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Currently following: Tim Bray, Simon Willison, Techdirt, Manton Reece and Cory Doctorow.
It's an extension of blogrolls.
More info: https://devs.feediverse.org/
Currently following: Tim Bray, Simon Willison, Techdirt, Manton Reece and Cory Doctorow.
It's an extension of blogrolls.
More info: https://devs.feediverse.org/
Quoting Andrej Karpathy. simonwillison.net
November 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Quoting Andrej Karpathy. simonwillison.net
llm-anthropic 0.22. simonwillison.net
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
llm-anthropic 0.22. simonwillison.net
This Week In Techdirt History: November 9th – 15th.
This Week In Techdirt History: November 9th – 15th
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we looked at election polls as an example of the challenges involved in defining and handling misinformation. We noted how Trumpland seemed to have entirely forgot…
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November 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This Week In Techdirt History: November 9th – 15th.
Pluralistic: Zorhan Mamdani's world-class photocopier-kicker (15 Nov 2025). pluralistic.net
November 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Pluralistic: Zorhan Mamdani's world-class photocopier-kicker (15 Nov 2025). pluralistic.net
Nut Huggers Apparel Plans To Battle Back Against Bullshit Buc-ee’s Bullying.
Nut Huggers Apparel Plans To Battle Back Against Bullshit Buc-ee’s Bullying
We’ve written about Buc-ee’s a couple of times recently, given the famed convenience store chain of the south’s aspirations to become the Monster Energy of convenience stores when…
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November 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Nut Huggers Apparel Plans To Battle Back Against Bullshit Buc-ee’s Bullying.
Details Of DHS Agreement Reveal Risks Of Trump Administration’s Use Of Social Security Data For Voter Citizenship Checks.
Details Of DHS Agreement Reveal Risks Of Trump Administration’s Use Of Social Security Data For Voter Citizenship Checks
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. This year, when states began using an expanded Department of Homeland Security system to check their …
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November 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Details Of DHS Agreement Reveal Risks Of Trump Administration’s Use Of Social Security Data For Voter Citizenship Checks.
Clearance Sale! Grab One Of The (Very Few) Remaining Copies Of Our Social Media Card Game.
Clearance Sale! Grab One Of The (Very Few) Remaining Copies Of Our Social Media Card Game
A couple months ago we offered up the few remaining copies of our social media card game, One Billion Users, after fulfilling orders from our Kickstarter backers. Quite a few of you took the chance…
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November 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Clearance Sale! Grab One Of The (Very Few) Remaining Copies Of Our Social Media Card Game.
Investigation Shows Trump’s Boat Strikes Aren’t Killing ‘Narco-Terrorists’.
Investigation Shows Trump’s Boat Strikes Aren’t Killing ‘Narco-Terrorists’
The Trump administration has been ramping up its rhetoric against Venezuela since Day 1. Efforts to arrest up to 3,000 migrants a day focused on Venezuelans, many of whom had fled to the United Sta…
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November 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Investigation Shows Trump’s Boat Strikes Aren’t Killing ‘Narco-Terrorists’.
Copyright Is The Wrong Tool To Deal With Deepfake Harms.
Copyright Is The Wrong Tool To Deal With Deepfake Harms
A key theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is that copyright, born in an analogue age of scarcity, works poorly in today’s digital world of abundance. One manifestatio…
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November 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Copyright Is The Wrong Tool To Deal With Deepfake Harms.
Daily Deal: The Complete IT Exams Training Bundle.
Daily Deal: The Complete IT Exams Training Bundle
The Complete IT Exams Training Bundle covers five platforms — Cisco, AWS, CompTIA, Microsoft, Google, and Linux — with expert-led courses, labs, and exam prep. The bundle comes with acc…
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November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Daily Deal: The Complete IT Exams Training Bundle.
Judge Dismisses Bullshit Lawsuit Claiming Pollster Committed Fraud By Being Wrong.
Judge Dismisses Bullshit Lawsuit Claiming Pollster Committed Fraud By Being Wrong
Last year, we wrote about Donald Trump’s bullshit lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer for releasing surprising polls right before the 2024 election suggesting that Kamala Harris might ac…
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November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Judge Dismisses Bullshit Lawsuit Claiming Pollster Committed Fraud By Being Wrong.
Border Patrol Commander Locks Down Another Injunction After Admitting To Lying About Being Attacked.
Border Patrol Commander Locks Down Another Injunction After Admitting To Lying About Being Attacked
Gregory Bovino’s star will continue to rise. Admitting you lied to a court no longer matters when the entire administration does it on a daily basis. All that matters is that you serve the fa…
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November 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Border Patrol Commander Locks Down Another Injunction After Admitting To Lying About Being Attacked.
GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking System Card Addendum. simonwillison.net
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking System Card Addendum. simonwillison.net
After Destroying Federal Regulators, AT&T Wages War On Industry ‘Self-Regulation’ Regimes Like NARB, NAD.
After Destroying Federal Regulators, AT&T Wages War On Industry ‘Self-Regulation’ Regimes Like NARB, NAD
It’s not hyperbole to say that after decades of hard work and lobbying, companies like AT&T have effectively destroyed whatever was left of federal U.S. consumer protection and corporate …
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November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
After Destroying Federal Regulators, AT&T Wages War On Industry ‘Self-Regulation’ Regimes Like NARB, NAD.
‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately.
‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately
One of my favorite things in all of professional sports is the unofficial holiday referred to as “Bobby Bonilla Day.” The short version of it is that Bonilla played for the New York Met…
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November 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately.
Introducing GPT-5.1 for developers.
Introducing GPT-5.1 for developers
OpenAI announced GPT-5.1 yesterday, calling it A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT. Today they've added it to their API. We actually got four new models today: gpt-5.1 gpt-5.1-chat-latest gpt-5.1-codex gpt-5.1-codex-mini There …
simonwillison.net
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Introducing GPT-5.1 for developers.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Deviation From The Teen.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Deviation From The Teen
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, …
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November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Deviation From The Teen.
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation.
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation
Max Woolf provides an exceptional deep dive into Google's Nano Banana aka Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model, still the best available image manipulation LLM tool three months after its initial …
simonwillison.net
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation.
Datasette 1.0a22. simonwillison.net
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Datasette 1.0a22. simonwillison.net
A Love Letter To America.
A Love Letter To America
I love America. You’re so fucked up. But I love you. You’re built upon a beautiful and preposterous idea: that ordinary people—you and I—can govern ourselves. Together. Not through superior intelli…
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November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
A Love Letter To America.
Furloughed Employees Sue Administration For Adding Partisan Wording To Their Out-Of-Office Messages.
Furloughed Employees Sue Administration For Adding Partisan Wording To Their Out-Of-Office Messages
Here comes more pathetic, childish bullshit from an administration that has made petty bullshit its brand. The just completed government shutdown caused problems everywhere. The Trump administratio…
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November 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Furloughed Employees Sue Administration For Adding Partisan Wording To Their Out-Of-Office Messages.
Judge Orders OpenAI To Give Lawyers 20 Million Private Chats, Thinks ‘Anonymization’ Can Keep Them Private.
Judge Orders OpenAI To Give Lawyers 20 Million Private Chats, Thinks ‘Anonymization’ Can Keep Them Private
A federal magistrate judge just ordered that the private ChatGPT conversations of 20 million users be handed over to the lawyers for dozens of plaintiffs, including news organizations. Those 20 mil…
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November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Judge Orders OpenAI To Give Lawyers 20 Million Private Chats, Thinks ‘Anonymization’ Can Keep Them Private.
Daily Deal: MagStack Foldable 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station with Floating Stand.
Daily Deal: MagStack Foldable 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station with Floating Stand
MagStack is the perfect on-the-go wireless charging station that also transforms into a floating stand for smartphone FaceTime or video playback while charging. This 3-in-1 foldable design featurin…
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November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Daily Deal: MagStack Foldable 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station with Floating Stand.
GOP Threatened To Keep The Government Shut Down If 8 GOP Senators Couldn’t Profit From Being Investigated.
GOP Threatened To Keep The Government Shut Down If 8 GOP Senators Couldn’t Profit From Being Investigated
Last night the House passed, and then Donald Trump signed, the funding bill that reopened the government after the longest government shutdown in history. Amazingly, the Republican’s sketchy …
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November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
GOP Threatened To Keep The Government Shut Down If 8 GOP Senators Couldn’t Profit From Being Investigated.