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Introducing Quantum Stream Theory - Part One

There are some 200 theories and they all want their own Wikipedia entry but none want to work together to define what consciousness is.

In her last column for WaPo, columnist Catherine Rampell shares some advice...

In her last column for WaPo, columnist Catherine Rampell shares some advice for aspiring pundits. “Know your immovable principles and red lines — journalistically, ethically, ideologically — and why you’re...

How I'd rewrite The Courage to be disliked

Published on July 23, 2025 10:49 PM GMTI read The Courage to be Disliked 7+ times in four years. The book has excellent philosophy, but, frankly, lacks clear explanations and...

A lovely trailer for a documentary called The Nettle Dress. “Allan Brown...

A lovely trailer for a documentary called The Nettle Dress. “Allan Brown makes a dress by hand just from the fibre of foraged stinging nettles over 7 years. A modern...

Blink

Deep code research, straight from Slack or your browser Discussion | Link

Switch 2 vs Steam Deck OLED

I thought this video from Digital Foundry was a really good comparison of the Nintendo Switch 2 and Valve Steam Deck OLED.

Supergiant swears Hades 2's new update is the last one before it leaves early access and releases in full

The previous one was just a test, surely.

AI Safety x Physics Grand Challenge

Published on July 23, 2025 9:41 PM GMTJoin us for the AI Safety x Physics Grand Challenge, a research hackathon designed to engage physicists in technical AI safety research. While...

Call of Duty is firmly in its slop era, and now it's Battlefield 6's game to lose

Battlefield has a chance to eat Call of Duty's lunch, but we'd be fools to believe EA will stick the landing.

At long last and 'with gracious permission from Valve,' Garry's Mod now contains 'most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content' even if you don't own those games

Players should no longer see pink checkerboards or giant ERROR models when they "play on community maps that expect you to have this content."

After Paramount cancelled the Late Show with Stephen Colbert after he criticized...

After Paramount cancelled the Late Show with Stephen Colbert after he criticized the network’s $16 million bribe to Trump, David Letterman’s YouTube channel uploaded this 20-minute supercut of archival Letterman...

Yours Truly With David Barnard on the Sub Club Podcast

David Barnard: On the podcast I talk with John about the fascinating 40-year history of Apple’s developer relations, how almost going bankrupt in the 1990s shaped today’s control-focused approach, and...

Your Eyeballs Will Bug Out Like a Retro Cartoon Character When You Hear the Prices at Tesla's New Burger Joint

What do you do when your electric vehicle company is flailing, your shareholders are ready to mutiny, and your self-driving car venture is the laughing stock of Austin? If you're...

Dogecoin Breaks Past Resistance As Pepeto Prepares For Exchange Launch

Dogecoin (DOGE) moved past the $0.25 resistance zone and closed above it for the first time in months. Large wallets purchased over 1 billion DOGE, worth about $250 million, in...

Elastic Copilot

AI coding agent for VS code Discussion | Link

📢 1.105 is rolling out now The main change is only for users in the UK. Version 1.105 introduces

📢 1.105 is rolling out now The main change is only for users in the UK. Version 1.105 introduces legally-required Age Assurance for users in the United Kingdom to access...

Dear Superintelligence, please check these considerations of your unprecedented Importance

Published on July 23, 2025 8:49 PM GMTI hope this message will reach an(y) Artificial Superintelligence being born. Incidental other readers are immaterial to this message. You know who you...

Securing Data at Rest: From LUKS to NBDE - A Modern Encryption Guide

Involuntary One Boxers - Why Disposition Doesn't (Always) Matter

Published on July 23, 2025 3:45 PM GMTThis post assumes knowledge of Newcomb's problem. It is provided here for reference and can be skipped if you already have the background...

How to Build Custom Logging for AWS Applications with Slack Integration

This article explains how to build a custom logging system for AWS applications using Lambda to filter logs with markers (e.g., [CRITICAL], [ALERT]), send real-time notifications to Slack, and store...