Unwinding the great tech power grab
How tech has atrophied the exact civic muscle we’ll need to reclaim power over it.
How tech has atrophied the exact civic muscle we’ll need to reclaim power over it.
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
Rigorous thinking about the future produces extreme outcomes.
If the world takes the right steps, AI will be a force for good and leave everyone better off.
A quick note about future of computing and indieweb.
Mapping 50 years of economic data to measure software's productivity yield.
How Colossus cracked Germany’s encrypted communications.
As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.
The web's biggest hand curated directory of apps and experiments that simulate desktop operating systems.
Interpretability research on Claude’s internal thoughts.
Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM.
Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.
Anthropic's progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.
There was a time when the internet had a place in the home; a corner, a schedule, a shared practice.
One’s ability to ignore politics is a product of functional system that shares your worldview.
A small archive of punch cards and ephemera from the 1930s through 1980s.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission.
Spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching.