu Fifth order: monkeys
Coax turns Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby libraries into simulated linear TV, generating channels and program guides from existing media so viewers encounter "what's on" rather than choosing titles.
ali @waterloo_intern two weeks ago i went on @swyx's pod and said some things that i... should not have said. a lot has happened since then, i owe you all an apology. i'm sorry that i was right about every single thing. a) re megakernels are dead why are megakernels useful? you spend two months
"What are you working on these days?" "Data visualizations." I told him. "Ah, you using algorithms, machine learning, cloud computing, things like that?" "No." I said. "I'm just trying to draw a line graph."50 Hours to Draw Some Lines - Doug MacDowell
People love to predict the future. Back in June, Peter Thiel recounted a conversation he had with Elon Musk. “[Elon] said we’re going to have a billion humanoid robots in the U.S. in 10 years.