Devoured this series. It was a lovely respite from the dense nonfiction I’ve been focused on. I believe my fantasy era has dawned. The first book is missing from the stack cause I already loaned it to a friend! Lol
Kendall Swarthout
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Mountain enthusiast 🏔️ Dog-obsessed 🐶 Growing things 🌱 History fan 📚 Lifelong tinkerer 💻 Full-stack engineer 👾 kendallswarthout.com
Couldn’t agree more with the arguments in this post addyosmani.com/blog/compreh...
Comprehension Debt - the hidden cost of AI generated code.
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“History is often shaped not by deterministic power relations, but rather by tragic mistakes that result from believing in mesmerizing but harmful stories.” — Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus
With the execution of Alex Pretti, the lines have been clearly drawn. Defenders of the killing will be defenders of state terror, through and through. Benefactors and enablers of the state carrying out this killing—particularly those in Silicon Valley—must decide which side they are on
The lines have been drawn
Silicon Valley must decide which side it's on
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“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it...The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him…” — G. Orwell, 1984
"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus," Jonathan Rauch argues. "'Fascist' best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse." theatln.tc/wVq7MFaa
😔 so tough to lose a community member. Sending love to the family.
KTLA 5@ktla.com · 8mo agoMammoth Mountain ski patroller dies following avalanche
Pluribus is so damn good. Vince Gilligan knocks it out of the park again.
Stumbled upon this gem of a podcast and binge listened to it all weekend. They‘re whip smart, thorough, and funny. Here’s one episode on the complicated dynamics and history of public commentary on women’s bodies: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Is There a ‘Skinny Apocalypse’ in Hollywood?
Podcast Episode · Diabolical Lies · 12/14/2025 · 2h 2m
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Great podcast covering the history of AI and various perspectives on developing superhuman intelligence podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Last Invention
Technology Podcast · Semiweekly Series · The AI revolution has begun – the product of a seventy-year quest by scientists, mathematicians, and visionaries who set out to build machines that could think...
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This is a raw, brave book about love, addiction, and the unexpected beauty in our messy human experience. I couldn’t put this one down.
I’m officially a fan of Erik Larson. This was a solid book, really enjoyed learning about the Battle of Britain and the resilient spirit of the Brits during the blitz.
Incredible book on addiction and the modern society’s unintended effects on our neurocircuitry.
Finally got to meet this legendary piece. Matisse is my favorite artist to view in person 🎨
I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10mo agoNVIDIA and OpenAi: Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“ @bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
KEXP is an incredible station. If you don’t know about them yet, start listening www.kexp.org
Help Power KEXP's Fall Drive
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It’s all about the women’s race at the inaugural Mammoth 200. Incredible to watch these runners on my home turf 🦣⛰️ www.youtube.com/live/yTZT9AJ...
2025 the MAMMOTH 200 | Day 2 Morning | Stream 4 presented by CRAFT
YouTube video by Mountain Outpost
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“The researchers demonstrated that hallucinations stemmed from statistical properties of language model training rather than implementation flaws.” www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
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In case anyone needs a primer on the authoritarian playbook youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?...
History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
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“They don’t really understand what’s going on, but that deep pile of data allows them to present an illusion of intelligence. I wouldn’t actually call it intelligence.” Gary Marcus outlines an AI-realist position chatting with chess legend Garry Kasparov. open.spotify.com/episode/564U...
The Computer Scientist
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One-stop resource from NASA about yesterday's announcement of a potential biosignature on Mars: science.nasa.gov/mars/the-mar...
“Generative ai would not be the first tech fad to experience a wave of excessive hype. What makes the current situation distinctive is that AI appears to be propping up something like the entire U.S. economy.”
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 11mo agoWe might be “experiencing an AI bubble,” Rogé Karma argues. “If that bubble bursts, it could put the dot-com crash to shame—and the tech giants and their Silicon Valley backers won’t be the only ones who suffer.”
Dan Carlin is one of my favorite podcasters, it really doesn’t get better than Hardcore History. Here Dan reflects on the current times in America, with a historian‘s perspective. www.samharris.org/podcasts/mak...
Sam Harris | #433 - How Did We Get Here?
Sam Harris speaks with Dan Carlin about the decades-long buildup to our current political moment.
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I suspect we're in the twilight period of traditional software development, and that an increasing number of successful supply chain attacks like this will be the driver towards fundamental shifts towards paranoia about dependencies and formal verification. jdstaerk.substack.com/p/we-just-fo...
Anatomy of a Billion-Download NPM Supply-Chain Attack
A massive NPM supply chain attack has compromised foundational packages like Chalk, affecting over 1 billion weekly downloads. We dissect the crypto-stealing malware and show you how to protect your p...
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