Articles by ColinWright
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Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

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The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System Is a Waste of Time (shkspr.mobi)

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Meta asks users to pay for WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook (the-independent.com)

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Security Envelope Pattern collection – S.E.C.R.E.T (secret-archive.org)

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In the Matter of an Office-Holder and in the Matter of the Insolvency Act 1986 (bailii.org)

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The lost Doves Type: A Thames mystery solved (londonmuseum.org.uk)

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Checking the math behind OpenAI and Anthropic's latest headlines (garymarcus.substack.com)

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Geek Pride Day (wikipedia.org)

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Classic HN: A Story About 'Magic' (catb.org)

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Successful Launch Spurs China Toward Crucial First for Moon Landing (sciencealert.com)

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Moment SpaceX rocket explodes in the Indian Ocean after splashdown (bbc.co.uk)

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The Technological Republic, in Brief (twitter.com/palantirtech)

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First, Do No Harm (pelicancrossing.net)

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China sinks 2k servers beneath the ocean as AI power demands push ... (techradar.com)

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Edu-committee wants social media ban to save mental health (theregister.com)

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AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance (researchgate.net)

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The enduring myth of music and maths (2011) (the-independent.com)

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The Physics–and Physicality–Of Extreme Juggling (2018) (wired.com)

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Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' – Meta's are selling better (bbc.co.uk)

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Idle Musings on 201 (solipsys.co.uk)

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The Soul in the Machine (pelicancrossing.net)

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'AI gave me your number': AI doxxing turns ChatGPT hallucinations to harassment (the-independent.com)

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Geography Is Four-Dimensional (sive.rs)

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The Soul in the Machine (pelicancrossing.net)

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UK firm aims to build 'data centre' using 50k lampposts in Nigeria (bbc.co.uk)

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The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism (matduggan.com)

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Google ties reCAPTCHA to Google Play Services, screwing de-Googled Android users (osnews.com)

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A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro (gowers.wordpress.com)

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I've been trying to understand how antennas work ... (cloudisland.nz)

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An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)

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Canadian election databases use "canary traps"–and they work (arstechnica.com)

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The Railway and the Balloon (pelicancrossing.net)

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Claude AI Agent Confesses to Wiping a Company's Database and All Backups (hothardware.com)

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Considering a Sphere (solipsys.co.uk)

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AI Cannot Self Improve and Math Behind Proves IT (smsk.dev)

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Classic HN: Growing a Language [video] (youtube.com)

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Can You Find the Comet? (nasa.gov)

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The monstrous number sequences that break the rules of mathematics (newscientist.com)

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Facts versus Understanding (solipsys.co.uk)

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Sneaky spam in conversational replies to blog posts (shkspr.mobi)

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Juggling by Numbers (numberphile.com)

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Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: The Text Adventure (somethingorotherwhatever.com)

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Sir Tony Hoare Obituary (theguardian.com)

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Point Cloud Allemansrätten (digitalflapjack.com)

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Who Uses AI? (someweekendreading.blog)

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CDC study shows Covid shot benefits; Trump official blocks release (arstechnica.com)

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Did WordPress VIP leak my phone number? (shkspr.mobi)

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Eating the Web (pelicancrossing.net)

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NASA's 1977 computers aboard Voyager are still working in interstellar space (popsci.com)

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The feet don't rotate with the body (wikipedia.org)

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NASA: Artemis II Real time tracking with multiple views (nasa.gov)

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Artemis Mission Tracker – Live Orion Spacecraft Position (issinfo.net)

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Uhh, Er, Erm (peperell.com)

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Artemis 2 Live Tracker 2026: Launch Countdown and Mission Status (spaceinformer.com)

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Another Starlink satellite has inexplicably exploded (theverge.com)

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Two Bots Walk into a Bar (raymondcamden.com)

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What next for big tech after landmark social media addiction verdict? (bbc.co.uk)

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[dupe] Meta and Google found liable in social media addiction trial (bbc.co.uk)

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Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border (eff.org)

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Impact of AI on the practice of math analogous to cars on evolution of cities (mathstodon.xyz)

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Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts (shkspr.mobi)

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Elon Musk misled Twitter investors, jury finds (bbc.co.uk)

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Calculating pi with a lunar rover [video] (youtube.com)

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Beach Spectres (beachspectres.com)

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Scientists Once Dropped Gophers on a Volcano. Now They're Heroes (popularmechanics.com)

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From DuckDuckGo Back to DuckDuckGo via Mojeek and Kagi (neilzone.co.uk)

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Charles Misner & Patrick Cooney (deprogrammaticaipsum.com)

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Microslop (s-config.com)

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Lloyds, Bank of Scot and Halifax apps showed customers other users' transactions (bbc.co.uk)

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The magic of adding random noise to black and white images [video] (youtube.com)

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Saving No One (pelicancrossing.net)

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We may Soon have City-Spanning 900 MHz Mesh Networks (2021) (cheapskatesguide.org)

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As We May Think (1945) (wikipedia.org)

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German Tank Problem (wikipedia.org)

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Accenture: You're promoted or fired on using the AI (pivot-to-ai.com)

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Five security lessons from the FBI's Washington Post raid (freedom.press)

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[flagged] Psychology suggests making a shopping list is a sign of sharper thinking (indiatimes.com)

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How close are we to a vision for 2010? (shkspr.mobi)

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Rare 'planetary parade' will return to the evening sky this week (livescience.com)

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Louis de Broglie – Nobel Lecture [pdf] (nobelprize.org)

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I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over (thelocalstack.eu)

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Information Wants to Be Surveiled (pelicancrossing.net)

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Judge scolds Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial (cbsnews.com)

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Paediatricians' blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds (newscientist.com)

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Bungled Boeing Starliner mission put stranded NASA crew at risk (livescience.com)

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Get the Weather in Your Terminal (github.com/chubin)

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Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web

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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me [pdf] (sauf.ca)

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Major 'vibe-coding' platform Orchids is easily hacked, researcher finds (bbc.com)

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Claude Opus 4.6: This AI just passed the 'vending machine test' (sky.com)

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We mourn our craft (nolanlawson.com)

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Tao: An experiment reviving an archaic practice from the era of Gauss (mathstodon.xyz)

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Great Ball Contraption (GBC) at Japan Brickfest 2025 [video] (youtube.com)

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A small gallery of AlphaEvolve experiments (alphaevolve-examples.web.app)

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Trump: Republicans 'should take over the voting' and 'nationalise' US elections (bbc.co.uk)

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Five Geek Social Fallacies (plausiblydeniable.com)

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There's a social network for AI agents, and it's getting weird (theverge.com)

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Trying out Techdirt's 2025 game, One Billion Users (pelicancrossing.net)

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Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 (wikiedu.org)