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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.

lardel.li

Soon owning will be impossible

It‘s maybe time to think about the theoretical limits of the current economic system (which could surprisingly soon become very practical).

anthropic.com

The Anthropic Institute

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

terrygodier.com

The last quiet thing

Your possessions came alive. Now they won’t stop talking.

europeantechmap.eu

European Tech Map

Find European tech, software, and service alternatives that respect your data sovereignty, are built with GDPR in mind, and store data in Europe.

danielmiessler.com

The great transition

A mental model for thinking about all the big changes that are happening as a single transition.

nottoday.diy

Technofascism Network Map

Mapping the alliance of billionaires, politicians, and tech giants driving global techno-fascism.