Sep 15, 2025
The answer is no; right-wing violence remains far more common in America, but you should still read the article.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/09/12/is-radical-left-violence-really-on-the-rise-in-america
Sep 13, 2025
As usual, Cal articulates something with an prodigious level of clairty. It does feel as though we're past the point of being able to save civil society.
https://calnewport.com/on-charlie-kirk-and-saving-civil-society/
Sep 13, 2025
Journalism is getting battered now. But thanks to the AI boom, Gabe Rivera's 20-year-old headline site Techmeme has never been hotter.
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/08/at-20-techmeme-has-never-been-hotter/
Sep 13, 2025
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said Thursday he had appointed the world's first AI-generated government minister to oversee public tenders, promising its artificial intelligence would make it "corruption-free". Good luck with that.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250911-albania-appoints-ai-generated-minister-to-avoid-corruption
Sep 12, 2025
Unlocking the Opportunity in Re-skilling 1 Billion Knowledge Workers in a Post-AI world
https://ecologiesofwisdom.substack.com/p/the-birth-of-the-wisdom-economy
Sep 12, 2025
Social media promised connection, but it's kinda been a while since that happened.
https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/
Sep 12, 2025
Zvi, as usual, is required reading.
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/reports-of-ai-not-progressing-or?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=573100&post_id=171983032&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3o9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Sep 12, 2025
Cool test-based game. An AI ship full of frozen colonists must find the best planet to be the new home of the human race.
https://philome.la/johnayliff/seedship/play/index.html
Sep 12, 2025
We're witnessing the final generation of people who translate ideas into code by hand.
https://www.xipu.li/posts/the-last-programmers
Sep 12, 2025
As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself.
https://www.thenexus.media/tiktok-won-now-everything-is-60-seconds/
Sep 12, 2025
Dozens of members of the fashion industry what luxury means today.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/2025/09/11/luxury-designer-fashion/
Sep 8, 2025
Translating an essential work about jazz by Haruki Murakami and Makoto Wada
https://joelcondemi.substack.com/p/haruki-murakamis-portrait-in-jazz
Sep 8, 2025
So dumb. If you can't tell by squeezing it, you don't deserve it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vzxxlxky4o
Sep 6, 2025
Feels like critical thinking in the classroon is nigh
https://archive.is/2TeLa
Sep 6, 2025
IYKYK
https://absolutelyright.lol/
Sep 6, 2025
Robot history
https://www.theoldrobots.com/index2.html
Sep 5, 2025
TIHI. I guess that's entertainment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/movies/wizard-of-oz-sphere-review.html
Sep 5, 2025
JFC. This is going to be worse than trying to get a shot when they first became available.
https://defector.com/how-the-fuck-are-you-supposed-to-get-your-covid-vaccine
Sep 2, 2025
I'm a big fan of what Herman is doing with Bear, but most of all I remain impressed by his prinicples.
https://herman.bearblog.dev/license/
Aug 31, 2025
A nice tool to convert email newsletters into Atom feeds.
https://kill-the-newsletter.com/
Aug 31, 2025
Yamanotes is a lovely web-based music box for playing the departure melodies of each station.
https://yamanot.es/#current
Aug 27, 2025
I love the idea of an absurd opposite of a URL shortener
https://www.namitjain.com/tools/url-lengthener
Aug 27, 2025
This fall, Gen Z is driving a powerful shift toward thrifting and sustainable shopping, making secondhand style not only smart, but stylish.
https://newsroom.pinterest.com/news/the-2025-pinterest-fall-trend-report/
Aug 27, 2025
Folie a deux ex machina
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-search-of-ai-psychosis
Aug 27, 2025
An interesting paper from MIT discussing the state of AI in Business from July 2025
https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf
Aug 27, 2025
I commend the effort and the name of this project. If my filters weren't so complex, I might be inclined to try this.
https://unfuck.email/
Aug 27, 2025
An absolutely incredible archive. I read a lot of BYTE as a computer nerd kid.
https://byte.tsundoku.io/
Aug 26, 2025
Absolutely scathing. These are the not the work of carpenters who care about the backs of the cabinets.
https://daringfireball.net/2025/08/macos_26_tahoes_dead_canary_utility_app_icons
Aug 25, 2025
Cool to see this new tool that uses Bridgy Fed to help migrate your social graph between Mastodon and Bluesky.
https://blog.anew.social/bounce-a-cross-protocol-migration-tool/?ref=a-new-social-newsletter
Aug 25, 2025
Guardio put agentic AI browsers to the test.
https://guard.io/labs/scamlexity-we-put-agentic-ai-browsers-to-the-test-they-clicked-they-paid-they-failed
Aug 25, 2025
In an age of AI, there is a growing effort in academia to return to handwritten assignments. I'm all for it.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/bring-back-the-blue-book-exam
Aug 25, 2025
Consciousness is a critical foundation for our moral and legal rights. So far, civilization has decided that humans have special rights and privileges.
https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-conscious-ai-is-coming
Aug 24, 2025
Data has created a new and paradoxical social order: the promise of emancipation is made possible by classifying everything.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-sovereign-individual-and-the-paradox-of-the-digital-age
Aug 24, 2025
Spiritual care and technology are converging across the country, reshaping the theology of trust.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/19/1121389/ai-data-church-surveillance-america/
Aug 23, 2025
A long, intimate conversation about fatherhood, fascism, and his surprise new album ‘Live Laugh Love.’
https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/music/earl-sweatshirt-live-laugh-love
Aug 20, 2025
In honor of Nate Silver’s analysis of when to leave for the airport, and because it’s been an intense week, Zvi offers his thoughts on various related questions.
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/spending-too-much-time-at-airports/
Aug 20, 2025
Some good journalism from The Markup about how dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data.
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2025/08/12/we-caught-companies-making-it-harder-to-delete-your-data
Aug 19, 2025
Impressive! From the folks who created SwiftUI comes a way to build apps for your phone, on your phone.
https://www.bitrig.app/
Aug 19, 2025
This brings back the serious feels. Wow.
https://phrack.org/issues/72/1
Aug 19, 2025
A new study on acceleration of vascular aging adds to the body of evidence. I have thankfully only had it once that I know of and I hope to avoid getting it again.
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/covid-and-our-arteries?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=587835&post_id=171283898&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1et5q&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Aug 19, 2025
The FDA's decision clears the way for the first cultured fish to join the small but growing alternative protein market.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lab-grown-salmon-hits-the-menu-at-an-oregon-restaurant-as-the-fda-greenlights-the-cell-cultured-product-180986769/
Aug 19, 2025
A deep dive
https://sabrinas.space/
Aug 19, 2025
There's something I love about opening a text-only webpage.
https://albanbrooke.com/the-beauty-of-a-text-only-webpage/
Aug 19, 2025
T-Mobile can’t overturn $92 million fine; Even with the fine, I bet they still come out ahead.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/t-mobile-claimed-selling-location-data-without-consent-is-legal-judges-disagree/
Aug 17, 2025
A lot of what this lawsuit talks about is exactly why I cancelled my Otter subscription. Super shady.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g-s1-83087/otter-ai-transcription-class-action-lawsuit
Aug 13, 2025
How to reclaim our humanity
https://lithub.com/ruled-by-numbers-how-data-dominates-every-facet-of-our-daily-lives/
Aug 12, 2025
Mostly agree. I use Claude Code for a lot and really enjoyed this.
https://dwyer.co.za/static/claude-code-is-all-you-need.html
Aug 9, 2025
The FDA approved Vizz, the first-of-its-kind prescription treatment to release later this year. Yay, science! Might have to try.
https://www.popsci.com/health/farsightedness-eye-drops-vizz/
Aug 7, 2025
He says GPT-5 is his daily-driver and his new favorite model.
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt-5/
Aug 7, 2025
To commemorate Ozzy, the best fonts site on the web take a deep dive into the obscure sources for the titling designs on Black Sabbath's early album covers.
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/35835/the-arcane-alphabets-of-black-sabbath
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