Barry Petchesky, Defector: “This time next year, we might be viewing some other star’s Pale Blue Dot.”
" }, { "id": "1787071453", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/08/18/1787071453", "title": "Is Anthropic Making Money? How Much Money?", "date_published": "2026-08-18T16:44:13Z", "content_html": "Brad DeLong: “And, I was confident, selling your soul to SEO and charging for the eyeballs your second-rate search results trapped into repeated casts of the yarrow sticks would ultimately be self-defeating. … And, I was confident, selling your soul to clickbait-rage and charging for the eyeballs your outrage-bait feeds had trapped into doomscrolling would ultimately be self-defeating. Guess what? Selling your soul to SEO was not self-defeating. Neither was becoming the master necromancer of rage-bait doomscrolling. Am I missing something similar here and now?”
" }, { "id": "1786983967", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/08/17/1786983967", "title": "Collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation would lead to substantial oceanic carbon release and additional global warming", "date_published": "2026-08-17T16:26:07Z", "content_html": "D. Nian, M. Willeit, N. Wunderling, A. Ganopolski & J. Rockström: “Arctic temperatures cool by ~ 7 °C (60 °N–90 °N), while Antarctic temperatures warm by ~ 6 °C (60 °S–90 °S).”
" }, { "id": "1786714685", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/08/14/1786714685", "title": "Astronomers discover a new kind of cosmic object – a black hole ‘star’", "date_published": "2026-08-14T13:38:05Z", "content_html": "Ian Sample, The Guardian: “They may be the nascent, swaddled phase that marks the beginning of almost every supermassive black hole’s journey’”
" }, { "id": "1786714313", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/08/14/1786714313", "title": "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering", "date_published": "2026-08-14T13:31:53Z", "content_html": "Florian Herrengt: “You can’t afford bad engineers anymore.”
" }, { "id": "1786622518", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/08/13/1786622518", "title": "rent, always rent", "date_published": "2026-08-13T12:01:58Z", "content_html": "Dan Davies: “Which means that, in general, when you look at the recorded profit margins of a retailer in the accounts, what you are learning about is how good a job the real estate investment bankers did.”
" }, { "id": "1785834125", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/08/04/1785834125", "title": "The 90 day disclosure policy is dead", "date_published": "2026-08-04T09:02:05Z", "content_html": "Himanshu Anand: “Your monthly maintenance window is not a safety margin. It is an attack window.”
\n\nSee also: the time it takes to fix, qualify, build, distribute, and receive an OS update.
" }, { "id": "1785678190", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/08/02/1785678190", "title": "\"The Odyssey\" is Actually a Rap Album", "date_published": "2026-08-02T13:43:10Z", "content_html": "\n\n" }, { "id": "1785236709", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/07/28/1785236709", "title": "The Ads on Apple News Continue to Suck, but at Least There Are a Lot of Them", "date_published": "2026-07-28T11:05:09Z", "content_html": "John Gruber: “When streaming services like Netflix let you pay more money for ad-free tiers, it’s an explicit acknowledgement that the experience with ads is worse. Apple doesn’t offer ad-free tiers for the App Store or (soon) Apple Maps because, I think, they can’t bring themselves to admit that by adding ads to these services they have made them worse.”
" }, { "id": "1785226027", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/07/28/1785226027", "title": "The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction", "date_published": "2026-07-28T08:07:07Z", "content_html": "Kyla Scanlon: “We’ve stopped expecting the real world to work. We assume it will be slow, broken, or possibly on fire. That’s just the baseline.”
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