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We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're Not Robots
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Techdirt
We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI
About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Ku…
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Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick
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ArcaneNibble's site
Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick
Catgirls can have little a RCE, as a treat
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The Banality of Surveillance
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Substack
The banality of surveillance
Do our dull lives become worth watching?
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War Prediction Markets Are a National-Security Threat
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The Atlantic
Insider Trading Is Going to Get People Killed
War markets are a national-security threat.
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CasNum
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GitHub
GitHub - 0x0mer/CasNum: CasNum (Compass and straightedge Number) is a library that implements arbitrary precision arithmetic using…
CasNum (Compass and straightedge Number) is a library that implements arbitrary precision arithmetic using compass and straightedge constructions. Featuring a functional modified Game Boy emulator ...
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Senators Launch Effort Ban Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets
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Merkley
Merkley, Klobuchar Launch New Effort to Ban Federal Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets - Merkley
Effort comes after reports of individuals suspiciously earning massive payouts before Iran Strikes, Venezuela Military Actions Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Minnesota’s U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar launched a new effort to…
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Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code
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Medium
Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code
I’ve forgotten how to write code, or at least I think I have. Hard to be sure, I haven’t done it for a while. But then, I start to muse…
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Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans
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Ars Technica
Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans
SEM analysis of pottery residues showed people combined fish with a wide variety of plants when cooking.
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Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces
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LWN.net
Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces
The kernel's unloved but performance-critical swapping subsystem has been undergoing multiple r [...]
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macOS code injection for fun and no profit (2024)
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mariozechner.at
macOS code injection for fun and no profit
Fun little vacation project for fun and zero profit.
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Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper?
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slashdot.org
Does Apple's M5 Max Really "Destroy" a 96-Core Threadripper?
Tom's Hardware currently has a front-page article making some wild claims about the 18-core Apple M5 Max versus a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper.Reading the article, the comparison is based largely on Geekbench 6 multi-core scores. The author briefly mentions…
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$3T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year
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Charitysense
CharitySense — Independent Verification for Charitable Infrastructure
Real-time, AI-powered verification that your funded hospitals, schools, water wells, and orphanages are operational. Independent proof, anywhere in the world.
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Put the Zipcode First
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Zipcodefirst
Put the ZIP code first.
A ZIP code is 5 characters. City, state, country — autofilled. It's 2026. This isn't hard.
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Lawmakers Want DoD Investigated for Biblical 'Armageddon' Claims
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Military
Lawmakers Want DOD, Hegseth Investigated for Biblical 'Armageddon' Claims | Military.com
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LLM Writing
Tropes.md
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tropes.fyi
tropes.md - Tropes
A single file containing all known AI writing tropes. I guess you could add it to your AI system prompt to avoid these patterns. Or you could embark on the joy of independent writing.
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In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad
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Buttondown
In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad
A rough start to what would later become one of my favorite tech ads from the 80s.
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Caitlin Kalinowski: I resigned from OpenAI
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X (formerly Twitter)
Caitlin Kalinowski (@kalinowski007) on X
I resigned from OpenAI. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human…
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Why developers using AI are working longer hours
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Scientific American
Why developers using AI are working longer hours
Studies find AI helps developers release more software—while logging longer hours and fixing problems after the code goes live
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Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers
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The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist
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Honest-Broker
The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul
How did we get here? And how do we get back?
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Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically
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GitHub
GitHub - karpathy/autoresearch: AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically
AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically - karpathy/autoresearch
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