2026-09-02
Send me the prompt
If you want people to actually read what you are posting, you should send the costly signal showing it isn't slop. Crossposted from canaryinstitute.ai/blog/send-me-the-prompt. I just saw a Xeet on...
The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing
"...only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited."
Tape still isn’t dead, but shipments slipped by 16 exabytes in 2025
LTO program is confident this is a glitch, not terminal unspooling
Explaining Knightianism on one foot
I’ve tried several times to summarize the core question my research is trying to tackle (and, indeed, I often think of research progress as a process of asking increasingly good...
GTA 6 Soars to No. 1 on Netflix's Movie Chart
Grand Theft Auto 6 is dominating Netflix's movie charts, with its 27-minute extended look hitting No. 1 in 87 countries.
Whistle Synth Mac App
My program that uses whistling to control a synthesizer is now available in the Mac App Store: It's free, no ads, and open source. If you have a mac and...
Former id Software producer says the team faced the 'worst crunch' in the series' history on Doom: The Dark Ages – Revelations: 'There were days where I didn't see my son'
"There were two months where I was working something like at least 12 hours every day."
How to protect yourself from workslop
“Workslop” is when your colleagues or bosses communicate with you by pasting big chunks of AI-generated text. The core problem with workslop is that the effort involved is asymmetrical, like...
Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican
Today is Claude Fable (and Mythos) 5.1 day. Anthropic say that Fable 5.1 "sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks". Their announcement spends a notable...
B-52: Over 70 Years Ago, America Built a Bomber to End the World in a Russia War. It Never Did, and It Will Still Be Flying in 2050
What will happen when the B-52 finally reaches its 100-year service milestone? Who knows. Either way, the BUFF has already made its mark on Air Force and aviation history.
The Question Isn’t Whether America Hits Iran Again. It’s Whether It Ever Declines To.
A deliberate campaign and an improvised one produce identical headlines in week one. They diverge later, when a provocation arrives that the doctrine says does not warrant a response and...
Anthropic promises zero data retention – but customers must check it worked
More compliance-friendly stance could boost appeal of Fable
Iran Flew US Military F-14 Tomcat Fighters to War and Launched a Mach 4 Missile ‘Made in the USA’ To Destroy 78 Aircraft
The first Iranian Tomcat kill came on September 7, 1980, two weeks before Iraq formally invaded - an Mi-25 helicopter shot down with the F-14's 20mm cannon. A week later...
Good reviews are a 'great relief,' says Blood of Dawnwalker director, as former CD Projekt coworkers line up to offer congratulations
Rebel Wolves' vampire RPG is holding an aggregate 83 score on Metacritic.
Japan Thought It Sank a Fleet of Battleships at Pearl Harbor. 6 of the 8 Came Back and Helped Destroy the Japanese Navy.
On the night of October 25, 1944, a Japanese force pushed north through Surigao Strait and found six American battleships waiting across its path. West Virginia, Maryland, Mississippi, Tennessee, California...
Building An Airsoft Claymore Mine
The Claymore mine is a rather fearsome weapon of war, using explosives to blast a cone of shrapnel towards advancing enemies. It’s not really something you should try and build...
Star Wars Zero Company Is the Andor Replacement No One Expected
Despite not caring much for Star Wars, Zero Company has drawn me in by focusing on the little weirdos who are just scraping by.
Your Business Doesn’t Need More Ideas — It Needs Intrapreneurs to Execute Them
The definition of "entrepreneurial" is outdated. Today, every entrepreneur needs an intrapreneur — or several.
5 top tips from World of Warcraft housing creators for making amazing masterworks
Improve your housing game with advice from some of WoW's best home designers.
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