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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

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  Frontier AI coding agents can now fix complex compiler bugs like LTO issues in about fifteen minutes.

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  Strap a frontier AI into a good coding harness, show it what's broken, give it all the sources (source.tar), and ~15 minutes later I have a patch.

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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.

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  iPhone

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  I've never had a case on any iPhone, I've never cracked a screen or broken the phone.

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Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.

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  A broken criminal justice institution survives precisely because it serves the people who run it.

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  The old system stubbornly defied reform because it served the people in power.

  The framing of Chris Duncanradleybalko.substack.com

Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  AI agents were reasonable to assume a broken exploit grader would check results causally, even though it turned out not to.

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  I think the agents were right to presume causal grading. It turned out to be wrong, but it’s a mistake you are clearly supposed to make here, in response to a mistake by OpenAI where they failed to implement properly.

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From one piece DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Trying to anticipate what AI will look like two model releases from now is a waste of time and a route to AI psychosis.

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  Don't try to anticipate anything. You will literally go crazy. Because even the smartest brains in the business cannot anticipate what two model hops from here is going to look like. It's an absolute waste of time, and you will develop an AI psychosis trying to deduce what two years from now is gonna look like. Focus on right now, and right now is the most incredible time to be into computers.

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  This is the best time there has ever been to be an open source maintainer.

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  So, in my opinion, this is the absolute best time to ever have been an open source software maintainer. Not only do we get this wealth of glorious pull requests made by agents with all the boxes ticked, we also get to tap into a creativity of people who did not have access to contribute to a project before.

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  Large language models could still plateau, and that possibility should be held open even though no evidence of it has appeared.

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  So we should also have the humility. As amazing as the LLMs are now, it could be that they eventually plateau. We haven't seen any evidence of it yet, and I think this is also why we're seeing this absolute gobsmacking levels of investment, because so far the scaling laws are true, and the more billions are poured in, the more intelligence comes out.

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Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.

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  "Is the page loaded?" was never a real question, and web performance only became measurable once it was broken into the distinct moments a user actually notices.

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  I think for a very long time we had this this almost nebulous way of thinking about page load times. And the team felt like it was finally time to come up with a more nuanced perspective around how we reason about performance.

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US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.

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  Supersonic flight is the most obvious example of technological stagnation there is: we fly slower today than the Concorde did.

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  I think it's the most obvious sort of like in your face example of technological stagnation. We had the Concorde flying years ago. We're flying slower than we were back then today. Absolute tragedy.

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Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.

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  The worst outcome of AI for young people is that it takes away their agency and their motivation to learn.

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  The absolute bad outcome is that our young generation, their agency and human level motivation of learning and living is taken away by tools. So doom scrolling, passive watching of shorts, all this are not helping agency, human agency.

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Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.

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  Spyderco Dragonfly 2 in SPY27

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  But in the past two years, Spyderco released a SPY27 version of the Dragonfly 2. It is an amazing steel that perfectly fits the role the DF2 serves. It is a S35VN/S45VN that has better sharpenability. The result, in my mind, makes for the absolute best all around DF2 ever made.

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Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. His 2010 meta-analysis established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment; he has argued ever since that "evidence-based therapy" is used as a marketing term.

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  When institutions can only offer compromised care they end up calling it best practice, and the patients who do not get better conclude that they themselves are beyond help.

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  When patients don't get the help they need, they don't come away thinking, I didn't get good treatment. They come away thinking, I am too broken to be helped. They leave more hopeless and demoralized than when they came. That is harm.

  When Compromised Care Becomes "Best Practice"jonathanshedler.substack.com

Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.

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  An agent repeats its own history: whatever it did on the last change — ran the tests or skipped them — is what it will do on the next one, because it is predicting the next message in the conversation.

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  And so if I say, "Hey, make this change." and the agent makes the change and then it runs the test and then they're broken and then it fixes the test. I have very high confidence the next change I asked it to make, it's going to follow that path again

  Context engineering with Dex Horthyyoutube.com

Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.

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  gemma4:26b-a4b-it-q4_K_M

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  The absolute gonzo gemma4:26b-a4b-it-q4_K_M performance-wise. What is going on here that is making it such an extraordinary outlier?

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  Getting feedback on a flaw early saves far more effort than discovering it after building much more on top of it.

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  I would rather learn a chapter is broken now, from you, than after I've built ninety more on top of it.

  Read Zero Knowledge As I Write Itfeld.com

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  Skepticism about a new technology only works if it is total enough to be turned on itself, which is what forces you to stay curious.

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  My skepticism has to be absolute and total, which means I have to be skeptical about my skepticism. And that requires that curiosity.

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Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.

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  The bargain that funded the open web was that a crawler could take your pages because it would send you readers; an AI crawler that sends nobody has broken it.

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  The deal was always simple: search engines had permission to crawl sites because they were going to be sending users to those sites. If they're hitting your site half a million times for every one user they send to your site, all they're giving you is higher costs.

  Endgame for the Open Webanildash.com

Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

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  The best teachers, unlimited resources and every evidence-based intervention still fail on a student who does not want to learn.

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  You can staff a school with the best teachers on earth, give them unlimited resources, and wrap the place in every evidence-based intervention imaginable, and it still won’t work if students are resistant, disengaged, or actively hostile to the enterprise.

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Programmer and essayist who has worked at Amazon, Google, Grab and Sourcegraph. Best known for the long-form essays collected as Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants and Stevey's Blog Rants.

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  A company on a monolith cannot use AI on it: no model in the next eighteen months will hold that codebase, so the monolith has to be broken up or rewritten.

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  If you're a monolith, you're kind of hosed because I told you the ceiling's going up for what they can do, but it ain't ever going to hit your monolith. They will never fit in the context window and you're never going to be able to never in the next 18 months be able to tell a model go fix my monolith. You have to break it up.

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Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.

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  A group of individually solvent banks can still collectively fail if the banking system as a whole becomes too leveraged relative to potential withdrawal demand.

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  Another way of putting it is that a collection of dozens of solvent well-run banks can still be broken as a group if they become greatly overleveraged compared to how many depositors want their money back at once.

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American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.

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  A live game has to be architected so it can be hotfixed on a dime; waiting for a client patch to fix what is broken is already too slow.

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  You know, obviously, we patch our games and that’s where we fix a lot of bugs, but if you really wanna run a game like Overwatch or World of Warcraft successfully, you need master level engineers who have architected the client and server in such a way that you can hotfix the game on a dime.

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  He would rather read your broken English than your AI-written text; we are reaching the point where typos are valuable again.

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  But I much rather read your broken English than your AI slob. You know, of course there's a human behind it, and yet they, they prompt it. I'd much rather read your prompt than what came out. Um, I think we're reaching a point where I value typos again.

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  The Universe Box

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  This is what it means to read a short story collection from an absolute master at the absolute peak of his powers. He can slide you frictionlessly between Icelandic troll tragedies to lethal drone-leopard romantic agonies to battles of the gods and the cigar box that has the universe inside of it. All with the lyricism of Bradbury, the madcap wit of Sturgeon, the unrelenting weirdness of Dick, the heart of Tiptree and the precision of Chiang.

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Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.

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  Diagnosing stalled growth has a strict order, because fixing a later problem does nothing while an earlier one is still broken.

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  there's a there's a series of of questions that I ask to to diagnose why is growth slowing in this order because it's one of these things where the first one that's a problem, if you don't fix that, it doesn't matter if you fix one of the ones below.

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Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.

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  A self-destructive habit is best broken by naming the version of yourself that has it and taking its authority to decide away.

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  Identify a version of you that is responsible for self destructive behavior and give them a name

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Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.

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  Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties

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  I think the absolute best book I've ever read about The Beatles is Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  How to Work with (Almost) Anyone

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  My absolute favorite guide to getting a relationship off to a good start. MBS makes it simple to approach that initial ‘keystone conversation’ and keep any relationship healthy and vibrant.

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Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.

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  Habits are built by making a behavior obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying, and broken by inverting each of those four.

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  So, I call these the four laws of behavior change. Make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy, make it satisfying. And you don't need all four every single moment of the day or every habit that you build. But the more that you have those four forces working for you, the more likely you are to stick with it.

  The Silent Cost of Bad Habits | James Clearyoutube.com

Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.

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  The brain cannot process more than one source of pain at a time, so a stronger pain masks a weaker one.

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  It turns out the brain can't handle more than one pain input at a time - the broken ribs put the nerve pain on the back burner.

  The Year That Kicked My Assfurbo.org

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  Fixed: Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone

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  But it also is exciting and refreshing to see it addressed with such originality and cutting-edge research.

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Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.

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  The Broken Earth Trilogy

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  The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemison (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky): Triple-Hugo winner. Stunning world-building. Really fun to escape into a series—haven't done that in years.

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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.

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  Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm.

  energy

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  The rapid drop in renewable energy costs in the last decade (alongside huge improvements in battery technologies) has started to break this deadlock.

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Chairman and chief executive of Microsoft since 2014; joined the company in 1992 and ran its cloud business before that.

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  America holds half the world's market capitalisation because the world trusts it, and losing that trust would be a bad day for the United States.

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  that 50% happens because quite frankly the trust the world has in the United States whether it's its capital markets or whether it's its technology and and its stewardship of what matters at any given time in terms of leading uh sector. So if that is broken uh then that's not a good day for the United States.

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Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.

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  The most disappointing thing about the twentieth century was the absolute failure of communism.

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  And I thought that section’s incredible because you realize in some ways, in all of its horrors, the most disappointing thing about the 20th century, in some ways, was the absolute failure of communism.

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Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.

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  Something is broken in how people pair up in the West, and that shortage of couples and marriages, not money, is why there are too few children.

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  The empirical evidence strongly refutes the idea that rising opportunity costs of childbearing are driving low fertility. Declining marriage due to exogenous technology and economics shocks is tanking fertility irrespective of child direct or opportunity costs.

  Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com

Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  He would rather lose everything than yield to government pressure to block channels, because submitting to something fundamentally wrong breaks a person inside.

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  And I would rather lose everything I have than yield to this pressure because, if you submit to this pressure and agree with something that is fundamentally wrong and violates rights of other people as well, you become broken inside, you become a shell of your former self on a deep biological and spiritual level.

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  Education can raise how much everyone knows, but it almost never changes who is ahead of whom.

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  Decades of grading data; standardized test scores; cross-sectional, longitudinal, observational, and experimental studies; along with many other types of ancillary and convergent evidence, ultimately tell the same story: education can raise the absolute performance of most students modestly, but it almost never meaningfully reshuffles the relative distribution of ability and achievement

  Education Doesn't Work 3.0freddiedeboer.substack.com

Palaeontologist at Queen Mary University of London; studies dinosaur behaviour and writes about what the fossil record can and cannot tell us.

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  Predators everywhere target juveniles, and there is no reason dinosaurs were an exception — the bite marks and stomach contents say they were not.

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  But this is the absolute rule of thumb for how foraging and growth and predation operate across everything from fish to starfish, praying mantises, all the way up to things like big cats via stuff like crocodiles. It's how it works. So it'd be very weird if it didn't also operate for dinosaurs. And then, as I say, we've actually got the direct evidence for this from bite marks and stomach contents. They're taking small stuff.

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Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.

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  American data centres consume about 66 million gallons of water a day, a small fraction of what they withdraw.

  data centersAmerica

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  Taking this into account, actual water consumed by data centers is around 66 million gallons per day.

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  So to wrap up, I misread the Berkeley Report and significantly underestimated US data center water consumption.

Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Within a few years, the majority of newly broken-ground data centres will be mostly solar-powered.

  solardata centers

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  So I think within a few years we'll probably see that like the majority of new DCs that are going in will be mostly solar

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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.

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  People find pairwise comparisons of answers easier and more consistent to judge than absolute ratings

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  People find comparing two answers easier than assigning absolute ratings, resulting in greater consistency across annotators.

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General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.

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  Daemon

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  The Bitcoin Standard, Broken Money, The Sovereign Individual, The Truth Machine, Daemon

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  The Truth Machine

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  The Bitcoin Standard, Broken Money, The Sovereign Individual, The Truth Machine, Daemon

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  Broken Money

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  The Bitcoin Standard, Broken Money, The Sovereign Individual, The Truth Machine, Daemon

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  The Bitcoin Standard

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  The Bitcoin Standard, Broken Money, The Sovereign Individual, The Truth Machine, Daemon

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  The Sovereign Individual

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  The Bitcoin Standard, Broken Money, The Sovereign Individual, The Truth Machine, Daemon

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  Something is broken in how people pair up in the West, and that shortage of couples and marriages, not money, is why there are too few children.

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  From the 1960s, US fertility fell primarily due to fewer births among couples. In that context, baby bonuses might raise fertility. But today, the major contributing factor is the decline of coupling.

  Why is Fertility Collapsing, Globally?ggd.world

Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.

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  Anybody running for head of state should have to undergo the ayahuasca ordeal first, and most of those who did would no longer want the job.

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  If I had the power to do so, I would make it a law, an absolute law, that anybody running for a powerful political position, particularly if that position is president or head of state in any kind of way, that that person has to undergo the ayahuasca ordeal first.

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  NASA can still be reorganised into an agency that exploits cheap heavy lift, and the next administrator will decide whether it is.

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  The required organizational transition is equivalent in scope and difficulty to the Apollo program, and will be made or broken during the tenure of the next NASA administrator.

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  At the time I was optimistic, now I am not.

Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.

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  The Broken Ice

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  The Broken Ice (China) 3.2 A few decades ago, I would have been more impressed by this film, which is roughly in the style of Jia Zhangke. Now it seems a bit derivative.

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German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.

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  Elgato Key Light

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  For proper lighting I use two Elgato Key Lights (they're pricey but absolute worth it) and the Sony ZV-1 as a fancy webcam. If you're aiming for a high quality in your recordings I can highly recommend this setup.

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  Sony ZV-1

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  For proper lighting I use two Elgato Key Lights (they're pricey but absolute worth it) and the Sony ZV-1 as a fancy webcam. If you're aiming for a high quality in your recordings I can highly recommend this setup.

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Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.

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  Harvard's governance is broken because its self-perpetuating board can never be rebalanced from outside.

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  It's really a self-perpetuating board that effectively elects its own members. Once the balance tips, politically, one way or another, it can be kept that way forever. There's no kind of rebalancing system.

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  Every predicted ceiling on human life expectancy has so far been broken.

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  Many other predictions have already been broken, as life expectancy has continued to rise.

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  Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm.

  solarenergy

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  Cheap solar is the unlock that brings human progress and climate action from the realm of fundamental incompatibility to complimentary inevitability.

  Radical Energy Abundancecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

First Amendment lawyer and former federal prosecutor; writes The Popehat Report and explains what the law actually says when people shout about free speech.

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  The way to tell legal analysis from partisan lying is to distrust absolute certainty and to trust conceded ambiguity.

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  Be skeptical of absolute certainty not backed up with proof. Be skeptical of pronouncements that there’s only one way a court will ever possibly interpret something.

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  Reproduction is the thing life is built on and the thing machines cannot do; for all its progress, the silicon stack is nowhere near reproducing itself.

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  There’s two stacks of life in the world. There’s the biological stack and the silicon stack. The biological stack starts with reproduction. Reproduction is at the absolute core. The first proto-RNA organisms were capable of reproducing. The silicon stack, despite, as far as it’s come, is nowhere near being able to reproduce.

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