AI promises miracle cures. We expect grounded planes
On the ouster of Jensen Huang, the broadening AI backlash, and the dull desperation of Anthropic and OpenAI’s IPO pitch.
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Release: datasette-cluster-map 0.19 One of the oldest Datasette plugins, and still one of my favorites. It now works with Datasette 1.0a42, and depends on the new datasette-leaflet to ensure OpenStreetMap tiles are requested with a referrer header. Here's a ma…
Introducing the Blygger Protocol
Blygger hackathon kicks off Nov 20
datasette-leaflet 0.3
Release: datasette-leaflet 0.3 OpenStreetMap have a very reasonable policy that hits to their hosted tile server should send a referrer header. Datasette table pages used the Referrer-Policy: no-referrer HTTP header, causing plugins that loaded tiles from Open…
Pluralistic: I told you so (13 Nov 2026)
Today's links I told you so: Microsoft is too big to live. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Canada's corrupt copyright czar; Universal Music CEO v iPod owners; Berlusconi x neo-fascists; Balancing 3,118 coins on a dime; All for-profi…
Sherry Turkle Conversation
My new series of audio interviews begins
Jensen Huang Resigns After Having Another Affair In Addition to the Chinese Spy
Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO of Nvidia and left its board.
NFIDELITY
At least right now, it's not the crime, it's the cover-up...
Timeline of gambling addicts
Using anonymized credit card data, Bloomberg illustrated a three-year timeline of online gambling.… Tags: Bloomberg, gambling, prediction market, sports, timeline
Jensen Huang and the end of the ‘lol nothing matters’ era of American politics
The real scandal about Nvidia had almost nothing to do with sex — and everything to do with Silicon Valley’s cult of the founder
llm-gemini 0.37
Release: llm-gemini 0.37 Google launched Gemini 4 Hydrogen today - the lowest cost member of the Gemini 4 family. It's actually not too far off the price of its much bigger siblings, Carbon and Argon. I'm finding Gemini 4's pricing really confusing. Here's the…
✚ Annotating line charts for presentation
This is No. 414 of The Process. I'm Nathan Yau, and this week we get into specifics for annotation on line charts to draw attention and communicate patterns more clearly. Tags: annotation
Pluralistic: Uber's labor crash (12 Nov 2026)
Today's links Uber's labor crash: Replacing serfs with robots just doesn't pencil out. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Asimov inspired Al Qaeda; PATRIOT Act scares Canadian customers off US servers; EFF v Trump; Internet infrastruct…
Introducing: Qualiaphobic AI
And a good future for humanity
AI #194: Spy Versus Guy
Tomorrow I head to Washington DC for a conference called The Takeoff.
Jensen's Affairs • Is His Chinese Mistress a Spy?
Just when you thought the Jensen Huang situation could not get any more crazy – another shoe drops and the picture around that first shoe continues to evolve. Read on for thoughts on...
Technology as a Search Problem
One of my ongoing research interests is understanding the nature of technological progress: How does new technology come into the world and improve over time?
[Note] Crosswords + FOSS = ❤️
Open source software plus open standards combine to deliver the latest cryptic crosswords by my friend Ash directly to my device. MyCrossword publishes RSS feeds by setter. FreshRSS subscribes to that feed. Capy Reader syncs that to my phone. Forkyz imports th…
BikeNetKit is a toolkit to improve the bicycle network in your city
When your city doesn’t support a proper infrastructure for bicycles, it can be… Tags: bicyle, cities, Python, toolkit
NYC’s venture capitalists need to love themselves
I really want a lot of venture capital investors to work on their self-esteem. After a few decades of supporting and mentoring New York City’s tech community, I hope I’m credible when I say I care a lot about how it thrives. So one of the most disappointing—an…
The anti-marketing aspect of the Gemini network
The anti-marketing aspect of the Gemini network And why your niche should stay a niche I like Gemini. Not the Google Chatbot but the network that existed before Google named its product. If you are enough of a geek, you may want to give it a try. Creating a Bl…
Gemini Decisions API
Gemini Decisions API Google join Jev and OpenAI in the decision model category with "Gemini Decision 1". This new model API is almost identical to Jev: it supports the same three types of questions (yes/no, choice, and rubric-scoring) and even reuses Jev's ter…
aws-emulator
aws-emulator Finally, an official emulator from AWS to run tests against a local clone of their many different services without having to provision a paid API key to do so. It's written in Rust by a huge swarm of agents - 29,684 commits in the first three week…
Nathaniel at WordCamp Canada
Nathaniel Christopher has a lovely recap of his time at WordCamp Canada. Very cool that the dashboard widget helped connect him to the local community. Hat tip: Anne.
Browse tools.simonwillison.net by tag
Browse tools.simonwillison.net by tag I've been wanting a better way to browse my collection of vibe-coded tools (244 and counting) for a while. I had a few Fable 5.2 credits left over before my weekly reset so I set it to work using tree-sitter to analyze the…
llm 0.37.2
Release: llm 0.37.2 Fixes a security issue reported by Daniel de Araujo in GHSA-v9h7-jj4g-f862 and GHSA-r639-rr7r-x72w. LLM has a mechanism called extra-openai-models.yaml - now managed by the new-in-0.37 llm openai endpoint add command - for using LLM with Op…
Fable and Mythos 5.2: The System Card
It’s that time again: Introducing the world’s most powerful model, Claude Mythos 5.2.
Anthropic's IPO roadshow video
Anthropic's IPO roadshow video Anthropic kicked off their IPO roadshow yesterday, and their roadshow video has some previously unreleased information about how their business works. The section on "Approach to compute" with co-founder Tom Brown is particularly…
[Reply] Re: Decimal Clock
Niki proposed a decimalised analogue clock, with ten subdivisions broken into partial hours. I much prefer a traditional clock, and propose an alternative approach.
Nintendo Goes Back to the Zelda Well
'Ocarina of Time' should be the first of many reworks for the Switch 2...