"It is an introduction to the pedagogical life of a classical school. It is a philosophical argument for a particular approach to being a classical teacher. It is a work of cumulative experiences…

I am building a box whose whole job is to listen to the TV and hit mute when commercials start. Not a browser extension. Not a smart-TV app. Not a cloud service trying to understand my living room. A…

Nothing Is Ever Going Back To Normal by Anya Kamenetz “By ‘normal-feeling’ I mean not utopia, but these two specific beliefs: “There are adults in charge of the most powerful…

AI isn’t magic. It’s change management (and people). Ignore that at your peril.

There is a growing frustration across Nigeria today, and it becomes very clear when you listen closely to how people describe their experiences in practical, everyday terms, because users are buying…

CVE-2026-5728: LollMS /api/upload/chat_image trusts the client Content-Type header only, so authenticated users can upload non-images disguised as PNG or JPEG.

May 2026 The Only Thing Worse Than Spirit Airlines www.theatlantic.com Why TUIs Are Back wiki.alcidesfonseca.com · comments Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons www.drive.com.au ·…

The Solid Convergence, May 2, 2026 (in which yesterday's cathedral grows its first door, the old bridge confesses to losing 2,282 rows it had never been asked about, the auditor learns to audit...

SPECIMEN #017: Affiliatus kajibius The Platform Prophet: Or How to Earn $148,754 by Teaching Others to Earn $148,754 Using the Same Tool You Are Promoting Classification: Residual Income Evangelist /…

D. Griffin Jones on the reports that Apple may have “given up” on the Vision Pro: After two years to see how things have shaken out, maybe the more apt comparison is to the Apple Newton.…

I'm visiting a friend of the over 65 variety. His name isn't Ron, but that's what I'm going to call him. His mind used to be very sharp. It's dulled a lot this year. He's a naturally trusting soul…

One of the quieter successes of post-Independence India is that the gender gap in education has closed. The trajectory is plain in the historical data. In 1951, fewer than three in ten girls were…

After AI helped me fix a tool I'd struggled with for years, I ran a workshop at the Wikimedia Hackathon in Milan: how should our community deal with the paradigm shift of AI?

It’s been quite a week for GitHub and not in a good way.

Today I was browsing twitter and I saw a falcon feed post about NoName claiming to have DoS’d some UK … Continue reading 2026: Why have we not solved DDoS Yet?

Wayne State, Detroit on April 12, 2019 This is the corrected text of a talk I gave online to the Wayne State University conference, “Public Budgets, Public Good,” on April 30, 2026. Many thanks to…

We have plenty of land, data centers provide more revenue per unit area than any other building, and we should have way less farmland

A vast cloying morass of injustice has visibly submerged the British legal systems in anything connected to Palestine. In a quite incredible series of linked and kinked events this week, the senior…

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot Everyone has experienced this. There are studies and papers on why doing a thing X will yield less of another thing Y. Then, in reality,…

The platform math that rewards repackaging over judgment, and why practitioners who ship real work win long-term anyway. A breakdown of urgency loops, borrowed authority, and the structural bet…

If you've never known a world without AI, it isn't disruption—it's infrastructure. A fresh take on living with AI as an everyday tool.

As we've been exposed to what AI can do over a few years now, with a field continuously growing, many opinions about the situation have emerged. Some people are optimistic; some are pessimistic, but…

This week: The people's Labour Day Rally, promises to protect workers amid AI disruption, and repercussions for WhatsApp profile statuses.

A request leaves the VP as one question, passes through four people, and arrives at the analyst as a different question entirely. The number that comes back answers the wrong thing — perfectly.…

Employer invited proposals for developing new learning modules. Adjacent to our regular work, a small but worth-the-trouble cash award if selected. Some of the target areas I’m already interested in.…

Cops get a call: two people are sleeping in a parked car in Lakeland, Florida. The caller requests a welfare check. No crime was even suspected. Cops arrive and confirm, yep, just a young couple and…

The more machines there are to replace men, the more men there will be in society who are nothing but machines. Louis De Bonald I’m currently reading Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth…

I chose to stop eating meat last year. I had been feeling it was the right thing to do. I still eat fish occasionally and I try to give my body what it needs. My diet could be defined as macrobiotic…

As every year, I spent the morning walking with family, friends, and members of our local photo association, Photo-Club Esch. We hiked through the forest, plaiting a “Meekranz” to…

Abstract: The digital transformation of social research has significantly expanded the empirical and methodological capacities of the social sciences. Yet, social theory itself remains largely shaped…

"Satoshi's coins" is the canary in the coal mine of quantum computing.

not started doing What would an open standard for tutoring data look like What’s so high about tutoring anyway-Dosage Quality Impact Do cosine-similarity metrics correctly identify ...

Tepat hari ini adalah hari buruh internasional. Kebetulan, saya sedang pulang ke rumah di Serang, dan melihat beberapa tetangga saya (yang kerja di pabrik) sibuk dari pagi bersiap untuk ke kantor.…

I’ve been involved in AI Futures Lab, facilitated by Fathm. Together with about a dozen other specialists on using AI in the newsroom, I’ve been coaching a few newsrooms from around the…

The story most people know goes like this: in early 19th century England, textile workers who feared the future smashed the machines that threatened their jobs. Ignorance versus progress. The…

WARNING FOR FAKE PARKING FEE SMS THAT ASKS FOR CREDIT CARD DETAILS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_CATqsshZ0

My article “Home Sharing as Affordable Housing for All? Revealing the Exclusionary Language of Shared Rental Listings through AI,” co-authored with Julia Harten and Madison Lore, has just been…

Voilà la cinquième vidéo de la journée d'étude Unblocked & Unchained Symposium ! Gala Hernández López discute des liens entre culture crypto et pensée magique new age / désirs…

When Karl Marx analyzed capitalism, one of his central ideas was surplus value. Profit comes from extracting more value from labor than workers receive in wages. Companies that extract more surplus,…

English version based on an automatic translation with deepl. Following the discussion about my post on FOSSGIS membership fees, it has become clear to me that my account – and especially the…

Michelin-starred chef Ivan Brehm worked at Per Se, Mugaritz, and The Fat Duck, before opening his own restaurant, Nouri, in Singapore in 2017. He shares his thoughts about artifice, agency, and the…

She co-founded Great Jones, a venture-backed property management startup where she raised $30M, reached $10M in ARR, and led a successful acquisition by Roofstock. — Welcoming Abigail Besdin,…

  One of the things that I can observe nowadays as a 50 year old man is how spam has changed the world, but mostly the people. You see, when the Internet started it was just a random connection…

Report of a workshop on 'Doing History - Doing Law' facilitated by Shahrukh Alam at The Community Library Project, Delhi, on the 10th of April 2026.

Texas has executed James Broadnax based on his teenage rap lyrics even after the man whose DNA was on the weapon confessed to the crime.

Will Wilson of Antithesis is a terrific public speaker, his latest keynote "We won, what now?" at the flagship Antithesis conference, BugBash 2026, was another great hit. There are some other nice…

Something has quietly shifted in childhood. A generation ago, children moved freely between indoors and out. They knew the name of the tree in the street. They watched monsoons arrive and felt the…

Architecture has a hum. Someone has to be listening for it.

Cognitive surrender is the blue pill of 2026. - In April, a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell — the firm that advises OpenAI on the safe and ethical deployment of artificial intelligence — sent an…