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I’ve been thinking about where I stand in respect to the current state of the industry.
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Ed Zitron's AI prediction track record
Dan Luu audits Ed Zitron’s AI commentary against outcomes: which predictions held, which missed, and how to read media AI takes more carefully.
46 min · 10,673 words
His frailty made Ozzy’s final gig true heavy metal
Sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris watches Ozzy Osbourne’s seated farewell show while nursing a broken ankle, and finds metal’s hardness was always a thin shell over frailty, shame, love, and bodies that fail.
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AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
Alexandru Nedelcu argues that outsourcing coding, review, and reading to AI risks losing the hard-won wisdom that only comes from doing the work—and why “I haven’t written code since 2025” is a warning, not a flex.
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Unsealed Briefs: OpenAI Execs Knew Mass Book Piracy Was Illegal
Authors Guild summary of newly unsealed filings in Authors Guild v. OpenAI/Microsoft: internal messages on LibGen, fear of Hacker News “optics,” Project Clear deletions, and executives’ awareness that models would replace writers.
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Patrik Inzinger on AI-polished internal writing: a robot emoji says an agent typed the post, not whether a person owned the ideas—and why that can make a small team less legible.
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I Don't Want to Read What You Didn't Write
Colin Breck argues intentional human writing becomes more valuable as AI floods inboxes with unreadable generated docs, design proposals, and blog posts that skip the thinking.
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I'm tired of the AI tone. Not AI writing itself. AI is incredibly useful. I've probably used ChatGPT more this week than I'd like to admit. I'm talking about the weird, increasingly recognizable way everything on the internet now sounds like it was written by the same extremely articulate 27-year-old who has never had a bad day. You know the tone. Everything is a wedge. Every idea is not just X, but Y.
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Daniel Lawrence Lu visits San Francisco’s Muni Heritage Weekend—historic streetcars, museum cars, and notes on transit nostalgia and the city’s working rail heritage.
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LWN covers Typst’s rapid progress as a modern typesetting system — package ecosystem, compiler work, and why more people are trying it as an alternative to LaTeX workflows.
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A Fractal Kitty rabbit-hole note on minimum L-seams: combinatorial geometry and puzzle-style constraints for tiling and seam placement, with worked intuition for curious math readers.
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The people who know the most often sound the least certain
Vrash argues AI needs better storytellers, not researchers trained to sound like politicians—using a Dwarkesh conversation with John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill to show how experts hedge while communicators overclaim.
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purplesyringa argues that the best technical writing captures the path from confusion to understanding—documenting the missing links experts forget—so others can learn faster than reverse-engineering opaque docs after the fact.
4 min · 921 words
How to Solve AI in Publishing with Three Easy(ish) Steps
Richard Pulfer proposes practical steps for the publishing industry to handle AI scandals and authorship concerns—focusing on disclosure, process, and standards rather than panic alone.
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Three levels of noticingI see, but I do not observe
Kabir Khandpur sketches three levels of noticing—paying attention, recognizing patterns, and acting on what you observe—using birdwatching and everyday work as practice for seeing what was always there.
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Your dashes suggest which model you're copy-pasting from
Will Keleher spends $2.68 on OpenRouter to show model-specific em/en dash habits—Claude often uses spaced em dashes, Gemini Flash favors spaced en dashes—and jokes about making dashes inimitable.
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My Weird New Hobby: Wandering Around Tokyo on Google Maps
A playful Street View essay: following a 350Z across years of Tokyo captures, noticing wires, houses, and how a city changes (and doesn’t) when you wander it on Maps.
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The Lamentable Later Life of LemmingsHow a 1990s smash franchise faded after DMA Design’s early triumph
Jimmy Maher’s Digital Antiquarian traces the later Lemmings sequels and ports after the 1991 phenomenon—covering DMA Design’s struggle to turn a surprise hit into a lasting franchise, and why the later games never matched the original’s magic.
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How we turned my voice into a skill
Francesco Castronuovo documents building a writing-voice skill from small experiments rather than cloning old posts—keeping uncertainties visible so AI assistance stays attributable and editable.
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How To Write With An LLMTwo simple rules that let LLMs streamline writing without pasteurizing it
Thomas and Erin Ptacek argue that LLMs can improve writing if you keep them from inventing voice: draft yourself first, then use the model surgically—and never let it become the author of record.
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