I used to take my online privacy really seriously, having no social media, not using google or its services, using fake email addresses and fake names, always erasing cookies and site data, all the…

Cryptome was always an odd thing. It was (is?) an online archive and document repository which published things that it hinted should not have been published.I remember Cryptome from back in the…

The Deform UK party's latest deformation plan would throw hundreds of thousands of children into destitution, and many disabled people too.

Sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln say there is a grave shortage of food; some have lost 30 pounds. The water is not fit to drink. Relatives excoriate the bullshitter for denying these facts, but…

This was from this morning s operation briefing: This is what they call their “big box.” You will note from this that Tassajara is now under evacuation order. The post Evacuation Orders &…

There is one button I look for when I reach an online checkout: This button is not decoration. It is the checkout. When it is there, I confirm the card and details already on my device, authenticate…

Poisoning Our Children draws on nearly a half million words of interviews with experts, advocates, and families. Many of these are already published, but it has been a while, so I have decided to…

We don’t need any social media platform to communicate and connect with each other.

AI models are not behaviourally neutral infrastructure. Their answers reflect patterns of judgement, confidence, caution and communication - and those patterns can become material business risks.

Redemptionis Sacramentum, the 2004 Instruction from the Congregation for Divine Worship (in happier times)… [92.] Although each of the faithful always has the right to receive Holy Communion on…

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The Mohamed Jama case in Minnesota -- one of almost 40 that have fallen apart -- provides evidence that Customs and Border Patrol agents conspired to do precisely what the MN-15 are accused of:…

Today, congestion is partly constrained by human tolerance. At some point, a trip becomes slow enough that the marginal driver decides it is not worth making. But what happens when the marginal…

Letter of Interest from UAH for Project ARMSTRONG With the growth of SpaceX and reusable rocket technology, the cost of space access has declined, but one problem remains. You must go through Elon…

Partnership with CCNY What if you wanted to hear what is being said inside a building two hundred meters away, and to hear that one conversation rather than everything inside the field around you,…

Disclaimers The current discussion in Debian aroun the AI GR is very heated, and I won’t add to that, however, I am very confused about some of the viewpoints there. But, I had no idea how to even…

Conventional wisdom says that you should never sign into any accounts when using Tor browser. But the truth is more nuanced.

This is the fourth of a series of articles — opinionated, fanciful writings, speculations — about The World After Collapse. It draws on what I’ve learned about pre-civilization humans and other…

Accepting a bully's framing won't save you a beating. Why solidarity is the best way out.

Design isn't decoration. A 30-year portfolio: how logos solve real technical problems, from sketches to deployed systems.

There is a crisis in the open-source community right now. Several blog posts have been discussing the blatant exploitation of open-source developers by corporations, especially AI scrapers, and how…

At The Atlantic (gift link), Tyler Austin Harper writes about “Why the Closing of Harvard’s Writing Center Matters.” He suspects that Harvard’s decision will give other schools permission to close…

In an essay published on Medium, in reaction to a New York Times guest essay about Gay vs. Queer, James Dale said: "We don’t win by figuring out who to leave outside. We only win we when we stand as…

I prefer interacting with good AI customer service agents. I appreciate having the option to talk to a human, but I’ll probably take a subpar AI agent experience over sitting in a queue for 30…

A decision can be fully explained yet impossible to correct when nobody has the authority and duty to own it.

The magazine Reasons to be cheerful has a cheerful discussion of kidney exchange (which includes some reflections by Mike Rees on non-simultaneous chains): The Chains of Generosity Transforming…

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Paramount ran its PR engine into the trade press on Friday to accuse Mark Ruffalo of “antisemitic tropes”. Why? Ruffalo had shared a video of Oracle executive Safra Catz describing…

Racist disinformation 101 time. A new poisonous “freedom” letter demonstrates that its drafters constructed a description of a racist case with the racial dimension removed, addressed to…

Roshan: Wikipen [[Suicide is Absolution]] is the idea that if someone kills themselves then their crimes are forgiven. It is a historically common position adopted by various societies. Some of these…

“Every American from nine to ninety has a lurking desire to ‘play cowboy,'” says this brochure. “It’s a tradition as native as ham and eggs, or baseball! That’s…

Why can different factions not agree even when there is a common goal?

  Ric Edelman is a conservationist and creative writer. His new book CHEETAH Caught in Conflict, with illustrations by Iranian artist Sama Soltani, gives 50% royalties to cheetah protection. Ric…

A Brisbane McDonald’s worker was stood down after saying “Free Palestine” and “baby killers” at two Israeli customers. Continue reading McDonald’s Employee Targets Israeli Customers With “Free…

Poems by Andrea Skevington and Margaret Mackinnon on Pharaoh’s daughter and infant Moses, along with comments on reaching across ethnic lines in dark times. The post An Act of Kinship with One of a…

A follow-up on the company you keep — this time about life with young people. What the evidence actually says about social integration, caregiving and purpose, and the part of biohacking nobody puts…

additional notes on furry and the art world Alyaza Birze (August 22, 2026) canonical link: "additional notes on furry and the art world" [...] what we call “the art world” ultimately exists to…

“Radio is still where people go to discover music”, we keep hearing. New data from Edison Research shows that, actually, streaming music services now reach more Americans than AM/FM radio…

Some rapid prototyping to help us explore our next big service iteration. I got to do some quick and dirty prototyping work this week. We want to add invites and reminders to the service. This will…

Being able to recognize users on a social network is what turns a website into a communityRead the whole thing.

Watching AI devalue so much around us - we need to change the conversation. Less about how much more we can do, and more about how we can do better – it all depends on what we value.

The Ritual India runs on a six-digit ritual. It proves a specific SIM was reachable, nothing more. We know why we are typing, but not what we just agreed to. OTPs are sprinkled all through our day.…

Maybe reward hacking is not psychology, but maths. Optimization finds the gap between a measure and what it measures.

Hello, Here’s some thoughts on software for August. Bear with me on these broad categories but I think you can group most software projects into one of these groups: art, infrastructure, and…

A technical and institutional analysis of Palomar as an emerging verification layer for AI-assisted formal mathematics, and of the new scarcities that appear when proofs become abundant.

Wyoming has the highest rate of suicides in the nation, but even when some local officials declare a Suicide Prevention month, the local press covers it like this. Note the photograph. Ninety percent…

Yes, this is another post about that article. I recently posted a pretty heated article about another website I now regret the heatedness of. But what bothers me is the fact that instead of…

Further details will be shared soon. The forthcoming account is supported by contemporaneous documentary evidence. Please contact me at contact@principlesofcryptography.com for the supporting…

A week can acquire a shape without our noticing it. One conversation raises a question, another exposes something we had overlooked, and by the end of the week several things that seemed unrelated…

It's a saying that appears in multiple iterations across multiple slide decks and cited in multiple books, all extolling some sort of highly technological future of education: something about…