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The practice of tokenmaxxing appears to be dying out, even before I had a chance to write about it. Good riddance. Burning tokens to create the appearance of productivity was fated to last only until the accountants learned about it, and the strictest of all accountants is one’s personal checkbook. What got many developers thinking […]

Amid a flood of billionaire cash, justices insist the strength of existing anti-corruption laws justifies giving megadonors another conduit of influence.

SDN pioneers return with $15M GPU networking bet. A16z leads a $15M Series A to upstart Netris, funding a platform automating GPU networking and multi-tenancy for AI cloud operators. By me on Fierce Network. A homeowners association in San Marcos, a suburb of San Diego, is ...

Ebay, Amazon, and Etsy are unable to stop the flood of AI-generated seed scams.

Extreme heat coupled with humidity will make it feel like 109 degrees Fahrenheit as the holiday weekend approaches.

“Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it’s only jaywalking.”

An anarchism of doing rather than an anarchism of theory.

“In this Administration, NEPA’s regulatory reign of terror has ended,” said White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairman Katherine Scarlett.  For decades, a well-intentioned law known as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has been weaponized to delay Federal permits and stall growth in the United States. President Trump took decisive action to fix America’s broken […]

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In 2011, a Princeton Borough police officer gave me a public urination ticket as I was on my way to go drinking. I went home with someone that night and forgot about the ticket in my crumpled pants pocket. Weeks later I paid it off in a panic, hours before my delinquency wou...

A recent New York Times story about former NFL insider Dianna Russini resurfaced an anecdote that Russini had previously shared on a podcast earlier this year. The story went like this: Russini was pulled over for texting and driving, and attempted to talk her way out of the...

For the first time in history, Germany has lost a penalty shootout at the World Cup. A highly anticipated potential round of 16 matchup between Germany and France has been put on ice, and instead it is Paraguay that advanced on Monday, after a 1-1 draw turned into a 4-3 shoo...

The Supreme Court just reaffirmed what the Constitution has always said: birthright citizenship is a constitutional right. The President took an oath to uphold the Constitution — not rewrite it whenever it doesn't serve him. Newsflash, Donald: we live in a democracy — not a dictatorship.

Gah, this is another thing I’m completely fucking pissed about today: Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender athletes participating in women and girls’ sports.

Great piece by Andrea Pitzer on how lost Ezra Klein is in this current moment, newly relevant because he interviewed fascist activist Christopher Rufo on his NYT podcast (JFC!) “If you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played.”

I found this AI Compass quiz genuinely useful for pinpointing how I actually feel about various aspects of AI. At the same time, I don’t think my result (“The Kontextmaschine”) quite fits…

Amazon EKS runs hundreds of thousands of Kubernetes clusters across more than thirty AWS regions. Operating at that scale has

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What made the Quick desktop team successful is the same thing that has always produced the best work I've seen at Amazon: a small group of people who trusted each other, owned the problem end-to-end, and acted on their conviction.

A senior OpenAI employee has contributed code to the project, simply called 'caveman.'

My journey inside the world of LARPing, where hustlebros pretend to be rich for TikTok.

There’s a Grocery Price Emergency in America. “Our research shows that even relatively well-off families are struggling with high prices… President Trump and Congress are neither investing in long-term solutions nor offering short-term relief.”