Links October 2026Links October 2026
Julia Curlee wrote an informative article about serving as a CIA agent in the White House as a trans woman [1]. Bruce Schneier and Kasra Rafi wrote an interesting article[...]
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Julia Curlee wrote an informative article about serving as a CIA agent in the White House as a trans woman [1]. Bruce Schneier and Kasra Rafi wrote an interesting article[...]
Bjorn Stahl of the Arcan project wrote an insightful blog post The Day of a new Command-Line Interface: Shell [1]. He does a really good job of identifying problems and[...]
This YouTube video about the Cashier Girl Meme is interesting in the context of AI systems that generate images of people and can communicate with people, hotter than any real[...]
Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders wrote a disturbing and informative article about the use of AI by the US government [1]. Bruce Schneier wrote an interesting blog post about[...]
This is amusing, a flaw in the crypto-currency Zcash allowed generating Zcash from nothing and there’s no way to know if anyone did that [1]. Cory Doctorow wrote an insightful[...]
Ron Garrett wrote an interesting blog post about the mathematical possibility of abiogenesis [1]. Cory Doctorow wrote an interesting blog post about the way the current antics of right wing[...]
Charles Stross wrote an interesting blog post about the apparent desire of super rich people to kill the poor, it seems that the people in power want to make all[...]
Krebs has an interesting article about the Kimwolf botnet which uses residential proxy relay services [1]. cory Doctorow wrote an insightful blog post about code being a liability not an[...]
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[...]
Russ Allbery wrote an interesting review of Politics on the Edge, by Rory Stewart who sems like one of the few conservative politicians I could respect and possibly even like[...]