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AI doesn’t replace white collar work

ai_doesnt_replace_work AI doesn’t replace white collar work Andrew [email protected] 8, 2026 Two recent experiences where I had questions needing some external input: One, I saw a word (the word was Pareve but it’s unimportant) and I didn’t know what it meant. I thought it had something to do with food and religious practices and my […]

Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package

Sundar Pichai’s new pay package could be worth $692 million. Per a filing first spied by the FT, Alphabet has structured a three-year deal for its Google CEO that could make him one of the highest-paid executives on the planet — but most of it is tied to performance, including new stock incentives linked to […]

Monster Is the Machine

The Bovadium Fragments: Together with The Origin of BovadiumBy J. R. R. Tolkien.William Morrow, 2025.Hardcover, 144 pages, $26.99. Reviewed by Ben Reinhard.  When Russell Kirk decried the automobile as “a mechanical Jacobin”—a revolutionary naturally destructive of traditional ways of life and all “the more powerful for being insensate”—he was very much a voice crying in […]

WSL Manager

English | 简体中文 | Deutsch | Español | 日本語 Preview with Lightmode WSL Distro Manager is a free and open source app that provides a user-friendly graphical interface for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distributions. With WSL Distro Manager, you can easily install, uninstall, update, backup and restore WSL distros, as well as configure […]

Based on its own charter, OpenAI should surrender the race

Back in 2018, OpenAI published a charter, which includes a self-sacrifice clause: We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions. Therefore, if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project. We […]

LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown

We’re pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 26.2, the newest version of the free and open source office suite trusted by millions of users around the world. This release makes it easier than ever for users to create, edit and share documents on their own terms. Designed for individuals and organizations alike, it continues […]

My Homelab Setup

For the longest time, I’ve procrastinated on finding a good backup and storage solution for my Fujifilm RAW files. My solution up until recently involved manually copying my photos across two external SSD drives. This was quite a hassle and I hadn’t yet figured out a good off-site backup strategy. After hearing constant news updates […]

FrameBook

A reimagined classic, that’s only a little bit janky. the first-gen macbook from ’06 is one of my favorite laptop designs ever, mostly because for the longest time it was one of the only macbooks u could get in black besides the powerbook g3.plus it was the first macbook i ever personally owned, although this […]

Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]

What if the Apple ][ had run on Field-Sequential?

One thing I remain fascinated by is the field-sequential color system. Essentially, unlike composite video, which sacrifices color depth in space, field sequential sacrifices color depth in time. But the specifics matter, and we have the specifics: the United States adopted such a system, but didn’t stick with it. So this article describes a nonexistent, […]