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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.

• Was making polite chitchat with a local older friend (who used to be sec. of state, no slouch) at an event yesterday. He tried to send me a video of Bernie talking about AI, how we were all cooked etc. I said "Why would I want to watch that? I'm not going to watch that." and he took offense as if I were the one who was being rude. It's been weighing on me today, feeling weird about being honest and/or rude here. I try to be agreeable, not poop in the punch bowl. But doomerism at a nice party?

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Writer of kottke.org, one of the oldest blogs on the web, published since 1998 and supported by its members. He writes about art, technology, science, design and visual culture.

• BlueskyNew novel from Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven): Exit Party. “Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted.”

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• MastodonNew novel from Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven): Exit Party. “Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted.”

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  it Party. “Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted.”

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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.

• 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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• sherlock, be careful: these omniscient third party narrators will see you crying! sherlock, they can READ your THOUGHTS!!

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• i think the left-wing aspect of indians is due to the fact they are nonwhite AND nonchristian (mostly). this makes them outsiders and so hard to identify with white christian america of which republicans are the party (christian indians were more republican in the past)
  Quoting@KarthikForTexasAs I said. They don’t go after Vietnamese Americans and Cuban Americans because they vote Republican. They’re going after Indian Americans because we are the most left wing because we have the highest graduate degree percentage of all AAPI positions.

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• 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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Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

• Late to the party, but wow is Viktor a great product. I'm impressed with the quality of work + output, even without particularly good prompting. I wish it wasn't so noisy in Slack, but not really an easy problem to solve. It's the right spot, so just need to deal with it.

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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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Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.

• some of the ppl mentioned are my friends, but interesting to see how the george w. bush era ppl are reacting to the changes in the party, to which i have mixed feelings
  Quoting@JonahDispatchThis by @EWErickson is worth your time.

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Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.

• nobody should patronize those who newly have opinions about third party evaluators. non-experts forming opinions fast is part of the american tradition. the constitution itself was, in a very important sense, vibe coded by 20 somethings with concepts of a plan. but newbies being fleeced is also part of the american tradition. “caveat emptor” is a provision of a contract signed by an adult, not some god-given right to be treated as something other than a little child. you will be treated as a child no matter what. you are the buyer. it is your job to beware.

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• After being bounced back and forth multiple times between regular Apple support and Apple Developer support, both claiming that this is the other party's problem to solve, I am now looking for anyone at Apple who can put me in touch with the folks that control the system that "locks" Apple Accounts for security reasons. The Apple Account locking system is a thing that exists! Someone controls/manages it! Please let me talk to them! See this thread for context:

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London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.

• Soooo near yet sooo far! 🥹 Love this amazing scene! ❤️

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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.

• The Republican Party's midterm convention used the traditional red, white and blue decorations - but added Trump's favorite color: gold. I recommend that they use a new US flag. The traditional colors were red for blood, white for purity and blue for justice. The new version features red for blood, gold for wealth and purple for monarchy.

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Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.

• Aligning with a party prevents you from ever having this (obviously correct) opinion. Trump's grifting (meme coin, selling early access to tweets, $5k bribes) is gross, unnecessary, and destroys confidence in markets and politicians. The Trump accounts are a fantastic achievement and could change millions upon millions of Americans' lives.
  Quoting@MebFaberThe single worst trade I can think of: Sacrificing your mental independence and emotional health to align with a political party. Zero upside and massive downside. Try subbing out "ideas" for "party" in my favorite @AdamMGrant quote

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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

• What should be obvious is that inference, running a large language model, is the part that has to be cheap. Most of our hardware was not designed for that. LLM inference is limited by bandwidth. You do a great many matrix-vector multiplications against a huge weight matrix, and you barely reuse those weights. It is closer to streaming a video than to running a simulation or drawing a scene in a game. Graphics processors from Nvidia and others were built for something else. They pileed compute first, then bolted on high-bandwidth memory. It is expensive. An obvious answer is to invert the desi…

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Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.

• i love that im working on a project to talk to every human on earth and at the same time reviewing the guest list for a party

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Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.

• No Hacking Required: The Manchester Airports Group Data Breach

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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

• New TIL on using Blender with coding agents on macOS: https://t.co/GvMDfD926E GPT-6 Astra (medium): > Use the already install /Applications/Blender to render a scene of a pelican riding a bicycle > OK add a background and a lot of flair > OK make it a whole lot better

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Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.

• Thanks @jasonlk! Lot to do still but: 1) @linear is used by pretty much by all major labs/ai companies out there 2) our MCP traffic grows 50% MoM 3) we have the most agent integrations and active usage than any platform like this (3rd party, in-house agents) 4) our AI revenue (loops, coding sessions) has grown about 500% per quarter 5) we are closing several public companies/enterprises each quarter to help them coordinate their agent work
  Quoting@HarryStebbingsThe Bull Case for Linear Being a $100BN Company: "Linear is the clear winner. They have built an agentic product first that allows us to build 100x more software, and that means 100x more features than ever before. Humans cannot keep up with it, and humans still have to work with agents. If every h…

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Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.

• Its painful that a decade ago i supported chuck schumer. Hes willing to support the worst people so his party can get power. no matter what. Jews like him and Bernie led the Jewish council in the Warsaw Ghetto and convinced thousands to get on trains peacefully.
  Quoting@NYPostOpinionDemocrats need to stop whitewashing Abdul El-Sayed’s extremist hate

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Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.

• Demo Time 2.3.0 is out. The big one: you can now record a demo. Hit record, do your thing: create a file, type, save, and it writes the moves for you. Also in: typing that varies its speed so it doesn't look robotic, and move-to-scene in the act editor.

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

• I'm sorry, Dave

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Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.

• Open Minis Is the iOS Agent I Wish Siri AI Could Be

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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.

• #odyssey 4.5/5 The soundtrack is a masterpiece. So well balanced. Always there but almost never in the center of attention. The IMAX sound mix for the cave scene almost destroyed my ears though.

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Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

• RIP Josh Baer

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

• The Rape of Britain

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• 3 facts to ruin your World Cup watch party

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• Went to Cali for a fun party in the woods. Was able to hang with friends and talk about the future. Highly recommended.

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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.

• My full talk on the future of AI & media is up! I used @alexolegimas's prompt of "What will be scarce?" to propose 4 ways that media is changing, and how writers can still win in the AI age: 1) Secrets > summaries Reporting is the act of taking private knowledge and making it public: when you get a source to tell you about corporate malfeasance, or venture to a remote town that few people have been to, or sneak your way into an underground party, you are working in a space where there is no training data. 2) Live interaction > static content We’re not far from a world where AI can replicate a…
  Quoting@SubstackHow AI will change media: “The value of polish is going to go down and the value of personal charisma, style, and weirdness is going to go up,” says @jasminewsun

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• Passkeys, Permissions Policy and Bug Hunting in 1Password's WebAuthn Wrapper

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• raqam-legal — Legal pages for Raqam

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• please help if a cursor wore a party hat would it be like the left or right

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• The Adolescents Have Taken Over Policymaking

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Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.

• Greening Up

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• Space AI: I guess we’re doing Moon factories now

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• The Merdas Touch

  Here is the real reason why Keir Starmer’s government refuses to let us have a fair electoral system. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th February 2026 Don’t let the Labour party say one more word about “sp…

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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.

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• A window into modern loan origination

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Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.

• AI Auditing 2027

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• A Big Beautiful Scandal

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• A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products

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• New study out today! We had a bunch of Democrats and Republicans do an Ideological Turing Test. People either portrayed themselves or pretended to be from the opposite party, and then another group tried to pick out the real partisans from the fake ones:

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• Toolbox languages

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• California Is Not A Democracy

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• The Men's Party

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• Newsletter on my talk at the Autonomous Worlds Assembly last year, with meta-commentary on the scene around it.

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Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.

• Our paper on diffusion model objectives got accepted at NeurIPS'23 as an oral :-) @RuiqiGao will present our work at 10am CST. (Unfortunately I'm unable to be there myself due to getting covid) I'll post the slides below, feel free to reply with questions or comments.
  Quoting@RuiqiGaoLooking for diffusion model advancements at #NeurIPS2023? Come to check our oral work "Understanding Diffusion Objectives as the ELBO with Simple Data Augmentation" w/ @dpkingma. New theoretical understanding, SOTA empirical results, and more! Arxiv:

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Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.

• “Adam can converge without any modification on update rules” https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09632 Proves that (vanilla) Adam is theoretically justified without any modification. Presented at NeurIPS'22. By Yushun Zhang, Congliang Chen, Naichen Shi, Ruoyu Sun, Zhi-Quan Luo. Also provides suggestions for tuning hyperparameters beta1 and beta2.

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Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.

• A poster with eight tablets for animations. Wild. Full-sized rollable OLED screens as posters in the near future? #NeurIPS #NeurIPS22

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Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.

• I'll be at NeurIPS in New Orleans from Tuesday to Saturday. Who is going? Let me know if you have a poster presentation I should definitely hit up! Looking forward to catching up!

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Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

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