Hand-drawn illustration library
Open Peeps by Pablo Stanley is a library of people illustrations. You can… Tags: illustration, Open Peeps, Pablo Stanley
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30 of 2732Pluralistic: How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026)
Today's links How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses: If you can't impose switching costs, just eliminate the competition. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Flash Worms; This Film is Not Yet Rated; Libdem copyright sabotage; Religion…
Jev means structured output is interesting again
“The Secret Life of Circuits” is here
Some pics, endorsements, and the reason the book exists in the first place.
Gemini Live audio
Tool: Gemini Live audio Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking today - two new speech-to-speech models that are a similar shape to OpenAI's GPT-Live family. I pointed GPT-6 Astra Extra High at the documentation and had it build me this…
Apple TV Dethrones HBO
Well, in Emmy wins at least. And Netflix too!
The Ductus of Protocol Fiction
An update from our Protocol Fiction SIG takes us under the hood of the emerging genre
They’re not scared of Skynet. They’re scared of Chernobyl.
The whole AI safety drama, explained.
The Bad Guy With An AI Named Claude
A lot of bad guys try to use Claude to do bad things.
[Video] What Should William Do? [RSS Exclusive!]
I'm just doing my annual Preventing Workplace Harassment training at work, and one clip in particular stood out as... especially half-hearted.
Canada is cosying up to Europe
What can they give each other?
[Note] F-Day plus 214
It’s been 214 days since I had to evacuate my house following a flood, and repair work is (intermittently) underway. And there are so-many moving pieces to this dance that… it’s little wonder that people are getting confused. Like: Our insurance company appoin…
AI's "No Fate" Future
Is AI about to end humanity? No one knows – most notably those proclaiming such things...
Humanity’s Flight 93 Moment
It’s time to ban smart machines making smarter machines
Hotter days and more of them
Summer 2026 is likely the hottest summer on record since 1895. The NYT… Tags: climate change, heat, New York Times
[Article] A Postcard from a Labyrinth Artist
Another Postcard From The Internet landed on my doormat this week... and it's from a real-life labyrinth designer and artist based in Canada. So cool!
Consuming more than the Colorado River provides
The Colorado River is at risk due to drought and states using more… Tags: Colorado River, consumption, drought, Reuters, water
Pluralistic: Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026)
Today's links Everybody pees: Even Jeff Bezos. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Zune won't play Microsoft files; Papercraft 1:1 Mustang; Third gender for Aussie passports; France hacked Canada; EC v links; Welcome to Night Vale; Univ…
Following: The government doesn't want to regulate AI
The leaders of AI labs agree that the United States to act, and soon. But the president and the speaker of the House aren't interested
Tell agents the why, not just the how
Tag index for Org mode blog
Since people keep asking how this blog is made, and I don’t want to share the awful, terrible code that it is taped together with, I’ve decided to start explaining parts of it piecewise. Generally, any time something breaks and I have to fix it, I write down w…
The contagion of fear
The contagion of fear Bryan Cantrill responds to the tweet by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon confirming that many Anthropic researchers believe AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade". Bryan shares a story of his own youthful mistakes causing un…
What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?
My comment on What blog posts influenced your thinking the most? — Lobste.rs.An early Joel Spolsky one for me was The Law of Leaky Abstractions. I read that near the start of my career and it's encouraged me to always be looking for improved understanding of t…
[Repost] On Publishing Your Salary
Kev Quirk observes that of folks who (like me) choose to share their salary online, there's likely to be a skew towards higher salaries. What can we do to better-contextualise that, I wonder?
Japan requests revision to UN-supported map
The United Nations voted to support the Equal Area map projection, which more… Tags: cartography, Guardian, Japan, world
We Must Pace The Frontier
Dario Amodei has a new essay that finally says the thing: We Must Pace the Frontier, naming his call after the Pacing the Frontier letter lab employees signed in July.
Quoting Laurie Voss
The cost of writing code collapsed, and the cost of reviewing, fixing and operating it is following, and I'm assuming it gets there. What's left of making software is finding out what people actually want, defining it precisely, and making it pleasant to use.…
Pluralistic: But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026)
Today's links But do you use keyboard shortcuts?: AI people are WEIRD. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Changeling"; Sony Rootkit vs CD drives; Google's scumbag lobbyists; NJ's e-voting coverup; Spying sex toys; Scott Walker dark mo…
[Reply] Re: How I made…
Noah S shared how he used some PHP code to block specific badly-behaved bots from his website. I've got a few suggestions to help him make his block faster, easier-to-maintain, and more-thorough, either using PHP code or webserver configuration.
Inverse-square law
In which Sally loses her marbles.