@cobordi.sm
recovering mathematician, amateur cook, full time nerd.
Do I choose the apartheid nazi or one of the surveillance creeps?
January 2, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Do I choose the apartheid nazi or one of the surveillance creeps?
Every year on the first of January I get a lot of "happy birthday" messages from companies. They figure I just turned 56.
#UnixTimeZero
#UnixTimeZero
January 2, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Every year on the first of January I get a lot of "happy birthday" messages from companies. They figure I just turned 56.
#UnixTimeZero
#UnixTimeZero
Amazing article. both deeply moving and insightful.
For anyone who has ever marvelled at the writings of Oliver Sacks.
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
For anyone who has ever marvelled at the writings of Oliver Sacks.
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
www.newyorker.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Amazing article. both deeply moving and insightful.
For anyone who has ever marvelled at the writings of Oliver Sacks.
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
For anyone who has ever marvelled at the writings of Oliver Sacks.
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
" “Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought.” "
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
" “Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought.” "
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
"the complete perversion of the actual premise of not just social media but the internet"
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
"the complete perversion of the actual premise of not just social media but the internet"
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"people who found the simpler and more flexible game to be bland; and people who didn’t like the game getting “woke.” This is a slippery term, but it often boils down to things not being quite as racist or sexist as they used to be."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"people who found the simpler and more flexible game to be bland; and people who didn’t like the game getting “woke.” This is a slippery term, but it often boils down to things not being quite as racist or sexist as they used to be."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"More than a century ago, a wild-eyed, vegetarian, free love-promoting German entrepreneur and self-taught economist named Silvio Gesell proposed a radical reformation of the monetary system as we know it. He wanted to make money that decays over time. "
www.noemamag.com/what-if-mone...
www.noemamag.com/what-if-mone...
What If Money Expired? | NOEMA
A long-forgotten German economist argued that society and the economy would be better off if money was a perishable good. Was he an anarchist crank or the prophet of a better world?
www.noemamag.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
"More than a century ago, a wild-eyed, vegetarian, free love-promoting German entrepreneur and self-taught economist named Silvio Gesell proposed a radical reformation of the monetary system as we know it. He wanted to make money that decays over time. "
www.noemamag.com/what-if-mone...
www.noemamag.com/what-if-mone...
"today’s top-down, concentrated internet is, for many, an unpleasant and harmful place. Its owners are hard to remove, and their interests do not align with ours."
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
We Need To Rewild The Internet | NOEMA
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
www.noemamag.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"today’s top-down, concentrated internet is, for many, an unpleasant and harmful place. Its owners are hard to remove, and their interests do not align with ours."
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
"an implicit acknowledgement that the infinite scroll, stuffed with bots and synthetic sludge, is approaching the limit of what humans will tolerate...."
"an implicit acknowledgement that the infinite scroll, stuffed with bots and synthetic sludge, is approaching the limit of what humans will tolerate...."
The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
www.noemamag.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
"an implicit acknowledgement that the infinite scroll, stuffed with bots and synthetic sludge, is approaching the limit of what humans will tolerate...."
"an implicit acknowledgement that the infinite scroll, stuffed with bots and synthetic sludge, is approaching the limit of what humans will tolerate...."
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August 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
Self Hosting is not the answer.
"I realized how privileged I am to have the skills required for digital sovereignty[ ... ] I realized that self-reliance isn't freedom — it's the luxury of retreating from a system that others can't escape."
www.drewlyton.com/story/the-fu...
"I realized how privileged I am to have the skills required for digital sovereignty[ ... ] I realized that self-reliance isn't freedom — it's the luxury of retreating from a system that others can't escape."
www.drewlyton.com/story/the-fu...
The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
Hey friends 👋,
A few months ago, Amazon announced that Kindle users would no longer be able to download and back up their book libraries to their computers. Thankfully, I still have access to my libr...
www.drewlyton.com
July 31, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Self Hosting is not the answer.
"I realized how privileged I am to have the skills required for digital sovereignty[ ... ] I realized that self-reliance isn't freedom — it's the luxury of retreating from a system that others can't escape."
www.drewlyton.com/story/the-fu...
"I realized how privileged I am to have the skills required for digital sovereignty[ ... ] I realized that self-reliance isn't freedom — it's the luxury of retreating from a system that others can't escape."
www.drewlyton.com/story/the-fu...
Flink App: the only way to stop us forcing ads down your throat is by going outside the app to the system settings and blocking us from there.
July 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Flink App: the only way to stop us forcing ads down your throat is by going outside the app to the system settings and blocking us from there.
Starting to play with NixOS and discovering whole new ways of making my computer not bloody work.
July 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Starting to play with NixOS and discovering whole new ways of making my computer not bloody work.
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July 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I tried coding with an AI again. Quite frustrating. Got a huge pile of spaghetti code for the same price as a small pile of spaghetti at a fancy Italian.
#cline #claude #spaghetti #aislop
#cline #claude #spaghetti #aislop
June 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I tried coding with an AI again. Quite frustrating. Got a huge pile of spaghetti code for the same price as a small pile of spaghetti at a fancy Italian.
#cline #claude #spaghetti #aislop
#cline #claude #spaghetti #aislop
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New season of AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA coming soon! This time hosted by Garry Kasparov
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
Coming Soon: A New Season of ‘Autocracy in America’
Defenders of the free world can no longer take their liberties for granted.
www.theatlantic.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
New season of AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA coming soon! This time hosted by Garry Kasparov
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...