2026-05-20

AI sackings reach New Zealand, which will use it to eject 14 percent of government staff

AI sackings reach New Zealand, which will use it to eject 14 percent of government staff

Minister demands AI becomes ‘basic expectation for all public entities’

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New-to-me vocabulary: oneshotted , “a term that...

New-to-me vocabulary: oneshotted, “a term that means, roughly, to be destroyed and subsequently remade by a single experience”.

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Make your business citable by ChatGPT, Claude & Perplexity Discussion | Link

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Cookie Queens

Cookie Queens is a feature-length documentary film that follows four Girl Scouts as they navigate the big business & big feelings of Girl Scout Cookie season. “Cookie Queens” is a...

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Prompts are technical debt too

It’s common and correct to say that “all code is technical debt”. Adding code is a necessary evil for developing new features: you almost always have to do it, but...

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Temporal Primer - Building Long-Running Systems

If you have ever taped together a cron job, message queue, a database table for state, and a retry loop - only to watch the whole thing break during a...

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llm-gemini 0.32

Release: llm-gemini 0.32 New model gemini-3.5-flash for Gemini 3.5 Flash. See also my notes on Gemini 3.5 Flash, and the pelican I drew using this upgrade to the plugin. Tags:...

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Conclave 1492

Conclave 1492 is a 40-person negotiation exercise set during the papal election of 1492, the most complex, high-stakes political event of the Renaissance. Play an ambitious cardinal, a mighty king,...

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Interview with the guy behind the great Art But Make...

Interview with the guy behind the great Art But Make It Sports social accounts. “When he sees a sports photograph, he can recall, off the top of his head, a...

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Anthropic’s Stainless steal tightens grip on AI dev tooling

Anthropic’s Stainless steal tightens grip on AI dev tooling

Claude maker nabs SDK and MCP tooling biz, plans to sunset platform

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15 years later, Midnight in Paris remains as relevant as ever

15 years later, Midnight in Paris remains as relevant as ever

The 2011 time-travel movie starring Owen Wilson explores the trap of nostalgia while showcasing an array of literary figures in 1920s Paris.

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The 8-bit Web Server

The 8-bit Web Server

Even [maurycyz] doesn’t think it is a good idea, but it is possible to use an AVR 8-bit CPU to serve web pages. Of course, it is a vastly simplified...

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Now that Subnautica 2 is out, the most wishlisted game on Steam is… a game that's been out for almost 2 years?

Now that Subnautica 2 is out, the most wishlisted game on Steam is… a game that's been out for almost 2 years?

It's Schrödinger's game: it is both unreleased and yet one of the most popular games on Steam.

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I said I'd destroy humanity and take their jobs, and I wonder why they don't like me

I said I'd destroy humanity and take their jobs, and I wonder why they don't like me

Ben Thompson: Data Center Discontent, Understanding the Opposition, Fixing the ProblemThe point of starting with the misinformation point, however, is not to legislate it: there are plenty of folks doing...

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ARC4NERD - A classic arcade game in the Arkanoid style for the Commodore Amiga from HooGames2017

A very late night article for all you retro gamers, as an exciting new addition has appeared for the Commodore Amiga called ARC4NERD, a classic arcade-style title packed with distinct...

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Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything

Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything

Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability, and Google appear to be using it for a...

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The Banality of the Video Podcast . “The sets,...

The Banality of the Video Podcast. “The sets, installed with plentiful mics awaiting speech, are authoritative and yet unintimidating, like a friend’s renovated suburban basement.”

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Childhood And Education #19: Letting Kids Be Kids #2

Childhood And Education #19: Letting Kids Be Kids #2

I cannot emphasize enough the need to let kids be kids. In Childhood and Education #16: Letting Kids be Kids, I went over exactly how insane we have gotten about...

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Implications Of Predicting The Next Token

I find that a lot of people have trouble with this concept of predicting the next token. And by trouble, I mean that they struggle to understand what it actually...

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