Everyone seems to be looking into their own niche and isolating more and more. They go into the deepest rabbit holes trying to diagnose why the thing they love the most is not in its prime anymore.

I was recently asked to review a paper that piqued my curiosity. From the abstract it sounded as if it was a secondary analysis of a dataset that I had deposited in a repository. But the described…

I don’t make a habit of listening to Rory Sutherland, let alone quoting him, but TikTok showed me one particular clip that chimed louder than usual. “The two chief preoccupations of large…

Gaming Science | Esports is a grueling industry for young players. The majority exists in the professional scene early. But why? What conditions are they met with that have them quit? What does their…

Another one of these graph t-SNE plots but this time for reddit

A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator by the Norwegian Consumer Council describes how a “shitmaker” is tasked into making the products and services terrible. It feels so real, it hurts! As this…

Artificial Intelligence & Society Link to heading The Future is for Everyone Zuckerberg’s positive AI future means personal agents for everyone, broad access, open source, and human…

While writing the section of my 2026 Python Packaging Council (PPC) nomination on secure supply chain, I realized that one thing related to having a secure supply chain that we lack is a defined way…

Many articles and podcasts have seized upon the topic of loneliness, aloneness, and solitude since the 2023 Cambridge University Press publication of The Power of Solitude: The Science and Power of…

Income-dependent rent increases create a disincentive to take up employment and reduces overall labour mobility, especially when rent increases are tied to hard thresholds.. Social housing estates…

No matter what you call it, new social housing is back on the policy to-do list in many countries, especially those with a dearth of affordable housing. Social housing has been around for long time…

If you've ever tried editing Wikipedia, you might have been instantly reverted. My impression is that this is what happens to most people's first edits, and it's incredibly discouraging. The reasons…

NASA-TLX use at CHI from 2006 to 2024. Blue is the share of all CHI papers including NASA-TLX, rising from about 3% to nearly 10%; red is the raw paper count, rising from 5 papers to 99. The NASA…

I recently watched Lauren Celenza’s talk, Living Through an AI Takeover Without Losing Your Soul from Beyond Tellerrand conference. The title hooked me, mainly because the soul is precisely the thing…

Back in 2018, I was writing articles and speaking to tech crowds about an Internet of Natural Things, trying to convince them that there was an increasing desire to use our devices to connect with…

Someone whose code I respect wrote this month that working with AI feels more like leadership than coding. You stop issuing precise instructions and start setting context, giving examples,…

Recently I began the process of moving all of my GitHub repositories to Codeberg. I am far from the only person making this move in 2026; if anything, I'm well behind the curve. However, I did want…

Today, Dave Winer talks about “working together”, and how he wants to work with other people. The bug in this statement is that Dave Winer deletes things from sites he provides for others…

A first step towards an open-source VSM software Applying the Viable System Model is hard. But there is the 7-step methodology of Martin Pfiffner, which was a true revelation to me. Honestly, I think…

NFC integration is landing in Plasma Mobile, and Bazaar has been accepted into GNOME Circle, an official Signal Desktop ARM64 beta (.deb + AppImage only). On the hardware side, Dawndrums has received…

The conversation about AI and academic publishing fixates on who used a chatbot, who disclosed it, and whose detector caught […]

Manually typing passwords is a burden and is slowly being abstracted or going away. Disabled buttons for sign up, login, password resets are often a lazy solution with giant possibility to block…

"I wonder what Mark Fisher would have thought about the spread across all the end-of-year lists of what is effectively (regardless of genre or sonic specifics) a new singer-songwriter ethos...…

Why the person behind the work might soon matter more than ever

How a mind scales when the interpreter can evaluate PDF version The claim. Work scales as evaluation. Write it as math — terms, equations, substitution that preserves meaning — and run it on a…

The ongoing flattening of everything is really, really fucking us up. I can spend many hours researching a specific type of backpack. Things that may have been one guy’s fan...

In Making For You pay more attention to your older likes I tried to address a common complaint about For You - that it was too reactive to recent likes. You like one cat post and your For You is now…

Prof HAKIZIMANA Maurice “Undetectable” is a word everyone should know when talking about HIV today. A person living with HIV who takes their antiretroviral treatment correctly can achieve an…

(this policy is almost entirely based on Complexly's AI Policy , retrieved on 2026-08-15) NAMTAO Productions AI Policy For good reason, AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, DALL-E 2, and Midjmyney have…

I’m hooked up to the dopamine scroll machine where Meta harvests my soul for advertising. At this point that’s how I see it. Like anyone with a smartphone and social media I’m…

The machine that catches honesty and misses the cheating Two students hand in the same essay. One of them wrote every idea in it herself and asked an AI to tidy the prose. The other typed a prompt,…

I have never written about the multicoloured roots of my life. I have never spoken about racial equality when given the chance. I never wanted to be that white person who speaks because of her…

My social media account have been sitting dead in the water for a while. And to be honest I love it. But then my life did a backflip (yes, it's a breakup. no, I will not write details about it) and I…

For years, I have wondered how we might help individuals become more powerful. I am beginning to think I had the wrong unit of transformation.

Dieser Vortrag hat zwei Teile: Eine Einführung in jj, die Versionsverwaltung, und einen etwas philosophischen Teil. 1 Es gibt eine schleichende Krise in Open Source Maintenance. Man könnte jetzt das…

what could be worse than betting on wildfires, and then making sure you win by just setting the trees on fire yourself? how about betting someone else's money on israel and then making sure you win…

Hub group, werner, Schneider STG logistics Watching the blood of capitalism flow Screaming across the rails There is art, too Graffiti, much of which I cannot make out Someone's choice to take tools…

In the ancient times before costco guys walked the earth, the twitter user roon was the first to ever successfully cleave the world perfectly in two: You are either a wordcel or a shape rotator ,…

First we reinvented statistics. Then finance. Now we're reinventing program management and calling it agentic orchestration.

This is part two of my Mastek Battery Automation project with Home Assistant. I added a second battery, improved parameter handling in the Home Assistant GUI and overhauled the automation & balancing…

fat tails, convex harm, and surveillance software

What a company really spends its money on is the gathering: getting everyone pointed the same way, getting a decision to actually happen, getting one change past four teams and out of the door. More…

A first-hand walkthrough of founding a GmbH in Germany as a solo founder: notary, Handelsregister, Transparenzregister, USt-IdNr, Gewerbeanmeldung, and every cost I actually paid.

Engineers are getting excited about software verification! This may come as a surprise, since verification has long been considered useful only in very niche cases (at best; and impractical, useless…