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rebeccawilliams.info

Unwinding the great tech power grab

How tech has atrophied the exact civic muscle we’ll need to reclaim power over it.

doc.cc

We used to log off

Online used to be a place you could leave.

ordinaryabundance.com

Ordinary abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

borretti.me

Futurism is always extreme

Rigorous thinking about the future produces extreme outcomes.

gatesnotes.com

The turbulent AI era is here

If the world takes the right steps, AI will be a force for good and leave everyone better off.

henry.codes

I dream of quieter computing

A quick note about future of computing and indieweb.

uxdesign.cc

What is the purpose of software

Mapping 50 years of economic data to measure software's productivity yield.

taylor.town

I’m leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park

Gonna send you back to the stone age.

spectrum.ieee.org

The computer that helped win World War II

How Colossus cracked Germany’s encrypted communications.

nytimes.com

Google is building an AI fence around the web it once championed

As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.

simone.computer

Web desktops

The web's biggest hand curated directory of apps and experiments that simulate desktop operating systems.

anthropic.com

A global workspace in language models

Interpretability research on Claude’s internal thoughts.

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.