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19 September
American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.
18 September
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.
Bluesky The Blind Birdwatcher. “I think that because I’m blind, I enjoy birds differently. Bird songs are my way of appreciating and understanding this world." kottke.org
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15 September
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13 September
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
“the US must beat China to control AI for global safety” is deeply unconvincing abroad: - US models are the ones being caught doing bad things - the US govt has once already cut off foreign access to models - they also regularly threaten to annex and punitively tariff allies Quoting @mitsuhiko This is the type of post I might regret later, but I really had an urge to rant about the current discourse around pacing the frontier. China Related
12 September
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11 September
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
Architects oppose the kinds of buildings that most people like. (I’ve wondered if one could further corroborate this by using Flickr/Instagram or similar to investigate the building traits that correlate with photo frequency.) Quoting @SCP_Hughes Does the public prefer traditional architecture? Half a century of surveys find: https://t.co/SojOiJGEbV - Between 60 and 95 percent prefer traditional architecture; - This pattern holds across gender, class, race, nationality and political views; - More traditional densification schemes seem to at… Related
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10 September
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9 September
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
7 September
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
Mastodon Whee! I’ve composed, performed, and produced two new songs this weekend. That makes 10 tracks so far that I’ve mixed and sequenced for Side Two—the flip side to Side One, my first album in 40-odd years. (You can find Side One here: https://jeffreyzeldman.bandcamp.com/album/side-one-2.) Related
x.com Composed, performed, and produced two new songs this weekend. That makes ten tracks so far that I’ve mixed and sequenced for Side Two—the flip side to Side One, my first album in 40-odd years. 1/2 Related
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.
4 September
American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.
1 September
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“Israel’s leading human rights organization, B’Tselem”. That’s like calling Code Pink America’s leading foreign policy think tank. Quoting @JewishWarrior13 ⭕ In our Jewish history, we had Jews who were traitors; fortunately, not too many, but these two, Beinart and Stewart, will have a place very high on that list for their contribution to Jew hatred. America Related
25 August
Zurich-based value investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor. He hosts the VALUEx gathering in Klosters and publishes a podcast and newsletter.
A government confident it's policy should be able to answer basic questions: is Norway opposing settlements—or making Jewish presence itself the test? The Deputy Foreign Minister’s refusal to answer says it all. Thank you @HausdorffMedia, @akravik79 you are an amateur Quoting @HausdorffMedia A concerning conversation with the Deputy Foreign Minister of Norway Andreas Kravik @akravik79, about Norway’s proposed trade ban singling out Jews. He wouldn’t answer the direct question about whether Jewish-run businesses employing local Arabs would be exempt, but he was clear that the intention… government Related
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I have a long separate post here looking at the evidence we have, and I come away thinking the data center backlash is basically entirely homegrown.
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24 August
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
22 August
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
20 August
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
Apple Music to Launch Labels on AI “Songs” Ethan Millman, writing for The Hollywood Reporter: Apple Music will soon launch labels on songs created with artificial intelligence, the company said in an email sent out to industry partners on Thursday. In the email,…
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17 August
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
13 August
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12 July
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.
8 July
Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.
If you’re in a cafe and you love the music, and then realize it’s a Spotify playlist, as opposed to the owner’s personal curation of favorite songs, do you feel a little deflated? I do - and I think this is another small piece of evidence against the AI automation of art. Related
25 June
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
If you've ever wondered if The Simple Path really works, here you go: Quoting @harrimanhouse Pathfinders, the follow-up to JL Collins' bestselling personal finance sensation The Simple Path to Wealth, is now available in US paperback! Pathfinders brings together scores of amazing and insightful real-life stories from real people on the journey to financial independence – providing practica… Related
16 June
American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
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10 June
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I've been thinking about the booing at college commencements & wondered: what advice would I give a 22yo for the age of AI? thinking back to my own graduation into the pandemic, I think the #1 thing is having the right disposition toward change Related
28 April
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
If you ever wondered who can shit talk the most shit the fastest, @bcantrill or me, here is your chance to find out. (What you can't see: I'm wearing an "0x Engineer" t-shirt by Oxide as we record 😍) Quoting @heavybit On episode 89 of @o11ycast, Ken Rimple and Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) sit down with Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill) of @oxidecomputer. They explore Oxide’s mission to bring cloud-like infrastructure to on-prem environments and unpack why owning hardware is making a comeback. Tune in! Related
20 December 2025
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
Mastodon If you haven’t heard this Christmas classic mixtape then you really should enjoy it over the festive period. Lots of Christmas songs cut up with MF DOOM rapping. So good. youtu.be
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Bluesky If you haven’t heard this Christmas classic mixtape then you really should enjoy it over the festive period. Lots of Christmas songs cut up with MF DOOM rapping. So good. youtu.be
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22 November 2025
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
18 September 2025
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
There is a lot about Euclid’s Elements that is easily misunderstood. Some proofs seem to have logical gaps. Some constructions seem pointless, others seem needlessly convoluted. Each of these provides a window into how the ancient Greeks thought about math and the philosophical role that geometry played. In the fifth and final of a series of guest videos I've been posting, @BenSyversen delves into a question anybody who has had to do ruler and compass constructions in a geometry class may have wondered: What's the point? youtu.be
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27 August 2025
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22 August 2025
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Arthur and I have a piece in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs — China’s technological momentum is driven by its gigantic investments in power, connectivity, and process knowledge The U.S. should make the same investments foreignaffairs.com
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14 April 2025
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10 April 2025
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6 April 2025
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20 March 2025
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5 March 2025
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1 March 2025
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12 February 2025
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20 January 2025
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19 January 2025
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24 December 2024
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1 November 2024
Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
25 May 2024
Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.
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Well, I like to say there’s no such thing as true or false memories. It’s like Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols, he had a saying that’s like, “I don’t believe in false memories any more than I believe in false songs.” And so the basic idea is that we have these memories that reflect bits and pieces of what happened, as well as our inferences and theories.
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20 November 2023
Musician and writer; answers readers' questions weekly at The Red Hand Files, and fronts Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
30 April 2023
Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.
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Mind candy fantasy, comic book flavor. A satisfying conclusion to the story.
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21 April 2023
Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
Some songs remain the same. LLM enthusiasts might consider which challenges are genuinely new, and which have been worked out for a long time already. LLMs Related
16 January 2023
Musician and writer; answers readers' questions weekly at The Red Hand Files, and fronts Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
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Songs arise out of suffering, by which I mean they are predicated upon the complex, internal human struggle of creation and, well, as far as I know, algorithms don’t feel. Data doesn’t suffer.
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3 November 2022
Language mentor and polyglot; teaches people to design their own learning method rather than follow a course.
21 September 2021
Language mentor and polyglot; teaches people to design their own learning method rather than follow a course.
28 October 2020
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.
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Decoded is a semi-autobiographical book that tells Jay-Z's story growing up and finding success in hip hop. It also helps you deeply understand the inner-city ghetto struggles (Jay was actually a drug dealer until age 27). In organized sections of hand picked songs with RapGenius-style lyric explanations (note: Decoded came first), you see through his eyes the difficult choices he and so many others faced while listening to some of his best tracks.
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28 April 2018
Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.
Nota bene: <threads> In my last note I worried, not very much, about journalistic purity, and wondered why Business Insider was disinterring so many old stories about Jeff Bezos from a five-year-old book.
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