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Tuesday, 26 May 2026
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic: “Within the U.S. today, people are again moving because of disasters, and because of the slow-grind attrition of heat, flooding, and rising insurance rates. Earlier this year, the nonprofit Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre found that disasters had caused 11 million evacuations or relocations in the previous 12 months.” (published December, 2025)
The Eternal Sloptember
George Hotz: “Without even thinking about it, they assume the creator had a basically human state of mind. This assumption is no longer true. Things can be broken in ways that weren’t previously possible, and old proxies of underlying quality like syntax and grammar are useless.”
Sunday, 24 May 2026
You can no longer Google the word ‘disregard’
Russell Brandom: “As you’ll notice, the Merriam-Webster link is still in there, but you have to scroll past a huge block of empty space. For most users, that single reply is the only thing you’ll see. And crucially, the AI response serves no conceivable value to a user searching the word ‘disregard.’”
Saturday, 23 May 2026
“No way to prevent this” say users of only package manager where this regularly happens
Xe Iaso: “… echoing statements expressed by hundreds of thousands of programmers who use the only package manager where 90% of the world’s supply-chain attacks have occurred in the last decade, and whose projects are 20 times more likely to fall victim to supply chain attacks.”
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Baldur Bjarnason: “Even free and open source software is contingent on everybody agreeing to similar policies regarding copyright.”
All non-drone militaries are obsolete
Noah Smith: “Until recently, people would insist that electronic warfare would blast drones out of the sky. That excuse has mostly disappeared now that drone technology has found ways around EW […]. Now, you see people insisting that soldiers can shoot drones out of the sky with shotguns”
Sunday, 10 May 2026
claude code is not making your product better
Ethan Ding: “if using claude code gives you a genuine product velocity advantage, and anthropic had it exclusively for 7 months, the gap between claude code and every competitor should be unbridgeable. codex would be irrelevant. instead, people are still actively debating which one is better. the compound advantage isn’t showing up. something else is bottlenecking product quality, and it was never the code”
Programming Is Real Engineering, And AI Proves It
Jeremy Bowers: “Those of us who live in the programming world can end up with a very skewed view of the capabilities of AI right now, because in our world, they are incredibly useful in ways that are much more difficult to extend into other domains. … But now what I consider the basic minimum acceptable engineering for any project that goes into source control is substantially more than was even available to me in 1997. … The AIs bang along all our bumpers; failing compiles, failing tests, failing integrations, error messages, all the bumpers we’ve built into our engineering process, and in the end they get a good result. But that good result is as much a result of all the solid engineering processes we have installed as anything else, because the AI without those protections rolls into the gutter relatively quickly.”
Wednesday, 29 April 2026
Claude Mythos Has Found 271 Zero-Days in Firefox
Bruce Schnier: “No, it’s an extraordinary number […] Assuming the defenders can patch, and push those patches out to users quickly, this technology favors the defenders.”
Monday, 6 April 2026
Significant raise of reports
Willy Tarreau: “Overall I think we’re going to see a much higher quality of software, ironically around the same level than before 2000 when the net became usable by everyone to download fixes. … But before this happens, we have to experience a huge mess that might last for a few years …”