Links February 2026

Charles Stross has a good theory of why “AI” is being pushed on corporations, really we need to just replace CEOs with LLMs [1].

This disturbing and amusing article describes how an Open AI investor appears to be having psychological problems releated to SCP based text generated by ChatGPT [2]. Definitely going to be a recursive problem as people who believe in it invest in it.

interesting analysis of dbus and design for a more secure replacement [3].

Scott Jenson gave an insightful lecture for Canonical about future potential developments in the desktop UX [4].

Ploum wrote an insightful article about the problems caused by the Github monopoly [5]. Radicale sounds interesting.

Niki Tonsky write an interesting article about the UI problems with Tahoe (latest MacOS release) due to trying to make an icon for everything [6]. They have a really good writing style as well as being well researched.

Fil-C is an interesting project to compile C/C++ programs in a memory safe way, some of which can be considered a software equivalent of CHERI [7].

Brian Krebs wrote a long list of the ways that Trump has enabled corruption and a variety of other crimes including child sex abuse in the last year [8].

This video about designing a C64 laptop is a masterclass in computer design [9].

Salon has an interesting article about the abortion thought experiment that conservatives can’t handle [10].

Ron Garrett wrote an insightful blog post about abortion [11].

Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders wrote an insightful article about the potential of LLM systems for advertising and enshittification [12]. We need serious legislation about this ASAP!

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