Ural survived eighty years of Soviet collapse, freezing mud, and bankruptcy, only to be strangled by Vladimir Putin’s imperial war. Its Chinese replacement misses the entire point.
The machine that outran Hitler and died in Ukraine
The ADA Interactive Process Is Broken (And It’s Costing You)
The ADA interactive process was supposed to be an informal problem-solving dialogue. Instead, corporate America turned it into an immune response designed to isolate, paper over, and purge disabled workers.
An AI Can Run the Shop. Who Gets to Run the Company?
Delaware’s proposed AI company form meets real shops where agents schedule staff and recommend firing. Who sets their goals, and who answers to workers?
Let Me Own It
AI agents helped me reclaim my Fire Stick. Consumers deserve control over those agents, too: accountable human review and practical local alternatives.
America needs an offline mode
Cloud failures can interrupt care, travel, and ordinary work. America needs software and recovery plans that let people keep going when distant systems fail.
A Better Question for the Engineer
Noelle Tolve’s AgileRTP talk: use AI to challenge proposals, bring questions to engineers, and keep people responsible for the decisions.
The ADHD TARDIS Is Broken: Now and Not Now
ADHD time horizon collapse: the lived-language gap between knowing the future matters and acting on it now. What the research says, and what it doesn’t.
The Sun in the Backrooms: Coincidence, Clues, and Kane Parsons’s Unfinished Mystery
Kane Parsons’s Backrooms rewards obsessive pattern-seeking. A fan’s look at its Sun imagery, real solar events, and the strange fun of watching for more.
My Ham Radio Talk on MeshCore Doubled as a Real-World Test of My AI Note-Taker
I gave a ham radio club talk on MeshCore and put my AI note-taker through a real-world test: meeting notes, a transcript, and a sharper talk next time.
The Accidental Architects of Human Evolution
A playful thought experiment about climate, cities, technology, and the strange future humans might build for themselves.
When Success Stops Working: Bill Reilly’s Map for Friction Before Burnout
Bill Reilly’s AgileRTP talk offers a practical way to spot workplace friction before it hardens into burnout, through six stages and five questions.
The Foundation Labs Case File: OpenAI, Hugging Face, and the Getaway Car
OpenAI’s models showed real autonomous cyber capability, but the Hugging Face incident also exposes evaluation design, containment, monitoring, and ordinary security failures.
agent-skills v0.7.0: Thirty-One New Skills and One Flat Repo
agent-skills v0.7.0 lands 31 new skills, upgrades 20 more, and flattens the repo: the deepest open-source AI agent skill library keeps compounding.