2026-05-10
The Goblins Are the Paperclips
Last week OpenAI published Where the goblins came from, explaining why their models started slipping creature metaphors into unrelated outputs. The story has been treated as a quirky anecdote: endearing,...
Avoid alienating the marginal audience member
I urge everyone reading this to improve their public speaking and presentation skills. If you think your presentations have even a small chance of reducing existential risk, whether directly or...
Somerville Porchfest 2026
This afternoon Cecilia and I played for Somerville Porchfest, with Harris calling and Danner running sound. There was rain, but not enough keep us from playing, or to keep folks...
Stellaris is 10 years old and still getting DLC, which is impressive
We talked to some devs about how the space GSG has maintained such a long orbit.
Stellaris is getting space nomads and scenarios for its 10th birthday
Get ready to live out your Battlestar dreams.
xyOps
Open-source ops automation with workflows and monitoring Discussion | Link
How to Live a Miraculous Life
Suppose we agree that we are here to love anyway — to love even though the work is almost unbearably difficult, even though we know that everything alive is dying,...
Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life
“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”
Designing High-Performance Workflow Systems with SLA and Agent Processing
Deadlines must travel with every task, state must stay compact, retries must respect the SLA budget — or your workflow engine is just slow in a structured way.
The left-wing case for AI
In Many anti-AI arguments are conservative arguments I argued that left-wing anti-AI sentiment1 is partly a backlash to two unrelated events around the rise of ChatGPT: the crypto mania of...
The Android Fuzzing Pivot That Cut Costs and Found Better Bugs
Faced with losing nested virtualization and high cloud costs, Microsoft’s Edge security team abandoned the standard Android Emulator for standalone Android-x86 Azure VMs. This architectural pivot eliminated noise from emulation-specific...
Pearl Abyss marketing director says Crimson Desert's rapid 'live service' patch cadence is business as usual for an MMO studio: 'That is not normal in the industry. That is normal here'
"The DNA of the company is inherent in listening to players."
Army Quote of the Day by General George Patton: ‘You can’t run an army without profanity’
In August 1943, during the Sicily Campaign of World War II, U.S. General George S. Patton — visiting wounded American soldiers in field hospitals — slapped two combat-fatigued infantrymen suffering...
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain once proposed a first-person time-travel RPG where you could assassinate historical figures and create paradoxes
"One, visit 15 different time periods. Two, meet interesting historical figures. Three, kill them."
The Noctua Fan Files and the Limits of 3D Printing PC Fans
After Noctua recently released CAD files for a range of their computer fans, one of the first thoughts that popped up for most people was: Can you just to 3D...
The Browser Security Breakthrough That Made UAF Exploits Harder
In the mid-2010s, Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerabilities were the biggest security threat to Internet Explorer and Edge. To combat this, the team built MemGC, an architectural security boundary that brought Chakra's...
International Law Cannot Prevent Extinction Either
The context for this post is primarily Only Law Can Prevent Extinction, but after first drafting a half-assed comment, I decided to get off my ass and write a whole-assed...
AgentPeek
Claude Code and Codex in your Mac notch Discussion | Link
Final Fantasy 14 player harnesses the power of furniture slots to make their in-game house look like Pragmata
"Increased placement limit is the best!"
2026-05-09
Contextberg
Turn your work into AI agent memory, served over MCP Discussion | Link
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