the perpetual trap of pessimism

Companies asking 'how can we improve with AI' are really asking 'how can we improve.' The vendors selling context-ingestion are answering the wrong question because it's the easiest one to sell.

Read the words as critically as you read the numbers. Exploring EU health spending data with Claude Code, the model framed government healthcare as money coming "out of people's pockets" — a slightly…

Why modern inequality is also about the ability to protect one’s time, attention, and environment.

i deactivated my instagram account a few weeks ago. i don't know exactly how much time has passed, i'm not worried with keeping track. my first concern when thinking about deactivating was how i…

Notre tribune, Risques climatiques : la donnée et l’intelligence artificielle ne remplaceront pas la solidarité, écrite avec Laurence Barry, a été publiée par L’Argus de l’Assurance. À…

You might think it counterintuitive that a movement obsessed with software would be spearheading a severe decline in the design quality of software, but in Patel’s definition, there’s no concept of…

There’s a guy who occasionally publishes reviews on Reddit that are honest, informed and non-monetized. I trust him and have in fact bought one of the things he recommended. I use it often, and I’m…

And I mean free not as in “Free Beer” but more akin to free as “being able to roam endlessly”. And why do I say that? Because of this: Random comment on David Foster…

The feed wants your work flattened into a habit. It wants your language shortened, your images standardised, your thinking made instantly legible and instantly replaceable. Creative resistance online…

what & why i’ve always wondered - why don’t we do more cool things? we have enough compute to fund ourselves something we like, but we often prefer to invent ourselves pragmatics. i…

A Design Fiction Dispatch about AI-Standard Farming, Heritage Produce, and the artifacts that let us spot weak signals from today as they settle into tomorrow's institutions, certifications, jobs,…

Welcome to Trans Tuesday! This week we dive into what happens when trans women actually... The post CHASERS AND THE FETISHIZATION OF TRANS WOMEN 2: REACTIONS AND ORIGINS first appeared on Tilly's…

By Gareth Strangemore-Jones and Dhruv Mehrotra They can mine your data, model your behaviour, nudge your choices, even read your  thoughts, but they cannot yet be held accountable. In the……

Maintenance is not an engineering problem. It's a leadership decision that most product organizations never make.Your roadmap hides the real cost. Your team absorbs the trust damage. Your…

Potential Attack Target Suppose some genre of content is under attack by powerful adversaries. Lets take political satire as a thought experiment in which powerful politicians are attacking sites and…

Hi there!🛡️ Security & PrivacyNotepad++ CVE-2026-3008: a %s format specifier in nativeLang.xml triggers a string injection in FindInFiles, enabling DoS crashes and memory…

Dunning-Kruger and the Communication Tax The sociological impact of the Dunning-Kruger is often understated and hidden under the expectation of social lubrication, but this breaks down during…

As a student who sometimes has to collaborate on documents with others, there aren’t that many options that are easy to use for others who are less tech-savvy than me to use. If it were up to me, we…

copy.fail ( CVE-2026-31431 ) is a Linux kernel bug where an in-place modification of a pipe scatter list by the algif_aead module (crypto module's AEAD algorithm) can be used to modify the disk cache…

yesterday i was grateful for yoga with anne and perfectly cooked salmon for dinner... today i am looking forward to my modeling gig at burkelman ... day 4 of journaling on my blog... i was thinking…

This was previously published in the Artificial Divide anthology I remember the first out-and-proud fiction book I read that included an openly gay character. Actually, this book had gone above and…

When systems slow people down, culture reorganises around the illusion of progress.

Of all of the questions I've faced during adulthood, perhaps the most enduring is how much of myself I ought to devote to homemaking. There are, I'm told, people who navigate this question…

I spent Tuesday evening at an AgileRTP meetup where Kanupriya Yakhmi gave a talk that landed harder than most conference keynotes I’ve sat through. The title was The Architect’s Trap:…

How to effectively confuse someone and make them doubt their own reality and sanity ?

This past month, I did not buy anything from Amazon or Ebay... and I saved some money doing it. Fortunately, I have a good salary, but I still do not want to spend my money in useless stuff. I've…

If India is to meet its main economic, social and geopolitical challenges, Muslim politics has to change. The post-1947 approach of the “secular” parties - which has been about making symbolic…

Are people using AI, or is the organization learning from it? What changed because we spent those tokens? And who moves discoveries from individuals to teams to organizational capabilities?

Seventy-five years ago, this scout, shown in the May 1951 issue of Boys Life, took the scout motto seriously. As a result, his family was prepared for just about anything. The accompanying article…

Above: the real Brisbane airport, early one morning in August 2024. Welcome to Tapt Media, the new radio company in Australia that owns 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, which came into being on 1 May. They own…

Como a internet reprogramou a psique humana – e não para melhor

How the internet rewired the human psyche and not for the better

Many moons ago, when I used to write software, I realized I was misinterpreting stakeholders, and they me. We were using the same words, but thinking of different things.

Every technology in history has flown trajectories inside physics we accept as given. Self-improving AI is the first one built to cross the line. The throttle does not interpolate. Sixty percent…

Read the API terms of any frontier AI lab. Output is provided “as-is” and “for informational purposes only.” All warranties are disclaimed. The customer indemnifies the lab against any claim arising…

AI-first Engineering is now the operating default in many organizations, including mine. Developers have kept up. Vibe coding became agentic engineering, and the race towards truly autonomous…

My primary domain ( captnemo.in , where you’re reading this) was suspended by my registry ( .in ) for 3 hours last night (4th May 2026). I discovered the issue roughly 30 minutes after it happened,…

I read a company-wide announcement yesterday congratulating us on delivering something hard we’ve been working on for months. As I was reading it, I started noticing words my boss would never…

While the issue of gender representation has gained increasing recognition across various academic disciplines, existing knowledge about the current state of gender representation in peace and…

Instructions and governance are different things. I ran 265 experiments to find the boundary.

By David Tuller, DrPH *This is a crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you’d like to support my work, the link is here. ********** “Frail and Furious” on May 12th Each year on May…

Andrew Wilder (our CEO), on the NerdPress blog: From start to finish, this was a coordinated team effort: updates, firewall protections, client communication, and vendor collaboration all happening…

I gamified donations in an organization that gives everything away for free. I volunteer at Noisebridge, a hackerspace in San Francisco. Anyone can walk in off the street and use our 3D printers,…

Amusing ourselves to death This is gonna be a long one.. buckle up I added a little warning when entering my site, and on the blog post page.

"Today we announce a new policy." These were the words Zia Yusuf used to introduce Reform's intention to set up networks of "detention centres" for deporting tens of thousands of people at a time.…

All over Europe, farmers are parking their tractors on bridges, in front of fuel depots, and across from government offices, to protest government policies that are making the economics of being a…

Can AI agents ever produce artifacts you can fully trust? How do we solve the problem of limited human attention to engineering if coding is substituted by agents? I recently revisited this topic and…