The event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public.

the industrial revolution type of thing once again

I mean, fuck Aramark, UK's food quality has been declining since they privatized out to them. But a... Continue reading →

I listened to the most recent 'The Students' episode with an interesting discussion on physis vs nomos.I wanted to write my take on it. I dont think I'm breaking new ground here necessarily but maybe…

There sure is a lot of noise out there about so-called “artificial intelligence.” (I won’t bother with the scare quotes through the whole post, but it’s worth noting:…

Anglerfish are a deep-sea animal that uses its bioluminescent lure to capture prey and court mates. Along the way, as the males lack a phallus, they bite onto the larger female Anglerfish, which then…

On the walk to nursery this morning my wife and kids were startled by a car that drove onto the pavement within a foot of them. After reporting the offence via Operation Snap I spotted all of the…

Oh boy yet more linux kernel vulns

This post is a written description of a presentation titled Phone unlocking tools and where to find them that we have delivered privately to different events and organizations, including Primavera…

We are self-hosting LaSuite, an open-source Google Docs alternative, for our small agency - and opening it up for others to try.

The agent principal-agent problem 2026-05-07 Code review is broken. The industry-established code review process, review-then-commit, was a straightforward mechanism that allowed a relatively…

Machines should bend to suit humans (centaurs), not humans bend to suit machines (reverse centaurs).

AI is finding bugs faster, researchers pile on the moment one drops, and registries ship malware by the hundred-thousand. Defenders are caught between two contradictory imperatives. The fix is…

I am talking to a number of folks about documenting their MCP servers. Others about discovering them. Others about governing them. Generally, we are mostly talking about being able to just see the…

Artificial intelligence may represent less of a technological rupture than the next stage in a long institutional history that began when spreadsheets transformed modern office life. From Ledgers to…

Wearables arrive with the kind of confidence that two-decimal precision allows. They are describing one substrate, not the whole organism. This post is about how to demote the watch from judge to…

Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk of The Connecticut Mirror and Sophie Chou and Haru Coryne of ProPublicaI’m honored to share that I am officially a Pulitzer Prize winner.Our series on unscrupulous towing…

Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti: Tools created through AIs hurt my brain, I decided, because they’re often devoid of three fundamental qualities of good tools: reach, sociality, and finish. In a way, thanks…

One thing I’ve learned building creative and technical teams is that motivation does not come from process alone. It comes from grounded creative freedom. People do their best work when they have…

Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either President Trump or other members of the administration. Many people are unhealthily and dangerously…

This article refutes the claim that patient video recording makes doctors 'robotic.' Patients record mostly out of fear of forgetting details rather than seeking trouble; practicing medicine…

Recently, a port of Notepad++ to macOS has been making the rounds online, mainly due to the project using the Notepad++ name without permission and in breach of the original author’s trademark. But…

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

“Higher Gas Prices Are Hitting Lower-Income Americans the Hardest” —Latest headline from the Petroleum Institute’s economics journal “Duh!”

I collect and analyse e-Bike fleet data for three vendors in Edmonton, Canada.

Anita Sarkeesian is a name that should not be unfamiliar to anyone who was in the gaming sphere around 2014. She was an outspoken feminist who made a video series about women in video games, and…

Maybe this is the image in your head when you read the title of this post? In college in the late nineties, I devoured a fantastic new book called A Perfect Storm on a flight to Boston. I was on my…

Ars Technica reports that an article touting the effectiveness of ChatGPT in education has been retracted by the original publisher due to questionable methodology. That analysis supposedly showed…

“This year’s Earth Day in Ashland, Oregon, where I live, featured an interfaith service at the local Unitarian church, and I wasn’t too surprised to get a call inviting me to be one of the…

Recently a saw an article come across my feed that Notepad++ was now available on MacOS. Turns out that was partially true. TL;DR; Trademarks are incredibly important to the success of open source…

They can't stop the signal: Manyverse, Nostr, Delta Chat & Mitra

A new three-part documentary was released on Netflix last week as part of a new series called, ‘Should I Marry a Murderer?’ At first sight, this is perhaps not what you’d expect to…

A Cameroonian village, a London gallery, and an economist walk into the same argument: that value is something we make together at every scale — or it isn't value at all. Observatory on fractal…

AI is inflicting a proliferation of tools, in the utensils’ sense. Folks are conjuring all sorts of programs out of thin air, unrestrained. Someone confessed on Hacker News to having created a…

Some great news: I’m pleased to announce that both Dell and Lenovo have agreed to be premier sponsors for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as part of our new sustainability effort. Over 145…

I just wrapped up writing a longer-form publication, maybe best described as a collection of short essays: Reflections on Public Interest Technology from someone with a governance /…

Olúfémi O. Táíwò argues for a *constructive* form of reparations: distributive justice that looks to the past to construct a transition from the global racial empire we have today to the more just…

Trump Administration aims to penalize disabled adults who live with their families Excerpt: The administration is working on a rule change that would deduct the value of a disabled adult’s bedroom…

Austin brought rents down 19%. Boston flew a delegation out to learn how, took detailed notes, came home, and did very little. This article explores what can easily be done.

Nilay Patel: [E]veryone in tech understands how much regular people dislike AI. What I think they’re missing is why. They think this is a marketing problem. [S]oftware brain [is] see[ing] the whole…

snowchester-system:the politics of being a DID system in later stages of recovery is… interesting, to say the least.to put it plainly, some people/beings/systems hate nondisordered systems. or…

If you don’t want to support racism, transphobia, and other forms of hate, then maybe you don’t want to use Substack. While there has been quite a bit written about alternatives for publishers, there…

If humans and advanced AI systems are going to cooperate—to make honest deals and avoid negative-sum conflict—AIs will need reasons to trust us. By default, they won't have many: humans routinely lie…

2026 is the age of the software factory. Dark factories where agents run the line at 3am with no humans in the building. Light factories where humans and agents work side by side at the bench. Every…

Teacher Li through an X/Twitter account channels information from China to the outer world. Harassment of people exercising their right under Chinese law to petition at higher levels for the redress…

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins recently wrote an article titled “When Dawkins met Claude”, where he describes his experience after two days of intense conversations with the artificial…

Signal is end-to-end encrypted in the sense that the keys are end-to-end. Whether you got the right keys is a different question, and almost nobody asks it. Safety numbers on Signal exist because, in…

AI Safety is theatre The AI Safety and Alignment communities are prolific. They are well funded and produce enormous volumes of research, evaluation methodology, governance frameworks, fellowship…

An industry veteran in my circles has recently made the rookie mistake1 of printing a warning from his code upon misuse. Surprisingly to nobody experienced, critical workflows soon came to a…