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  1. Rupert Murdoch cannot have this.
  2. I’m not crying my eyes are just color cycling.
  3. It’s still Tuesday in my heart.
  4. At work we built the world’s simplest document signing tool: sign.aboard.com - Email everyone th...
  5. What would be the *worst* band to see at the Sphere? I’m thinking Oasis but I’m open to other sugges...
  6. Going beyond the current moment a flood of highly animated relatively young people won downballot w...
  7. what if news but good
  8. so excited to get back to being depressed about climate change
  9. thank god we can start infighting again
  10. sometimes perpetual and seething hatred does the trick
  11. Bsky.app working great under pressure tonight!
  12. Some nice distractions in here if you’re finding it hard to focus today wayback-labs.sf.archive.org
  13. Anthony Ha: Dispatches from a TechCrunch AI Reporter
  14. I voted on Halloween because they give you a voter sticker with little ghosts on it. I hope you also...
  15. I didn’t mean to hurt you I’m sorry that I made you cry Oh now, I didn’t want to hurt you I’m just a
  16. There’s this ad everywhere for an advent calendar of UGLY MEDIEVAL CATS and they look AMAZING but th...
  17. I wrote about how it would be better to discuss the bitter lesson and its tradeoffs today, instead o...
  18. Both Rush and Emacs are 50 which really lines up when you think about it www.technologyreview.com/20...
  19. A thought I kept having last night was that, in some way that’s hard to pin down, Rush now passes th...
  20. The Great Firmware Flowering
  21. Allison Fine: Making AI-Driven Change Less Scary
  22. everyone is like “it will achieve sentience and kill us all” but THIS is what’s gonna kill us
  23. I think of these two improvised girders holding up our crumbling subway station as baba yaga legs
  24. The Web Is More Than Enough
  25. Ask Aboard: AI Security, Bad Clients, and Yacht Rock
  26. can you imagine what it was like to be at the first performance of spem in allium in 1570 people mus...
  27. I genuinely appreciate the way Rush fans are like, “Oh no, they’re terrible. It’s going to be a terr...
  28. This is early days but super interesting. It’s good to see something focused on building instead of ...
  29. The special feeling of being in The Register but it’s not because you failed catastrophically.
  30. Climate/data friends: We’re hosting an event next Thurs 4PM in with Harvard’s Public Data Project, a...
  31. I kind of forgot what launching websites is like.
  32. let’s not forget the real mvp which is cloudflare‘s free tier
  33. I built a thing. I LOVED making it. It’s called TinyLittleOffice. It’s a web office suite (word proc...
  34. whats weird is with all the fucked up surgeries you don’t need special glasses to see the lizard fac...
  35. Introducing TinyLittleOffice.com
  36. The sheer velocity of content right now is unbelievable.
  37. this is just to say I have stomped on the plums on the 6 train fuck them plums
  38. If feels like they’re putting the foot down on the gas pedal in order to leap the chasm. But they fi...
  39. Jason Goldman: From VC Pitches to AI Kill Switches
  40. let’s visit Julianne Moore’s apartment www.youtube.com/watch?v=eewE....
  41. Most New York City moment of my entire life happened yesterday. I was sitting on a bench outside of ...