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virtualosmuseum.org

The Virtual OS Museum

Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM.

influence.citationneeded.news

Tech Influence Watch

Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.

anthropic.com

When AI builds itself

Anthropic's progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

mudmapmagazine.com

The utopia of the family computer

There was a time when the internet had a place in the home; a corner, a schedule, a shared practice.

chrbutler.com

Cynicism is a luxury; hope is a necessity.

One’s ability to ignore politics is a product of functional system that shares your worldview.

punchcards.tristandavey.com

Tristan Davey’s punch card archive

A small archive of punch cards and ephemera from the 1930s through 1980s.

sinceyouarrived.world

Taken

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission.

perthirtysix.com

How the heck does Shazam work?

Spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching.

sheets.works

154 Macs since 1983

A visual biography.

newsletter.dancohen.org

The role of a new machine

An old book puts today’s new technology in perspective.

tante.cc

AI as a fascist artifact

Our world is built around technological infrastructures that define what we see, who we can talk to and what information gets presented to us.

smashingmagazine.com

How to improve UX in legacy systems

Practical guidelines for driving UX impact in organizations with legacy systems and broken processes.

theyseeyourphotos.com

They see your photos

Upload a photo to find out how much an AI sees. Spoiler alert: more than you think.

martinfowler.com

Principles of mechanical sympathy

Memory access patterns, false sharing, the single-writer principle, and natural batching.

greaterwrong.com

My picture of the present in AI

A scenario forecast, but for the present (which is already uncertain) rather than the future.

youtube.com

Bernie vs. Claude

Speaking to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that violates our privacy rights.

lesswrong.com

A mirror test for LLMs

In which we propose a new measure of LLM self-awareness but ultimately decide they fall short.

banray.eu

Ban Ray: Your face is not inventory

Meta sold seven million pairs of camera glasses. The people being filmed never consented. Ban them.

thelibre.news

The political use of operating systems

How operating systems shape the way we interact with institutions, private entities and peers.

sophielwang.com

JPEG compression

How compression formats dictate our visual culture.