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• The @status.news post tomorrow with the 60 Minutes ratings is gonna hit so good

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• Off to shoot the sunset and star photos with @jeffcarlson.bsky.social!

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• An honor to have @ichris.bsky.social‘s beautiful baritone voice bring one of my short stories to life.
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Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.

• As the view from Moscow becomes increasingly embarrassing, it seems increasingly likely Putin will start a new more desperate phase of his war against Ukraine. Experts expect him to start a quiet mobilization of troops shortly after tomorrow's parliamentary elections. He seems to want 300,000 - 500,000 new soldiers. Despite increasing payments, recruitment has been failing to keep pace with the rising casualties. We can also expect Putin to step up attacks against Europe. More drones flying into European air space, and more stuff like this: • On August 4, 2026, a bomb squad at Leipzig/Halle A…

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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

• features in @garthnix.bsky.social Sinister Booksellers
  Quoting@kpw1453.bsky.socialThe bronze head of the goddess Sulis Minerva which was discovered in 1727 during the construction of sewer under Stall Street in Bath. Now part of the museum collections at The Roman Baths in Bath. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Bath

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• Our Candlelight Chat is TOMORROW, Sunday, from 1-2 pm EST, on Zoom

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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

• years ago, my colleague Steve Teles and @mschmitt9.bsky.social wrote what I think is still the definitive piece on how to think about this -

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  Quoting@donmoyn.bsky.socialArguably Leonard Leo has been the most successful convertor of money to political outcomes in recent decades. He also is unethical and a bit corrupt, and seems to bet mostly on ideological allies and I doubt asks for metrics on ROI. www.propublica.org/article/we-d...

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• For differing reasons today I'm appreciative of the work of my agent Ethan Ellenberg, and my editor @malf.bsky.social. I am exceptionally fortunate to have two such smart and competent folks doing their extremely valuable thing to get my work out into the world. It wouldn't happen without them.

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• The social scene around AI and AI safety is more unpleasant than I realized. I'm sure there are other sides to it. But when you get a lot of men with too much money who think they're saving the world, surrounded by groupies, what do you expect? Read the long Bluesky thread about this, collected on one page: https://skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsky.social/3mvom4b4dn22q I can't confirm this stuff - I stay far away from this scene. And the sentence "AI Safety is Mostly a Sex Cult" is a massive exaggeration. But... (1/n)

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American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.

• In all seriousness, @jococruise.bsky.social is a truly excellent way for nerds (or anyone else!) to dip a toe into the cruise thing. The the community that's developed over 15 years of the cruise is welcoming and friendly. There are always things to do, officially programmed and otherwise. It's fun!
  Quoting@superobscure.comIs JoCo a good Nerd’s First Cruise? Or is it better-suited for Advanced Cruising Nerds?

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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

• J'ai eu le plaisir de monter sur scène aujourd'hui à ALL IN pour discuter de notre direction de recherche et de notre nouveau financement récent 🇨🇦🇩🇪. À @law-zero.bsky.social, nous travaillons activement à concevoir des systèmes d’IA fondamentalement honnêtes et dignes de confiance.

  English, from FrenchI had the pleasure of taking the stage today at ALL IN to discuss our research direction and our recent new funding 🇨🇦🇩🇪. At @law-zero.bsky.social, we are actively working to design fundamentally honest and trustworthy AI systems.

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• I just had a phone call with President @ZelenskyyUa. Tomorrow we will disburse €3.3 billion for missile and drones in Ukraine. Full read-out ↓

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• unstable government: jev + claude type a terrible law. claude invents reactions and directs the set pieces. jev decides how each of 40 citizens responds. the town sim plays those choices out, then prints the disaster as tomorrow’s front page. fun.

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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.

• In this episode of Lives Well Lived, we speak with physicist and philosopher @seanmcarroll.bsky.social about the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the mystery of consciousness, whether morality is constructed, and how we create meaning in a universe without an objective purpose.

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• After a hiatus brought on by tragedy, I'm planning to return to livestreaming tomorrow (Friday) ... and will start with a personal update and AMA. What would people like to ask about?

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• @drstevex.bsky.social may I introduce you to @hayleygullen.com who wrote a brilliant and funny graphic novel about cancer? She'd be excellent for your medicine event.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

• I'm sitting down with 0xSero tomorrow to talk about Omarchy, the malleable computer, and local AI. That is... If we can find a studio. Halp?
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

• If you’re in NYC tomorrow (Thursday), last event I’ll be at! Come along if you can. Also love New York’s energy: tech + hardcore engineering is here, everywhere, v impressed with the tech scene all-round
  Quoting@grinichwhat up nyc come hear @GergelyOrosz of the @Pragmatic_Eng tomorrow night at WorkOS Soho rsvp:

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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

• Je suis très fier de ce que l'équipe de @law-zero.bsky.social est en train de mettre sur pied et je suis profondément reconnaissant du soutien sans précédent des gouvernements du Canada et de l'Allemagne, qui permettra d'alimenter notre prochaine phase de croissance!

  English, from FrenchI am very proud of what the @law-zero.bsky.social team is building and I am deeply grateful for the unprecedented support from the governments of Canada and Germany, which will fuel our next phase of growth!

  Quoting@law-zero.bsky.socialLoiZéro a reçu un engagement de financement conjoint allant jusqu'à 300 M$ du Canada et de l'Allemagne! Cet investissement propulsera la prochaine phase de notre recherche vers une forme fondamentalement nouvelle d’IA avancée, sécuritaire et performante. lawzero.org/fr/nouvelles...

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• I am very proud of what the team at @law-zero.bsky.social is building and deeply grateful for the landmark support from the Governments of Canada and Germany that will power our next phase of growth!
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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

• @mattduss.bsky.social "The problem here is the opposite of what Moskowitz claims: Hawkish Democrats aren’t being marginalized enough in the Democratic Party."

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• Young academics interested in democracy: check out the postdoc program at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins! @snfagora.bsky.social

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• Will The Kennedy Center Be There Tomorrow?

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• @tcash21.bsky.social did you see your headshot???

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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.

• In this excerpt from my conversation with Jack Symes, we discuss chickens, factory farming, and what our appetite for cheap meat asks us to ignore. Watch the full conversation, “Is Eating Animals (Always) Wrong?”, on YouTube. Videos: @weanimals.bsky.social

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Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.

• Newsletter: The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions in the industry-written Clarity Act exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists. Senators must vote no on cloture tomorrow. https://www.citationneeded.news/clarity-act-ethics-charade/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #ClarityAct #CitationNeededNewsletter

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• I'll be in NYC on Wednesday, 9/16, to talk about THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON with @alexshvartsman.bsky.social at the Asia Society. Come see us and get your signed book!

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• Serre's 100th birthday conference starts tomorrow: https://serre100.sciencesconf.org/?lang=fr . I was on the organizing committee, but unfortunately am not able to participate in the event.

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• Another week at @oxide.computer has given us (yet) another example of the kinds of problems that very much require human engineering. Today, the team joins @ahl.bsky.social and me to regale us with the wild tale. Join us live, 5p Pacific, tonight!

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  Quoting@bcantrill.bsky.socialI am surely not alone in having family over the weekend hitting me up asking "should I be worried about extinction?" As a response, I have found that my anti-Doomer talk from @monktoberfest.com 2023 (three very long years ago!) remains current and accessible: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfJ...

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• Democracy. It’s about giving people the power to shape the society they want to live in. Tomorrow, on Democracy Day, the @EU_Commission launches the “Shape our Democracy” campaign. To invite people to share their ideas. And to make our democracy stronger and more resilient, together.

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• Microsoft’s Patching

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• Bsky for what people are talking about. Masto for what people are thinking about.

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• Zuck profile tomorrow Mike Moritz interview Wednesday
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• Nearly a year in the making… This is the best thing I’ve ever read about one of the most important people shaping the world around us. Set aside an hour tomorrow. You don’t want to miss it.
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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.

• In this excerpt from my conversation with @richroll.bsky.social, we discuss the ethics of radically extending human life. Watch the full conversation on The Rich Roll Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQb... #PeterSinger #RichRoll #Longevity #ClimateChange #Philosophy

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• Tomorrow is the first ever screening of 'Andy Goldsworthy in Conversation with Andrew Graham-Dixon' at ActOne in London - and I will be there to introduce the film and do some Q&A. @actone_cinema More screenings on the website -

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• The @bsky.app starter pack thing is such a great example of making an open product/ecosystem feature out of someone else's closed, extractive bullshit. Thank you to whoever designed and implemented it.

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• The audiobook for THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON AND OTHER STORIES, narrated by Gabrielle Nellis-Pain, is available! @simonaudio.bsky.social

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• Thank you to @fondalee.bsky.social, @harvardbookstore.bsky.social, and everyone who came to celebrate the launch of The Passing of the Dragon with me! It was an unforgettable night. A limited number of signed copies are available at the Harvard Book Store for anyone who couldn’t make it.

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• Register for my FIRST EVER live workshop on how to become a Supercommunicator. This isn't a workshop on listening harder or being nicer. Instead, it's a specific, learnable move to connect with anyone - even the people you disagree with - that you can start using in your very next conversation. Tonight's dinner. Tomorrow's meeting. That call you've been dreading. I'm super excited about this and hope to see you there! Click the link below:

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• I hope this Nathan Fielder guy is at the iPhone event tomorrow because I have questions.

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• This looks interesting; happening tomorrow and Thursday at Columbia:

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• Je serai au sommet ALL IN le 17 septembre pour partager comment évolue l’agenda de recherche de @law-zero.bsky.social qui est en pleine croissance dans le cadre d’une conversation sur le thème de Concevoir des systèmes d’IA honnêtes, fiables et sécuritaires.

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• I will be at ALL IN on September 17 to give an update on @law-zero.bsky.social’s research agenda and growth as part of a fireside chat on Engineering Honesty and Reliability for Safer AI!

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• Whoah @bouletcorp.bsky.social is ahead of Mamdani—at #6! Go Team Comics!

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• Tomorrow, folks! Just what DOES Emma Hamilton make of Lady Nelson? And Lady Melbourne of Caroline Lamb? And Jane Austen of the lot of them? Only one way to find out...
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• Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I'm deep in my Massachusetts visit, becoming one of those people who can't look at a place without remembering what used to be there. My birthday is tomorrow, so there are all sorts of opportunities for reflecting and remembering. Oh and I guess it's a holiday weekend in the US, so maybe schedule those emails for Tuesday. Image credit: Library of Congress, on Flickr Commons

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• Join me tomorrow, September 5th at 9:00 AM MST for a Vagus Nerve Yoga class live via zoom! We'll focus on vagal tone, stress reduction, and trauma recovery. All classes are donation based. Learn more & register: https://t.co/kPAdAisWDh See you on the mat!

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• We devoted the entire (penultimate!) episode of Hard Fork to METR's investigation of the Hugging Face attack, and before I even woke up @deepa.bsky.social has scooped a *second*, previously unknown rogue OpenAI agent swarm attack

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• Why first impressions are often correct. Today’s jerk is tomorrow’s techno-fascist....

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• Stoked to announce that @max.pangram.com, co-founder and CEO of @pangram.com, will be joining @ahl.bsky.social and me on the next episode of Oxide and Friends to pick up the hot (and important!) topic of AI detection. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific!

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Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.

• Our Candlelight Chat is TOMORROW, Sunday, from 1-2 pm EST, on Zoom

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• Register for my FIRST EVER live workshop on how to become a Supercommunicator. This isn't a workshop on listening harder or being nicer. Instead, it's a specific, learnable move to connect with anyone - even the people you disagree with - that you can start using in your very next conversation. Tonight's dinner. Tomorrow's meeting. That call you've been dreading. I'm super excited about this and hope to see you there! Click the link below:

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Researcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.

• As I pass by half-mast flags in rural PA, i keep being floored by how universal the love for Dolly Parton was. If anyone needs a delicious book to read, I can’t say enough nice things about “She Come by It Natural” by @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social

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• Few people care more about performant code than @cmuratori.bsky.social. Casey is a down-to-earth programmer, game dev, performance nerd. A refreshing episode about why the basics (still) matter, and why learning to read Assembly remains useful for anyone who cares about performance: (cont'd)

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Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

• Today @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to be joined by @sgkaram.bsky.social from @oxide.computer's product assurance team, who put in front of himself a tremendous challenge: could we somehow emulate an entire Oxide rack? And... how faux can we go?! Join us, 5p Pacific!

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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.

• In this episode of Lives Well Lived, we speak with @michaelpollan.bsky.social about food and ultra-processed diets, psychedelics and altered states of consciousness, plant sentience, the mystery of consciousness, and whether AI could ever become conscious. Listen to the full conversation 🎧

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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

• @brettcodes.bsky.social appreciated watching your video on why you stopped using AI. Recently talked with Casey Muratori who also doesn't use it. Could I message you somewhere? Or you can also send me DM.

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• If you’ve ever opened Chrome DevTools, or optimized a page for Core Web Vitals, you’ve used software built by @addyosmani.bsky.social. We start from when he built a web browser from scratch, at 16, through his 14 years at Google, to what he sees working (and not working) building software with AI:

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Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.

• Congratulations billing department you have successfully recreated a gag poster from the 1970s which wasn't really even funny then. (I am fine, I can actually talk to a real human tomorrow, I was just like "I have seen that one before....")

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• BlueskyTomorrow I am heading to Providence for NecronomiCon. Not my usual con haunt, but I'm looking forward to it as a change.

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• MastodonTomorrow I am heading to Providence for NecronomiCon. Not my usual con haunt, but I'm looking forward to it as a change. See you there if you're there.

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• 🚨 BKC-WEH connector to be opened for traffic from tomorrow

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• In this episode of Lives Well Lived, we speak with physicist and philosopher @seanmcarroll.bsky.social about the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the mystery of consciousness, whether morality is constructed, and how we create meaning in a universe without an objective purpose.

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Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

• It has been a WILD couple of weeks in AI -- it's clear the open weight revolution is truly upon us -- and I am thrilled to announce that @simonwillison.net will be joining @ahl.bsky.social and me to help us make sense of it all! Join us today, 5p Pacific!

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Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.

• Are you a Highly Sensitive Person? Our next Candlelight Chat tomorrow (Sunday) is for you.

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Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

• We're back! Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to talk to DigitalFilm Tree's Ramy Katrib about the past, present, and future of digital storytelling -- and what that future means for the infrastructure that underpins it. Join us, 5p Pacific!

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• Had such a fun time chatting with @debbiemillman.bsky.social on her fabulous pod about all the things including why my life has been one big attempt to get back at Razorfish for snubbing, 18-year-old idiot me:

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• The June newsletter ships tomorrow! Sign up if you haven't already, and thanks for supporting independent game devs.

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  Quoting@romeroSign up now to receive the June newsletter, coming out soon! Lots of cool stuff to share!

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• @quantabooks.org just released their first book, on the story of Lean by @kevinhartnett.bsky.social. It's a great story, about a pretty significant part of what's happening in math right now.

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• I'm doing a reading in Asheville tomorrow night. We've already maxed out on RSVPs but you can still attend; hope to see you there:

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Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.

• Looking forward to playing around with Oeuf's multiplayer map editor tomorrow evening!
  Quoting@increpare.bsky.social#OeufGame map editing party on Saturday to celebrate the 1.4 release (today or tomorrow), which includes a networked map editor! discord.gg/tWHdFkxPaX

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

• Software Factory Meetup, day after tomorrow, get on it. I'll be there too. 🍻
  Quoting@PeterBellAgentic software engineering: - How do I get agents to generate quality code? - How can I automate the verification of the generated code? - How can my team build a robust software factory to accelerate velocity? - The first 20% is easy - how can I help the rest of my product, engineering and QA or…

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

• Denmark desperately needs more inequality

  The Danish election is tomorrow. One of the central themes in the incumbent campaign has been a proposed wealth tax. The fig leaf for this proposal was "smaller classrooms in the early grades", but that quickly fell off…

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Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.

• It was an honor to hang out with Jensen Huang, CEO of @nvidia, and do a long-form podcast with him. Really fun & fascinating technical deep-dive conversation on & off the mic. One of the most brilliant & thoughtful human beings I've ever met. NVIDIA is the most valuable company in the world by market cap and is the engine powering the AI revolution. Podcast probably out tomorrow (Monday) unless I get stuck in too many interesting conversations while running around in SF ;-) PS: I haven't checked my messages in days. Sorry for slow replies 🙏 Trying to stay deeply focused at in overwhelmingly…

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

• Free Books

  Spinning a lot of plates this week so skipping the newsletter. As an apology, have ten free copies of Logic for Programmers. These five are available now. These five should be available at 10:30 AM CEST tomorrow, so peo…

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Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.

• All packed and ready for #laraconeu next week. Tomorrow will be the long train travel day. Fingers crossed I make it through Germany.

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Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.

• Toronto pals! If you have nothing to do tomorrow night ...

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American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.

• A great article from @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social on building a vertical micro frontend architecture. This very much resembles what I’m working on for the upcoming Kong Konnect architecture enhancements, including view transitions, pre-warming apps, and more

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President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.

• I am asking all America First Patriots in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District to please GET OUT AND VOTE TOMORROW for a phenomenal Candidate, Matt Van Epps, on Election Day, Tuesday, December 2nd! You can win this Election for MAGA Warrior Matt Van Epps, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement. HE WILL BE A GREAT CONGRESSMAN and, unlike his Opponent, he cherishes Christianity and Country Music — She has openly stated that she hates them both! TN-07: Polls open in all Counties no later than 9:00 A.M., but some open as early as 7:00 A.M. Polls close at 7:00 P.M. IF YOU ARE IN LINE BY 7 P.M…

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Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.

• Excited to chat with @JulianGewirtz tomorrow at Asia Society in New York
  Quoting@chinabksreviewDan Wang. LIVE at Asia Society. Next TUESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2025 @ 6:30. Spaces limited, buy your TICKETS now ➡️ https://t.co/n0bGaB9u2V In a conversation moderated by Julian Gewirtz, Dan Wang will discuss his new New York Times bestselling book, "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future." ft.…

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Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.

• For friends in DC, I’ll be speaking tonight at an IFP/FAI event hosted by @AlecStapp and @hamandcheese https://t.co/48qiMEW8mG tomorrow at Politics and Prose Wharf with @DKThomp https://t.co/QjrL5urP3y and on Thursday at JF Books in Dupont Circle

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Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.

• We've seen nothing yet! We hosted a 9-13 yo vibe-coding event with @robertkeus.bsky.social this weekend (h/t @antonosika.bsky.social and Lovable) takeaway? AI is unleashing a generation of wildly creative builders beyond anything I'd have imagined and they grow up knowing they can build anything!

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Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.

• @hamel.bsky.social & @sh-reya.bsky.social are two of the world's best on evals. They've built evals for 35+ AI apps & helped teams ship confidently. Now they'll teach everything they know on building evals that work. Enrollment closes in 4 days. Secret 35% discount code:

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Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.

• @hamel.bsky.social & his wisdom on evals, error analysis, looking at your data is what we need. Here are his 10 Don'ts: • Don't skip error analysis • Don't skip looking at your data • Don't gatekeep who can write prompts • Don't let zero users be a roadblock • Don't be blindsided by criteria drift

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Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.

• OK, I'm actually here! I created an account a while back and then promptly lost the password. Also, bsky's password reset wasn't working for me. But I finally managed to find my password. <phew> I would hate to lose "munificent@" here.

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Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill and Karen Pirie novels; former journalist and broadcaster.

• Join me in conversation tomorrow on @bbcradio4.bsky.social at 4pm. Take Four Books, presented by James Crawford, talks to the writer and son of John Le Carré - Nick Harkaway - about his new book Karla's Choice and its connections to three other literary works. (I get to chip in...)

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Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill and Karen Pirie novels; former journalist and broadcaster.

• Still puzzling what to buy the reader in your life for Xmas? Pop along to In the Company of Books with me and @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social plus special guests Paula Hawkins and Alan Cumming to hear about our recommendations! Sunday 15th, 4pm, Assembly on the Mound. Good craic guaranteed

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Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.

• I've updated my 2022 reading list with all the 112 books I read in the year. Highlights were Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by @gabriellezevin and A Memory Called Empire by @ArkadyMartine.

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Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.

• Some amazing leaders have joined @SlackHQ! Welcome, Fuzzy Khosrowshahi, Product Eng VP; @Rukmini_Reddy, Platform Eng VP; and Sean Catlett, CSO. To hear more about the future of Slack that we’re building together, join us for Frontiers 2020, tomorrow:

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