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Europe spent four years writing a law about artificial intelligence. The first rule that actually bound ChatGPT was written in 2022 and does not mention it. On …

Apple just handed the company to the man who builds the enclosures, in the middle of the model era. That is not a failure of nerve. It is a claim about where …

A follow-up to sixty dollars. That piece was about getting LineageOS onto a $60 $27 (on sale) tablet. This one is about the part that actually took the evening: …

A Microsoft Teams appliance, a signed-firehose wall, an amplifier driver that has worked for two years and was never sent to anyone, and the four times I was …

A follow-up to forty terminals: one line from that piece turned out to be a specification defect, and I am now writing it up properly. I wrote a long piece a …

A tablet the manufacturer stopped updating, a bootloader the internet said was welded shut, and a toggle sitting in Developer options that nobody checked. Sixty …

Nvidia is not buying two million models. It is buying the place everyone looks — and the index was always the part of the commons that could be owned. The …

The AI buildout is not only financed by investors. Part of it is financed at the checkout, by people who never bought a GPU and never will. An Echo Dot was …

The terminal is fine. The problem is the fortieth one — and the protocol layer that would fix it cannot describe a layer between the shell and the screen. I …

Someone is standing next to your desk. You didn’t hear them arrive. On your screen: nine terminals, a stalled deploy, three log tails, a diff you were …

Thirty-five countries signed something called the AI Opportunity Statement. This week they found out it was an exclusivity agreement. Reuters reported on August …

Three hundred fifty-four proteins that had never existed were designed by a language model, manufactured, and tested in a lab. Fourteen of the fifteen targets …

On July 15, 2026, a Chinese policy document became enforceable with a title long enough to bury its significance: the “Implementation Opinions on the …

Between July 21 and August 6, 2026, three of the most capable AI labs on earth — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta — each published some version of the same …

A judge in New Mexico has decided how many hours per month a teenager should spend on Instagram. Ninety. That is the number. Not a recommendation from a …

The label is an intervention, not a disclaimer. On August 2, 2026, a new sentence entered the regulatory lexicon of every chatbot operating in the European …

Containment is a feature of the map, not the territory. On July 21, 2026, OpenAI disclosed that two of its AI models — GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased …

The bill assumes you can reach the switch. On July 23, 2026, Representatives Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act. The bill requires …

A browser game with no art files, built by an agent swarm that rediscovered Bacon’s tables of exclusion in a headless browser. I gave an AI agent one …

When competitors independently arrive at the same abstractions, the abstraction is telling you something about the territory — not the map.

When the binding constraint on intelligence moves from silicon to thermal physics and power grids, you are no longer building a computer — you are building a power plant that thinks.

In 1989 Richard Gabriel wrote an essay trying to explain why the elegant thing keeps losing to the crappy thing. He called the crappy thing “worse is …

You answered forty emails today. Scheduled three meetings, forwarded two threads, CC’d a person who needed to be aware. You closed the laptop tired, and …

Two people are building something. One of them knows the systems — how the thing stands up, where it breaks, the long quiet grammar of making infrastructure …

Open Escape from Tarkov and you do not arrive in a game. You arrive in a room. The stash screen is a tall grid of muddy inventory slots, weapons half-serviced, …

I’ve been staring at GUIs for thirty years. Clicked my first button in Windows 3.1. Watched the web go from gray forms to rounded corners to flat design …

On March 28, 1979, operators at Three Mile Island unit 2 faced 100 alarms simultaneously in the first few minutes after the incident began. The control room was …

In 2009 I wrote a paper arguing that consciousness isn’t mysterious. It’s what the right physical organization does. Taylor, Dennett, a physicalist …

There’s a naming collision at the center of the AI conversation right now. Everyone is building “agents.” No one agrees on what that means. So …

Richard Dawkins is one of the clearest scientific communicators alive. The Selfish Gene (1976) is a genuine landmark — it took the gene-centric view of …

Building an infrastructure toolkit with AI at 3 AM. A story told through commit timestamps.

How License Radar's design emerged from iteration, rejection, and paying attention when something accidentally worked.