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[Tommy Craggs at Defector]

I wish this essay wasn’t good and necessary, but it is.

“I worry some of my colleagues in the industry are getting the Bari Weiss phenomenon exactly wrong. She isn't a saboteur brought in to destroy one of the last remaining citadels of high…

This is an intriguing and mostly satisfying sci-fi tale. It has shades of Oryx Crake mixed in with A Canticle for Leibowitz - we are mere observers of the tattered remains of humanity. Watchers guide scattered settlements as they strive to evolve and understand their place on a corrupted Earth.

With browser-embedded AI agents, we’re essentially starting the security journey over again. We exploited a lack of isolation mechanisms in multiple agentic browsers to perform attacks ranging from the dissemination of false information to cross-site data leaks. These attacks, which are functionally similar to cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request…

I think a lot of this Linux revival is…

How many novels exist only as "I'm still outlining"?

How many startups live permanently in "stealth mode"?

How many paintings never get painted because the painter is waiting until they're good enough to not mess it up?

The obvious response is to tell these people that failure is fine, actually.…

[Anil Dash]

A good list of questions that will help you determine whether a job will be values-aligned or crush your soul from Anil Dash.

They also inform how to ask questions during an interview process. For example, Anil asks:

“What’s the lived experience of the workers…

Yes, I know the cliché that bloggers are always blogging about blogging!

I like semantics. It tickles that part of my delicious meaty brain that longs for structure. Semantics are good for computers and humans. Computers can easily understand the structure of the data, humans can use tools like screen-readers…

While I was writing “Publishing my citation preferences”, I consciously decided that the blog post should include a screenshot of the website feature described in the post – the new “Reference this post” section on my blog pages. I knew that I might change the design of the…

I am reading Katy Hessel’s “How to Live an Artful Life”. The book has a single creative prompt each day to consider. I have the book – whose cover is beautifully designed, with a link typeface and a blue square so as to make the book stand out – in…