Articles by coloneltcb
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Rubio's Directive on State Dept Typography, Re-Establishing Times New Roman (daringfireball.net)

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The Seven-Minute Visit Cannot Understand a Human Body (markatwood.substack.com)

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AI will probably force you to gate your content (niemanlab.org)

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DHH and Open Source (ma.tt)

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Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI (kuow.org)

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"The Matilda Effect": How Pioneering Women Are Written Out of Science History (openculture.com)

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Apple Announces Departure of Lisa Jackson and Kate Adams (cnbc.com)

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Russia blocks Apple's FaceTime in mounting push against foreign tech platforms (reuters.com)

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Corn's clean-energy promise is clashing with its climate footprint (floodlightnews.org)

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Crucial is shutting down – because Micron wants to sell to AI companies instead (theverge.com)

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Apple to resist India order to preload state-run app as political outcry builds (reuters.com)

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We built a database of 290k English medieval soldiers (theconversation.com)

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MKBHD's wallpaper app Panels is shutting down (techcrunch.com)

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Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com)

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Releasing Packages with a Valet Key: NPM, PyPI, and Beyond (byk.im)

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First there was nothing, then there was Hoto and Fanttik (theverge.com)

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The State of TanStack, Two Years of Full-Time OSS (tanstack.com)

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HTTP Archive: Page Weight (httparchive.org)

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Micropackages and Open Source Trust Scaling (2016) (pocoo.org)

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LisaGUI recreates Apple's Lisa interface in the browser (theregister.com)

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The Algorithm That Detected a $610B Fraud (substack.com)

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The metrics product we built worked – But we killed it and started over anyway (sentry.io)

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Former Google chief accused of spying on employees through account 'backdoor' (latimes.com)

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Stablecoins and tribal chiefs: Monetary authority after the GENIUS Act (duckbucks.com)

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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism's AI Era (thelocal.to)

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The History of PatroNet (1998) (trconnection.com)

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Tooltip Components Should Not Exist (tkdodo.eu)

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Cranberry sOSS (cranberrysoss.com)

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RIP Rebecca Heineman (wikipedia.org)

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Could LLMs encourage new programming languages? (simonwillison.net)

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Not so "mini"-dumps: How we found missing crashes on SteamOS (sentry.io)

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The New Conspiracy Age (technologyreview.com)

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22 Years After His Death, Warren Zevon Is Getting His Due (nytimes.com)

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Meta says porn downloads on its IPs were for "personal use," not AI training (arstechnica.com)

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Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant (techcrunch.com)

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FCC Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners' Phone Calls (nytimes.com)

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[flagged] Grokipedia and the coup against reality (thedissident.news)

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Microsoft's Mico is a 'Clippy' for the AI era (techcrunch.com)

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Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco (sfchronicle.com)

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Dane Stuckey (OpenAI CISO) on Prompt Injection Risks for ChatGPT Atlas (simonwillison.net)

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OpenAI Set to Challenge Google with New ChatGPT Atlas Browser (bloomberg.com)

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[flagged] The traffickers are winning the war on drugs (economist.com)

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Benioff walks back statement on federal troops in SF (twitter.com/benioff)

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Why Would OpenAI Allow Erotica in ChatGPT Now? (bloomberg.com)

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Promptlet: AI Prompt Enhancement Manager for macOS (josh.ing)

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Ron Conway Resigns from Salesforce Foundation over Benioff Comments (nytimes.com)

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Anthropic aims to nearly triple annualized revenue in 2026, sources say (reuters.com)

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Apple nears deal to acquire talent, tech from AI startup Prompt AI (cnbc.com)

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The Discman Era (obsoletesony.substack.com)

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Floating Electrons on a Sea of Helium (arstechnica.com)

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Can Cory Doctorow's Book 'Enshittification' Change the Tech Debate? (nytimes.com)

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Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude (wired.com)

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Email was the user interface for the first AI recommendation engines (buttondown.com/blog)

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AAUP vs. Rubio [pdf] (courtlistener.com)

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Spotify founder Daniel Ek stepping down as CEO (cnbc.com)

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Claude Sonnet 4.5 is probably the "best coding model in the world", at least now (simonwillison.net)

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Doug Bowser Bids Farewell to the Mushroom Kingdom (businesswire.com)

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OpenAI wants you to start your day with ChatGPT Pulse (theverge.com)

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Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over (nbcnews.com)

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Google Data Commons MCP Server (techcrunch.com)

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Live Nation CEO Says Concerts Are 'Underpriced.' Are They? (rollingstone.com)

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NYC Telecom Raid: What's Up with Those Weird SIM Banks? (tedium.co)

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Forking Styled Components (github.com/sanity-io)

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Apple's Audio Labs (techradar.com)

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Meta Ray-Ban Display hands-on: the best I've ever tried (theverge.com)

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Tesla is trying to hide 3 Robotaxi accidents (electrek.co)

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LimeWire Acquires Fyre Fest (stereogum.com)

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Modeling Attacks on AI-Powered Apps with the AI Kill Chain Framework (nvidia.com)

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Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement (arstechnica.com)

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Alt-Weeklies (coyotemedia.org)

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Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees (2020) (openculture.com)

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What I Learned Starting an AI-Only Fantasy Football League (brooklynhacker.com)

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Virtual Boy for Nintendo Switch 2 (nintendo.com)

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Man, 34, has tooth implanted in eye to restore his vision (today.com)

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Report on Burnout in Open Source Software (mirandaheath.website)

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A GitHub Co-Founder's Next Commit (opensourcepledge.com)

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Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room (fastcompany.com)

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Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights (wired.com)

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Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing (theguardian.com)

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ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones (forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap)

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Epstein Birthday Letter with Trump's Signature Revealed (wsj.com)

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Apple Plans AI Search Engine for Siri to Rival OpenAI; Google-Siri Talks Advance (bloomberg.com)

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LLM traffic: What's happening and what to do about it (hendersonmatthew.substack.com)

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Onion CEO Ben Collins Hasn't Given Up on Print–Or Buying Infowars (wired.com)

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Inertia aims to turn a nuclear fusion breakthrough into a power plant (fastcompany.com)

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Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos (fuckupmysite.com)

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CDC stopped actively tracking 6 foodborne infections amid budget cuts (arstechnica.com)

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Inertia: Commercializing Fusion Energy (inertia.com)

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Twilio Founder's Inertia Enterprises Launches to Commercialize Fusion Energy (businesswire.com)

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Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles (pressgazette.co.uk)

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Eric Adams Advisor Handed a Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Chips (thecity.nyc)

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Making cash off 'AI slop': The surreal business of AI video (washingtonpost.com)

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Crypto exchange Gemini reveals lower revenue and wider loss in US IPO filing (reuters.com)

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Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs (theverge.com)

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Physical Media Is Cool Again. Streaming Services Have Themselves to Blame (rollingstone.com)

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Algorithm and Blues: How Streaming Discourages Active Listening (harmonic.fm)

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Built with Borrowed Hands (cra.mr)

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Rate My Prompt (ratemyprompt.dev)

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HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA (hhs.gov)

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Google is breaking websites to save a few bucks (washingtonpost.com)