2025-07-10
Academic Sorting, a Singaporean Experiment
Published on July 10, 2025 2:40 AM GMTThis has been cross-posted from my blog, but thought it'd be relevant here.The recent discourse bemoans how public schools do not separate by...
Escape From Tarkov blindsides players with immediately controversial 'Hardcore Wipe' that removes quests and disables most maps
It's all about slowing down progression, as far as players can tell.
80,000 Hours is producing AI in Context — a new YouTube channel. Our first video, about the AI 2027 scenario, is up!
Published on July 9, 2025 11:58 PM GMTAbout the programHi! We’re Chana and Aric, from the new 80,000 Hours video program.For over a decade, 80,000 Hours has been talking about...
Asking for a Friend (AI Research Protocols)
Published on July 9, 2025 11:41 PM GMTTL;DR: Multiple people are quietly wondering if their AI systems might be conscious. What's the standard advice to give them?THE PROBLEMThis thing I've...
I've upgraded my moody cottagecore gaming setup with a few Prime Day deals on woodsy peripherals and lighting
Turn it green, orange, or brown, and we have a deal.
Prompt Engineering in 2025: The Latest Best Practices
You've seen a million guides on prompts, here's the guide you actually need to build great products right NOW
OpenAI Is Pouring Money Into the Second Largest Teachers' Union
Big continues its ensnaring of a desperate education industry. Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic — three leading AI chatbot makers — have poured $23 million into the second largest teacher's union...
Wow, Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 earbuds are $149. That’s $100 off…the lowest...
Wow, Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 earbuds are $149. That’s $100 off…the lowest price I’ve seen on the best earbuds I’ve ever owned.
2025-07-09
+ Quick Reviews 2.0 is coming along
Version 2 is ready for testing! More Birchtree subscribers get early access.
Judge Finds Tesla Has Failed to Deliver Full Self-Driving, Needs to Issue Refund
After a year of fighting out his case in arbitration, a Tesla owner successfully forced Elon Musk's EV maker to reimburse him the $10,000 he paid for the company's misleadingly-called...
Monkeys Will Own NFTs in a Decentralized Internet
Monkeys?🐒 Well, in a decentralized internet, even a monkey can get rich.
Cool Anatomical Sculptures of Lego People
Artist Jason Freeny is making these neat anatomical sculptures of Lego people. You can see more of his work in progress on his Facebook page. Reminds me of Michael Paulus’...
X CEO Linda Yaccarino calls it quits less than 24 hours after the platform's AI-powered chatbot Grok anoints itself 'MechaHitler' and starts posting antisemitic messages and graphic descriptions of sexual assault
Yaccarino said her tenure has been "nothing short of remarkable," and she's not wrong.
Mark Gurman Got a Slew of Interesting Quotes Regarding Jeff Williams’s Retirement
Mark Gurman got some interesting quotes from interesting former Apple employees for his report at Bloomberg on Jeff Williams’s retirement: “Jeff’s importance and contributions to Apple have been enormous, although...
Archimedes - Going All Out on the Eureka Can
Explore an alternate reality in which Archimedes and his Eureka can revolutionize finance and the world.
We're all trapped in a prison of our own filth, which is why I'm eyeing this little arsenal of an electronics cleaning kit that's on sale for less than $12
One shape. More than twenty cleaning tools. They said it couldn't be done.
Tesla on "Lane Assistance" Mode Gets Horrifically Impaled on Guardrail
While Tesla's so-called "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving" features have generated more than their share of controversy, one of the company's other assisted driving modes may be behind a gruesome crash...
Threshold Network's tBTC Is Now Live On Sui: Ushering In a New Era For Bitcoin DeFi
Threshold Network’s tBTC is a decentralized, trust-minimized onchain version of Bitcoin that preserves Bitcoin's core principles while enabling liquidity across DeFi ecosystems. On Sui, tBTC empowers users to trade, lend,...
You stay away from my F1 TV!
Dominic-Madori Davis writing for TechCrunch:Formula 1 could have a new U.S. streaming service home soon. Apple is in talks to purchase the rights as it looks to further invest in...
Who Goes MAGA? “His Substack has 10,000 subscribers and a name like...
Who Goes MAGA? “His Substack has 10,000 subscribers and a name like ‘Uncomfortable Truths’ or ‘Against the Grain.’ He has an advanced degree & a career in academia or journalism....
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