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Philosopher to Head Australian Government’s AI Safety Institute

FLOP Museum in Oslo, Norway

Microsoft changed their Copilot pricing model and people crashing out.

Does Your Department Have an AI Policy? Here’s Edinburgh’s

Publish from WordPress to the open social web

FOSSE is a developer preview of a WordPress plugin that brings ActivityPub and AT Protocol publishing into one setup wizard and unified admin surface.

devialet | the new mania exclusive collection

Claude prompts will soon directly poison lungs in South Memphis

I wish this were hyperbole. It's not. The Cult of Claude has reached a new low.

cupra | the new cupra raval

Building for everyone, means building like Met* and Alph*bet

The Transactional Outbox Pattern

Or how I stopped worrying about how to bolt systems together

To Serve Man

Being in the middle of the food chain.

Atmosphere Account is Suffocating Bluesky

Internet handles predecessor atmosphere account is here to fuck it up, once again.

The Kids Aren’t Into Retro Tech Because of Surveillance Capitalism

Teenagers buying CDs aren't making a political statement. They just like CDs.

The Trouble with Fusion: Nuclear Fusion Will Not Give Us Infinite Power

AI isn’t people

"Treating people as things can begin in many ways, but I think one of them is the idea that things can be people. The motivated muddling of categories so prevalent in writing and thinking about AI, be…

Vibe-coding Brings the Power of Emacs to Everything

Exponentials and Artificial Intelligence

better browsing for non-technical people

you can pick up your mom's phone and do this stuff and it won't change how she interacts with the internet

Teleportal: A real-time collaborative editing framework

This is a written version of my presentation at FOSDEM 2026 Teleportal is a library of tools, based on Y.js, that you add to your application to enable real-time collaborative editing like you see in …

Three Thoughts On Crypto and NFTs

You Can't Escape the Algorithm

Chronological feeds won't fix social media

eSIMs as a Profit Centre

Rumours about an eSIM-only iPhone trigger a little rant on eSIM fees.

Scaling marketing operations without losing your mind (or your data)

Scaling marketing operations takes more than headcount. It’s about process, technology, and talent. Here's how global leaders structure for growth and overcome real-world challenges.

The Limits of AI Learning: Why Drilling Down Can Lead You Astray

The more you ask follow-up questions, the worse the answers get.

It's Okay if Your Social Media Platform is a Bubble

Is it wrong to have a social media feed primarily of people you agree with?

The Staggering Promise of AI Tutors

Chatbots can help students understand concepts when their teachers can't.

Four Bad Arguments Against AI

Critics of AI keep making the same mistakes. Here's why the most common arguments against the technology don't hold up.

Substack Doesn't Want You to Leave

Substack's business model is unsustainable—unless they lock all their writers in.