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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: All laws are local (05 Feb 2026)

Today's links All laws are local: And no law knows how evitable it is. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Whisky PC; Anitfeatures; Silicon Roundabout; Steampunk Etch-A-Sketch; MLMs as mirror-world organizers. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Re...

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Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they decided to stop maintaining t...

Fabien Sanglard

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997!

Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson

Wall Street just lost $285 billion because of 13 markdown files

Anthropic's 'legal tool' that triggered a $285bn selloff is 156KB of markdown. The panic reveals a hard truth about the future of software.

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Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound

Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound Mistral just released Voxtral Transcribe 2 - a family of two new models, one open weights, for transcribing audio to text. This is the latest in their Whisper-like model family, and a sequel to the original Voxtral which they release...

Xe Iaso's blog Valid

Did Zendesk get popped?

I've got like 50 emails from Zendesk customers to activate an account.

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End Of the World" (04 Feb 2026)

Today's links Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End Of the World": A biopunk medical thriller from a major new talent. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Coconut volunteers; Astro Noise; Rich old men behind "Millennials Rising"; Stop the "Stop the Ste...

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Distributing Go binaries like sqlite-scanner through PyPI using go-to-wheel

I've been exploring Go for building small, fast and self-contained binary applications recently. I'm enjoying how there's generally one obvious way to do things and the resulting code is boring and readable - and something that LLMs are very competent at writing. The one cat...

Computer Things Supports Webmention

Logic for Programmers New Release and Next Steps

Troy Hunt Supports Webmention
• Troy Hunt

Weekly Update 489

Weekly Update 489

This week I'm in Hong Kong, and the day after recording, I gave the talk shown in the image above at INTERPOL's Cybercrime Expert Group. I posted a little about this on Facebook and LinkedIn, but thought I'd expand on what really stuck with

Jim Nielsen’s Blog Valid

Saying “No” In an Age of Abundance

You’ve probably heard this famous quote from Steve Jobs about saying ‘no’: People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick caref...

Anil Dash Valid

New York Tech at 30: the Crossroads

This past week, over a series of events, the New York tech community celebrated the 30th anniversary of a nebulous idea described as “Silicon Alley”, the catch-all term for our greater collective of creators and collaborators, founders and funders, inventors and investors, e...

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Introducing Deno Sandbox

Introducing Deno Sandbox Here's a new hosted sandbox product from the Deno team. It's actually unrelated to Deno itself - this is part of their Deno Deploy SaaS platform. As such, you don't even need to use JavaScript to access it - you can create and execute code in a hoste...

Experimental History
• Adam Mastroianni

Underrated ways to change the world, vol. II

Underrated ways to change the world, vol. II

OR: why you should sell onions on the internet

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Michael Swanwick's "The Universe Box" (03 Feb 2026)

Today's links Michael Swanwick's "The Universe Box": Short stories from a science fiction master at the top of his form. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DRM lobotomizes “human memory”; Crayola hex values; Tattoo artists copyright customers' bodies....

Steve Blank
• steve blank

Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War

This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition leadership (the people who decide what and how the DoW buys equipment and services) now is headed by people from private capital (venture capital and private equity.)  Deputy Secretary of War Steven Feinberg ran Cerebus Capital Secretary of the Army Daniel […]

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January sponsors-only newsletter is out

I just sent the January edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. In the newsletter for January:

  • LLM predictions for 2026
  • Coding agents get even more attention
  • Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw went very viral
  • Kakapo breeding season is off to a really strong start
  • New options for sandboxes
  • Web browsers are the "hello world" of coding agent swarms
  • Sam Altman addressed the Jevons paradox for software engineering
  • Model releases and miscellaneous extras

Here's a copy of the December newsletter as a preview of what you'll get. Pay $10/month to stay a month ahead of the free copy!

Tags: newsletter

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Quoting Brandon Sanderson

This is the difference between Data and a large language model, at least the ones operating right now. Data created art because he wanted to grow. He wanted to become something. He wanted to understand. Art is the means by which we become what we want to be. [...] The book,...

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Introducing the Codex app

Introducing the Codex app OpenAI just released a new macOS app for their Codex coding agent. I've had a few days of preview access - it's a solid app that provides a nice UI over the capabilities of the Codex CLI agent and adds some interesting new features, most notably fir...

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A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.

A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed. I talked to Cade Metz for this New York Times piece on OpenClaw and Moltbook. Cade reached out after seeing my blog post about that from the other day. In a first for me, they decided to send a photographer, Jason Henry...