Tag: newsletters
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Vinton Cerf: ‘I refuse to take responsibility for those who abuse my beautiful internet’
El País interviews the 82-year-old TCP/IP co-inventor on the internet’s economic origins at DARPA, his sanguine view of AI-driven job churn, fragmented information’s threat to democracy, and his refusal to shoulder blame for how people misuse the network. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Vinton Cerf: ‘I refuse to take responsibility for those who abuse my beautiful…
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The Internet has no benches
Argues that the grim, bot-saturated internet of 2026 isn’t a fated outcome but a design failure, and proposes guerrilla “tiny internets” with new primitives for spontaneous human encounter as the alternative to mass digital abstinence. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The Internet has no benches
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The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Bjarnason argues the globalised software industry was an artifact of US hegemony, and the Hormuz crisis plus tariff and Greenland fiascos have ended that hegemony, leaving tech’s capture-and-control strategy without its political foundation. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
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From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy
How open source evolved into a deliberate corporate weapon for reshaping industries and global technology competition. Summarized by AI. 🔗 From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy
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Capital Must Seek Delight
Argues the last fifteen years of technology investing moved from black swan farming to consensus black swan herding, and that capital has lost touch with delight as a driver of historical change. Offers that as the explanation for an investment system behaving defensively and misallocating capital. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Capital Must Seek Delight
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GitLab layoffs
One small problem with that: what you are suggesting makes sense. We live in clown world with clown world logic. Why would we be allowed to have things that make sense in clown world? 🔗 GitLab layoffs
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Redis and the Cost of Ambition
You’re probably not the target for the landing page. Nerds forget that someone has to pay for all their no caring about money. Oh, and those options are not going to increases in value on their own. 🔗 Redis and the Cost of Ambition
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Inside the Geofence: Faster Pickups Start Here
McDonald’s QA team explains how geofencing-based field testing validates mobile features like Ready on Arrival under real-world GPS, network, and device variability. Concentric geofence zones around stores trigger promotions, kitchen prep, and pickup confirmation as customers approach. 🔗 Inside the Geofence: Faster Pickups Start Here
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Tanzu Platform’s 15-year head start meets the AI moment
Argues Tanzu Platform spent fifteen years building the integration, governance and observability that enterprises now need in order to deploy AI safely and at scale. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Tanzu Platform’s 15-year head start meets the AI moment
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Can IREN Build a Full-Stack AI Cloud? The Mirantis Acquisition Makes the Case
IREN has agreed to acquire Mirantis for about $625 million in stock, adding Kubernetes-based orchestration, enterprise AI infrastructure software and more than 1,500 customer organizations to its GPU cloud platform. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Can IREN Build a Full-Stack AI Cloud? The Mirantis Acquisition Makes the Case
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RIP caused by boredom
Argues Atom and RSS are not dead but done: the protocol is finished, works well, and is stable and unremarkable rather than trendy, which to capitalists reads as dead. Summarized by AI. 🔗 RIP caused by boredom
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Platform engineering drives Red Hat’s enterprise AI push
Platform engineering as the control layer in Red Hat’s push to bring AI, virtualization and open hybrid cloud under one platform. The argument is that the hard part is no longer choosing models but getting data, applications, virtual machines, containers and inference workloads to operate across messy hybrid environments. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Platform engineering…
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Tech job postings hit 3-year high
New postings for technology occupations, including tech support, cybersecurity engineers and software developers, hit a three-year high in April, with CompTIA’s reading of Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing more than 271,483 new postings and over 575,000 active. Tech unemployment fell to 3.5% in the same week Cloudflare and Coinbase announced AI-related layoffs. Summarized by…
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No Updates – abstain from install
On declining to install updates, prompted by another round of Linux kernel vulnerabilities. Summarized by AI. 🔗 No Updates – abstain from install
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Why do Oregon farms plant red clover every spring?
Red clover is a cover crop planted in spring on Oregon farms that otherwise grow food crops, and the post explains that its red colour comes from cobalt loading. Written from a soil chemistry background. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Why do Oregon farms plant red clover every spring?
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Poetry: I Too, Dislike It
On coming late to poetry and the habit of dismissing what we do not understand as useless, built around Marianne Moore’s line that she too dislikes it. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Poetry: I Too, Dislike It
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The AI Job Apocalypse Is a Complete Fantasy
Argues the AI alarmist “permanent underclass” panic is the lump-of-labor fallacy with updated branding: the claim that there is a fixed amount of work to be done and therefore a zero-sum competition between existing workers and anything that might do the same job. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The AI Job Apocalypse Is a Complete Fantasy
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The stuff nobody tells you about startup marketing
Marketing advice for founders who have early traction and no idea how to start, written from the position that most marketing advice assumes you already know what you are doing. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The stuff nobody tells you about startup marketing
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It’s an opinion show
On deciding to make an opinion show after hearing an “Executive Producer of Opinion Shows” credit, written by someone who spent five years on a weekly column for the advertising trade magazine Campaign and three or four years on a monthly column for Wired in the UK. Summarized by AI. 🔗 It’s an opinion show
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Pushing Local Models With Focus And Polish
Argues local models need focus and polish to reach the point where picking one in a coding agent feels competitive enough that you don’t switch back to a hosted API within five minutes. The stated motivation is avoiding locking everything to hosted providers this early. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Pushing Local Models With Focus And…
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