Five US tech giants’ hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding
Technology Data center leases, GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study shows A Meta data center in the state of Georgia. The company’s off-balance-sheet debt is about $420 billion, nearly triple its transparent debt. © AP KOHEI YAMADA July 21, 2026 02:29 JST PALO ALTO, California — Hidden debt at U.S. tech giants swelled eightfold […]
Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral
DOOM # DOOM Doom is a video game made by id Software that released in 1993. It was a revolution in gaming that spread across the world and defined the modern FPS. Its popularity has given rise to the saying ”Doom can run on anything”. To prove this point Doom ha been ported to almost […]
Jane Street: Incremental
Incremental is a library that gives you a way of building complex computations that can update efficiently in response to their inputs changing, inspired by the work of Umut Acar et. al. on self-adjusting computations. Incremental can be useful in a number of applications, including: Building large calculations (of the kind you might build into […]
Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public
During a city council meeting in a suburb of Wisconsin in April, the city of Oshkosh considered whether it should approve a contract to use automatic license plate readers (ALPR) from Flock Safety, a prominent company that provides ALPRs to law enforcement agencies across the country. During the meeting, one city council member asked Flock […]
Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
Hello everyone. Effective yesterday, Anthony and I decided to depart from the project, myself as Project Leader, and he as a core team member. This is in addition to the resignation of Andrew on Friday. We leave the project in the very capable hands of the remaining team who have been driving the project for many […]
My falling-out with the rationalist community
This is an article I resisted writing for a long time. I didn’t pull the trigger in the mid-2010s, in the glory days of the SF Bay Area rationalist movement. I resisted the urge after the arrest of the rationalist-aligned financier, Sam Bankman-Fried. And I bit my tongue real hard in the wake of the […]
I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs
Ever found yourself writing this? for f in *.txt; do wc -l ”$f” done Or this? find . -name ’*.sh’ -exec wc -l {} + Or maybe you pipe into xargs and pray your filenames don’t have spaces: find . -name ’*.log’ | xargs rm These all work, but each has its own syntax, its […]
The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism
Presentation Summary This is a personally driven community presentation from my work experience on the effects of current forms of technology. In it, I argue that big players like Google and Facebook build predictive profiles that are then sold to advertisers who then attempt to influence individual behavior for commercial/political gain. These business models have […]
Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
It’s been an interesting few weeks for counterexamples. This post is basically my perspective of what has been going on in the world of formalization, AI tools and, in particular, counterexamples. Unit distance Two months ago today (20th May 2026), ChatGPT disproved Erdős’ Unit Distance conjecture in discrete geometry. This is now old news but […]
Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac
$ cat philosophy.txt The other “local AI” apps you’ve heard of? They’re proprietary shells built on top of open-source engines they don’t own. They keep the UI closed, add a paywall, and hope you don’t look under the hood. We built in the open. The desktop app is open too. Every line. Every model loader. […]